Учебная литература
Различные книги в жанре Учебная литератураResearching in a Digital World
As digital natives, our students are certainly at home online, but how much do they know about using the Internet as a research tool? Do they know how to ask the right questions, find the best and most credible resources, evaluate the «facts» they come across, and avoid plagiarism and copyright violations when they incorporate others' work into their own? For too many, the answer is no and research projects intended to engage students in independent learning wind up wasting time or creating incomplete or faulty understandings. In this step-by-step guide, classroom veteran Erik Palmer explains how to teach students at all grade levels to conduct deeper, smarter, and more responsible research in an online environment. You'll find practical lesson ideas for every stage of the research process and dozens of tips and strategies that will build your students' Internet literacy, establish valuable academic habits, and foster skills for lifelong learning.
School Culture Rewired
Discover tools, strategies, and advice for defining, assessing, and transforming your school's culture into one that is positive, forward-looking, and working to enrich students' lives.
Formative Classroom Walkthroughs
Learn how schools use formative walkthroughs to reveal evidence of student learning and enable teachers to make informed adjustments that help students succeed.
Authentic Learning in the Digital Age
How can you create an authentic learning environment—one where students ask questions, do research, and explore subjects that fascinate them—in today’s standards-driven atmosphere? Author Larissa Pahomov offers insightful answers based on her experience as a classroom teacher at the Science Leadership Academy—a public high school in Philadelphia that offers a rigorous college-prep curriculum and boasts a 99 percent graduation rate. Pahomov outlines a framework for learning structured around five core values: inquiry , research collaboration , presentation and reflection . For each value, she presents: * A detailed description of how the value can transform classroom practice and how a “digital connection” can enhance its application.* A step-by-step outline for how to implement the value, with examples from teachers in all subject areas.* Solutions to possible challenges and roadblocks that teachers may experience.* Suggestions for how to expand the value beyond the classroom to schoolwide practice.</br<* Anecdotes from students, offering their perspectives on how they experienced the value in the classroom and after graduation. The framework is a guide, not a prescription, and middle and high school teachers—individually or as a team—can use it to structure whatever content and skills their current school or district requires. The book also includes suggestions for how to integrate technology into inquiry-based education, but the principles and approaches it describes can be applied successfully even in places without abundant technology. Both practical and inspiring, Authentic Learning in the Digital Age is an indispensable handbook for reinvigorating teaching and learning in a new era.
The Results Fieldbook
What is the single, most important event of the school year that affects school improvement? How do you measure school improvement? How can simple tools–already at your fingertips–work more effectively to improve student achievement in reading, math, and more? The Results Fieldbook answers these questions and describes in abundant, practical detail how five school systems overcame obstacles and achieved exceptional results for all their students. These schools focused on the proven core concepts that Mike Schmoker described in both editions of his first ASCD book, Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement . Supplementing the five case studies, brief vignettes written by practitioners show how core practices–teamwork, the use of achievement data, and planning for measurable goals–made an immediate and profound difference in student learning at their respective schools. A close look at these school systems reveals the simplicity of school improvement efforts built around the still-overlooked and most potent force in improvement–collective, organized teacher intelligence. This book contains easily adapted processes and refinements that result from such teacher collaboration and all but guarantee measurable improvement. Tables, figures, and appendixes illustrate effective data-collection processes; and at the conclusion, a three-part synthesis of the best of these systems provides practical steps toward implementing this radically more effective approach to school improvement, starting with preservice education.
Connecting with Students
In a time of an increasingly rigid «zero tolerance» of the slightest hint of violence, which results in automatic suspension or expulsion, Allen N. Mendler calls for a more caring, flexible approach to school safety. Easily tailored to any learning environment, the activities and guidelines provide you with the tools you need in the classroom, from the «H & H» greeting to the «2 x 10» method and the «4H,» «think-aloud,» and «paradoxical» strategies.
Effective Teacher Interviews
Teacher quality is the school-related factor that most affects student learning, so selecting the best candidate for open teaching positions has enormous implications. In Effective Teacher Interviews, Jennifer L. Hindman provides practical advice on how to conduct hiring interviews that reliably predict a teacher’s success, including guidance on applying research to the interview process; developing meaningful, legal interview questions; assembling and training an interview team; matching candidates’ skills to your schools’ needs; and using the best interview strategies. With these tips on refocusing the interview process, you’ll be better prepared to select and hire the teachers who will make a positive difference for your students and your school.
A Toolkit of Brain-Compatible Strategies
This chapter from the second edition of Brain Matter , by Patricia Wolfe, presents classroom strategies to help students in grades K–12 learn and retain information about the nature and rules of language and mathematics and about the world in general. These strategies include various writing tools, mnemonics, peer teaching, and hands-learning activities.
Sparking Student Creativity
Teaching isn't merely transmitting knowledge to students; it’s also about teaching students to approach learning in engaging and unexpected ways. In Sparking Student Creativity: Practical Ways to Promote Innovative Thinking and Problem Solving , author and researcher Patti Drapeau explores and explains research related to creativity and its relevance in today’s standards-based, critical thinking–focused classroom. The book vividly and comprehensively shows * How creative lessons can meet and extend the expectations of curriculum standards such as the Common Core State Standards,* How to incorporate creativity and assessment into daily classroom practices, * How to develop a «Creativity Road Map» to guide instruction, and * How to design lessons that prompt and support creative thinking.In addition, the book includes 40 “grab and go” ideas that infuse lesson plans with a spirit of exploration. No matter what grade levels or content areas you teach, Sparking Student Creativity will help you to produce creative lesson components that directly address critical content, target specific standards, and require thoughtful products from students as they grow into independent learners and become successful students and adults.
School Climate Change
Students and educators today face obstacles to student achievement, well-being, and success that are above and beyond traditional instructional and assessment concerns. From low school morale to bullying to shootings, school climate has become a national and global concern. Research overwhelmingly indicates that a positive school climate promotes cooperative learning, group cohesion, respect, and mutual trust—all of which have in turn been shown to improve the learning environment. In short, a positive school climate is directly related to improved academic achievement at all levels of schooling. In this ASCD Arias book, Peter DeWitt and Sean Slade explain the most important aspects of school climate and how we can make positive changes in our schools. Readers will learn * How to engage students and school stakeholders.* How to empower staff and students and foster autonomy so people take ownership of their ideas and the learning process.* How to promote inclusivity and equity throughout the school.* How to create a welcoming, cooperative, and safe school environment that nurtures students’ social-emotional needs.