Improving Achievement With Digital Age Best Practices / Edition 1

by Christopher M. Moersch

Overview

Connect Common Core, inquiry, and technology!

While technology ushers in exciting and innovative educational opportunities, finding best practices for complete integration remains a challenge. In this practical resource, educators will discover a roadmap for implementing digital age best practices. With discussions on how to promote networked collaboration, bolster purposeful inquiry, and anchor student decision-making and learning with digital-age tools, these research-based strategies deliver:

• A user-friendly road map for digital transition into new Common Core Standards
• Lesson plans, benchmarks, and instructional units to bridge the link between 21st century skills, Common Core Standards, and student achievement
• Practical tips for classroom, building, and district implementation
• Tools and guidance for successful PLCs

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452255507
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	11/13/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Consulting Description

http://www.loticonnection.com/

For the past 15 years, Dr. Chris Moersch has been the principal investigator of the Lo Ti project and Executive Director of Lo Ti Connection Inc. In that capacity, he has worked with thousands of educators nationwide promoting the tenets of digital-age literacy and professional development in an effort to transform low performing schools into high performing schools. He has over 20 years experience in the areas of curriculum development, program evaluation, and technology integration practices. His specialization includes implementing school improvement initiatives, creating 21st Century learning environments, and facilitating organizational change. Chris is the author of the Lo Ti ® Digital Age Survey, an empirically-validated survey instrument that helps teachers and leaders identify and formatively assess their level of teaching innovation.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Section I. Digital Age Best Practices
Chapter 1. Bolstering Purposeful Inquiry Through Student Questions
Chapter 2. Promoting Shared Expertise With Networked Collaboration
Chapter 3. Personalizing and Globalizing Content by Making Authentic Connections
Chapter 4. Accelerating Individual Growth Through Vertical and Horizontal Differentiation
Chapter 5. Anchoring Student Learning With Digital Age Tools and Resources
Chapter 6. Clarifying Student Understanding With Formative Assessments
Chapter 7. Implementing Student-Centered Learning Environments
Section II. A Converging Educational Landscape
Chapter 8. A National Perspective
Chapter 9. The Atlantic City Experience
Section III. Implementation Plan
Chapter 10. Differentiated Professional Development
Chapter 11. Three-Stage Model
Section IV. Instructional Leadership
Chapter 12. 5Cs of Instructional Leadership
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

"This book provides cutting-edge professional learning in the teaching of higher level learning skills. When schools, systems, states and nations (e.g. Singapore) need to equip students with the skills that will facilitate creativity here is the blueprint. The carefully crafted advice has been road tested and it works. I am waiting impatiently for the book to become available because it can help to improve every student’s learning, and therefore it should be essential reading for every preservice teacher and educational paraprofessional during their training. "

Dr. Neil Mac Neill

"If you are looking for a book that makes the links between standards, technology use, and readily implementable classroom lessons and makes a difference for students, then consider yourself to have one in your hand. In addition, the connections made to diversified professional development and administrative practices are laid out in a way that makes it easy to put them in to practice tomorrow. "

Dr. Bonnie Tryon

"Rather than keeping the discussion at the theoretical level, Moersch provides concrete scenarios and the success and challenges. The need for administrative support and leadership is detailed, as are walkthrough examples and implementation recommendations. This text is scholarly, but accessible, and includes a balance of real-life examples and strategies. "

Library Media Connection

"This book provides cutting-edge professional learning in the teaching of higher level learning skills. When schools, systems, states and nations (e.g. Singapore) need to equip students with the skills that will facilitate creativity here is the blueprint. The carefully crafted advice has been road tested and it works. I am waiting impatiently for the book to become available because it can help to improve every student’s learning, and therefore it should be essential reading for every preservice teacher and educational paraprofessional during their training."

Dr. Neil MacNeill