Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 6-12
7 Must-Make Moves to Transform How We Teach--and How Students Learn
- Jeffrey D. Wilhelm - Boise State University, Idaho
- Rachel Bear - National Writing Project
- Adam Fachler - School in the Square
Corwin Literacy
English/Language Arts (Middle/High School) | Literacy, K-12 | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles
Are you ready to plan your best lessons ever?
With so many demands and so much content available for teachers, we need to put a higher value on an often-overlooked skill: planning learning experiences that will both engage and inspire our students, by design, over time.
Planning Powerful Instruction is your go-to guide for transforming student outcomes through stellar instructional planning. Its seven-step framework—the EMPOWER model—gives you techniques proven to help students develop true insight and understanding. You’ll have at your fingertips:
- the real reasons why students engage—and what you must do to ensure they do
- a framework to help you create, plan, and teach the most effective units and lessons in any subject area
- more than 50 actionable strategies to incorporate right away
- suggestions for tailoring units for a wide range of learners
- downloadable, ready-to-go tools for planning and teaching
Whether you are a classroom teacher, an instructional leader, or a pre-service teacher, Planning Powerful Instruction will forever change the way you think about how you teach and the unique value you bring to your learners.
Free resources
Webinar: Planning Powerful Instruction: 7 Must-Make Moves of Transformative Teaching—and Learning
Uncover from Jeff Wilhelm and Adam Fachler, authors of Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 6-12, the EMPOWER Method, a dynamic instructional framework that will transform how you plan so you can transform how your students learn.
Questioning Move 1: Three-Level Questioning Guide
This three-level questioning guide from Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 6-12, moves learners through the levels of literal, inferential, and reflective evaluation and application questions.
Visualization Move 2: Picture Mapping
In this activity from Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 6-12, students will use a picture map to walk through the skills of (1) identifying key details and capturing the connections among them in order to (2) identify topics, then (3) identify patterns of key details in order to identify main ideas and make deeper meaning of the text.
Frontloading Move 2: Where Do I Stand?
This activity from Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 6-12, primes and orients students through discussion of controversial concepts that they will explore in the unit. Students also practice complex processes like making claims, supporting reasoning with evidence, listening and mirroring, summarizing, and addressing opposing viewpoints and reservations to their own thinking.
Traditional Teaching and Transformational Teaching: The Pedagogy of EMPOWERment
In this excerpt from Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 6-12, the authors clearly define the difference between traditional or informational teaching and transformational teaching or the pedagogy of EMPOWERment.
