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Corwin Teaching Essentials

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Cover of Challenging Learning Through Feedback

Using feedback to enhance learning

Feedback has the potential to dramatically improve student learning - if done correctly. In fact, providing high quality feedback is one of the most critical roles of a teacher. But if feedback is not done correctly it can have a minimal - or even negative effect - on learning. Challenging Learning Through Feedback provides educators with the tools they need to establish clear learning intentions and success criteria in order to craft high quality feedback and avoid common feedback mistakes. Readers will learn

  • When feedback is (and isn't) working
  • How to design feedback so that it answers three essential questions
  • Strategies for crafting clear Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
  • How to teach students to give high quality feedback to themselves and others

Written by educational innovators James Nottingham and Jill Nottingham, this book is full of specific examples for educators who want to understand the qualities of excellent feedback and how to craft it.

"Feedback - a noun or a verb? A separate practice or an integral part of the learning process? Something we do 'to students' or 'with students'? The Nottinghams sort it all out for us - the 'what,' 'why,' and 'how' of the process and the practice of feedback."
Barb Pitchford, Co-author
Leading Impact Teams: Building a Culture of Efficacy (2016)

"Finally a practical book on feedback for teachers! It is written with the teacher in mind, lesson plan in hand, and relevant to all in education. The perfect school-wide study book!"
Lisa Cebelak, Education Consultant
Grand Rapids, MI

Cover of Learning Challenge Lessons, Secondary English Language Arts

Fans of the The Learning Challenge who want ready-to-use lessons for their secondary ELA classrooms need not look any further. This book provides teachers with everything they need to run dialogue-driven challenges so that students engage more deeply and develop literary skills critical to ELA standards. Students will analyze texts in lessons grounded in cognitive conflicts such as

To be successful you cannot fail, but most successful people have experienced many failures along the way (Lesson 7: Was Jay Gatsby a success?)Love is impossible to define, and yet everyone knows what love is (Lesson 11: Is Romeo really in love?)

Cover of Learning Challenge Lessons, Elementary

Jumpstart meaningful learning for students with new Learning Challenge lessons


Twenty new lessons, created to accompany The Learning Challenge, provide teachers with everything needed to run thoughtful, dialogue-driven challenges for elementary school students. Each compelling and developmentally-appropriate lesson invites young students to think, to be reasonable, to make moral decisions, and to understand another person's point of view-all critical skills in today's complex world. Detailed lesson plans help teachers facilitate rigorous discussion around topics of current importance and include activities and techniques that encourage students into the "Learning Pit" to explore ideas and uncertainties with others through dialogue.