Учебная литература
Различные книги в жанре Учебная литератураDoing What Works
While new ideas and innovative programs and pedagogies are exciting, the simplest methods are often the most effective. In Doing What Works , author Chris Weber outlines ten practical, common-sense practices proven to transform student learning and propel school success. Each chapter includes examples from real school leaders and classroom teachers, as well as a series of suggested next steps. Use this resource to explore and implement effective learning techniques for every student: Rediscover common-sense strategies and practices proven to strengthen schools and increase student learning. Receive recommendations and real-world examples to strengthen understanding of the ten specific practices outlined in the book. Explore how to prioritize content to maximize learning and ensure students learn behavioral skills alongside academic skills. Study strategies that inspire students to take ownership of their learning and empower parents to become active participants in their child’s education. Observe ways to provide rigorous tasks to enrich student learning and communicate clear learning targets. Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Author Introduction Chapter 1: Teaching Less so Students Learn More Chapter 2: Predicting and Preventing Challenges Chapter 3: Letting Students Do the Talking and the Learning Chapter 4: Keeping Learning Targets Visible and Still Chapter 5: Nurturing Behavioral Habits That Affect Motivation Chapter 6: Fostering Two-Way Feedback Chapter 7: Emphasizing Skills Alongside or Above Content Chapter 8: Promoting Rigorous Learning Tasks Chapter 9: Empowering Parents as Partners in Education Chapter 10: Inspiring and Enabling Staff Engagement Epilogue References and Resources Index
How to Teach Thinking Skills
Ensure your students develop the complex, higher-order thinking skills they need to not just survive but thrive in a 21st century world. The latest edition of this best-selling guide by James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, and Brian M. Pete details a three-phase teaching model and dives deep into how to teach seven key student proficiencies: critical thinking, creative thinking, complex thinking, comprehensive thinking, collaborative thinking, communicative thinking, and cognitive transfer. How to teach higher-order thinking skills for student engagement and achievement: Receive guidance on teaching higher-order thinking skills according to any given standard, including state standards and content-area standards. Learn how to weave thinking skills and technology into your existing teaching strategies and lesson plans. Understand how to adapt lessons for various grade levels and subjects. Gain questions to reflect on after lessons, to ensure that students learn at the highest levels and grow their problem solving and innovative thinking. Attain tools and reproducibles to facilitate learning and understanding of teaching critical thinking and other 21st century skills. Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Authors Introduction Student Proficiency 1: Critical Thinking Chapter 1: Analyze Chapter 2: Evaluate Chapter 3: Problem Solve Student Proficiency 2: Creative Thinking Chapter 4: Generate Chapter 5: Associate Chapter 6: Hypothesize Student Proficiency 3: Complex Thinking Chapter 7: Clarify Chapter 8: Interpret Chapter 9: Determine Student Proficiency 4: Comprehensive Thinking Chapter 10: Understand Chapter 11: Infer Chapter 12: Compare and Contrast Student Proficiency 5: Collaborative Thinking Chapter 13: Explain Chapter 14: Develop Chapter 15: Decide Student Proficiency 6: Communicative Thinking Chapter 16: Reason Chapter 17: Connect Chapter 18: Represent Student Proficiency 7: Cognitive Transfer Chapter 19: Synthesize Chapter 20: Generalize Chapter 21: Apply Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Glossary References & Resources Index
Moving Beyond Busy
With foreword by Jay McTighe Break the cycle of endless busywork to achieve sustainable change. With the support of Moving Beyond Busy by Greg Curtis, you will learn how to commit to a few clear, learning-focused goals – and then act on them – using the input-output-impact (I-O-I) framework. This accessible framework simplifies the process of transformation, helping you bridge the gap between your school's mission and vision and real student-centered teaching and learning. Use this change-management book to develop your strategic plan for school improvement: Examine traditional approaches to change management in schools and why they have often been ineffective. Study the why-what-how sequence of change and how it provides a path to greater goal clarity and effectiveness. Become familiar with the input-output-impact (I-O-I) framework, and understand how to use it to achieve lasting, transformational change. Learn key methods for strategic planning in schools and how to enact change in your school. Identify ineffective actions to eliminate in order to reduce teacher burnout and free up time and resources for practices that align with the school's mission and vision. Contents: Foreword by Jay McTighe Introduction Chapter 1: Why – Identifying Problems With the Current Approach to Change Chapter 2: What – Realigning Thought and Action Chapter 3: How – Putting Impacts at the Center Chapter 4: How – Assessing for Impacts Chapter 5: How – Designing Systems Around Impacts Chapter 6: How – Facilitating Change Epilogue Appendices
Remaking Literacy
Maker education (an instructional approach that emphasizes hands-on learning) empowers students to become passionate, creative thinkers. In Remaking Literacy , author Jacie Maslyk details how to transform literacy teaching and learning by integrating maker projects for elementary classrooms. Rely on the book's tools and strategies to help you construct innovative opportunities for students to boost comprehension, increase vocabulary knowledge, and improve writing skills. Apply the concepts of maker-centered learning and projects to your literacy education: Examine the ways maker education and project-based learning (PBL) can enhance teaching and empower student engagement and learning. Learn how to reimagine instruction to ensure students build crucial literacy, collaboration, and thinking skills. Study various low-tech and low-cost strategies and how to utilize them in flexible learning spaces or makerspaces in the elementary classroom or school. Receive checklists and planning tools for incorporating a maker education curriculum in your classroom reading activities. Reflect on the literacy activities and makerspace ideas presented by answering reflection questions at the end of each chapter. Contents: Chapter 1: What the Research Says Chapter 2: Creative Pathways to Learning Chapter 3: Thinking and Design Chapter 4: Low-Tech Making Chapter 5: Remaking With Maker Tech Chapter 6: Guidance for Implementation
Reclaiming Youth at Risk
Empower your alienated students to cultivate a deep sense of belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity. This fully updated edition of Reclaiming Youth at Risk by Larry K. Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg, and Steve Van Bockern merges Native American knowledge and Western science to create a unique alternative for reaching disconnected or troubled youth. Rely on the book's new neuroscience research, insights, and examples to help you establish positive relationships, foster social learning and emotional development, and inspire every young person to thrive and overcome. Drive positive youth development with the updated Reclaiming Youth at Risk : Study the four hazards that dominate the lives of youth at risk: relational trauma, failure as futility, powerlessness, and loss of purpose. Learn how cultivating the Circle of Courage values of belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity can combat the four hazards. Explore a unique strength-based approach for reclaiming discouraged or alienated youth. Understand how to create a safe, brain-friendly learning environment and break the conflict cycle. Read personal accounts of individuals who have transformed student trauma into student resilience in schools through trauma-informed practice. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Enduring Truths Chapter 2: The Circle of Courage Chapter 3: Seeds of Discouragement Chapter 4: Bonds of Trust Chapter 5: Strength for Learning Chapter 6: Pathways to Responsibility Chapter 7: Lives With Purpose Chapter 8: From Surviving to Thriving References and Resources
Flip This School
Set the foundation for a successful, sustainable school turnaround. Designed for school leadership, district administration, and teacher leaders, Flip This School presents a framework to revitalize underperforming and turnaround schools. Throughout the resource, authors John F. Eller and Sheila A. Eller detail practical strategies for planning school improvement efforts and collaborating with the schools existing staff and faculty to initiate a complete school transformation. This book will guide educational leadership in planning successful school turnaround: Identify the unique needs of your school, and learn how to develop a school improvement plan with the best methods to address present conditions. Understand the skill set needed for effectively leading school turnaround efforts. Gain strategies for developing a data-gathering plan, and recognize the ways in which data is helpful for successful turnaround schools. Examine the role of districts in the school reform and turnaround process. Consider how to improve school culture and provide opportunities for professional growth for teachers. Learn how to effectively manage change as well as understand how teacher leadership teams contribute to school improvement planning and the turnaround process. Contents: Introduction: Understanding the Foundations of School Turnaround Chapter 1: Assessing and Developing Your Leadership Skills Chapter 2: Gathering Extensive Data Chapter 3: Gaining Commitment for Resources and Support Chapter 4: Developing a Positive Climate of Collaboration Chapter 5: Building Capacity for Growth Chapter 6: Successfully Managing Change Chapter 7: Implementing Structures and Practices for Success References and Resources
Growing Tomorrow's Citizens in Today's Classrooms
Rapid innovation is transforming the way people think, work, and connect. For students to succeed today, they must acquire the knowledge and 21st century skills required for college and career readiness. Practical and research-based, this resource will help you design meaningful, relevant skill assessment and instruction that promotes student mastery of critical competencies, including collaboration, problem-solving and critical thinking skills, creative thinking skills, communication skills, digital citizenship, self-regulation, and more. Use the most effective practices for teaching soft skills to increase college and career readiness: Explore the seven critical competencies necessary for success in the 21st century. Become familiar with good habits of mind, and pass those habits on to students to support their soft skill development. Learn how to teach critical thinking and other 21st century skills by facilitating learning that will develop the critical competencies in students. Develop powerful and effective soft skill assessment methods, such as student self-assessments, that will test student levels of competency in the seven critical areas. Access free reproducibles to supplement your understanding of the text and facilitate the book's content in the classroom. Contents: About the Authors Introduction Chapter 1: Cultivating Habits of the Mind Chapter 2: Self-Regulation Chapter 3: Critical Thinking Chapter 4: Collaboration Chapter 5: Creative Thinking Chapter 6: Communication Chapter 7: Digital Citizenship Chapter 8: Social Competence References and Resources Index
Leading With Intention
With foreword by Douglas Reeves As a school leader, your influence and impact on students, staff, and families is beyond measure. Designed as a guide and reflective tool, Leading With Intention will help focus your invaluable everyday work. The authors provide in-depth advice and actionable steps for creating a highly effective school culture that supports collaborative leadership and teaching, evidence-based decision making, and the belief that students are the top priority. Effective school leadership practices for building leadership capacity and furthering your professional development: Explore eight interrelated areas of school leadership that will assist you in becoming a more synergistic leader. Explore four concepts essential to your work in leading schools: collaboration, a shared leadership model, evidence-based decision-making, and a focus on learning. Learn how to enhance student achievement in your school or district with the Professional Learning Communities at Work™ (PLC) process. Acquire 40+ specific instructional leadership actions you can put into practice immediately. Access educational leadership reflection questions and downloadable reproducibles designed to support your instructional leadership development. Contents: Introduction: Using Your Great Power as a Leader Chapter 1: Achieving Focus and Staying Intentional Chapter 2: Establishing and Maintaining Organization Chapter 3: Building Shared Leadership Chapter 4: Using Evidence for Decision Making and Action Chapter 5: Prioritizing the Student Chapter 6: Leading Instruction Chapter 7: Fostering Communication Chapter 8: Developing Community and Relationships Afterword: Creating the Future References and Resources
Leading the Evolution
Now is the time to evolve from the existing model of schooling into one that is more innovative, relevant, effective, and successful. Leading the Evolution introduces a three-pronged approach to driving substantive change (called the evolutionary triad) that connects transformative educational leadership, student engagement, and teacher optimism around personalized competency-based education. Each chapter includes supporting research and theory, as well as clear direction and strategies for putting the evolutionary triad into practice. Learn how and why to implement a personalized competency-based approach for academic achievement and student engagement: Understand the current state of education and why changing to a competency-based approach is imperative. Identify the instructional leadership behaviors that lead to the organizational and cultural shift necessary to transform the current education paradigm. Consider in detail all three points of the evolutionary triad: transformational instructional leadership, teacher optimism, and student engagement. Examine the central focus of the evolutionary triad: personalized, competency-based education. Explore educational leadership practices that support successfully implementing the evolutionary triad and learning competencies in schools. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Foundations for Evolution Chapter 2: The Transformational Instructional Leader Chapter 3: The Optimistic Teacher Chapter 4: The Engaged Student Chapter 5: The High-Impact School Epilogue References and Resources Index
Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching the Small Group
When done right, small-group instruction is a powerful tool for facilitating student understanding in K-5 mathematics. Throughout the book, best practices for small-group math instruction are addressed in detail, from planning tasks that encourage deep understanding to asking effective questions to engaging learners in meaningful conversations. Readers will learn how teaching mathematics in small groups allows you to differentiate instruction for both remediation and enrichment. The included small-group instruction videos demonstrate the suggested strategies in a real-classroom setting, giving readers the opportunity to see best practice in action. Develop math-specific instruction strategies for teaching small groups in elementary school: Explore the benefits of small-group math activities and how these activities are unique compared to large-group instruction. Discover the teacher's and students' roles in small-group instruction and how teachers can help students develop the skills to fulfill their role. Learn how to apply the general tasks, questions, and evidence (TQE) process to small-group instruction in order to enhance student learning and improve your knowledge of teaching mathematics. View examples of small-group instruction, which provide both math intervention and math enrichment activities for different students. Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Authors Introduction Chapter 1: Best Practices in Small-Group Instruction Chapter 2: The TQE Process in Small-Group Instruction Chapter 3: Discourse in Small-Group Instruction Epilogue: How to Tie It All Together References Index