This volume provides a penetrating look at reform efforts that affirm equal opportunity yet at the same time continue to maintain structures that preserve inequity. Contributors examine ways to achieve greater educational equity and, through inquiry and exploration, offer several paths for thought and action.
Written in an entertaining, teacher-friendly, easy to read style with classroom examples, boxed features, and detailed sample lessons, the book covers checking for understanding, lesson objectives, activating prior knowledge, concept and skills development, guided practice, and much more.
In this teacher-friendly book, the authors offer a step-by-step guide to delivering effective lessons that can significantly improve achievement for English language learners.
Extending the Challenge in Mathematics is designed to help the general education mathematics teacher challenge his/her student(s) with mathematical promise. By providing math teachers with ready-to-use activities and the tools to create their own activities that will add depth to the standard curriculum, Extending the Challenge in Mathematics will ......
Communication and Conflict Resolution in the Schools
Among the greatest challenges faced by teachers and administrators are how to communicate effectively with students and how to resolve conflicts between them. Face to Face discusses the communication skills and conflict resolution principles necessary for the smooth functioning of schools and the effective teaching of students. The authors present a number of methods for improving teacher-student communication including: the use of reflective listening; open-ended questions; mediation programmes; problem-solving models; and interactive exchange. The book establishes a correlation between good communication skills and positive student outcomes, and offers practical tips that will help improve communication in the school.
Communication and Conflict Resolution in the Schools
Among the greatest challenges faced by teachers and administrators are how to communicate effectively with students and how to resolve conflicts between them. Face to Face discusses the communication skills and conflict resolution principles necessary for the smooth functioning of schools and the effective teaching of students. The authors present a number of methods for improving teacher-student communication including: the use of reflective listening; open-ended questions; mediation programmes; problem-solving models; and interactive exchange. The book establishes a correlation between good communication skills and positive student outcomes, and offers practical tips that will help improve communication in the school.
Your single-best way to nurture higher-order thinking There's no doubt about it: the Common Core has us scrambling. With all the pressure to accelerate instruction, how can we possibly find the time to encourage students to do some serious thinking? For Laura Thomas, the answer couldn't be clearer: through constructivist, experiential teaching methods. In fact, constructivist teaching is the single-best way to nurture the higher-order thinking so central to the Common Core. Fusing the practical with the theoretical, Thomas offers a clear path for facilitating real understanding and real skill-building within a community of learners. Grade 6-12 teachers will learn how to: Plan learning experiences that teach content and process at the same time Assess students' development of 21st-century skills Coach students to do the hard work of authentic learning-without leaving them to flounder Teach reflection techniques that help students process their experiences and learn from mistakes. Featuring easy-to-follow graphics, sample lessons, and tools from practicing teachers, Facilitating Authentic Learning is an immediately practical resource that both beginning and veteran teachers can put to work in their classrooms. "This is a valuable book for educators, especially as we strive to help our students move from being receivers of knowledge to owners of their learning. Teachers need to develop strategies to be effective guides for our students, and to facilitate their progress toward educational goals." -Norma Barber, Language Arts Teacher Ukiah School District, OR "I LOVE this book! It provides step-by-step instructions for making a classroom student-centered and led by a guide on the side, not a sage on the stage. The author's real-world examples and reader-friendly writing style make this book a winner!" -Nancy Foote, Teacher/Administrator Higley Unified School District, AZ
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.
6 Principles for Making Student Success the ONLY Option
Demonstrate how six powerful principles can help ensure that failure is never an option! An ideal companion to the second edition of the bestseller, Failure Is Not an Option (R), this step-by-step guide provides staff developers and workshop facilitators with all the tools to help school leaders create successful, sustainable high-performing schools. Aligned with the chapters of Alan M. Blankstein's award-winning book, these activities, discussion questions, and field-tested resources demonstrate how to avoid 10 common routes to failure and are designed around six guiding principles: Common mission, vision, values, and goals Achievement for all students through prevention and intervention systems Collaborative teaming focused on teaching for learning Data-based decisions for continuous improvement Active family and community engagement Building sustainable leadership capacity Reflecting the updated edition's greater emphasis on diversity, assessment for learning, intervention and support for students at risk, and schooling as a community endeavor, the facilitator's guide features Field-tested resources referenced in Failure Is Not An Option (R), Second Edition, including tools for applying the six principles Workshop activities Discussion questions Chapter content summaries Suggestions for further reading and reflection A workshop evaluation form The Facilitator's Guide to Failure Is Not an Option (R), Second Edition is ideal for staff developers or anyone leading groups of any size-pairs, small workshops, or large seminars.
