Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 6-12: 7 Must-Make Moves to Transform How We Teach--And How Students Learn

by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Rachel E Bear, Adam Fachler

Are you ready to plan your best lessons ever?

Planning Powerful Instruction is your go-to guide for transforming student outcomes through stellar instructional planning. Its seven-step framework--the EMPOWER model--gives you techniques proven to help students develop true insight and understanding. You'll have at your fingertips:

the real reasons why students engage--and what you must do to ensure they do a framework to help you create, plan, and teach the most effective units and lessons in any subject area more than 50 actionable strategies to incorporate right away suggestions for tailoring units for a wide range of learners downloadable, ready-to-go tools for planning and teaching

296 pages, Paperback

Published November 12, 2019

Reviews

[Kailey Mgrdichian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Though I believe this text does a good job of generalizing for multiple disciplines, I think it's still important to note I'm an English teacher reviewing this book. There are a lot of gems in here. Some strategies I already use; some strategies I will implement in the future. With the strategies I already use, the text is helpful in articulating why those strategies are effective in academic jargon.

This book is optimistic, which isn't inherently a bad thing. But the ideal classroom expected in this book is rarely the reality. Two options: (1) our expectations create our reality, so expecting a class to be engaged will lead them to be engaged, or (2) expectations are resentment on layaway, so we may be setting ourselves up for frustration.

There were several spots where the text dragged or restated a lot of the jargon surrounding the main acronym. Some chapters had a lot of concrete strategies... other chapters only had vague notions hiding underneath sounds-good prose.

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is jam-packed with teaching ideas. It helped me understand how to plan more effectively and gave literally hundreds of ideas that will make teaching and learning even better than it has been. I recommend this book very highly. There is also a course being taught online through Boise State. I learned so much in the course and through the book. It was a transformational experience!!!