The Teacher Clarity Playbook, Grades K-12: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Learning Intentions and Success Criteria for Organized, Effective Instruction

Author Douglas Fisher - Nancy Frey - John Taylor Almarode - Kierstan Barbee - Olivia Amador Valerio - Joseph Michael Assof
Publisher Corwin Press
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    Douglas Fisher - Nancy Frey - John Taylor Almarode - Kierstan Barbee - Olivia Amador Valerio - Joseph Michael Assof
    Nancy Frey, Ph.D., a Professor at San Diego State University received the 2008 Early Career Achievement Award from the National Reading Conference. Dr. Frey has published in The Reading Teacher, English Journal, Remedial and Special Education, and Educational Leadership. She has co-authored more than fifty books on English Learners (Language Learners in the English Classroom), assessment (Checking for Understanding), writing (Scaffolded Writing Instruction), literacy (Reading for Information in Elementary School) and vocabulary (Learning Words Inside and Out). Dr. Frey teaches a variety of courses on reading instruction and literacy in content areas, classroom management, and supporting students with diverse learning needs. She also was a third grade classroom teacher. Dr. Frey's monographs include: Reaching for the Common Core, Using Technology to Foster Learning for a New Century, Link to 21st Century Skills and Resources, and Connect Oral and Written Expression, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, and Content.
    Publisher
    Corwin Press
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    Edition
    2
    Copyright
    2024
    ISBN13
    9781071938225
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    eBook
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    TBD

    Overview

    Unlock the secrets to student achievement with purposeful learning and clear expectations. On a clear day, you can learn forever - that's the adapted lyric you'll be happily humming once you've covered this playbook, because you will have mastered using learning intentions and success criteria, the twin engines of Teacher Clarity. This template-filled guide shows you how to own it, do it, and live it - and your students will be more successful as a result. In this fully revised edition, this succinct, smart, and swift book's nine learning modules take you systematically through a process that begins and ends with standards. With abundant and all new examples that span grade levels, planning templates for every step, key professional learning questions, new videos, revised success criteria and relevance sections, and the latest research, you have the most practical and up-to-date planner for designing and delivering highly effective instruction: identifying concepts and skills; sequencing learning progressions; elaborating learning intentions; crafting success criteria; modifying learning intentions to include language expectations; determining the relevance of the learning; designing assessment opportunities; creating meaningful learning experiences; and establishing mastery of standards. Designed for PLCs or independent teacher use, this book helps practitioners align lessons, objectives, and outcomes of learning seamlessly, so that the classroom hours flow productively for everyone. For any teacher striving to be more organized and have stronger relationships with students, this is the book that shows you how.