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Informationen zum Autor Lauren Porosoff has been an educator since 2000, and she writes and presents about how to design curriculum and professional development that empowers students and teachers. Informed by research and practices from contextual behavioral science, her work also includes the books EMPOWER Your Students and Two-for-One Teaching, and more than 30 articles about how students and teachers can clarify and commit to their values at school. Klappentext Teach Meaningful includes examples from across grade levels and subject areas to help teachers design curriculum. It provides exercises teachers can use to write and assess curriculum that results in valued outcomes, and protocols that help groups of teachers work together toward more cohesive curriculum they can all stand behind. Zusammenfassung Teach Meaningful includes examples from across grade levels and subject areas to help teachers design curriculum. It provides exercises teachers can use to write and assess curriculum that results in valued outcomes! and protocols that help groups of teachers work together toward more cohesive curriculum they can all stand behind. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Preface: The Values That Guided the Second Edition Acknowledgements Introduction: A Case for Values-Guided Curriculum Design What Values Are-and Aren't Values as Qualities of Action Values as What the Educator Thinks Are Important Making Values Manifest in a Classroom How Values Differ from Goals and Preferences Curriculum as Coherence Essential Coherence Social Coherence Functional Coherence How to Use This Book Chapter 1: Discover the Values That Guide Your Teaching Barriers to Values-Consistent Teaching Getting Stuck in Self-Limiting Beliefs Disregarding What Matters Most Avoiding Uncomfortable Feelings External Factors Tools for Discovering the Values That Guide Your Teaching Rate Your Teacher Individual Exercise Reflection Questions Variation Three Ups Three Downs Individual Exercise Reflection Questions Extension Values Rendering Individual Exercise Reflection Questions Variation Onward Chapter 2: Discover Your Team's Shared Values Values-Conscious Collaboration Discovering Shared Values Assume Diverse Thinking Clarify Decision-Making Processes Create Structures for Safe and Inclusive Communication Make the Process Itself the Only Outcome of Values Exploration Tools for Discovering Your Team's Shared Values Learning Timeline Group Protocol Reflection Questions Extension Assignment Analysis Group Protocol Reflection Questions Extension Venn Values Group Protocol Reflection Questions Extension Onward Chapter 3: Use Values to Imagine Learning Imagining New Possibilities Reimagining Content: Connecting to Current Concerns Reimagining Tasks: Assigning Meaningful Work Reimagining Resources: Drawing Upon All Relevant Knowledge Reclaiming the Artistry of Curriculum Design Tools for Using Values to Imagine Learning Resource Brainstorm Group Protocol Reflection Questions Extension Work What-Ifs Individual Exercise Reflection Questions Variation Curriculum Dice Group Protocol Reflection Questions Variations Onward Chapter 4: Use Values to Focus Learning The Unity of a Unit Why Teachers Create Heaps From Heaps to Systems I...
