Teaching for Lifelong Learning: How to Prepare Students for a Changing World

Develop students into curious explorers and independent thinkers. With Teaching for Lifelong Learning, you will discover a lifelong learning approach to education as well as key goals for educational success. Explore many practical ways to improve instruction, assessment, and curriculum that will empower students to not only thrive in the classroom today but also deftly navigate an uncertain and changing world.

• Understand the importance of developing curious explorers, independent thinkers, and a growth mindset in students.
• Learn steps, approaches, and specific activities for implementing a four-phase instructional framework.
• Learn why diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments are all important elements of a lifelong learning education.
• Know what to look for when choosing or designing a new curriculum for lifelong learning.
• Explore many lifelong learning education examples from various disciplines and grade levels across elementary school, middle school, and high school classrooms.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Understanding Educator Goals That Support Students' Lifelong Learning
Chapter 2: Adapting Instruction for Lifelong Learning
Chapter 3: Assessing for Lifelong Learning
Chapter 4: Developing a Lifelong Learning Curriculum
Chapter 5: Including Project-Based Learning and Civics Education
Chapter 6: Taking the Next Steps
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index

Elliott Seif, PhD, is an educational consultant, author, school volunteer, and public school advocate. He was a social studies teacher, a professor of education at Temple University, and the Director of Curriculum and Instruction Services for the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, an educational service agency for Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

At the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, Seif provided leadership in curriculum and instruction training and reform, and he developed, led, or participated in more than fifty program reviews for Bucks County school districts. He has conducted professional development programs with numerous schools and school districts throughout the United States and abroad on a variety of topics, including standards-based education, thinking-skill development, instructional improvement, assessment issues, and curriculum development using Understanding by Design (UbD).

Seif is the author of many books, handbooks, articles, commentaries, and reports, including a textbook on the teaching of elementary social studies. His published articles include "Social Studies Revived" and "You Can Teach for Meaning" (with Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins) in Educational Leadership, the journal of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). He and McTighe also coauthored a chapter, "An Implementation Framework to Support 21st Century Skills, " in 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn for Solution Tree Press.

Seif was a member of the ASCD Understanding by Design cadre and the ASCD UbD faculty. He has assisted numerous schools and school districts throughout the United States and abroad in using UbD to improve educational practice and co-taught ASCD UbD professional development institutes with McTighe, codeveloper of UbD.

Seif has received many awards for his accomplishments, including from ASCD, the Pennsylvania Association of Intermediate Units, the Pennsylvania Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and the Bucks County schools.

Seif received a master of education degree from Harvard University and a doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis in curriculum research and development.

To learn more about Elliott Seif's work, visit lifelonglearninged.org or follow @elliottseif on Twitter.

To book Elliott Seif for professional development, contact pd@SolutionTree.com.