This book presents the Unstoppable Learning model that includes seven elements: planning, launching, consolidating, assessing, adapting, managing, and leading. It focuses on the assessing element, sharing crucial protocols and activities for collectively reworking their assessment systems through which educators can prepare themselves and their students to thrive in 21st century classrooms and beyond.
Discover proven methods to enhance teaching and learning schoolwide. Identify questions educators should ask to guarantee a positive classroom culture where students learn from each other, not just teachers. Explore ways to adapt learning in response to students’ individual needs, and gain strategies and tools to create clear learning targets, prepare effective lessons, and successfully assess instruction.
"In A Handbook for Unstoppable Learning, Laurie Robinson Sammons and Nanci N. Smith detail practical instructional strategies that K-12 educators can use to effectively apply the seven essential elements in Unstoppable Learning: Seven Essential Elements to Unleash Student Potential. Sammons & Smith have firsthand experience with the impactful results these strategies can produce in working toward academic standards. Readers can efficiently move through the purposeful design process and spark effective teaching and deep learning for all students." -- Back cover
Foreword by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey Modify your curriculum using streamlined assignments, targeted assessments, and student engagement strategies for different learning styles. This practical guide expands upon the Unstoppable Learning model to explore accessible learning for all students. Through specific curriculum and environmental accommodations and modifications, as well as personal and technology supports, K-12 teachers will discover how to provide differentiated instruction to students with varying needs, from physical disabilities to twice-exceptionality. Forms, tools, and diagrams designed to aid instructional planning are also included. How will this book help you? Learn how to adjust curriculum in ways that maintain appropriate levels of rigor for different learning styles. Consider real school vignettes and examples that illustrate successful Unstoppable Learning adaptations for inclusive classrooms. Study the four guiding principles of systems thinking: relationships, communications, responsiveness, and sustainability. Consider the importance of collaboration and communication in learning adaptations. Study helpful and informative tools and diagrams intended to aid in planning instruction for different learning styles.
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
First introduced in Unstoppable Learning, the Unstoppable Learning framework details seven essential elements of teaching and learning: (1) planning, (2) launching, (3) consolidating, (4) assessing, (5) adapting, (6) managing, and (7) leading. This resource by Tom Hierck focuses specifically on the element of managing learning outcomes in the classroom environment, outlining a collective approach to behavior management and student engagement that minimizes the impact of negative behaviors and maximizes the potential of each student. Effective classroom management strategies to create a positive learning environment: Review the Unstoppable Learning framework originally laid out by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey. Closely examine how to manage student behavior and classroom climate using the Unstoppable Learning framework's proven approach. Become familiar with methods of creating a positive learning environment, developing teacher-student relationships, and dealing with problem behaviors. Benefit from summaries of key points at the end of each chapter, as well as questions for reflection. Access free reproducibles designed for reader reflection. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Improving Behavior Management Through Cultural Change Chapter 2: Supporting Teacher-Student Relationships Chapter 3: Supporting Group Interactions and Peer Relationships Chapter 4: Supporting a Positive Learning Environment Chapter 5: Responding to Problem Behaviors Epilogue Appendix
Assessment is an essential part of teaching and learning, but too often it leads to misleading conclusions—sometimes with dire consequences for students. How can educators improve assessment practices so that the results are accurate, meaningful, informative, and fair? Educator and best-selling author Myron Dueck draws from his firsthand experience and his work with districts around the world to provide a simple but profound answer: put student voice and choice at the center of the process. In this engaging and well-researched book, Dueck reveals troubling issues related to traditional approaches and offers numerous examples of educators at all levels who are transforming assessment by using tools and methods that engage and empower students. He also shares surprising revelations about the nature of memory and learning that speak to the need for rethinking how we measure student understanding and achievement. Readers will find sound advice and detailed guidance on how to * Share and cocreate precise learning targets, * Develop student-friendly rubrics linked to standards, * Involve students in ongoing assessment procedures, * Replace flawed grading systems with ones that better reflect what students know and can do, and * Design structures for students' self-reporting on their progress in learning. Inspired by the origins of the word assessment—derived from the Latin for "to sit beside"—Dueck urges educators to discard old habits and instead work with students as partners in assessment. For those who do, the effort is rewarding and the benefits are significant
Now available in a new format and fresh package: a children's book by the authors of the New York Times best-selling children's book Incredible You. This book offers 10 lessons for children for leading fulfilled, self-actualized lives. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer believed that if children could hold on to the no-limit thinking they were born with rather than trying to fit in, they could learn to truly enjoy life and become unstoppable as they strive to attain their dreams. Newly repackaged with a fresh format and cover, Unstoppable Me! is based on 10 important lessons, including the value of taking risks, dealing with stress and anxiety, and learning to enjoy each moment. Each point includes an example showing how a child might apply the concept in his or her everyday life. At the end of this book, a reader's guide offers 10 questions to help spark discussion and to further reinforce Wayne's message. Whimsically illustrated by Stacy Heller Budnick.
Part of the Unstoppable Learning Series Adopted by educators worldwide, the Unstoppable Learning model includes seven elements of teaching and learning: (1) planning, (2) launching, (3) consolidating, (4) assessing, (5) adapting, (6) managing, and (7) leading. This book offers strategies for launching (introducing content and hooking students) and consolidating (facilitating students' comprehension) to help readers cultivate and increase meaningful, student-centered learning. Learn classroom management strategies to support student engagement and learner autonomy: Become familiar with the student engagement mindset continuum and gain classroom management strategies that help establish a growth mindset for students. Understand the theories of self-determination, participation, and motivation for students. Consider differentiated instruction and classroom scenarios that increase participation and intrinsic motivation for students during a lesson launch. Boost competency and learning consolidation by tapping into student engagement strategies designed specifically for different kinds of students. Learn how to monitor bias, which can negatively affect motivation for students who are struggling. Focus on student-centered learning to help students relate to content, and learn when and where to differentiate instruction to provide more learner autonomy. Contents: Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: Student Engagement Chapter 2: The Agitator Mindset Chapter 3: The Retreater Mindset Chapter 4: The Probationer Mindset Chapter 5: The Aficionado Mindset Chapter 6: The Academician Mindset Chapter 7: Engagement Culture Schoolwide Epilogue References and Resources Index Books in the Unstoppable Learning series: Unstoppable Learning A Handbook for Unstoppable Learning Leading Unstoppable Learning Adapting Unstoppable Learning Assessing Unstoppable Learning Managing Unstoppable Learning Launching and Consolidating Unstoppable Learning
