
Teaching for Lifelong Learning
How to Prepare Students for a Changing World
Develop lifelong learners who are engaged, curious, skillful, thoughtful, independent, confident, and reflective. This resource reveals four key goals for a lifelong learning education and how you can organize teaching around a practical four-phase instructional model. In addition, the author shares ways to improve assessments and offers curriculum development strategies that will help students succeed academically and navigate college, career, and life.
Teaching for Lifelong Learning
Develop lifelong learners who are engaged, curious, skillful, thoughtful, independent, confident, and reflective. This resource reveals four key goals for a lifelong learning education and how you can organize teaching around a practical four-phase instructional model. In addition, the author shares ways to improve assessments and offers curriculum development strategies that will help students succeed academically and navigate college, career, and life.
- Understand the importance of developing curious explorers, independent thinkers, and a growth mindset in students.
- Learn steps, approaches, and specific activities for implementing a four-phase instructional framework.
- Learn why diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments are all important elements of a lifelong learning education.
- Know what to look for when analyzing, choosing, or designing a new curriculum for lifelong learning.
- Explore many lifelong learning education examples from various disciplines and grade levels across elementary, middle school, and high school classrooms.
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“I have had a chance to read Teaching for Lifelong Learning, and I really enjoyed it! I could see using this book as a text for ed classes as well as for staff book studies. I'm excited to share it with my colleagues!”
“Teaching for Lifelong Learning is a rich and informative book that kept me inspired and learning something new throughout my reading. Although I have been working with Understanding by Design, Elliott shed new light on how to design a practical curriculum that is adaptable for now and the future. I share his passion for reimagining learning and am grateful that he put together so many of the threads that will make this a tapestry for our return to shaping new learning environments.”
“For teachers who aspire to teach in ways that prepare their students for the road ahead of them rather than for a life in decades past, this book is a valuable guide. Drawing on knowledge and insight built over a distinguished career, Seif combines clear thinking, analysis of contrasting classroom scenarios, opportunity for readers to interact with the text, and rich resources for further learning to point the way to curriculum, instruction, and assessment that honor the potential and needs of the students we teach.”
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