Shift to a data-driven school counselling model with visual guides and checklists, examples of successful counselling program evolution, guidance on RAMP applications, and online resources.
This book gives teachers the know-how to develop standards-aligned STEM projects in all K-5 content areas with confidence. It includes real-world vignettes, sample lessons and templates, discussion questions, and practical action steps.
Fostering Creativity and Innovation in the Elementary Classroom
This book shares the stories of innovative learning opportunities that discuss hands-on and technology-based activities that promote the development of 21st century skills, preparing students for college, career, and beyond.
This book explains educational theories such as Growth Mindsets and Panksepp's SEEKING system, neurological breakthroughs on the brain's internal systems, and strategies that activate student thinking and target learning intentions.
You can find hundreds of literacy lessons in hundreds of places-but none of them will do for students what the ones in this book do. What's the magic bullet? Potent integration. Divided into five weeklong learning sequences, the 50 lessons span the ELA standards, bringing a Monday-through-Friday clarity to the sometimes mysterious process of skill-building through demonstrations and practice. Follow each sequence and week by week, you'll build the instructional potency to help students achieve a year's worth of growth as you integrate: Writing Narratives with Identifying Sensory Words in Text Research with Identifying Topic and Details Opinion Writing with Close Reading for Text Evidence Comparing and Contrasting with Publishing Using Digital Tools Informative Writing with Use of Text Features Each of the 50 lessons is eminently dippable. But if you want to do more extended instructional planning, there are lots of additional tools-including lists of mentor texts, and If/Then and Extending-the-Work charts-within the book and on the companion website: www.corwin.com/commoncorecompanion.
75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning
In this essential resource, science educator Page Keeley provides teachers with guidance, suggestions and techniques for using formative assessment to improve teaching and learning in the science classroom. Based on the knowledge that good assessment practices are integral to measuring and documenting student achievement as well as informing teaching and learning, the author addresses the need to balance opportunity to learn, which includes assessment for learning, with assessment of learning. She then identifies and describes a rich and varied repertoire of purposeful strategies that weave assessment throughout instruction and learning. These techniques will help teachers become more aware of the different ideas students bring to their learning, see the connections between students' thinking and the specific ideas included in standards, and provide learning experiences that build a bridge between their students' thinking and accepted scientific ideas.
Strategies That Help Readers Take Charge [Grades K-8]
Mindsets & Moves is the guide to how to let go of your default roles of assigner, monitor, and inspector and instead shift to a growth mindset by following the 4Ms: Miner: Uncovering Students' Reading Processes (Focus: Assessment) Mirror: Giving Feedback That Reinforces a Growth Mindset (Focus: Feedback) Model: Showing Readers What We Do (Focus: Demonstration] Mentor: Guiding Students to Try New Ways of Reading (Focus: Guided Practice and Coaching) Easily replicable in any setting, any time, the 4 M framework ultimately lightens the load because they allow students to monitor and direct their reading lives. The book is full of practical examples, lessons, reading process and strategy lists, and a 35-page photo tour of exemplary reading classrooms with captions that distill best practices.
Through powerful vignettes and strategies, discover the tips and tools innovation-minded school leaders use to avoid isolation, lower stress, find support, and share ideas. This easy-to-follow roadmap will help you strategically connect with colleagues and staff, jumpstart and sustain your Professional Learning Network, and transform your practice with Twitter, Google Hangouts, Pinterest and more!
Empowering New Teachers Through Connected Resources
The Corwin Connected Educators series is the key to unlocking the greatest resource available to all educators: other educators. In this helpful guide, new teachers will discover key strategies to help build confidence in the classroom and quickly get connected to resources and educators in the field who can stand in the gap to support them.
