Teaching Strategies Across the Content Areas, PreK-3
Praise for the first edition: "Smutny and von Fremd's very special talent is in helping adults nurture and cherish the creativity and learning joy that is so intrinsic in young children." -Susan Winebrenner, Author and Staff Development Specialist Education Consulting Service, Inc. "The authors use teacher voices, classroom stories, and solid foundations to guide the reader's thinking. Practical examples and specific guidelines make the book very useful without resorting to templates or gimmicks!" -Carol Ann Tomlinson, Professor University of Virginia Praise for the second edition: "Using the ideas presented in this book make teaching and learning more personalized and exciting for both teachers and their students. This book provides a breath of fresh air for the teaching profession!" -Carole S. Campbell, Educator Higher Ground Educational Consulting "This book is chock full of great examples and classroom applications, providing specific guidance and clear-headed advice." -Nancy H. McDonough, Second-Grade Teacher Walter Stillman School, Tenafly, NJ Meet the highly diverse needs of primary students with these differentiated teaching strategies! Every student who walks through the classroom door brings special gifts to the learning table. Differentiating for the Young Child helps primary teachers value and support the unique experiences and learning styles of diverse young learners. Joan Franklin Smutny and S.E. von Fremd offer strategies and methods for promoting creative thinking and intellectual discovery across key discipline areas. They also tackle issues relating to underserved students and discuss differentiated technology use. Revised to make differentiated learning easier, this second edition: Includes new charts with high- to low-preparation strategies for differentiating lessons in math, science, social studies, and language arts Presents new focus questions to help teachers clarify their own priorities and target student needs efficiently Offers Web sites for further reference Because the primary grades influence all the years that follow, this resource helps early childhood and primary teachers use creative, differentiated teaching strategies to meet the individual learning needs of all young children and encourage their future academic success.
Teaching Strategies Across the Content Areas, PreK-3
Praise for the first edition: "Smutny and von Fremd's very special talent is in helping adults nurture and cherish the creativity and learning joy that is so intrinsic in young children." -Susan Winebrenner, Author and Staff Development Specialist Education Consulting Service, Inc. "The authors use teacher voices, classroom stories, and solid foundations to guide the reader's thinking. Practical examples and specific guidelines make the book very useful without resorting to templates or gimmicks!" -Carol Ann Tomlinson, Professor University of Virginia Praise for the second edition: "Using the ideas presented in this book make teaching and learning more personalized and exciting for both teachers and their students. This book provides a breath of fresh air for the teaching profession!" -Carole S. Campbell, Educator Higher Ground Educational Consulting "This book is chock full of great examples and classroom applications, providing specific guidance and clear-headed advice." -Nancy H. McDonough, Second-Grade Teacher Walter Stillman School, Tenafly, NJ Meet the highly diverse needs of primary students with these differentiated teaching strategies! Every student who walks through the classroom door brings special gifts to the learning table. Differentiating for the Young Child helps primary teachers value and support the unique experiences and learning styles of diverse young learners. Joan Franklin Smutny and S.E. von Fremd offer strategies and methods for promoting creative thinking and intellectual discovery across key discipline areas. They also tackle issues relating to underserved students and discuss differentiated technology use. Revised to make differentiated learning easier, this second edition: Includes new charts with high- to low-preparation strategies for differentiating lessons in math, science, social studies, and language arts Presents new focus questions to help teachers clarify their own priorities and target student needs efficiently Offers Web sites for further reference Because the primary grades influence all the years that follow, this resource helps early childhood and primary teachers use creative, differentiated teaching strategies to meet the individual learning needs of all young children and encourage their future academic success.
Planning for Universal Design and Teaching for College and Career Readiness
This updated best-seller features two customizable approaches to differentiating instruction, a discussion of collaborative planning and implementation, new technology resources, and links to the Common Core and RTI.
New Best Practices for General and Special Educators
In order to meet the needs of students with learning disabilities in the classrooms of today and tomorrow, general and special educators must work together to differentiate instruction. The new differentiation must take place within an RTI framework, it must make use of the most modern technologies, and it must engage students' interests. In this new book, William Bender builds on the success of Differentiating Instruction for Students With Learning Disabilities by providing new ideas, strategies, and examples of the most effective instructional practices. With an emphasis on real world problem solving and brain-based learning, this book will be an invaluable and practical resource for current and future elementary teachers.
Aligning Teacher and Learner Intelligences for Maximum Achievement
The foundation of differentiated instruction is the teacher's ability to understand student preferences in thinking styles, learning styles, and multiple intelligences and then to use that understanding to plan instruction for the diversity of learners in the classroom. This important new book from Gayle Gregory provides teachers with a bridge ......
Demonstrate successful mathematics teaching strategies that work for diverse learning styles! Combining current research and practical strategies for differentiating mathematics instruction in K-8 classrooms, this comprehensive multimedia kit provides staff developers with all the materials necessary for helping teachers develop differentiated mathematics lessons that meet standards and connect with students' individual learning styles. Designed around the second edition of the bestseller Differentiating Math Instruction, this one-stop professional development resource allows facilitators to lead discussions about: Understanding the mathematical brain Working with diverse intelligences and gender differences Planning instructional units that meet NCTM and state standards Using Response to Intervention (RTI) in mathematics Differentiating mathematics instruction for primary, elementary, and middle school learners Differentiating Math Instruction, Second Edition: A Multimedia Kit for Professional Development provides: The second edition of the companion book Differentiating Math Instruction offering mathematics instructional tactics that increase confidence and mastery in mathematics for every student A content-rich DVD, with an easy stop-and-search navigation menu, and featuring examples of how K-8 teachers use differentiated mathematics strategies in their classrooms A step-by-step facilitator's guide that connects the book to the DVD and provides chapter summaries, discussion questions, workshop activities, overheads, and agendas A companion CD-ROM that contains a digital copy of the entire facilitator's guide An ideal professional development resource to use with pairs, small workshops, or large seminars, this multimedia kit for the second edition of Differentiating Math Instruction is essential for anyone leading workshops focused on providing K-8 students with high-quality learning experiences in mathematics.
Common Core Mathematics in the 21st Century Classroom
This seminal text is like no other, successfully blending the best of what technology has to offer with guidelines for meeting the objectives set forth by the Common Core.
How to Scaffold Whole-Group Instruction So All Students Can Access Grade-Level Content
Teacher be nimble, teacher be quick-the routines in this book make phonics learning stick. Author Wiley Blevins is renowned for changing the way educators think about teaching children to read, helping thousands of teachers implement effective phonics instruction. Now, Blevins gets us to think in powerful new ways about differentiating ......
"Offers a set of extremely useful heuristics, mental models, and organizational checklists with which future and practicing school leaders can analyze leadership situations and take positive, focused action to improve school conditions. The author's gift for narration brings the reader into the case studies and allows you to almost be sitting alongside experienced educational leaders as they ponder about and make decisions concerning critical educational issues. This is highly insightful and helpful for the reader just learning about the complexity of educational leadership and a critical gift for their own future decision making." -Dan W. Butin, Assistant Dean of Educational Leadership Cambridge College "The vignettes, cases, and stories provide insights into what an educational leader at the school level can face each day. These examples lend themselves to professional book study with practicing principals as well as those who aspire to take on that role." -Michelle Gayle, Principal Griffin Middle School, Tallahassee, FL Diagnose your school's critical challenges and apply specific differentiated leadership strategies for improvement! Whether yours is an urban or a rural school, every setting faces unique types of challenges requiring an appropriate and differentiated response. This book introduces the qualities of differentiated leadership and stresses the importance of understanding that different schools can face very distinct sets of challenges. The author provides principals with an overview of "organizational diagnostics" with guidelines for identifying critical issues and demonstrates how to apply differentiated leadership to four high-level priorities: Preventing school decline Turning around a low-performing school Sustaining improvements Designing a new school
