Ambitious Instruction

Teaching With Rigor in the Secondary Classroom (A resource guide for increasing rigor in the classroom and complex problem-solving)

Brad Cawn

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781947604261
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Secondary Education

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
  
  

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• About the Author
• Introduction: Redefining Rigor
• Chapter 1: Getting Started on Ambitious Instruction: Building Curriculum Around Problems
• Chapter 2: Planning Ambitious Instruction: How to Connect Problems to Practice
• Chapter 3: Implementing Ambitious Instruction
• Chapter 4: Facilitating Ambitious Instruction
• Chapter 5: Supporting and Sustaining Ambitious Instruction
• References and Resources
• Index