The Complete Guide for Teachers and Literacy Coaches
Reading First and Beyond anticipates the proposed additions to core elements of reading instruction from the National Reading Panel. It combines clear explanations and teaching directions with explicit, step-by-step guidelines. Take-to-the-classroom and differentiated lesson examples for mandated and other core elements for reading success are included, as well as adaptations for special learners.
The Complete Guide for Teachers and Literacy Coaches
Reading First and Beyond anticipates the proposed additions to core elements of reading instruction from the National Reading Panel. It combines clear explanations and teaching directions with explicit, step-by-step guidelines. Take-to-the-classroom and differentiated lesson examples for mandated and other core elements for reading success are included, as well as adaptations for special learners.
Formerly a SkyLight Publication Integrate curricular, instructional and assessment goals to authentically assess student learning! The focus on standards-based learning in today's schools means educators need to plan assessments that accurately measure what students are learning. Cindy Stergar's Performance Tasks, Checklists, and Rubrics gives teachers the essential tools they need to develop a complete assessment system for their classrooms. This book examines the nature of performance tasks, checklists, and rubrics and how to use them in the classroom to assess student learning. It is packed with tools and templates to help teachers implement an effective assessment system for their students, and each assessment tool is explained in-depth and samples are provided. This invaluable resource provides teacher-created performance tasks, checklists, and rubrics for a variety of K-12 subjects including science, physical education, and foreign language, with templates for customizing these tools for a teacher's own classroom.
Formerly a SkyLight publication. Reflection is an important part of the learning process for both students and teachers. New teachers need to take the time to reflect on their teaching practice. Reflections on Starting Strong: A New Teacher's Journal is the valuable resource for the beginning teacher and is the perfect companion to Starting Strong: Surviving and Thriving as a New Teacher.
Formerly a SkyLight Publication. Explore and adopt best-practice teaching strategies to achieve professional excellence! New teachers begin their careers with great enthusiasm and purpose, but often face many challenges in their first years of teaching. A New Teacher's Guide to Best Practices supports new teachers with guidelines for applying best teaching practices to improve their professional effectiveness. Organized around the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) standards, this reflective workbook is full of best-practice tools and strategies. Each chapter focuses on a different teaching challenge-"practical problems" that teachers face daily-and offers research-based solutions, along with teacher tips and student perspectives from across the country. An invaluable resource for new teachers to use at their own pace, or for staff developers presenting teacher induction workshops, this richly detailed text invites new teachers to: Record their present beliefs Outline their aspirations Define their goals and objectives Set a course of action to reach those goals and objectives Enter into dialogue with colleagues and mentors for continued professional growth Through planning, self-reflection, and dialogue, new teachers can enrich their teaching experience, expand their personal and professional goals for success, and shape the way they view their practice and profession.
Designing High-Quality Professional Development for Standards-Based Schools
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Why Can't We Get It Right? includes more tools, a stronger focus on implementation strategies, key points and open-ended scenarios for reflection. Speck and Knipe explain how school leaders can plan collaborative professional development that is standards based. This book will deepen teachers' collective understanding about how to create professional development opportunities and practices. Well-designed professional development programs foster a learner-centered environment, and research has shown that improving teachers' knowledge and skills is a prerequisite to raising student performance. Speck and Knipe provide professional development designs and practices that make a difference for teachers and students, resulting in dramatically improved schools. In order for our schools to leave no child behind, teachers need access to the most current information, strategies, research, and professional learning opportunities. This unique and indispensable guide links professional development tightly to academic standards to raise student achievement. Each chapter contains: brief scenario to ground readers essential questions to provoke deeper thought about each topic tables, figures, and other visuals to illustrate key concepts, surveys, teacher professional development plans, planning worksheets, standards-based adaptable frameworks, evaluation guides, and other tools to help readers try out ideas.
Do you enjoy swapping ideas with other teachers? Do you find the staffroom is the best place to learn? Do you wish you had time to attend classroom management seminars? The exchange of ideas often allows teachers to fine tune strategies for managing their classrooms by listening to others who have successfully overcome similar challenges. This inspiring collection of advice from award-winning teachers now brings the best of classroom management practice to your classroom. Best Classroom Management Practices for Reaching All Learners compiles strategies, suggestions, tactics, and plans for improving classroom management approaches. By observing the best run classrooms through the eyes of our best teachers, Stone brings us solutions to teachers' everyday questions and issues. Contributors focus on promoting a positive teaching environment and enriching learning experiences in today's diverse classrooms by covering such topics as: Building classroom community, working with challenging students, and communicating with parents; Rules, rewards, discipline, silence, and shared responsibilities; Homework, posters, newsletters, and reading groups; Computer labs and classroom technology; Invite Randi Stone and 29 expert educators into your classroom and find a virtual staffroom at your fingertips!
Frameworks, Agendas, Tips, and Case Stories for Mentors and Mentees
This guide will be invaluable to mentors of new headteachers and designers of mentoring programs. For the mentee or new headteacher, it will jump start their process and shorten their learning curve. The authors recognize the primary role of the headteacher as instructional leader but also address the practical aspects of the headship. Their overview of mentoring includes a checklist of specific objectives linked to learning activities. At the core of the book, a series of mentoring field stories, including comments from mentees, brings to life the issues and crises around which new headteachers are likely to speed dial their mentors, and also provides models for how the mentor can guide, support, encourage, but ultimately leave decision and responsibility with the new headteacher. A recognized headship expert, the lead author has invited and shared here the collected wisdom and mentoring guidelines from leading mentoring colleagues from around the country to make this the truly indispensable handbook for mentoring reflective headteachers.
60 Research-Based Teaching Strategies That Help Special Learners Succeed
"An awesome collection of very current best practice suggestions!" Jacqueline Thousand Co-Author, A Guide to Co-Teaching "This is the way that flesh'n'blood teachers talk to each other." Millie Gore, Chair, Special Education Department Midwestern State University "The greatest strengths of this book are its practicality and the fact that there is a tremendous need for it out there for teachers with no background in special education who are teaching students with special needs." J. David Smith Author, In Search of Better Angels Test-drive these research-based strategies in your inclusive classroom! Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book focuses on extending academic research to classroom practices that address the problems faced by teachers working with special needs students in inclusive classrooms. Providing a convenient format that teachers, trainers, and administrators will find appealing, What Successful Teachers Do in Inclusive Classrooms packs 60 research-based strategies into one user-friendly guide that gives teachers the tools and confidence to engage their special needs learners. It masterfully deciphers the latest research and makes it accessible and applicable for day-to-day classroom practice. Each one of the 60 teaching strategies covers: A straightforward one-line action statement that encapsulates the "Strategy" An easy-to-read synthesis of relevant educational, psychological, and sociological studies Concrete and specific tactics for immediate application in the classroom Pointers on how to identify and avoid potential pitfalls Sources for further reading on the research/strategy outlined This comprehensive guide outlines a full range of research-based methods that can be interwoven and tailored to create the best instructional plan for special learners, focusing on maximizing achievement in today's inclusive classroom.
