The Boundless Classroom: Designing Purposeful Instruction for Any Learning Environment

Length: 240 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: International Society for Technology in Education
Publication Date: 2022-04-05
ISBN-10: 1564849317
ISBN-13: 9781564849311
Sales Rank: #271012 (See Top 100 Books)

Discover how to plan effective blended instruction with purpose and intention with help from this definitive, practical guide to lesson design.

A global pandemic hit our world and education has forever changed. But have your instructional practices changed? Teachers must now leverage technology to provide students with high-quality teaching and learning experiences that transcend a traditional classroom’s walls. This is a historic opportunity to abandon antiquated teaching practices and reimagine instruction in ways that boost learning outcomes and prepare students for living and working in the digital age.

This book offers guidance for creating and sustaining rigorous and engaging blended learning solutions. Opening with lessons learned from the pandemic, the book addresses impacts on lesson design and delivery, student engagement, assessment, and teacher training and PD. The following chapters build on and address these experiences, with each chapter featuring strategies and examples of how to implement effective approaches to lesson design for blended and online instruction.

This book:

Explores seven different blended learning models, with strategies and suggestions for implementing each one.
Provides detailed guidance for planning a blended learning curriculum, from establishing a digital infrastructure to integrating students into a learning management system (LMS) to mapping a course scope and sequence.
developing a pacing guide and creating effective blended and virtual lessons.
Features downloadable templates, checklists and guided professional learning tasks in every chapter to help design virtual and blended lessons.
Includes strategies for implementing authentic, student-led assessments.

The book is sure to meet the needs of varying practitioners who are eager to learn about designing successful blended learning courses and understanding what makes each course work.

Audience: K-12 teachers and instructional designers; faculty in higher education programs

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
About ISTE
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Learning Lessons from the Pandemic and Implications for the Future
    Outcomes for Professional Learning
    Clarity and Simplicity
    Asynchronous and Synchronous Learning
    Professional Development
    Consistency
    Feedback
    Everyone’s Well-Being
    Challenges and Strategies for Teaching in a Concurrent Classroom
    Collaboration
    Student Products
    Think-Alouds and Read-Alouds
    Social-Emotional Learning
    Assessment
    Learning Interruption, Not Learning Loss
    Personalized Learning
    Conclusion
Chapter 2: Planning Essentials for Blended Learning and Beyond
    Outcomes for Professional Learning
    Exploring Blended Learning Models
    Planning and Implementation Actions for Blended Learning Success
    Conclusion
Chapter 3: Mapping the Course Scope and Sequence
    Outcomes for Professional Learning
    Formulating Course Objectives
    Creating Outcomes for Student Learning
    Organizing and Sequencing Units and Lessons
    Aligning Assessments
    Conclusion
Chapter 4: Constructing a Pacing Guide and Establishing Learning Expectations
    Outcomes for Professional Learning
    Examining Pacing Guide Essentials
    Designing a Pacing Guide Checklist
    Evaluating a Pacing Guide Template
    Conclusion
Chapter 5: Designing and Delivering Blended Instruction
    Outcomes for Professional Learning
    Design Essential #1: Open with Optimism
    Design Essential #2: Communicate Learning Outcomes
    Design Essential #3: Activate Prior Knowledge
    Design Essential #4: Build Academic Vocabulary
    Design Essential #5: Deliver Engaging Instruction
    Design Essential #6: Facilitate Student Discourse
    Design Essential #7: Close with Optimism
    Design Essential #8: Extending Learning Through Feedback and Reflection
    Conclusion
Chapter 6: Designing and Delivering Virtual Instruction
    Outcomes for Professional Learning
    Design Essential #1: Introduce the Lesson and Communicate the Learning Outcomes
    Design Essential #2: Activate Prior Knowledge
    Design Essential #3: Build Academic Vocabulary
    Design Essential #4: Deliver Engaging Instruction
    Design Essential #5: Provide Opportunities to Self-Assess and Automated Feedback for Students
    Design Essential #6: Create Closure and Preview the Assessment
    Conclusion
Chapter 7: Engaging Students with Authentic Assessments
    Outcomes for Professional Learning
    Measuring Learning with Assessments
    Engaging Students with Portfolios, Performance Tasks, and Products
    Effective Formative Assessments
    Designing Engaging and Authentic Assessments
    Creating an Assessment Plan
    Conclusion
Chapter 8: Maximizing Academic Feedback
    Outcomes for Professional Learning
    Defining Feedback
    Quality Feedback Essentials
    Feedback Norms
    Feedback as a Formative Assessment Strategy
    Differentiating Feedback
    Feedback Protocols
    Conclusion
Chapter 9: Integrating Digital Citizenship
    Outcomes for Professional Learning
    Strategies and Skills for the Digital Age
    Building Context for Digital Citizenship
    Framing Digital Citizenship
    Integrating Digital Citizenship into the Classroom
    Conclusion
Epilogue
    Commitment 1: Commit to Yourself
    Commitment 2: Commit to Your Colleagues
    Commitment 3: Commit to Your Students
References
Index