Ambitious Instruction (ePub)

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