Connecting the Dots: Teacher Effectiveness and Deeper Professional Learning (Leading Edge) (How to Set High Performance Expectations for Your Students) (Leading Edge, 10)

Confront the issues that profoundly affect teachers, administrators, and students. From cover to cover, this collection is packed with examples of effective strategies for 21st century classrooms. Discover the shift in day-to-day practice that must occur to prepare students for college and careers, and look forward to what exemplary professional practices will be crucial in deepening student learning as the 21st century progresses.

Benefits
-Read real-life school examples of educators working on the front lines to bring deeper learning to their students.
-Consider new models of effective teaching and the benefits that a cognitive curriculum can have on student learning.
-Study the four common elements in models of effective teaching and how formative assessment, standards, grading, and technology, when joined together, can strengthen student learning.
-Learn the characteristics that students need in order to become college and career ready in the 21st century.
-Review what professional learning entails in the digital world and why it is so valuable in 21st century education.

Contents
Foreword
Introduction: Finding Edison s Better Way
Part I: What Today s Effective Teachers Do
Chapter 1: The Power of Full Inclusion
Chapter 2: What Does It Take? A Teacher s View on 21st Century Effectiveness
Chapter 3: Touring an Effective School From the Inside Out
Chapter 4: Death of the Lecture
Chapter 5: Realizing the American Dream: Engaging Students in a Culturally Diverse Classroom
Chapter 6: Stopping to Think: A Lifetime of Learning to Learn
Chapter 7: Teaching Modern Learners: New Contexts, New Literacies, New Roles
Chapter 8: Leveraging Technology, Increasing Performances
Chapter 9: The Interrupters
Part II: Professional Learning: The Key to Effectiveness in Today s Classrooms
Chapter 10: Rethinking Professional Learning in a Digital Age
Chapter 11: Searching for Excellence in a New Age: Rethinking Teacher Qualities to Promote Student Success for 21st Century Learning
Chapter 12: Waiting to Excel: Mediating 21st Century Teaching Through the Pedagogy of Confidence
Chapter 13: Starting a School Year of Deeper Learning for Teachers
Chapter 14: Why Not?