Developing Expert Learners: A Roadmap for Growing Confident and Competent Students

Finally— a roadmap for growing students’ confidence and competence in learning. We strive to empower our students to lead their own inquiry, discover knowledge, and construct approaches to solving real-life challenges. Often, though, we make the mistake of designing learning experiences that burden students with the unrealistic expectation of expertise that hasn’t yet been developed. The solution: proper scaffolding for surface, deep, and transfer learning.  Building upon the groundwork from Michael McDowell’s book Rigorous PBL by Design, this new resource provides practices that strategically support students as they move from novices to experts in core academics. You’ll learn high-impact strategies that ensure students develop ownership and confidence in their learning, plus essential tools to build your own efficacy and support your colleagues in building collective expertise. Chock full of mission-critical guidance, this book  Provides an actionable framework for developing student expertise Offers practical strategies, tools, and routines for creating a culture that cultivates expertise and builds student efficacy Gives a simple, effective unit and lesson template that clarifies the steps students must take to build, deepen, and apply core content knowledge and skills Ensures your students’ progress in their learning through a process for selecting instructional, feedback, and learning strategies  Includes strategies for improving your professional expertise individually and collectively "As educators, we are challenged to prepare our students for college and career readiness as they go into the real world. Developing Expert Learners addresses the intentional moves of the teacher to prepare students for challenging work at their level of learning, resulting in students reaching their fullest potential as experts in their own learning." Elizabeth Alvarez, Chief of Schools Chicago Public Schools

Table of Contents:
List of Online Resources Foreword Acknowledgments About the Author A Teacher’s Perspective Introduction Chapter 1. Guiding Actions for Expertise and Efficacy The 5Cs: Guiding Actions for Developing Student Expertise Putting Principles of Expertise Into Practice Successfully Conclusion Chapter 2. Conditions for Impact: Creating a Culture of Collective Efficacy Culture of Learning Recurring Problems Defining Efficacy Evidence of Efficacy Teaching Strategies for Developing Student Efficacy Conclusion Chapter 3. Planning for Impact Focused Design Unit Planning: Five Design Steps Planning Process Conclusion Chapter 4. Teaching for Impact Illuminating the Hidden Understandings of Learners Establishing Routines Expertise-Based Strategies Sequencing Developing Expertise Routines Conclusion Chapter 5. Collective Efficacy: Developing Efficacy and Expertise as Professionals Linking Professional and Student Efficacy Designing Core Tasks for Professionals to Impact Learning Creating a Process for Collective Learning Through Teaming Structuring the Methods for Determining, Discussing, Debating, and Designing Next Steps for Improvement Conclusion Conclusion Afterword Resources Conditions for Impact Resources Planning for Impact Resources Teaching for Impact Resources Collective Efficacy: Developing Efficacy and Expertise as Professionals References Index