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Chart a New Course: A Guide to Teaching Essential Skills for Tomorrow’s World
Discover ways to empower students to build confidence in sharing their learning, becoming more responsible digital citizens and evolving into classroom creators.
In researching the top skills students need to succeed in the future, author Rachelle Dene Poth identified the ability to communicate, work in teams, think creatively, problem-solve and design. This book shows educators how to help students develop these essential skills through authentic, real-world learning experiences, building a pathway for the future of learning and work.
In Chart a New Course , educators will get the tools they need to design more purposeful learning experiences to drive student engagement and motivation, promote creativity in learning, model risk-taking and build classroom culture. Readers will discover how these activities can be woven into instruction rather than layered on existing curriculum, with ideas for getting started; suggestions in response to the statement, “If you’re doing this, try this instead;” and lessons learned along the way.
The book This accessible resource opens up a variety of learning experiences for students and illustrates how to implement different technologies into multiple content areas and grade levels.
6-12 educators
In researching the top skills students need to succeed in the future, author Rachelle Dene Poth identified the ability to communicate, work in teams, think creatively, problem-solve and design. This book shows educators how to help students develop these essential skills through authentic, real-world learning experiences, building a pathway for the future of learning and work.
In Chart a New Course , educators will get the tools they need to design more purposeful learning experiences to drive student engagement and motivation, promote creativity in learning, model risk-taking and build classroom culture. Readers will discover how these activities can be woven into instruction rather than layered on existing curriculum, with ideas for getting started; suggestions in response to the statement, “If you’re doing this, try this instead;” and lessons learned along the way.
The book This accessible resource opens up a variety of learning experiences for students and illustrates how to implement different technologies into multiple content areas and grade levels.
6-12 educators
144 pages, Paperback
Published March 10, 2020
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May 18, 2021
Poth's work and research are extensive in Chart A New Course. I found myself rereading, quite often, to digest the copious information more thoroughly. One of the benefits of reading Poth's works is that she is a teacher. Her knowledge and expertise come from the first-hand experience in teaching and implementing these future-ready skills which she is advocating for education. Throughout Chart a New Course, Poth repeatedly demonstrates how the essential skills and emerging learning technologies presented empowers both the teacher and the learner.
A teacher's investment in implementing these digital technologies and developing these competencies provide a nexus for students in whatever they may endeavor to do in the future. Each chapter of the book also contains sidebars of other educators' stories, students' stories, and lessons learned along the way. These sidebars offer real-life accounts of using the skills and proficiencies that Poth describes. Finally, I appreciated a section titled "5 to Try" in each chapter. These sections offer a detailed description of five digital tools and resources that provided useful and innovative ways to implement the chapter's central theme or idea.
A teacher's investment in implementing these digital technologies and developing these competencies provide a nexus for students in whatever they may endeavor to do in the future. Each chapter of the book also contains sidebars of other educators' stories, students' stories, and lessons learned along the way. These sidebars offer real-life accounts of using the skills and proficiencies that Poth describes. Finally, I appreciated a section titled "5 to Try" in each chapter. These sections offer a detailed description of five digital tools and resources that provided useful and innovative ways to implement the chapter's central theme or idea.
June 29, 2021
One of the best books I read I had the pleasure of hearing Rachelle speak at the ISTE SLA in 2020. The book really captures the integration of things like students voice & empowerment, PBL, & the connections to what we are all ready doing and want to enhance. Anyone who is curious about authentic learning should look into this book!
January 12, 2021
Love the 5 things to do at the end of each chapter - great information for teaching in a technology world!
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