Incite Grades 68 students enthusiasm to learn using technology in the curriculum! Youll enhance learning and encourage high-order thinking by incorporating a technology project for every week of the school year. Students will develop key technology skills in word processing, spreadsheets, multimedia presentations, and using the Internet while you teach regular classroom content. Lessons are divided among content areas, and the flexible projects are great for computer centers, labs, or one-computer classrooms. The easy-to-follow teacher instructions and step-by-step student directions make this resource a hit in the classroom. The included Teacher Resource CD contains sample projects, templates, and assessment rubrics. 160pp.
Incite 5th grade students enthusiasm to learn using technology in the curriculum! Youll enhance learning and encourage high-order thinking by incorporating a technology project for every week of the school year. Students will develop key technology skills in word processing, spreadsheets, multimedia presentations, and using the Internet while you teach regular classroom content. Lessons are divided among content areas, and the flexible projects are great for computer centers, labs, or one-computer classrooms. The easy-to-follow teacher instructions and step-by-step student directions make this resource a hit in the classroom. The included Teacher Resource CD contains sample projects, templates, and assessment rubrics. 160pp.
Incite 3rd grade students enthusiasm to learn using technology in the curriculum! Youll enhance learning and encourage high-order thinking by incorporating a technology project for every week of the school year. Students will develop key technology skills in word processing, spreadsheets, multimedia presentations, and using the Internet while you teach regular classroom content. Lessons are divided among content areas, and the flexible projects are great for computer centers, labs, or one-computer classrooms. The easy-to-follow teacher instructions and step-by-step student directions make this resource a hit in the classroom. The included Teacher Resource CD contains sample projects, templates, and assessment rubrics. 160pp.
Incite 4th grade students enthusiasm to learn using technology in the curriculum! Youll enhance learning and encourage high-order thinking by incorporating a technology project for every week of the school year. Students will develop key technology skills in word processing, spreadsheets, multimedia presentations, and using the Internet while you teach regular classroom content. Lessons are divided among content areas, and the flexible projects are great for computer centers, labs, or one-computer classrooms. The easy-to-follow teacher instructions and step-by-step student directions make this resource a hit in the classroom. The included Teacher Resource CD contains sample projects, templates, and assessment rubrics. 160pp.
Help children of all learning styles and strengths improve their critical thinking skills with these creative, cross-curricular activities. Each engaging activity focuses on skills such as recognizing and recalling, evaluating, and analyzing.
Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
Textbooks are symbols of centuries-old education. They're often outdated as soon as they hit students' desks. Acting "by the textbook" implies compliance and a lack of creativity. It's time to ditch those textbooks--and those textbook assumptions about learning In Ditch That Textbook, teacher and blogger Matt Miller encourages educators to throw out meaningless, pedestrian teaching and learning practices. He empowers them to evolve and improve on old, standard, teaching methods. Ditch That Textbook is a support system, toolbox, and manifesto to help educators free their teaching and revolutionize their classrooms.
Reading problems don't disappear when students enter middle school, recent studies show that nearly a quarter of today's eighth graders aren't able to read at a basic level. This book arms language arts teachers with lessons, strategies, and foundational kowledge they need to resolve older students' reading difficulties and increase their chances for academic success. Ideal for use with struggling readers in Grades 6 - 8, this book clearly lays out the fundamentals of effective teaching for adolescents with reading difficulties. Teachers will discover how to: select and administor assessments for comprehension, fluency, and word recognition; use assessment results to plan individualized instruction; apply research-supported instructional practices; develop flexible grouping systems; set manageable short-term learning goals with students; give appropriate and corrective feedback; monitor student progress over time; provide effective interventions within a school-wide Response to Intervention framework; and more. To help teachers incorporate evidence-based practices into their classroom instruction they'll get more than 20 complete, step-by-step sample lessons for strengthening adolescents' reading skills. Easy to adapt for use across any curriculum, the sample lessons provide explicit models of successful instruction, with suggested teacher scripts, checklist for planning instruction, key terms and objectives, strategies for guided and independent practice, tips on promoting generalization, and more.
