Teaching for Transfer : A Guide for Designing Learning with Real-World Application (a Guide to Instructional Strategies That Build Transferable Skills in K-12 Students)

Empower students to become creative, well-rounded citizens who are prepared to meet and overcome real-world challenges. With Teaching for Transfer , you'll discover a road map for reconfiguring K-12 classroom instruction to ensure learners can expertly apply their knowledge and skills to new contexts. The resource includes ample practices and protocols you can begin using today to cultivate essential transfer-level skills in students. Use this resource to introduce students to varied perspectives and instances of perplexity: Study the three levels of complexity: (1) surface, (2) deep, and (3) transfer. Understand how foundational knowledge and skills can be leveraged to create transfer-level learning experiences and increase student engagement and problem-solving skills. Learn specific teaching strategies and protocols for incorporating perspective and perplexity in the classroom to mimic real-world challenges. Use end-of-chapter reflection questions individually and collaboratively, with other teachers, to build students' transferable skills. Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Author Introduction Chapter 1: Laying Foundations: Building Surface-and-Deep Networks Chapter 2: Co-constructing Learning Intentions at Transfer: Building Transfer Networks Chapter 3: Introducing Change in the Learning Experience: Leveraging Perspective and Perplexity Chapter 4: Engaging Students in Transfer-Level Learning Chapter 5: Creating the Right Conditions for Transfer in the School Context: Transitioning and Teaming Epilogue Appendix A: Resources for Foundational Learning Appendix B: Resources for Transfer-Network Development Appendix C: Resources for Engagement in Transfer-Level Work References and Resources Index Empower students to become creative, well-rounded citizens who are prepared to meet and overcome real-world challenges. With Teaching for Transfer , you ll discover a road map for reconfiguring K-12 classroom instruction to ensure learners can expertly apply their knowledge and skills to new contexts. The resource includes ample practices and protocols you can begin using today to cultivate essential transfer-level skills in students. Use this resource to introduce students to varied perspectives and instances of Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Author Foreword by Jay McTighe Introduction Chapter 1: Laying Building Surface-and-Deep Networks Chapter 2: Moving Beyond Building Transfer Networks Chapter 3: Introducing Change in the Learning Leveraging Perspective and Perplexity Chapter 4: Engaging Students in Transfer-Level Learning Chapter 5: Integrating Transfer Into Our Teaching and Learning Practices Epilogue Afterword by Tammy Heflebower Appendix Resources for Foundational Learning Appendix Resources for Transfer-Network Development Appendix Resources for Engagement in Transfer-Level Work References and Resources Index v "In Teaching for Transfer: A Guide for Designing Learning With Real-World Application, author Michael McDowell provides a guide that educators can use to improve their teaching, engage their students, and develop their students' transfer abilities. McDowell notes that teachers want students to meet transfer goals and become proficient in transfer. However, McDowell notes, creating a classroom and curriculum that develops students' transfer abilities is a daunting task. As such, this book answers the how and the why of teaching for transfer. Readers will become familiar with transfer and study the foundational concepts and theories of teaching for transfer. Using this foundational background, they will also be provided with an in-depth, concrete guide to the styles of teaching that are necessary to effectively develop students' transfer abilities. Using this book, readers will have all of the information and actionable strategies that they need to develop a system of teaching that enables all students to hit their transfer goals"-- Provided by publisher In Teaching for Transfer: A Guide for Designing Learning With Real-World Application, Michael McDowell provides a guide that educators can use to improve their teaching, engage their students, and develop their students' transfer abilities. The author notes that teachers want students to meet transfer goals and become proficient in transfer. However, creating a classroom and curriculum that develops students' transfer abilities is a daunting task. As such, this book answers the how and the why of teaching for transfer. Readers will become familiar with transfer and study the foundational concepts and theories of teaching for transfer. Using this foundational background, they will also be provided with an in-depth, concrete guide to the styles of teaching that are necessary to effectively develop students' transfer abilities This book offers a road map for reconfiguring K-12 classroom instruction to ensure learners can apply their knowledge and skills to new contexts, to help cultivate transfer-level skills. It discusses complexity levels - surface, deep, and transfer - and how foundational knowledge and skills can help create transfer-level learning experiences and increase student skills. Includes strategies for incorporating real world perspective and perplexity, plus end-of-chapter questions