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Personalized Deeper Learning
Access simple yet powerful personalized learning plans that any teacher—regardless of grade, existing curriculum, or student load—can adapt, scale, and sustain. Achieve deep learning with teaching strategies that foster students’ cognitive, digital, and social emotional learning (SEL) skills.
Benefits
- Explore the three critical skill sets needed to thrive in the 21st century: (1) complex cognitive, (2) social-emotional, and (3) digital.
- Learn how to foster a trusting learning environment that enhances student engagement in a digital curriculum.
- Understand how digital-management tools, electronic templates, and websites can help transform the classroom into a place where students experience deeper learning and higher-order thinking.
- Observe numerous classroom examples of personalized deeper learning at the elementary and secondary levels.
- Study specific teaching strategies to enhance learning transfer.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Personalized Learning Plans
Chapter 2: Engagement and Trust
Chapter 3: Outcomes-Driven Instruction and Assessment
Chapter 4: Student Agency
Chapter 5: Skill Transfer
Chapter 6: The Complex Cognitive Skill Set
Chapter 7: The Social-Emotional Skill Set
Chapter 8: The Digital Skill Set
Conclusion: Personalized Deeper Learning for a Lifetime
Appendix: Templates
STUDY GUIDE
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
- Figure 1.3: Teacher Playbook for Personalized Learning Plan Templates
- Figure 1.4: Teacher Starter Playbook for Personalized Learning Plan Templates
Chapter 2
- Figure 2.2: Playbook Example
- Figure 2.3: Reflection Questions
- Figure 2.4: Teacher Playbook—Round-Robin Responses
- Figure 2.5: Teamwork Playbook
- Figure 2.9: Reflection Questions With Chart
- Figure 2.10: All Hands on Deck Activity—Guiding Questions
- Jigsaw
- SHARE
Chapter 3
- Figure 3.1: Creating Personalized Teaching Plan Outcomes
- Figure 3.5: Teacher Playbook—Targeting a Deeper Learning Competency
- Figure 3.6: Student Text Analysis Playbook—“How Do I Analyze Text?”
- Figure 3.9: Guiding Rubric—Assessing SMART Goals
- Figure 3.11: Rated Checklist for Guiding Creative Thinking
- Figure 3.12: Rated Guiding Checklist—Classroom Norms
- Figure 3.13: Single-Point Guiding Rubric for Collaborative Research—Secondary
- Figure 3.16: Engagement Rubric for Assessing a Personalized Teaching Plan
- Figure 3.17: Teacher SHARE Playbook
- Figure 3.18: Student Playbook for Group Project
- Figure 3.19: Playbook and Playlist Ideas—Elementary
- Figure 3.20: Playbook and Playlist Ideas for Community Art Projects—Secondary
- Figure 3.21: Portfolio Playbook
- Figure 3.22: Category-Style Playbook
- SMART
Chapter 4
- Figure 4.1: Rubric—Persistence in Learning
- Figure 4.3: Need-to-Know Statements
- Figure 4.4: Single-Point Guiding Rubric for Peer Feedback
- Figure 4.5: Student Playlist for Table of Contents
- Figure 4.6: Student Playbook for Table of Contents
Chapter 5
- Figure 5.1: Backward Transfer Graphic Organizer
- Figure 5.2: Prompts to Elicit Backward Transfer
- Figure 5.3: Forward Transfer Graphic Organizer
- Figure 5.4: Forward Transfer Digital Task Playbook—Team Brainstorm
- Figure 5.5: ARREST Coaching Responses
- Figure 5.6: Single-Response Guiding Rubric
- Figure 5.7: Single-Point Guiding Rubric—Learning Transfer
- Figure 5.8: Multi-Point Guiding Rubric—Learning Transfer
- Table 5.1: Transfer Sights and Sounds
Chapter 6
- Figure 6.1: Teacher Playbook—Developing Complex Cognitive Skills
- Figure 6.3: Guiding Rubric for Improvement
- Figure 6.4: Guiding Rubric—Analysis
- Figure 6.5: Data-Analysis KNHWL
- Figure 6.6: Fishbone Graphic Organizer
- Figure 6.7: Guiding Rubric—Visualizing
- Figure 6.8: Teacher Playbook—Promoting Ideation
- Figure 6.9: Starter Map
- Figure 6.10: Student Playbook—American Women in History Concept Map
- Figure 6.12: Brainstorm Playbook
- Figure 6.14: Multi-Point Guiding Rubric—Synthesizing
- Figure 6.16: Single-Point Guiding Rubric—Synthesizing
- Figure 6.17: Prediction Chart
- Figure 6.18: Prediction Chart—Elementary
- Figure 6.19: Teacher Playbook—Making Predictions With Close Reading
- Figure 6.20: Guiding Rubric—Predicting
- Three Ts for Thinking in Brainstorm
- VISA
Chapter 7
- Figure 7.2: PACTS Communication Skills to Manage Conflict
- Figure 7.3: Single-Point Guiding Rubric—Monitoring Emotions
- Figure 7.4: PIES to Model Empathy
- Figure 7.5: Playlist of Quotes About Empathy
- Figure 7.6: Class Collaboration Contract Mind Map
- Figure 7.7: Diagram for Back to Back Activity
- Figure 7.8: Guiding Rubric—Teamwork
- Figure 7.9: Teacher Playbook—Goal Setting
- Figure 7.10: Student Playbook—Goal Setting
- Figure 7.11: Graphic for Goal Ladders Activity
- Figure 7.12: Concept Map for Interest Maps Activity
- Figure 7.13: Continents Map for World of Dreams Activity
- Figure 7.14: Guiding Rubric—Goal Setting
Chapter 8
- Figure 8.2: Abbreviated Personalized Teaching Plan—Elementary Example
- Figure 8.3: Abbreviated Personalized Teaching Plan—Middle School
- Figure 8.4: Abbreviated Personalized Teaching Plan—High School
- Figure 8.5: Teacher Playbook—Digital Portfolio Creation
- Figure 8.6: Teacher Playbook—Paper Portfolio Creation
- Figure 8.11: Playbook for Digital Stories
- Figure 8.12: Online Research Personal Competence Playbook
Appendix
- Personalized Learning Plan
- Starter Personalized Learning Plan
- Interview Questions
- Personalized Teaching Plan
- Rated Checklist—PreK–3
- Improvement Rating Scale—Grades 3–12
- Single-Point Guiding Rubric—Grades 3–12
- Multi-Point Guiding Rubric—Grades 3–12
- Open-Ended Self-Assessment Rubric—Grades 3–12
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Books
- Bailey, K., & Jakicic, C. (2012). Common formative assessment: A toolkit for professional learning communities at work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Bellanca, J. A. (Ed.). (2015). Deeper learning: Beyond 21st century skills. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Bellanca, J. A., & Brandt, R. (Eds.). (2010). 21st century skills: Rethinking how students learn. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Bellanca, J. A., Fogarty, R. J., & Pete, B. M. (2020). How to teach thinking skills: Seven key student proficiencies for college and career readiness (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Conzemius, A. E., & O’Neill, J. (2014). The handbook for smart school teams: Revitalizing best practices for collaboration (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T. W., & Mattos, M. (2016). Learning by doing: A handbook for professional learning communities at work (3rd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- McDowell, M. (2021). Teaching for transfer: a guide for designing learning with real-world application. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
Websites
Chapter 1
- Classkick
- Illinois Early Learning Project, “Helping Children Sketch and Draw from Observation”
- Nearpod
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 6
- Canva
- Education.com
- National Geographic Kids, “Iguanodon”
- National Geographic Kids, “Videos”
- Smarter Balanced
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
- Apple Store, “Scanner App”
- Champions Against Bullying
- Childhood 101, “15 Anti-Bullying Videos for Kids Age 4–12+ Years”
- CK–12
- Digital History
- Ditch That Textbook, “14 Copyright Essentials Teachers and Students Must Know”
- Dropbox
- ePortfolios with GoogleApps, “Creating an Interactive Portfolio with Google Sites”
- ePortfolios with GoogleApps, “G Docs/Drive”
- European Commission, “European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators: DigCompEdu”
- Foundry, “Get Kit”
- GIMP
- Google Drive
- Google Earth
- Google Play, “Genius Scan”
- iCivics
- Joint Research Centre, DigComp 2.0: The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens
- Joint Research Centre, DigComp 2.1: The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens
- Khan Academy
- Kidblog
- Learning.com, “Digital Skills Resources to Support Your Distance Learners”
- Microsoft OneDrive
- Microsoft Store, “Office Lens”
- National Geographic Education
- PhET
- Project Zero, “Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum”
- Quill
- ReadWriteThink
- ReadWriteThink, “A-Z: Learning About the Alphabet Book Genre”
- Science A–Z, “Project-Based Learning Packs”
- TeachThought, “12 Educational Apps to Create Digital Portfolios”
- Utah Education Network, “3–6 Student Interactives, Social Studies”
- We Are Teachers, “23 Must-Read Anti-Bullying Books for Kids”
- Weebly
Standards: International
- DigComp 2.0: The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens
- DigComp 2.1: The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens
- European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators: DigCompEdu
- European Union European Education Area
- International Society for Technology in Education
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- UK Government, “Essential Digital Skills Framework”
Standards: United States
Standards: Subject Matter Organizations
