Personalized Deeper Learning: Blueprints for Teaching Complex Cognitive, Social-Emotional, and Digital Skills (a How-To Guide for Deep Learning and Student Engagement with Any Curriculum)

Access simple yet powerful personalized learning plans that any teacher–regardless of grade, existing curriculum, or student load–can adapt, scale, and sustain. Achieve deep learning with teaching strategies that foster students’ cognitive, digital, and social-emotional learning (SEL) skills.

Use this how-to guide to plan and implement deep learning outcomes:

Explore the three critical skill sets needed to thrive in the 21st century: (1) complex cognitive, (2) social-emotional, and (3) digital. Learn how to foster a trusting learning environment that enhances student engagement. Understand how digital-management tools, electronic templates, and websites can help transform the classroom into a place where students experience deeper learning. Observe numerous classroom examples of personalized deeper learning at the elementary and secondary levels. Study specific teaching strategies to enhance learning transfer.

Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1: Personalized Learning Plans
Chapter 2: Engagement
Chapter 3: Outcomes-Driven Instruction and Assessment
Chapter 4: Student Agency
Chapter 5: Skill Transfer
Chapter 6: The Complex Cognition Skill Set
Chapter 7: The Social-Emotional Skill Set
Chapter 8: The Digital Skill Set
Conclusion: Personalized Deeper Learning for a Lifetime
Appendix: Templates