Let's Stop Teaching and Start Designing Learning

How can you shift from a focus on content to the creation of active learning experiences? In this practical resource, author Jason Kennedy provides a blueprint to help you stop "teaching" and start designing learning, so you can improve students' critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, and collaboration with others, preparing them for their futures beyond school doors. The framework for learning design covers components of planning (learning targets), of instruction (the opening, learning task, skills, tools, and success criteria), and of the work session (choices, pathways, feedback, and assessment). Appropriate for teachers of any subject area, the book also offers wide variety of tools to help you implement the ideas in your own setting.

Jason Kennedy is a veteran educator, instructional coach, and school administrator who has over 22 years of experience at all levels of education.

About the Author Support Material Introduction and Overview 1. Why We Need to Stop Teaching 2. What Does Stopping Teaching Require? 3. Start Designing with the End 4. The Opening 5. The Work Session 6. The Instruction 7. The Closing 8. Tips, Tools, and Templates