Whos Engaged? Climb The Learning Ladder To See

by Janet Pilcher

Who's Engaged? Climb the Learning Ladder to See introduces teachers to a practical and research-based lesson development process. This 30 day process sets the stage for engaging students to achieve steps on a Learning Ladder™ that ends with students applying a complex skill aligned to the Common Core Standards.The Learning Ladder provides a visual for teachers to consider as they develop lessons viewing this process through a student's lens for the sole purpose of increasing student engagement in learning. The Learning Ladder reinforces teachers segmenting units of instruction with focused learning targets, coaching students as they apply aligned learning tasks, and creating strategies where students receive specific feedback by recognizing what they do well, identifying learning gaps, and creating solutions to improve.In Who's Engaged? teachers learn how to apply a 30 day lesson development process, view teacher samples and reflections, and plan lessons with the support of an iPad app, iLessonReady™.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction

172 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2012

Reviews

[Barry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Though short, this book explains adequately the steps to take to get to a well-organized, thoughtful method of lesson planning and teaching. With easy to understand ideas and plenty of examples, Ms. Pilcher has written a practical hands-on book that easily engages and encourages the reader to think about teaching from the students' perspective. The one struggle I had with this book is that most of the examples were for the elementary level, which is surprising considering that Ms. Pilcher cut her teeth in secondary. It would have been more useful to see how this same process works at the high school level and for subjects that aren't as easy to lesson plan. That notwithstanding, this is a helpful book that offers good tips and suggestions for every teacher, no matter how new or old they are to the profession.

[Matthew · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good textbook for new teachers or for teachers looking to up their game: Pilcher writes clearly and proposes a research-based and classroom-tested approach for planning, teaching, and assessing. It's basically the A's to Z's of teaching. As an experienced teacher, I still took away several important concepts. I deleted one star because I thought a lot of the examples were for younger learners. I wish she had made more examples for middle or high school (which I teach). Still, most of the examples could be applied to other contexts. Also, it's important to recognize that this is just one good way among other valid ways of teaching. All in all, a worthwhile book to read and then do some self-reflecting.

[Leiki Fae · Rating 1 out of 5]

The ideas were good, but this book was obviously not professionally edited and it was hard to read. The writing was very repetitive and often unclear. I would not have read it if it weren't required reading for my course. There are a lot of other solid resources out there that you can read without having to decipher.

[Jason · Rating 2 out of 5]

A little too procedural for my teaching style and basic in its writing and delivery but still a decent workbook for novice teachers to consult in a licensure program in their early teaching years.

[Lauren · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was forced to read this for some certification courses. Who's engaged? Not me.

[Christina · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a new teacher I found this book easy to read, implement and build my skills. It is an easy read with many examples of classroom situations. As the main course book for a class I am taking I found it useful in implementing the skills to improve as a teacher and reach my students.

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very informative book. As a teacher aspiring to be better focused and better equipped, this book provided a fantastic framework and many practicals that have pointed me in the right direction.