The On-Your-Feet Guide to Learning Transfer (On-Your-Feet-Guides)

Stern, Julie; Briggs, Julia K.

ISBN 10: 154438274X ISBN 13: 9781544382746

Publisher: Corwin, 2019

Synopsis

The goal of learning is to develop strong thinkers and problem-solvers who can apply what they have learned in the classroom to innovate in the real world. That’s learning transfer. This On-Your-Feet Guide to Learning Transfer will help you break down the steps needed to implement this important strategy to engage and motivate your students and make your classroom relevant.

This On-Your-Feet Guide provides:

• A step-by-step method for ensuring that learning transfer happens in your classroom
  
• Guidance on how to identify the concepts in learning outcomes
  
• Examples showing how to write concept questions to help students make their own connections between key concepts
  
• Prompts to help students apply conceptual relationships to increasingly dissimilar contexts

Full of rich examples and ideas, this guide will make learning transfer a successful learning strategy in your classroom!

About this title

About the Author:

Julie Stern is an author, trainer and instructional coach, supporting schools in transforming teaching and learning around the globe. Her depth and breadth of knowledge combined with her vision and contagious energy make her an in-demand facilitator in many areas including visible learning, concept-based curriculum, differentiated classrooms and formative assessments. Julie is the author of Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, is certified in researcher John Hattie′s Visible Learning as well as H. Lynn Erickson′s Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction. She is a James Madison Constitutional Scholar and taught social studies for many years in DC and Louisiana. Julie previously served as the director of public policy and curriculum innovation at the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools in Washington, DC, where she led the revision of curriculum in all subject areas grades 6 – 12. Her email is: julieharrisstern@gmail.com and her blog is http://www.edtosavetheworld.com/

Julia Briggs lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia, she teaches Science and Chemistry and is the Head of IB Chemistry at Colegio Anglo Colombiano where she also works with departments and individual teachers as a coach and certified trainer of Concept Based Curriculum and Instruction. She is passionate about supporting teachers to develop their practice so that students may deepen their conceptual understanding of the world to be authentically prepared for the future.

About this edition

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 154438274X
• ISBN 13: 9781544382746
• Binding: Loose Leaf
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 6