The Quest for Learning: How to Maximize Student Engagement (Strategies to Engage Students in the Classroom Using Guided Inquiry)

With Foreword by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

It's crucial for 21st century teachers and students to determine together what a student will learn and at what pace. This book dives deep into quest learning, a customizable inquiry model tailored to a student's interests, needs, and abilities. Learn how to use questing to engross students in emotionally gripping learning experiences, engage them with actionable goals, build 21st century skills, and promote collaboration in online and physical spaces.

Learn how to motivate students using the education quest model:

• Foster students' 21st century learning by engaging critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and self-direction.
• Form learning partnerships with students that lead to co-teaching and co-learning.
• Explore the three main design types through which students can quest to learn: (1) inquiry, (2) network, and (3) game.
• Investigate the guided inquiry design decisions involved in identifying a quest, determining checkpoints, and helping students reflect on their quest.
• Use formative assessment templates for engaging students in learning.

Contents:
Foreword by Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Introduction

Part I: Establishing
Chapter 1: Making the Case for Questing
Chapter 2: Identifying Questing Components
Chapter 3: Inquiring With Question Design
Chapter 4: Playing With Game Design
Chapter 5: Building Connections With Network Design

Part II: Guiding
Chapter 6: Launching the Quest
Chapter 7: Introducing Students to Quests
Chapter 8: Providing Instructional Support
Chapter 9: Demonstrating Learning

Appendix A:Frequently Asked Questions
Appendix B: Questing Framework Questions Aligned to Decision Matrix
Appendix C: Sample Complete Quest
References and Resources
Index

Marie Alcock, PhD, is president of Learning Systems Associates and serves as an educational consultant in the United States and internationally. Marie has worked in public and private education as a teacher, administrator, and public advocate since 1997. Her work focuses on the areas of curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Marie is a member of Curriculum21 faculty, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and the American Educational Research Association. Marie coauthored Bold Moves for Schools: How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments and Mapping to the CORE: Integrating the Common Core Standards With Your Local School Curriculum and contributed to The Power of the Social Brain: Teaching, Learning and Using Interdependent Thinking. Marie is also a contributing author to Solution Tree's Contemporary Perspectives on Literacy series and has written a number of papers and articles about student mobility, innovative models of education, curriculum mapping, gaming in education, leadership, and organizational change.

To learn more about Marie's work, visit Learning Systems Associates (lsalearning.com), or follow @mariealcock on Twitter.

Michael L. Fisher is an educational consultant and instructional coach working with schools and districts in the United States, Canada, China, the Philippines, and Thailand to facilitate curriculum upgrades, design curriculum, and modernize instruction with immersive technology. Previously, Michael taught a variety of grade levels and content areas, working primarily in middle schools. Michael is a member of both the ASCD and Curriculum21 faculties. He is an active blogger who writes often for the blogs Curriculum21 and ASCD EDge. Michael is the author of Digital Learning Strategies: How Do I Assign and Assess 21st Century Work? and Ditch the Daily Lesson Plan: How Do I Plan for Meaningful Student Learning? and the coauthor of Upgrade Your Curriculum: Practical Ways to Transform Units and Engage Students. He is also a contributing author to Solution Tree's Contemporary Perspectives on Literacy series and has written Hacking the Common Core: 10 Strategies for Amazing Learning in a Standardized World.

To learn more about Michael's work, visit his website The Digigogy Collaborative (digigogy.com) or follow @fisher1000 on Twitter.

Allison Zmuda is a full-time educational consultant specializing in curriculum, instruction, and assessment. She works with clients in the United States and internationally to imagine learning experiences and design work that is relevant, meaningful, challenging, and appropriate. Previously, Allison taught high school social studies for eight years.

She has coauthored nine books, including Learning Personalized: The Evolution of the Contemporary Classroom; Real Engagement: How Do I Help My Students to Become Motivated, Confident, and Self-Directed Learners?; and Students at the Center: Personalized Learning With Habits of Mind. With Bena Kallick, she developed a series of online personalized learning courses.

To learn more about Allison's work, follow @allison_zmuda on Twitter.