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How to teach big understandings and the ideas that matter most Everyone has an opinion about education, and teachers face pressures from Common Core content standards, high-stakes testing, and countless other directions. But how do we know what today's learners will really need to know in the future? Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World is a toolkit for approaching that question with new insight. There is no one answer to the question of what's worth teaching, but with the tools in this book, you'll be one step closer to constructing a curriculum that prepares students for whatever situations they might face in the future. K-12 teachers and administrators play a crucial role in building a thriving society. David Perkins, founding member and co-director of Project Zero at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, argues that curriculum is one of the most important elements of making students ready for the world of tomorrow. In Future Wise, you'll learn concepts, curriculum criteria, and techniques for prioritizing content so you can guide students toward the big understandings that matter. Understand how learners use knowledge in life after graduation Learn strategies for teaching critical thinking and addressing big questions Identify top priorities when it comes to disciplines and content areas Gain curriculum design skills that make the most of learning across the years of education Future Wise presents a brand new framework for thinking about education. Curriculum can be one of the hardest things for teachers and administrators to change, but David Perkins shows that only by reimagining what we teach can we lead students down the road to functional knowledge. Future Wise is the practical guidebook you need to embark on this important quest.

Praise for Educating Physicians «Educating Physicians provides a masterful analysis of undergraduate and graduate medical education in the United States today. It represents a major educational document, based firmly on educational psychology, learning theory, empirical studies, and careful personal observations of many individual programs. It also recognizes the importance of financing, regulation, and institutional culture on the learning environment, which suffuses its recommendations for reform with cogency and power. Most important, like Abraham Flexner's classic study a century ago, the report recognizes that medical education and practice, at their core, are profoundly moral enterprises. This is a landmark volume that merits attention from anyone even peripherally involved with medical education.» —Kenneth M. Ludmerer, author, Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care «This is a very important book that comes at a critical time in our nation's history. We will not have enduring health care reform in this country unless we rethink our medical education paradigms. This book is a call to arms for doing just that.» —George E. Thibault, president, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation «The authors provide us with the evidence-based model for physician education with associated changes in infrastructure, policy, and our roles as educators. Whether you agree or not with their conclusions, if you are a teacher this book is a must-read as it will frame both what and how we discuss medical education throughout the current century.» —Deborah Simpson, associate dean for educational support and evaluation, Medical College of Wisconsin «A provocative book that provides us with a creative vision for medical education. Using in-depth case studies of innovative educational practices illustrating what is actually possible, the authors provide sage advice for transforming medical education on the basis of learning theories and educational research.» —Judith L. Bowen, professor of medicine, Oregon Health & Science University

Praise for Educating Nurses «This book represents a call to arms, a call for nursing educators and programs to step up in our preparation of nurses. This book will incite controversy, wonderful debate, and dialogue among nurses and others. It is a must-read for every nurse educator and for every nurse that yearns for nursing to acknowledge and reach for the real difference that nursing can make in safety and quality in health care.» —Beverly Malone, chief executive officer, National League for Nursing «This book describes specific steps that will enable a new system to improve both nursing formation and patient care. It provides a timely and essential element to health care reform.» —David C. Leach, former executive director, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education «The ideas about caregiving developed here make a profoundly philosophical and intellectually innovative contribution to medicine as well as all healing professions, and to anyone concerned with ethics. This groundbreaking work is both paradigm-shifting and delightful to read.» —Jodi Halpern, author, From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice «This book is a landmark work in professional education! It is a must-read for all practicing and aspiring nurse educators, administrators, policy makers, and, yes, nursing students.» —Christine A. Tanner, senior editor, Journal of Nursing Education «This work has profound implications for nurse executives and frontline managers.» —Eloise Balasco Cathcart, coordinator, Graduate Program in Nursing Administration, New York University

Love may be the international language, but sex is more fun to learn…Sure, Gina Ferraro grew up in sheltered convent schools in her native Tuscany, but that doesn't mean she doesn't know a thing or two about men. After all, she's seen Sex and the City! So when she arrives in New York to visit relatives, Gina knows what she's after–a gorgeous guy willing to help further her education. Sex education, that is.For Mike Mason, escorting his boss's niece around town for the whole month should be a breeze. Show her the sights, take in a few shows…how hard could it be? Little does he know that his job–and his much-ignored libido–will be on the line when the reputedly shy, bookish niece turns out to be hot, sexy Gina, ready to finally indulge her fantasies on her trip to America…with Mike!