Discover the right mathematics strategy to use at each learning phase so all students demonstrate more than a year's worth of learning per school year.
This book guides teachers to the right instructional approach to use at each learning phase so all students demonstrate more than a year's worth of science learning per school year.
Designing Student Learning for Conceptual Understanding
Visible Learning encapsulates a scaffolded approach in which students move from surface-level learning to deep learning, concluding with the transfer of concepts, skills, and strategies.
Visible Learning in Early Childhood investigates the critical years of early childhood and, backed by evidence from the Visible Learning (R) research, explores seven core strategies for learning success.
Do you ever wish your students could read each other's thoughts? Now they can-and so can you! Veteran mathematics educators Ted Hull, Don Balka, and Ruth Miles explain why making students' thought processes visible is the key to effective mathematics instruction. Their newest book contains numerous grade-specific sample problems and instructional strategies for teaching essential concepts such as number sense, fractions, and estimation. Among the many benefits of visible thinking are: - Interactive student-to-student learning - Increased class participation - Development of metacognitive thinking and problem-solving skills. Helpful features include vignettes, relevant word problems, classroom scenarios, sample problems, lesson adaptations, and easy-to-follow examples of each strategy in action. The authors also explain how students can demonstrate their thinking using calculators and online tools. The final chapter outlines steps maths leaders can take to implement visible thinking and maximize mathematics comprehension for all students.
Follow this book's iterative visioning process to sharpen your vision into a personalized road map for transformative change. Features include thought-provoking vignettes, case studies from exemplary schools, common trends at the heart of impactful, positive change, key strategies and tools for building a shared vision, and practical implementation ideas.
"Hold on to this author-he is magical! I learned more from reading Gangwer's book than I have in eight years of professional development workshops." -Laura S. Gulledge, Media Literacy Teacher Benjamin Russell High School, Alexander City, AL "Gangwer has effectively organized information from many sources into a form that is readable and practical for a wide variety of education practitioners, including classroom teachers and fine arts teachers." -Ellen Herbert, Art Teacher Longview High School, TX Spark learners' enthusiasm and promote retention of content with visual teaching techniques! Each day, teachers look for new ways to get students excited about learning and new ways to help them retain the information they learn. In this practical guide, Timothy Gangwer incorporates the latest research on visual learning and shows how you can stimulate students' interest and participation. Offering classroom-tested techniques to engage learners' brains, this book includes hundreds of ready-to-use visual learning activities in language arts, math, science, social studies, environmental studies, the arts, and more. This resource covers: Differentiating instruction based on how students process visual information Using graphic organizers, digital photography, the Internet, and other visual communication tools Incorporating music, art, and drama to enhance instruction and learning Teaching visual communication strategies to English language learners Discover how to use visual strategies and activities to help students think critically about the way they understand and perceive the world.
"Hold on to this author-he is magical! I learned more from reading Gangwer's book than I have in eight years of professional development workshops." -Laura S. Gulledge, Media Literacy Teacher Benjamin Russell High School, Alexander City, AL "Gangwer has effectively organized information from many sources into a form that is readable and practical for a wide variety of education practitioners, including classroom teachers and fine arts teachers." -Ellen Herbert, Art Teacher Longview High School, TX Spark learners' enthusiasm and promote retention of content with visual teaching techniques! Each day, teachers look for new ways to get students excited about learning and new ways to help them retain the information they learn. In this practical guide, Timothy Gangwer incorporates the latest research on visual learning and shows how you can stimulate students' interest and participation. Offering classroom-tested techniques to engage learners' brains, this book includes hundreds of ready-to-use visual learning activities in language arts, math, science, social studies, environmental studies, the arts, and more. This resource covers: Differentiating instruction based on how students process visual information Using graphic organizers, digital photography, the Internet, and other visual communication tools Incorporating music, art, and drama to enhance instruction and learning Teaching visual communication strategies to English language learners Discover how to use visual strategies and activities to help students think critically about the way they understand and perceive the world.
