Developing Expert Learners : A Roadmap for Growing Confident and Competent St...

Developing Expert Learners : A Roadmap for Growing Confident and Competent Students, Paperback by McDowell, Michael, ISBN 1544337159, ISBN-13 9781544337159, Like New Used, Free shipping in the USMcDowell, a school district superintendent and former coach and teacher, offers a roadmap for developing students who are expert learners, arguing that to develop student expertise, the control in learning must be shared between teachers and students and that teachers need to teach students how to build their efficacy in learning to take full responsibility over it. He shows how to integrate the 5Cs Guiding Actions for developing students expertise by clarifying learning, activating challenges, checking on learner progress, communicating, and teaching students to address problems across contexts. After an overview of these Guiding Actions, chapters address classroom culture to ensure learners and teachers engage in the work of learning, teacher preparation in unit and lesson design, routines to to support student learning, and developing collective teacher efficacy to continually monitor and support student efficacy and expertise. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()