You Can Learn!: Building Student Ownership, Motivation, and Efficacy With the PLC at Work® Process

by Tim Brown, William M Ferriter

Great learning starts when students believe in their academic abilities. In You Can Learn!, authors Tim Brown and William M. Ferriter introduce intentional and purposeful steps collaborative teams can take to increase the self-efficacy of every learner. By incorporating the book's research-backed practices, professional learning communities will cultivate a culture where students at every grade level see themselves as competent learners fully capable of succeeding in school and beyond.

Discover key instructional strategies to develop and reinforce student learning and

Understand why self-efficacy in the classroom is important for student achievement and well-being.Extend the PLC at Work® process into your classroom and share it with students in order to motivate, inspire, and guide learning.Discover how to implement efficacy-building practices designed around foundational PLC elements.Study a research-based approach to student engagement that spans grade levels and subject areas.Review recommendations for how to start utilizing the strategies outlined in each chapter.Utilize reproducible templates and tools to enhance individual and team understanding of the material.

IntroductionChapter 1: Building a Commitment to Learning in StudentsChapter 2: Helping Students Understand the Expectations for a Unit of StudyChapter 3: Helping Students Assess Their Progress Toward MasteryChapter 4: Helping Students Take ActionEpilogueReferences and Resources

Genres: Education

134 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 4, 2021

About the author

Tim W. Brown was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois. In 1983 he graduated summa cum laude from Northern Illinois University with a degree in American studies. He is the author of four published novels, Deconstruction Acres (1997), Left of the Loop (2001), Walking Man (2008), and Second Acts (2010). His fiction, poetry and nonfiction have appeared in over two hundred publications, including Another Chicago Magazine, The Bloomsbury Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chelsea, Chiron Review, Colorado Review, The Fiction Review, The Ledge, Main Street Rag, New Observations, Oyez Review, Pleiades, Poetry Project Newsletter, Rain Taxi, Rockford Review, Slipstream, Small Press Review, and Storyhead. A long-time resident of Chicago, where he was a fixture in that citys literary scene as a writer, performer, and publisher of Tomorrow Magazine (1982-1999), Brown moved to New York in 2003. He currently earns his living as a writer at Bloomberg."

Reviews

[Kimberly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great list of tools/ideas to put more ownership in the students. We are always talking about having students do more work than us... but no one really says what that looks like. This book helps you start to get there.

[Jessica Homan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Truly enjoyed this book. Engaging students in the process and thinking will lead to better engagement and outcomes.