Are you ready to plan your best lessons ever?
With so many demands and so much content available for teachers, we must put a higher value on an often-overlooked skill: planning learning experiences that increase student engagement and inspire students.
Planning Powerful Instruction for Grades 2-5 and Grades 6-12 are your go-to guides for transforming student outcomes through stellar instructional planning. The seven-step framework—the EMPOWER model—provides you with classroom-tested techniques for lesson planning that are proven to help students develop and deepen their understanding.
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Whether you are a classroom teacher, an instructional leader, or a pre-service teacher, Planning Powerful Instruction will forever change the way you think about how you teach and the unique value you bring to your learners.
EMPOWER Webinar Series: Reflection - 7/30/20
Are Your Lessons Starting Strong? Priming and Orienting Learners for Success
"The most effective teachers don’t take student engagement for granted. Yet in our work in classrooms, we see that not enough attention is paid to good beginnings; this lack of attention violates much of what we know from research about motivation, optimal experience, schema theory, reading research, and cognitive science in general..." Keep reading.
Are You Planning the Best Possible Instruction?
"You face a high-stakes conundrum when it comes to planning instruction: either create curriculum from scratch, cobbling together their own resources with ones from online repositories that have little to no quality control OR follow a mandated, scripted curriculum from publishers that requires extensive supplementation, personalization, and/or renovation to make it usable..." Keep reading.