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“It is a pleasure to have a full length treatise on this most important topic, and may this focus on transfer become much more debated, taught, and valued in our schools.”
Teach students to use their learning to unlock new situations.
How do you prepare your students for a future that you can’t see? And how do you do it without exhausting yourself? Teachers need a framework that allows them to keep pace with our rapidly changing world without having to overhaul everything they do.
Learning That Transfers empowers teachers and curriculum designers alike to harness the critical concepts of traditional disciplines while building students’ capacity to navigate, interpret, and transfer their learning to solve novel and complex modern problems. Using a backwards design approach, this hands-on guide walks teachers step-by-step through the process of identifying curricular goals, establishing assessment targets, and planning curriculum and instruction that facilitates the transfer of learning to new and challenging situations.
Culture, Cognition, & Narrative: Navigating Current Events in the Classroom
Note: This blog was written in March of 2019 on Trevor's personal blog site. A few updates have been made in terms of the framing and language, but it is largely unchanged to accurately reflect what occurred in his classroom. Discussing current events in our current...
3 Ways to Increase Equity with Learning that Transfers
This blog is part one of our series on equity. It includes adapted excerpts from our new book, Learning that Transfers, publishing March 2021. Transfer of learning entails applying our previous learning to new situations. Unfortunately, both children and adults are...
Essential Learning that Transfers
This blog is an excerpt from the manuscript of our forthcoming book, Learning that Transfers, publishing March 2021 “Why do we have to know this?” It’s the age-old question students pose when they doubt the importance of the content they’re asked to learn. It’s hard...
Becoming better innovators and sensemakers through learning transfer.
Acquire
Facilitate opportunities for students to acquire and making meaning of individual concepts.
Connect
Promote student thinking about the relationships between and among concepts.
Transfer
Empower students to apply their organizational understanding of conceptual relationships to new situations.
Conceptual Understanding & Learning Transfer
Every field, hobby, or complex skill can be viewed through this model of fundamental elements, called concepts, and the ways in which those elements interact. We can increase retention, hone our skills, and transfer our understanding to new situations by wiring our brains to learn how to grasp the organizational structures of our world. Using these structures as our guide, we can make sense of complex systems, create innovative solutions, and design a better future.
