Overview
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
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