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Powerful Task Design: Rigorous and Engaging Tasks to Level Up
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ISBN
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9781506399140
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Reference, Education
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Powerful Task Design : Rigorous and Engaging Tasks to Level Up Instruction
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Publisher
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Corwin Press
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10 in
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Computers & Technology, General
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2018
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Corwin Teaching Essentials Ser.
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Not Available
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Trade Paperback
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English
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0.6 in
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16.2 Oz
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6.9 in
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216 Pages
Powerful Task Design: Rigorous and Engaging Tasks to Level Up Instruction (Corwi
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Corwin Press
ISBN-10
1506399142
ISBN-13
9781506399140
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242630003
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Publication Name
Powerful Task Design : Rigorous and Engaging Tasks to Level Up Instruction
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Subject
Computers & Technology, General
Type
Not Available
Subject Area
Reference, Education
Series
Corwin Teaching Essentials Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
6.9 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2017-049403
Reviews
Powerful Task Designwill help you rethink how to get the full value from the technology tools you have available in your classroom. I found John and Terri’s work to be both practical and transformative. Teachers will come back to this book time and time again as we are challenged to find ways to push thinking, rigor and engagement to a higher level for your students., Are you grappling with how to create an instructional task that both challenges and engages? Do you continue to struggle with issues related to effective integration of technology into lesson designs? Are you seeking to understand how rigor and engagement can move beyond overused and empty clichs? Explore these and other essential questions in this highly practical, well-researched book that offers practitioner-friendly tools brought to life by a treasure-trove of examples across the content areas of k-12 classrooms. Inviting reflection and personal response at strategic points, the authors skillfully integrate video and other technology with written text to create a book that exhibits the design principles they propose. Powerful Task Designis a must-read for individual educators and a practical guide for PLCs., John and Terri turn the bubble-sheet culture on its head – offering readers a path for implementing rigorous and engaging tasks that promote meaning making and sustained learning. ThroughPowerful Task Design, they provide a way of thinking about our main goal in the classroom – creating rigorous and engaging tasks that power up learning. I love this book! The cognitive demand, thinking strategies, and engaging qualities of this book WILL change the way I interact with my own learners…and my two small children., Are you grappling with how to create an instructional task that both challenges and engages? Do you continue to struggle with issues related to effective integration of technology into lesson designs? Are you seeking to understand how rigor and engagement can move beyond overused and empty clichés? Explore these and other essential questions in this highly practical, well-researched book that offers practitioner-friendly tools brought to life by a treasure-trove of examples across the content areas of k-12 classrooms. Inviting reflection and personal response at strategic points, the authors skillfully integrate video and other technology with written text to create a book that exhibits the design principles they propose. Powerful Task Designis a must-read for individual educators and a practical guide for PLCs.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
371.3
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Table Of Content
AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsIntroduction: The Power of the Task1. The Work of School A Task Is a Task Task Predicts Performance The Design Components of a Task Technology in a Working Model, or When Terri Met Sally (Ahem, John) The Powerful Task Rubric for Designing Student Work2. Analyzing Learning With the Powerful Task Rubric One Content, Five Tasks Where Was the Power?3. The Power of Engagement The Qualities of Engagement Interaction as Engagement A Task Is Powered Up4. The Power of Academic Strategies It Starts on the Playground Strategies of Personal Response Identifying Similarities and Differences Summarizing and Note-Making Note-Taking Becomes Note-Making Reflection in Note-Making Nonlinguistic Representations Generating and Testing Hypotheses Reflection and Closure5. The Power of the Question Where Does a Question Come From? See-Think-Wonder Where Do Teacher Questions Come From? How to Open a Question Technology and Questions6. Engaged in What? The Power of Cognition Cognitive Demand Learning Through Accepting Meaning Thinking and Making Meaning Making Meaning on Top of Meaning Sliding Across the Cognitive Continua: A Hierarchy, Not a Sequence Math Cognition and the Task Rubric Encoding and Memory7. Power Up: Using the Diagnostic Instrument to Analyze Learning The Diagnostic Instrument to Analyze Learning Premises and Research Behind the DIAL Using the DIAL Three DIAL Implementations Tips for the Tool8. Putting It All TogetherFinal ThoughtsReferencesIndex
Synopsis
How can educators use technology to increase students’ engagement in activities essential to rigorous learning? What are the most effective tools for analyzing, designing, and refining those learning tasks? How can we increase the cognitive rigor and thoughtful integration of technology into learning tasks, to better prepare students for college and beyond? In Powerful Task Design, these questions and more will be answered as you get to know the Powerful Task Rubric for Designing Student Work. Applicable for educators across all disciplines and grade levels, you’ll use the tool to analyze, design, and refine cognitively engaging learning tasks. This guide will help you, Explore and use the Powerful Task Rubric piece-by-piece in an easily digestible format to help you delve into the tool’s design components, Use technology to complete interactive tasks, and understand first-hand how technology is a critical component in student task design that brings about more profound and relevant learning, Identify opportunities for creating powerful tasks in the areas of engagement, academic strategies, questions, and cognition, Supplement your task-design arsenal with tools like the Diagnostic Instrument to Analyze Learning (DIAL), Thos must-have resource brings together the research and strategies educators need to design engaging, powerful learning tasks. Student performance has a direct correlation to the power of the learning task. This book will help you positively impact both. Book jacket., This book will help teachers use the Powerful Task Rubric using an easily digestible format to help them delve into the tool’s design components. They’ll be able to use technology to complete interactive tasks, and understand first-hand how technology is a critical design component in student task design that brings about more profound and relevant learning. It will also help them to identify opportunities for creating powerful tasks in the areas of engagement, academic strategies, questions, and cognition. Student performance has a direct correlation to the power of the learning task – this book will help positively impact both., How can educators use technology to increase students’ engagement in activities essential to rigorous learning? What are the most effective tools for analyzing, designing, and refining those tasks of learning? And finally, how can we increase the cognitive rigor and thoughtful integration of technology into learning tasks, in order to better prepare students for college and beyond? In Powerful Task Design, these questions and more will be answered, as you get to know the Powerful Task Rubric for Designing Student Work. Applicable for educators across all disciplines and grade levels, you’ll use the tool to analyze, design, and refine cognitively engaging tasks of learning. This guide will help you Explore and use the Powerful Task Rubric piece-by-piece in an easily digestible format to help you delve into the tool’s design components. Use technology to complete interactive tasks, and understand first-hand how technology is a critical design component in student task design that brings about more profound and relevant learning. Identify opportunities for creating powerful tasks in the areas of engagement, academic strategies, questions, and cognition. Supplement your task design arsenal with tools like the Diagnostic Instrument to Analyze Learning (DIAL). This must-have resource brings together the research and strategies educators need to design engaging, powerful learning tasks. Student performance has a direct correlation to the power of the learning task – this book will help you positively impact both., Applicable for educators across all disciplines and grade levels, this book will teach you to use the Powerful Task Rubric for Designing Student Work to analyze, design, and refine cognitively engaging tasks of learning. This guide will help you Use the Powerful Task Rubric, and delve into the tool’s design components. Complete interactive tasks, and understand first-hand how technology is a critical design component in student task design. Identify opportunities for creating powerful tasks in the areas of engagement, academic strategies, questions, and cognition. Supplement your task design arsenal with tools like the Diagnostic Instrument to Analyze Learning (DIAL)., Applicable to educators across all disciplines and grade levels, this book provides the tools to analyze, design, and refine cognitively engaging tasks of learning.
LC Classification Number
LB1028.38.A47 2018
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