Ambitious Instruction: Teaching with Rigor in the Secondary Classroom (a Resource Guide for Increasing Rigor in the Classroom and Complex Pro (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781947604254)

Ensure all learners have opportunities to engage deeply in meaningful intellectual work. In Ambitious Instruction, author Brad Cawn offers a blueprint for how to make rigor visible, accessible, and actionable in grade 6-12 classrooms. The resource guides readers toward using the twin tenets of problem-based learning and synthesis to significantly strengthen students' ability to read, write, and think within and across disciplines.

Use this resource to reinvigorate and modernize daily learning and instruction:

• Develop a working understanding of rigor that will serve as the basis for rigorous, instructional excellence.
• Discover how to integrate inquiry and dialogue into your instruction to help learners engage in meaningful exploration of complex problems.
• Become familiar with actionable strategies that can be utilized to develop and increase rigor in the classroom.
• Learn how to create and organize tasks, texts, and processes in order to improve teaching and learning.

Contents:
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
About the Author
Introduction: Redefining Rigor
Chapter 1: Determining What Rigor Will Look Like
Chapter 2: Exploring the Two Tenets of Ambitious Instruction
Chapter 3: Creating an Ambitious Instruction Road Map
Chapter 4: Building Structured Inquiry to Power Ambitious Instruction
Chapter 5: Facilitating Ambitious Instruction Through Dialogue
Chapter 6: Launching and Sustaining Ambitious Instruction
References and Resources



Author: Brad Cawn
ISBN-10: 1947604252
ISBN-13: 9781947604254
Publisher: Solution Tree
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2020
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.70d