Elliott Seif

Develop lifelong learners who are engaged, curious, skillful, thoughtful, independent, confident, and reflective. This resource reveals four key goals for a lifelong learning education and how you can organize teaching around a practical four-phase instructional model. In addition, the author shares ways to improve assessments and offers curriculum development strategies that will help students succeed academically and navigate college, career, and life.

How can teachers make everyday student learning more engaging, meaningful, relevant, and interesting? How can we better prepare students for a lifetime of learning? Author and experienced educator Elliott Seif uses real-life examples to explore four key goals of a lifelong learning education, and introduces a practical instructional framework that fosters student success and helps prepare students to become independent lifelong learners.

Education luminaries reveal why 21st century skills are necessary, which skills are most important, and how to help schools include them in curriculum and instruction.