Product Description: Teach higher-order thinking while you’re teaching concepts, skills, and content! This indispensable guide combines proven curriculum design with teaching methods that encourage students to learn concepts as well as content and skills for deep understanding across all subject areas...read more

Product Description: Give educators the essential tools for developing students’ ability to "think beyond the facts"! Complete with video of teachers using concept-based instruction with their students, this comprehensive multimedia kit offers staff developers all the tools for helping educators engage students’ minds and emotions and nurture critical and creative learning skills...read more

New Foreword by Carol Ann Tomlinson  The author defines a concept-based learning program and provides strategies to help create a seamless agenda to teach students the skills they need most to think conceptually and solve problems in today's complex world.    (view table of contents)

Product Description: See why concept-based curriculum and instruction engages and motivates students far beyond traditional methods. Observe examples of the development process and the implementation in the classroom. Includes: 2 VHS Videotapes, Guidebook, Audiotape Program 1: The Progression to Deep Understanding (34 min...read more

Product Description: The second edition provides educators with an updated perspective of current trends in curriculum and instruction. In this thoughtful "how-to" of curriculum design, educators will find practical structures and specific classroom examples of effective curriculum strategies. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Help students analyze and synthesize information for a deeper understanding of big ideas! This third edition of the classic bestseller on curriculum design provides practical structures, planning tools, and specific classroom examples of effective teaching strategies. The author focuses on the need for curriculum that takes students to a level of understanding where knowledge transfers readily to new situations and thinking becomes integrated. Updated throughout, the book’s wide-ranging topics include:  Aligning local curriculum with state and national content standards  Using brain-based teaching methods  Developing higher-order thinking skills  Assessing and reporting student progress  Creating a lifelong love of learning in students

Product Description: Demonstrate how teachers can use a "conceptual lens" to design instructional units and differentiated lessons that deepen students' thinking skills and inspire a genuine love of learning.