Deeper Learning
How Eight Innovative Public Schools Are Transforming Education in the Twenty-First Century
Editorial Review
Deeper Learning is the process of preparing and empowering students to master essential academic content, think critically and solve complex problems, work collaboratively, com-municate effectively, have an academic mindset, and be self-directed in their education. It fully encompasses the educational goals that, taken together, constitute the foundation for developing the single most important ability students should possess: the capacity for learning how to learn. In an ever-changing world – one in which knowledge and its applications have the potential to shift almost daily – nothing is more valuable. Deeper Learning offers a framework for educators and schools to rise to the challenge of preparing students for college, careers, and the world today.
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Wisdom to Share
To create strong communities of self-directed learners, teachers and principals say they often need to actively disrupt students’ expectations, making a clean break with histories of passive, rote learning practices that often leave students in a solitary place.
Designing relevant and engaging experiences for students is a tall order, as teachers work to align projects and assignments with evolving academic standards and also use and develop appropriate methods to ensure student work is fairly assessed.
For students to become deeper learners, they need to get used to the idea that learning is never a finite process, and that it certainly shouldn’t end as soon as they hand in a quiz or an essay.
A particularly powerful way to add meaning to learning is to make the subject matter both in-tegrated and relevant.
To best ignite kids’ drive to learn, teachers must not only engage them through their interests, but show them as clearly as possible how their efforts can help them develop useful skills.
Inquiry-based learning involves getting kids to see the big picture, question assumptions, and make connections for themselves, fueling their curiosity and contributing to their problem-solving skills.
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With so much change and nearly as much opacity regarding what’s to come in this century and the next, it’s incumbent on all of us to rethink what is needed and valued in our learning, our work, and our lives.
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