Ambitious Instruction

Ensure all learners have opportunities to engage deeply in meaningful intellectual work. In Ambitious Instruction, author Brad Cawn offers a blueprint for how to make rigor visible, accessible, and actionable in grade 6–12 classrooms. The resource guides readers toward using the twin tenets of problem-based learning and synthesis to significantly strengthen students’ ability to read, write, and think within and across disciplines.

Use this resource to reinvigorate and modernize daily learning and instruction:

Develop a working understanding of rigor that will serve as the basis for rigorous, instructional excellence.
Discover how to integrate inquiry and dialogue into your instruction to help learners engage in meaningful exploration of complex problems.
Become familiar with actionable strategies that can be utilized to develop and increase rigor in the classroom.
Learn how to create and organize tasks, texts, and processes in order to improve teaching and learning.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

About the Author

Introduction: Redefining Rigor

Chapter 1: Determining What Rigor Will Look Like

Chapter 2: Exploring the Two Tenets of Ambitious Instruction

Chapter 3: Creating an Ambitious Instruction Road Map

Chapter 4: Building Structured Inquiry to Power Ambitious Instruction

Chapter 5: Facilitating Ambitious Instruction Through Dialogue

Chapter 6: Launching and Sustaining Ambitious Instruction

References and Resources