Unstoppable Learning: Seven Essential Elements to Unleash Student Potential (Using Systems Thinking to Improve Teaching Practices and Learning Outcomes)

Douglas Fisher,Nancy Frey

Unstoppable Learning: Seven Essential Elements to Unleash Student Potential (Using Systems Thinking to Improve Teaching Practices and Learning Outcomes)
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Solution Tree Press
Country
United States
Published
25 November 2012
Pages
208
ISBN
9781935542735

Unstoppable Learning: Seven Essential Elements to Unleash Student Potential (Using Systems Thinking to Improve Teaching Practices and Learning Outcomes)

Douglas Fisher,Nancy Frey

2015 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in Education

Discover how to enhance teaching and learning using the seven essential elements of the Unstoppable Learning model: (1) planning, (2) launching, (3) consolidating, (4) assessing, (5) adapting, (6) managing, and (7) leading.

Examine how to use systems thinking to create a network of interactions that promote best practices in teaching and enhance student learning schoolwide. Every classroom has a network of relationships among schools, families, and communities that impacts the classroom. This book will help you cultivate teaching practices that create optimal learning and working environments. You’ll gain a variety of proven strategies and tools for creating learning outcomes, preparing effective lessons, adapting learning in response to students’ individual needs, and more.

After reading this book, you should be able to:

Distinguish patterns and consider short- and long-term consequences in the classroom. Use the seven elements of the Unstoppable Learning model to better understand the big picture of education and the intricate relationships that impact classrooms and school leadership. Prompt discussion and reflection using the driving questions and chapter takeaways to foster school improvement. Identify strategies and tools to create clear learning targets, prepare effective lessons, and successfully assess instruction. Gather helpful sample surveys, unit plans, analysis forms, rubrics, templates, and pull-out questions to reach selected learning outcomes.

Contents:

Introduction: The Business of Learning Chapter 1: Planning Learning
Chapter 2: Launching Learning Chapter 3: Consolidating Learning Chapter 4: Assessing Learning Chapter 5: Adapting Learning Chapter 6: Managing Learning Chapter 7: Leading Learning Appendix: Driving Questions

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