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The Future-Ready Challenge - by Robert L Furman (Paperback)

The Future-Ready Challenge - by  Robert L Furman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>With this collection of 18 easy-to-follow challenges, learn how to promote teamwork and collaboration, motivating your students to develop the skills they'll need for the future.</b> <p/>Incorporating digital age skills into curriculum can be daunting for educators, and getting started can be the hardest part. In this book, author and education leader L. Robert Furman breaks down the process into 18 challenges so that teachers can improve student outcomes based on digital age skills and future-minded progress in a single semester. <p/>This book includes: <ul><li>Weekly step-by-step challenges designed to fill one semester.</li><li>Case studies by leaders in the field and examples of how to implement the challenges for each grade level.</li><li>Coverage of key topics such as digital citizenship, communication, problem-solving and integration of technology into learning.</li></ul><br><i>The Future-Ready Challenge</i> focuses on changing the classroom, your teaching style and the related procedures to increase opportunities for your students to engage in -- and most importantly, adopt -- digital age skills.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<i>The Future-Ready Challenge</i> by Rob Furman has given us a sure plan to begin addressing future-ready skills in daily lessons. The strategies provided are easy to integrate into content areas and the scaffolding that's suggested will begin to embed these skills in the planning and delivery of instruction." -- Len Ference, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Association for Middle Level Education<br><br>"Furman has written a very practical book that has the potential to change how teachers teach. He provides websites, links and specific examples from practitioners that will support teachers on the path to teaching digital age skills." -- Bruce Vosburgh, President, The National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform<br><br>"Furman's writing is engaging, entertaining and insightful, and rooted deeply in a love of children and learning. Educators who feel the call to 'futurize' their practices will benefit from this one-step-at-a-time approach." -- Keith Reeves, Author of <i>Insurrection: A Teacher Revolution in Defense of Children</i><br><br>"This book hits the right balance between doing what one knows how to do and learning new things. It's step-by-step and full of great ideas for introducing a new way of teaching and learning into our schools today." -- Peter Bishop, Founder and Executive Director, Teach the Future (www.teachthefuture.org)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>L. Robert Furman, Ed.D., is an educator, leader, speaker and the author of <i>Technology, Reading & Digital Literacy</i>. He has received numerous awards, including being named one of the National School Board Association's 2015 "20 to Watch" in technology education. He is the principal at South Park Elementary Center near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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