Academic Moves for CCR
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Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness -- Jim Burke, Barry Gilmore
15 Must-have skills every student needs to achieve:
Analyze, Argue, Compare/Contrast, Describe, Determine, Develop, Evaluate, Explain, Imagine, Integrate, Interpret , Organize, Summarize, Support , Transform
"For each of these powerhouse processes, they developed a lesson structure, assignments, and activities so you can teach with potency, right away, and immediately cultivate in students discipline-specific habits of mind.
Jim and Barry distill each intellectual process into a potent concision that nevertheless spans subject areas:
Companion site provides resources for each chapter:
Mental Moves
Annotated Student Examples
Rubrics
Planning Page
Appendices
III - Working with words across disciplines
V - Teaching by Design Using Webb's Depth of Knowledge Model
15 Must-have skills every student needs to achieve:
Analyze, Argue, Compare/Contrast, Describe, Determine, Develop, Evaluate, Explain, Imagine, Integrate, Interpret , Organize, Summarize, Support , Transform
"For each of these powerhouse processes, they developed a lesson structure, assignments, and activities so you can teach with potency, right away, and immediately cultivate in students discipline-specific habits of mind.
Jim and Barry distill each intellectual process into a potent concision that nevertheless spans subject areas:
- Before, during, and after sections offer essential questions, lesson ideas, and activities to assist you in instruction.
- Two sample student pieces illustrate not only what to look for but the process for getting there.
- Culminating tasks include producing an analytic essay, visual text, argument, narrative and informational writing, poetry, descriptive science writing, and explanatory writing in math.
- Every chapter has a correlation chart to Webb’s Depth of Knowledge to deepen understanding and a reproducible rubric to aid in assessment." - Corwin product description
Companion site provides resources for each chapter:
Mental Moves
Annotated Student Examples
Rubrics
Planning Page
Appendices
III - Working with words across disciplines
V - Teaching by Design Using Webb's Depth of Knowledge Model