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Learning Challenge Lessons, Elementary
20 Lessons to Guide Young Learners Through the Learning Pit. Corwin Teaching Essentials
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"James Nottingham's work on Challenging Learning is a critical element of creating Visible Learners. This new series will help teachers hone the necessary pedagogical skills of dialogue, feedback, questioning, and mindset. There's no better resource to encourage all learners to know and maximize their impact!"
John Hattie, Professor & Director, Melbourne Education Research Institute
University of Melbourne
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Created to accompany The Learning Challenge, the twenty lessons collected in this book grapple with timely concepts and provide teachers with everything needed to run thoughtful, dialogue-driven challenges for elementary school students. Each lesson engages students around an exciting topic of current importance-including social media, voting, health, friendship, space exploration, language, fairness, and other issues-and invites students into the "Learning Pit" to explore their thoughts with others through dialogue.
The developmentally-appropriate lessons plans are designed to help young learners
Learn new vocabulary in the context of dialogue
Challenge themselves to think through complex concepts
Follow their natural curiosity and seek answers to questions they pose themselves
Think critically about issues and discover alternative viewpoints
Explore disagreements reasonably and co-create meaning with others
Detailed lesson plans make it easy for teachers to facilitate rigorous and thought-provoking dialogue for students. Teacher resources include
Activities to help students progress from surface level thinking to deeper understanding
Techniques to get students "into the pit," where contradictions and uncertainties force deeper thinking-and then out of the pit again
Full-color activity cards to accompany each lesson
Diagrams to help illustrate relationships between concepts for students
Each compelling topic challenges young students to think, to be reasonable, to make moral decisions, and to understand another person's point of view-all critical skills in today's complex world. Jumpstart meaningful learning for students with these rigorous and engaging Learning Challenge lessons.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
"James Nottingham's work on Challenging Learning is a critical element of creating Visible Learners. This new series will help teachers hone the necessary pedagogical skills of dialogue, feedback, questioning, and mindset. There's no better resource to encourage all learners to know and maximize their impact!"
-- John Hattie, Professor & Director, Melbourne Education Research Institute