Far too often, our students attain only a superficial level of knowledge that fails to prepare them for deeper challenges in school and beyond. In Teaching for Deeper Learning, renowned educators and best-selling authors Jay McTighe and Harvey F. Silver propose a solution: teaching students to make meaning for themselves.
Contending that the ability to "earn" understanding will equip student…
AN ESSENTIAL RESOURCE FOR STUDENT AND TEACHER CLARITY
With the ever-changing landscape of education, teachers and leaders often find themselves searching for clarity in a sea of standards, curriculum resources, and competing priorities. Clarity for Learning offers a simple and doable approach to developing clarity and sharing it with students. Are both teachers and students clear about what …
Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is an extensive and adaptable collection of practices that include thinking routines and the documentation of student thinking. The routines are a cent…
Contents: Metacognition & self-questioning: The underpinnings of the strategy -- Structured self-questioning for academic problem solving: Math K-12 -- Structured self-questioning for social problem solving K-12 -- Structured self-questioning in reading comprehension K-12 -- Structured self-questioning in reading decoding K-12 -- Structured self-questioning for inquiry-based research writing --…
Contents: Cover -- Inside front cover -- Copyright -- Praise for 'The Metacognition Handbook' -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- What is metacognition? -- Chapter 2 -- The classroom: practical ways to teach metacognitively -- Chapter 3 -- The classroom: case studies -- Chapter 4 -- The teachers: Continuing Professional Development -- Chapter 5 -- What does the theory say? -…