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Ambitious Instruction

Teaching With Rigor in the Secondary Classroom (A resource guide for increasing rigor in the classroom and complex problem-solving)
By:Brad Cawn
Publisher:Solution Tree Press
Print ISBN:9781947604254
eText ISBN:9781947604261
Edition:1
Copyright:2020
Format:Reflowable

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Ensure all learners have opportunities to engage deeply in meaningful intellectual work. In Ambitious Instruction, author Brad Cawn offers a blueprint for how to make rigor visible, accessible, and actionable in grade 6–12 classrooms. The resource guides readers toward using the twin tenets of problem-based learning and synthesis to significantly strengthen students’ ability to read, write, and think within and across disciplines.

Use this resource to reinvigorate and modernize daily learning and instruction:

  • Develop a working understanding of rigor that will serve as the basis for rigorous, instructional excellence.
  • Discover how to integrate inquiry and dialogue into your instruction to help learners engage in meaningful exploration of complex problems.
  • Become familiar with actionable strategies that can be utilized to develop and increase rigor in the classroom.
  • Learn how to create and organize tasks, texts, and processes in order to improve teaching and learning.
  • Contents:
    Acknowledgments
    Table of Contents
    About the Author
    Introduction: Redefining Rigor
    Chapter 1: Determining What Rigor Will Look Like
    Chapter 2: Exploring the Two Tenets of Ambitious Instruction
    Chapter 3: Creating an Ambitious Instruction Road Map
    Chapter 4: Building Structured Inquiry to Power Ambitious Instruction
    Chapter 5: Facilitating Ambitious Instruction Through Dialogue
    Chapter 6: Launching and Sustaining Ambitious Instruction
    References and Resources