Reaching Standards Through Cooperative Learning- Social Studies

Reaching Standards Through Cooperative Learning- Social Studies

Author: Spencer Kagan

Publisher: Dude Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781887943369

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This title provides general and special education teachers with specific strategies for classroom use, adaptations and modifications for inclusion, ways to address the multiple intelligences of their students, and valuable cooperative learning structures to differentiate instruction in social studies.


Reaching Standards Through Cooperative Learning

Reaching Standards Through Cooperative Learning

Author: Spencer Kagan

Publisher: Dude Publishing

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 9781887943345

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This book focuses on effective strategies for achieving the standards such as: skills in strategies of writing & reading processes, the speaking and listening process as tools for learning, and strategies to motivate students into, through and beyond literature.


Reach the Highest Standard in Professional Learning

Reach the Highest Standard in Professional Learning

Author: Karen Hawley Miles

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2016-02-24

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1452292035

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Part of a series on Learning Forward’s seven Standards for Professional Learning, this volume offers creative strategies for prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating the resources required for educator learning and student success. This book includes: An original essay on how school systems can reconfigure people, time, technology, and money to improve and sustain educator growth Implementation strategies, practical tools, and specific examples for maximizing resources—especially time—for teacher learning A case study of how Dearborn Public Schools, Michigan, shifted existing resources to drive professional learning despite tough economic times


Reach the Highest Standard in Professional Learning: Learning Communities

Reach the Highest Standard in Professional Learning: Learning Communities

Author: Shirley M. Hord

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2013-12-05

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1452291837

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The ultimate collection for building a world-class professional learning program This groundbreaking 7-book series, co-developed by Learning Forward and Corwin, closes the "knowing-doing" gap by guiding educational leaders through the process for implementing the Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning. Each volume tackles an individual standard, providing: Original essays written by leading experts in the field to promote deeper understandings of the meaning of each standard An array of templates, tools, and protocols to help you design and delivery quality professional learning in your own district or school Case studies of districts "getting it right" and educators who have realized the promise of effective professional learning


Cooperative Learning

Cooperative Learning

Author: R. Bruce Williams

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 1452223068

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This practical guidebook demonstrates how to integrate six critical elements—reflection, individual achievement, collaboration, higher-order thinking, emotional realms, and social skills—into robust cooperative learning tasks.


RTI: The Classroom Connection for Literacy

RTI: The Classroom Connection for Literacy

Author: Karen A. Kemp

Publisher: National Professional Resources Inc./Dude Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1934032123

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To assist teachers in implementing Response To Intervention (RTI), this book will link instructional techniques to assessment, ensuring that data truly informs instruction. This comprehensive resource will provide research-based interventions for each of the five components of reading identified by the National Reading Panel, as well as the important issue of motivation. Thought provoking questions about student learning will guide the teacher to the appropriate intervention, while step by step procedures for implementation of each technique, along with measures to monitor students' progress are what makes this book a "must have" for every classroom. Reproducible forms allow for easy management and data collection.


How to Reach and Teach All Children Through Balanced Literacy

How to Reach and Teach All Children Through Balanced Literacy

Author: Sandra F. Rief

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-08-17

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0787988057

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How to Reach and Teach All Children Through Balanced Literacy offers you a handbook for teaching literacy to diverse students in grades 3-8. The balanced literacy method combines the best practices of phonics and other skill-based language instruction with the holistic, literature-based approach in order to help you teach reading, writing, and speaking in a clear and approachable format. This dynamic resource offers an easily accessible research-based approach to balanced literacy that is grounded in the innovative ideas developed by authors Sandra F. Rief and Julie A. Heimburge. The book includes detailed descriptions of what a balanced literacy classroom looks like and shows how to create a program from the ground up or give your existing program a boost. The book can be used across content areas and is filled with reproducible worksheets, activities, and other handy classroom tools. Some topics covered include: Shared book experiences Reading aloud Oral language and vocabulary development Guided reading for comprehension Modeled writing Reading and writing conferences Book clubs Content area reading and writing Ongoing assessments Enhancing literacy through technology


How To Reach And Teach Children with ADD / ADHD

How To Reach And Teach Children with ADD / ADHD

Author: Sandra F. Rief

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-06-26

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 1118429397

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Sandra Rief offers myriad real-life case studies, interviews, and student intervention plans for children with ADD/ADHD. In addition, the book contains best teaching practices and countless strategies for enhancing classroom performance for all types of students. This invaluable resource offers proven suggestions for: Engaging students' attention and active participation Keeping students on-task and productive Preventing and managing behavioral problems in the classroom Differentiating instruction and addressing students' diverse learning styles Building a partnership with parents and much more.


Bringing Science And Mathematics To Life For All Learners

Bringing Science And Mathematics To Life For All Learners

Author: Dennis Adams

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company

Published: 2008-02-19

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9813101350

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Developing a positive attitude towards science and mathematics is essential to developing proficiency in these subjects. Recognizing this, Bringing Science and Mathematics to Life for All Learners provides interesting teaching methods and connects them to recent pedagogical approaches that span the scientific and mathematical curricula. It builds upon the expanding knowledge of what works in classrooms, and suggests how new approaches to teaching and learning can transform science and mathematics instructions.The book is designed to help students in learning science and mathematics. It has many research-based and standards-driven activities, lesson plans, and active learning techniques to reach diverse student groups. Active group engagement and continuity in scientific and mathematical experiences are stressed as motivating factors for students. Presented in a creative manner, the ultimate goal of this book is to deepen the collective conversation, challenge existing ways of thinking, and provide up-to-date tools for educators so that they can help improve the science and mathematics skill levels of others.


RTI and the Paraeducator's Roles

RTI and the Paraeducator's Roles

Author: Mary Lasater

Publisher: National Professional Resources Inc./Dude Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781934032756

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As RTI becomes a reality in more schools, all staff must be able to support this initiative. This book explicitly provides paraeducators with the tools that will make them a meaningful part of the RTI team, with focus on the roles of Collaborator, Communicator, Instructional Supporter and Progress Monitor.