Ready to Learn: The FRAME Model for Optimizing Student Success (A results-oriented approach for motivating students to learn and achieve academic success)

by Peg Grafwallner

Overview

Ready to Learn introduces the FRAME model, a results-oriented approach for creating meaningful and motivating learning experiences across grade levels and content areas. Rely on the model’s five steps--(1) focus, (2) reach, (3) ask, (4) model, and (5) encourage--to help you launch engaging lessons, articulate clear expectations, offer effective feedback, and foster habits of successful students.

Use this resource to foster a growth mindset in your learners and ensure student ownership:

• Utilize the FRAME model to plan and deliver meaningful learning experiences to every student.
• Learn how the FRAME model improves teacher clarity and efficacy.
• Discover strategies for engaging students within the first ten minutes of class and carrying this motivation throughout the lesson so they can learn from experience.
• Understand how encouraging peer observations and feedback among teachers will improve instructional practices and best practices in teaching.
• Study the FRAME model in real-world situations and utilize reflection questions to reinforce learning and maximize student coaching.
• Examine sample lesson plans and receive a template for planning lessons using the FRAME model.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: How to Create Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
Chapter 2: How to FRAME the First Ten Minutes of Class
Chapter 3: How to Embed FRAME Within a Lesson
Chapter 4: How to Use FRAME for Peer Observation and Feedback Among Teachers
Appendix: FRAME Lesson and Feedback Tools

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781949539325
Publisher:	Solution Tree Press
Publication date:	11/08/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	152
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

About the Author vii

Introduction 1

The Components of FRAME 3

The Audience for FRAME 5

The Creation of FRAME 6

How to Use This Book 11

Conclusion 12

1 How to Create Learning Intentions and Success Criteria 13

I Learning Intentions: What Do You Want Students to Understand? 14

Success Criteria: How Can Students Show They Know and Understand? 17

Considerations for Writing Learning Intentions and Success Criteria 24

The Exemplary Classroom 31

Conclusion 32

Do-Now Suggestions for Your Classroom or Collaborative Team 32

2 How to FRAME the First Ten Minutes of Class 35

Focus 37

Reach 40

Ask 42

Model 46

Encourage 49

The Exemplary Classroom 51

Conclusion 53

Do-Now Suggestions for Your Classroom or Collaborative Team 53

3 How to Embed FRAME Within a Lesson 55

Focus 56

Reach 57

Ask 61

Model 67

Encourage 73

The Exemplary Classroom 76

Conclusion 79

Do-Now Suggestions for Your Classroom or Collaborative Team 80

4 How to USE FRAME for Peer Observation and Feedback Among Teachers 81

Key Aspects of Using FRAME for Peer Observation 82

The Exemplary Classroom 89

Conclusion 100

Do-Now Suggestions for Your Classroom or Collaborative Team 101

Appendix: FRAME Lesson and Feedback Tools 103

References and Resources 125

Index 137

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Ready to Learn offers both novice and veteran educators a highly adaptive framework to structure learning that leads to improved outcomes for all students. If you are looking to take student learning to the next level of success, this book is a must-read.”—Sheila A. Alles, Chief Deputy Superintendent, Michigan Department of Education

“Ready to Learn recognizes that curricular knowledge is important but that the best content-driven lessons may fail without engaging instruction. This book provides an easy-to-adopt model for teachers to engage students throughout a lesson. It is a solid resource for increasing a school’s instructional capacity.”—Alexander McNeece, Author, Loving What They Learn: Research-Based Strategies to Increase Student Engagement

“Ready to Learn is a tremendous book that provides encouragement, inspiration, and the resources to empower educators to make meaningful changes in their teaching practice. The FRAME model is brilliant, and teachers can implement it regardless of grade level or content area to develop supportive relationships with students as they learn and reflect together. I recommend this book to any educator looking to improve their teaching practice and enhance learning opportunities for students.”—Rachelle Dene Poth, Educator and Consultant, Author of The Future is Now: Looking Back to Move Ahead

“Realistic, compelling and well-researched, Peg Grafwallner’s book is a must-read. It succinctly captures five indispensable components of teaching and shows how they can be used for multiple purposes in daily lesson planning, classroom instruction, and learning with colleagues.”—Kathleen Kryza, International Educational Consultant, Coach, and Author

“For the field of education, the elephant in the classroom that every teacher sees, but few dare to acknowledge, is the dearth of teaching approaches capable of producing sustained effects on student learning. In Ready to Learn, Peg Grafwallner acknowledges the elephant and bravely sends it on its way by presenting teachers with proven methods for implementing classroom structures and instructional practices that power up their teaching and energize the learning of their students.”—Mark E. Weston, Author of The Learning Edge: What Technology Can Do To Educate All Children