SynopsisWhat if, instead of focusing on standardized test scores, the key to students' lasting success is having a steadfast hope for their futures? In Heroes Within: A Framework for Empowering Students to Own Their Learning Journeys, presenter, author, and coach Aaron Hansen explains his six-step Hero-Maker Framework that teachers can follow to help students embrace challenges and failures by believing in themselves and charting a meaningful future beyond their academic and career aspirations. With his stories, tools, and strategies, K-12 teachers can guide students to become active participants in their own learning journeys, and the heroes in their own stories. Readers will: Learn each step of the Hero-Maker Framework and how the framework can transform their classroom, Access templates, scripts, and prompts to guide metacognitive reflection and assist students with self-assessment, Build trusting relationships with students that can help them take risks and overcome fears, Select relevant and engaging content with real-world applications, Use progress trackers, models of proficiency, and other helpful examples and tools, Too often, students sit compliantly in class and aren't engaged in the learning. Acclaimed speaker and author Aaron Hansen uses compelling stories and a step-by-step framework to help educators become hero makers. These powerful classroom mentors empower students to break free of their self-limiting stories and fixed mindsets and experience a new story of hope, self-efficacy, and ownership as heroes of their learning journeys. This book will help K-12 teachers and collaborative teams: Access templates and tools to guide metacognitive reflection and assist in students' self-assessment Be reinspired and rejuvenated in their calling as teachers by true stories of transformation that every educator can relate to Select relevant content with real-world applications that boost student engagement Build self-efficacy and ownership of learning in all students Learn how to use the simple six-step framework for empowering students: (1) clarify learning goals, (2) establish trusting relationships, (3) choose worthy content, (4) facilitate student self-assessment, (5) encourage metacognition, and (6) develop a vision for their future Contents: Introduction: Stories, Journeys, Heroes, and Hope Chapter 1: Step 1--Clarify Learning Goals Chapter 2: Step 2--Leverage Relationships of Trust to Help Students Overcome Fear Chapter 3: Step 3--Select Worthy Content to Help Students Develop Skills Chapter 4: Step 4--Encourage Facilitated Feedback and Self-Assessment Chapter 5: Step 5--Encourage Metacognition Chapter 6: Step 6--Help Students Find a Compelling Vision Chapter 7: Hero-Maker Framework Tasks Epilogue References and Resources Index
LC Classification NumberLB1027.23.H365 2024