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Looking at curriculum design, assessment, and instructional practices, this book describes how teachers can optimize teaching and learning strategies no matter what grade level or subject they teach.
With classroom-tested ideas, real-world examples, and easy-to-use activities, Giselle Martin-Kniep and Joanne Picone-Zocchia tap three decades of experience to define and describe critical teaching and learning strategies that engage students and increase achievement. Teachers at any grade level and in any subject area will gain insights into how to * Create a rigorous, relevant, and authentic curriculum; * Use organizing centers and make meaningful connections to lend true coherence to subject matter; * Ask students questions that will help them retain new material and apply their knowledge in settings outside school; * Teach students how to develop high-order skills such as an ability to affirm values, articulate beliefs, and use multiple resources in varied contexts; * Use assessment as a system to directly engage students in revising tests and evaluating themselves; * Incorporate evaluation tools like portfolios, checklists, and rubrics to foster and assess high-quality student work that exceeds expectations; and * Encourage students to self-monitor progress, self-regulate behavior, appreciate unique learning preferences, and, ultimately, become informed and active 21st century citizens. Changing the Way You Teach, Improving the Way Students Learn stresses the need to build students' capacity to learn how to learn and be strategic, self-aware participants in an ever-complex and fast-changing society. Embracing what they call our "moral imperative," the authors encourage us to help students "pursue the goals that will make them feel whole as human beings."
This practical guide offers a laser-like focus on what it takes to develop, support, and sustain quality teaching in any school environment.
Goodwin and Hubbell present 12 daily touchstones--simple and specific things any teacher can do every day--to keep classroom practice focused on the hallmarks of effective instruction and in line with three imperatives for teaching.
A Teacher’s Guide to Inspire, Motivate, and Provide the Best Learning Experience For Your Students. Are you a teacher who struggles with classroom management and lesson planning? Alternatively, are you considering becoming a teacher and are looking to develop the essential teaching skills? A lot of teachers claim teaching is the most challenging, and at the same time, the most rewarding job in the world. Not many get the chance to shape young minds and influence people to achieve great things in life. Teachers do... but it’s a hard road to travel on. Most people don’t even realize the challenges teachers face every day. From lesson planning to dealing with problematic students and overbearing parents, teachers have to juggle various responsibilities all at once. The biggest one, of course, is providing the best possible learning experience for students. This particular task is extremely difficult--you have to be able to motivate and inspire a certain group of people every day while maintaining authority and making sure they understand the material. It’s no wonder then, that many teachers feel like they’ve given everything they have and struggle to keep their students interested. The education system doesn’t help much with this particular problem--most of the time, you simply get a curriculum and they send you on your own way. If you’re a freelance teacher, you don’t even get that. It’s a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, this cold-hearted system is hindering education in general, and leaving teachers to their own means can backfire and have serious sociological consequences. But on the other hand, the system provides a crazy amount of freedom for teachers to do their own thing and be creative and versatile in their jobs. This, of course, puts an enormous amount of pressure on teachers, especially young, new teachers who are only starting to find their own teaching style. With the emergence of online classrooms and various virtual educational tools, teaching has become an art, and the teaching skills that were once valued before simply don’t compare in this new, digital world. Luckily, some of those skills are still considered essential and can be applied to both physical and virtual classrooms. In Teaching Yourself to Teach, you will discover: 8+ types of learners that will help you appraise your students and come up with the best teaching strategies for each one of them Blended learning techniques that allow you to incorporate digital tools in your real-life classrooms to enhance the learning experience A guidebook on classroom management, that will help even the most inexperienced teacher establish authority from the start Numerous tips and strategies for boosting motivation and inspiring students to excel in your class, even if you have some that are currently struggling Simple lesson planning instructions, carefully designed to make sure your classes are of the highest educational quality Tips on how to deal with problematic students and help them overcome their various learning issues And much more. Even if you’re an excellent teacher, adored by both students and parents, it never hurts to upgrade your skills to improve and enrich your teaching style. As a teacher, all you want is for your students to be passionate about learning and realize the potential you know they’re capable of reaching. If you want to develop crucial teaching skills and discover how to plan and execute the best classes possible, then scroll up and click the “Add to Cart” button right now.
What's more important, teaching or learning? Does learning drive change or does change drive learning? Who learns the most, the student or the teacher? Is everyone a leader, a teacher, a learner? Thinking about such things is a worthwhile endeavor. Lead. Learn. Change. will help you reflect on your work, regardless of the sector in which you serve. As you read, you will be constantly reminded that you have many choices when it comes to the work that you do-and the relationships you form-and you can truly make a meaningful difference in the lives of others. This book will challenge you to reconsider how you (and your team) approach problems, generate solutions, and make commitments. This book provides a framework for you to confront entrenched practices, improve communication, and maybe flip the status quo on its head. Conversation starters and meeting agenda fodder can be found on almost every page. And what you discuss just might result in a complete transformation of the way you interact with colleagues, clients, customers, classmates, and students.What do you think of when you consider classmates and students? Do you remember your school or your teachers? Is there a difference between school and education? What is the purpose of school? Who decides? Who has a voice? What about other endeavors? Are you a medical professional, philanthropist, artist, scientist, homemaker, religious leader, parent, first responder, or do you serve your fellow man in some other way? What do you know now, that if you taught it to someone else, would change their life for the better? We all have the potential to create positive change. Take advantage of the opportunity to do so. Great teachers do this all the time. Every day. Year after year. Teachers are leaders, learners, and the ultimate purveyors of change. They literally change hearts, minds, and lives. Teaching and learning are the central themes that run throughout this book, but remember, those facets of life appear in every corner of your workplace. You can teach, you can learn, and you can lead.Go. Go make a change!
The authors of Make Just One Change argue that formulating one's own questions is "the single most essential skill for learning"--and one that should be taught to all students. They also argue that it should be taught in the simplest way possible. Drawing on twenty years of experience, the authors present the Question Formulation Technique, a concise and powerful protocol that enables learners to produce their own questions, improve their questions, and strategize how to use them. Make Just One Change features the voices and experiences of teachers in classrooms across the country to illustrate the use of the Question Formulation Technique across grade levels and subject areas and with different kinds of learners. "As the title of this book indicates, Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana believe that education can be transformed if students, rather than teachers, assume responsibility for posing questions. This idea may sound simple, but it is both complex and radical: complex, in that formulating good, generative questions, and being prepared to work toward satisfactory answers, is hardly a simple undertaking; and radical, in the sense that an apparently easy move can bring about a Copernican revolution in the atmosphere of the classroom and the dynamics of learning. The authors modestly quote physicist Niels Bohr who once said, 'An expert is someone who has made all possible mistakes in a field and there are no more to be made.' In reading this powerful work, I was reminded of what Albert Einstein said, when he learned of Jean Piaget's pioneering questioning of young children: 'so simple only a genius could have thought of it.'" -- Howard Gardner, The John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education "[The authors] provide . . . an inspiring vision of education at its best and an extraordinarily clear, low-tech, practical intellectual tool for turning that vision into reality." --from the foreword by Wendy D. Puriefoy, president, Public Education Network "The protocols described in this book are easy to follow and adaptable to a variety of classrooms and subjects. These simple strategies can lead students to go into more depth in their learning and stretch the standard curriculum beyond the textbook. Students' energy, motivation, and perseverance increase noticeably when they have more ownership of the topics they are studying." -- Hayley Dupuy, sixth-grade math and science teacher, J. L. Stanford Middle School, Palo Alto, California "Just when you think you know all you need to know, you ask another question and discover how much more there is to learn." -- Sixth-grade student, J. L. Stanford Middle School, Palo Alto Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana are codirectors of The Right Question Institute (RQI). Prior to his work with RQI, Rothstein developed and implemented education programs in Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Israel. Santana is a former counselor and parent advocate.
Engaging methods for teaching 21st-century skills Today’s students must be able to collaborate, innovate, and think critically to solve real-world problems. As content demands increase, how can teachers make time to teach these advanced skills? Find practical solutions in the story of how master teacher Nigel Scozzi used Rich Allen’s Green Light strategies to teach content in a memorable and efficient way. Backed by research, this practical guide provides secondary teachers with tried and trusted lesson plans in multiple subjects that: Engage students Accelerate learning Encourage critical thinking Improve test results ·
