Personalized Deeper Learning: Blueprints for Teaching Complex Cognitive, Social-emotional, and Digital Skills a How-to Guide for Deep Learning and Student Engagement With Any Curri

Foster deeper learning with two templates--one for students, the other for teachers--that increase student agency and learning transfer within critical skill sets. Any teacher--regardless of grade, existing curriculum, or student load--can adapt, scale, and sustain these powerful personalized learning plans. Chapters include driving questions, concrete strategies, helpful tool examples, playlists, sample rubrics, and more.

Use this how-to guide to plan and implement deep learning outcomes:

• Explore the three critical skill sets needed to thrive in the 21st century: (1) complex cognitive, (2) social-emotional, and (3) digital.
• Learn how to foster a trusting learning environment that enhances student engagement in a digital curriculum.
• Understand how digital-management tools, electronic templates, and websites can help transform the classroom into a place where students experience deeper learning and higher-order thinking.
• Observe numerous classroom examples of personalized deeper learning at the elementary and secondary levels.
• Study specific teaching strategies to enhance learning transfer.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Personalized Learning Plans
Chapter 2: Engagement and Trust
Chapter 3: Outcome-Driven Instruction and Assessment
Chapter 4: Student Agency
Chapter 5: Skill Transfer
Chapter 6: The Complex Cognitive Skill Set
Chapter 7: The Social-Emotional Skill Set
Chapter 8: The Digital Skill Set
Conclusion: Personalized Deeper Learning for a Lifetime
Appendix: Templates

James A. Bellanca is nationally recognized as a practical 21st century skills and deeper-learning innovator who provides educators with the how-to knowledge to make project- and problem-based learning ready to go on the next school day. He is a senior fellow with the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and editor of their innovative online P21Blogazine. He is the 2013 recipient of the Malcolm Knowles Award for lifetime contribution to the field of self-directed learning from the International Society for Self-Directed Learning.

With his extensive experience as a classroom English and language arts teacher, alternative school director, professional developer, intermediate service center director, business owner, and not-for-profit executive, Jim has developed expertise for transforming mandates, such as the Common Core State Standards, into practical classroom tools that enrich instruction and engage students.

He is executive director of the Illinois Consortium for 21st Century Schools and lead trainer for Mind Quest: Project-Based Learning in the 21st Century Classroom, which helps schools with large English learner populations and children of color/poverty adopt the project-based learning model of instruction.

Jim has worked with educational leaders in California, Ohio, New York, Illinois, West Virginia, New Jersey, Michigan, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, and Israel. His specialty is the application of group investigation and inquiry models of learning as the primary methods for assisting school leaders and teachers adopt 21st century models of instruction. His aim is to assist school districts to design, implement, and assess programs that promote 21st century skills to increase academic performance among all children, including high-risk student populations.