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Integrating Teaching and Learning
"Timeless Essentials" for Creating Integrated Units of Study
by Larry Ainsworth
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Overview

Integrating Teaching and Learning: "Timeless Essentials" for Creating Integrated Units of Study is a unique series that PK-12 educators are successfully using to create new units of study, or enrich existing ones, with indispensable elements that fully integrate their instruction with students' learning. Volume Three in this series shows how to plan Learning Progressions--the “building blocks of daily instruction” --that educators use to teach their students the prerequisite concepts and skills of the “unwrapped” Essential Standards. Quick Progress Checks provide timely feedback that educators use to adjust follow-up instruction and that students use to make needed learning adjustments. Standards-Aligned Learning Tasks, highly engaging mini-projects, enable students to progressively develop and reveal their understanding of the Essential Standards’ “unwrapped” concepts, skills, and Big Ideas.

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Description

Integrating Teaching and Learning: "Timeless Essentials" for Creating Integrated Units of Study is a unique series that PK-12 educators are successfully using to create new units of study, or enrich existing ones, with indispensable elements that fully integrate their instruction with students' learning. Volume Three in this series presents the third and final set of "timeless essentials" that are fully described and illustrated with numerous educator-created examples and A.I.-generated examples, along with key points on how to best utilize these essential elements in all grades and content areas.

You will first learn how to plan Learning Progressions as the instructional "ladder" that educators build and use to teach their students the prerequisite concepts and skills in the "unwrapped" Essential Standards. Next, you will see how to plan Quick Progress Checks to gain valuable feedback that both educators and students can use to make needed instructional and learning adjustments. Finally, you will learn how to design Standards-Aligned Learning Tasks—interactive "hands-on, minds-on" student learning experiences, distributed throughout a unit of study, that progressively develop and reveal students' understanding of the Essential Standards' "unwrapped" concepts, skills, and Big Ideas.

Each chapter of the Integrated Teaching and Learning System© begins with the "what" and "why" of the individual element in focus, illustrated with content-specific, grade-level and/or course-level examples. Relevant research from prominent educational thought leaders adds support to the practical value of the various elements. Educators can experience the step-by-step Integrated Teaching and Learning System© design process firsthand by applying it to a unit of their choice, individually and/or collaboratively with colleagues. Through this direct engagement, they can determine for themselves the efficacy of this multi-step process to optimize instruction and maximize student learning.

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About the author

Larry Ainsworth is the author or co-author of more than 20 books, including his most popular titles: Rigorous Curriculum Design; Common Formative Assessments 2.0; Prioritizing Common Core State Standards; Power Standards; "Unwrapping" Common Core State Standards, and "Unwrapping" the Standards. Larry's comprehensive new book series, Integrating Teaching and Learning: "Timeless Essentials" for Creating Integrated Units of Study (2024), explains and illustrates in detail how PK-12 educators can develop quality units of study that intentionally align standards, assessments, instruction, and data analysis to positively impact teaching and student learning.

After 24 years as an upper elementary and middle school classroom teacher in demographically diverse schools, Larry served as the Executive Director of Professional Development at The Leadership and Learning Center in Englewood, Colorado, from 1999 to 2013. Throughout his career as an education consultant, Larry has delivered keynote addresses and breakout sessions across North America and in Argentina and Switzerland, and regularly worked on-site and virtually to assist leaders and educators in understanding and implementing "timeless" education practices in all content areas, pre-kindergarten through grade 12.

Currently an independent author-consultant, Larry continues to present to educators and leaders across the U.S. a series of virtual workshops based on his Integrated Teaching and Learning System©, a dynamic unit-design framework. If you would like more information about his workshops, please visit Larry's website at www.larryainsworth.com or contact him directly at larry@larryainsworth.com.

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Book details

Genre:EDUCATION

Subgenre:Teaching Methods & Materials / General

Language:English

Series title:Integrating Teaching and Learning: "Timeless" Essentials

Series Number:3

Pages:168

Paperback ISBN:9798350962734

Overview

Integrating Teaching and Learning: "Timeless Essentials" for Creating Integrated Units of Study is a unique series that PK-12 educators are successfully using to create new units of study, or enrich existing ones, with indispensable elements that fully integrate their instruction with students' learning. Volume Three in this series shows how to plan Learning Progressions--the “building blocks of daily instruction” --that educators use to teach their students the prerequisite concepts and skills of the “unwrapped” Essential Standards. Quick Progress Checks provide timely feedback that educators use to adjust follow-up instruction and that students use to make needed learning adjustments. Standards-Aligned Learning Tasks, highly engaging mini-projects, enable students to progressively develop and reveal their understanding of the Essential Standards’ “unwrapped” concepts, skills, and Big Ideas.

Read more

Description

Integrating Teaching and Learning: "Timeless Essentials" for Creating Integrated Units of Study is a unique series that PK-12 educators are successfully using to create new units of study, or enrich existing ones, with indispensable elements that fully integrate their instruction with students' learning. Volume Three in this series presents the third and final set of "timeless essentials" that are fully described and illustrated with numerous educator-created examples and A.I.-generated examples, along with key points on how to best utilize these essential elements in all grades and content areas.

You will first learn how to plan Learning Progressions as the instructional "ladder" that educators build and use to teach their students the prerequisite concepts and skills in the "unwrapped" Essential Standards. Next, you will see how to plan Quick Progress Checks to gain valuable feedback that both educators and students can use to make needed instructional and learning adjustments. Finally, you will learn how to design Standards-Aligned Learning Tasks—interactive "hands-on, minds-on" student learning experiences, distributed throughout a unit of study, that progressively develop and reveal students' understanding of the Essential Standards' "unwrapped" concepts, skills, and Big Ideas.

Each chapter of the Integrated Teaching and Learning System© begins with the "what" and "why" of the individual element in focus, illustrated with content-specific, grade-level and/or course-level examples. Relevant research from prominent educational thought leaders adds support to the practical value of the various elements. Educators can experience the step-by-step Integrated Teaching and Learning System© design process firsthand by applying it to a unit of their choice, individually and/or collaboratively with colleagues. Through this direct engagement, they can determine for themselves the efficacy of this multi-step process to optimize instruction and maximize student learning.

Read more

About the author

Larry Ainsworth is the author or co-author of more than 20 books, including his most popular titles: Rigorous Curriculum Design; Common Formative Assessments 2.0; Prioritizing Common Core State Standards; Power Standards; "Unwrapping" Common Core State Standards, and "Unwrapping" the Standards. Larry's comprehensive new book series, Integrating Teaching and Learning: "Timeless Essentials" for Creating Integrated Units of Study (2024), explains and illustrates in detail how PK-12 educators can develop quality units of study that intentionally align standards, assessments, instruction, and data analysis to positively impact teaching and student learning.

After 24 years as an upper elementary and middle school classroom teacher in demographically diverse schools, Larry served as the Executive Director of Professional Development at The Leadership and Learning Center in Englewood, Colorado, from 1999 to 2013. Throughout his career as an education consultant, Larry has delivered keynote addresses and breakout sessions across North America and in Argentina and Switzerland, and regularly worked on-site and virtually to assist leaders and educators in understanding and implementing "timeless" education practices in all content areas, pre-kindergarten through grade 12.

Currently an independent author-consultant, Larry continues to present to educators and leaders across the U.S. a series of virtual workshops based on his Integrated Teaching and Learning System©, a dynamic unit-design framework. If you would like more information about his workshops, please visit Larry's website at www.larryainsworth.com or contact him directly at larry@larryainsworth.com.

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