Concentus Pedagogy:
The Power 5 System
The Power 5 is a set of cross-curricular strategies of instruction and assessment which, if used consistently and in combination:
- support equitable engagement and learning gains for academically and culturally diverse students within a class and school
- create a learning culture in which students and their teachers can hone the Essential Citizenship Competencies integral to Justice-Oriented Citizenship
Essential Questions
Addressing a compelling question drives the content, knowledge, and skills to achieve the outcome.
Thinking Routines & Discursive Strategies
These strategies scaffold student thinking and interaction in each part of a lesson.
Courageous Conversations
These strategies scaffold student engagement in courageous conversations which arise from curricular outcomes, class & school contexts, and current events, from local to global.
- Defining Courageous Conversations
- Context & Rationale for Courageous Conversations
- Where the Courage Comes In!
- 4 Stances Toward Courageous Conversations
- Facilitation Process for Courageous Conversations
- Strategies Options for Facilitation Process
Authentic Assessment Tasks
Using the GRASPS acronym to design formative and summative assessment tasks increases assessment relevance for students and validity for teachers.
- Theory Informing Practice
- Formative Assessment
- Summative Assessment
- GRASPS task template
- GRASPS task questions for engaged citizenship
- GRASPS template for citizenship action
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