Concept-Based Instruction: Building Curriculum With Depth and Complexity

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Concept-Based Instruction helps educators translate the works of leading educational thinkers into meaningful learning experiences in the classroom.

Draws from the works of Lynn Erickson, Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Carol Ann Tomlinson, Jay McTighe, Grant Wiggins, Benjamin Bloom, and John Hattie. Challenges all students to think through active and meaningful learning experiences. Shares tips for creating units in writing, literature, reading, social studies, and science. Includes helpful examples of units to guide teachers and curriculum specialists. Readers will learn how to create practical and organized units that inspire student thinking, discussion, conversation, and written assignments, as well as use levels of questioning and task complexity based on various forms of assessments and demonstrated readiness.

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Reading Concept-Based Instruction will help teachers realize how to use curriculum mapping to identify thematic trends and then pull that information together for effective cross-curricular planning. Once teachers have a clear understanding of how the individual strands of their curriculum can connect under a theme, using high-value teaching practices will bring rigor, engagement and transferability for deeper understanding.,Mary K. Marsh,MiddleWeb, 9/10/20

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Dr. Scott has been a presenter and consultant at the local, state, and national levels. He has created teacher workshops on active and engaging social studies, hands-on activities to enhance mathematics instruction, and high-yielding instructional strategies for creating a high-performing differentiated classroom.