Instructional Practices that Maximize Student Achievement
Author: William B. Ribas
Publisher:
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780971508934
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Under-resourced Learners
Author: Ruby K. Payne
Publisher: AHA! Process
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a guide to improve student achievements, focusing on eight key concepts, which includes building mutual respect, teaching appropriate behaviors and procedures, using a six step process to keep track of student learning, and more.
Thinking Strategies for Student Achievement
Author: Denise D. Nessel
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2006-08-10
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1452222894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised edition offers 30 specific strategies, readily integrated into daily lesson plans, to help K-12 students extend their thinking capabilities and raise their achievement levels.
Planning, Instruction, and Assessment
Author: Leslie Grant
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-02
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1317924401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis entry in the James H. Stronge Research-to-Practice Series focuses on specific strategies teachers can use to improve the quality of their instruction. Studies have shown teacher quality to be the top indicator of student achievement, with the effects of good teachers apparent even as students move on to successive grades. In this book, Grant, Hindman, and Stronge explore the relationship between teacher effectiveness and student learning. They provide a bridge between research-based theories and practical classroom applications. Templates, planning forms, and other reproducibles help teachers make a noticeable impact on student success using proven techniques and practices. Topics include tiered lessons, using assessment data, and much more.
Learner-Centered Classroom Practices and Assessments
Author: Barbara L. McCombs
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1412926912
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High-stakes Teaching
Author: Terri Hebert
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 1578868807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased upon the research of 45 interviews conducted in Texas and Arkansas, High-Stakes Teaching presents strategies that successfully blend child-centered and test-centered teaching into one focus, creating a consistently high-quality instructional environment. The teachers described offer their students an invitation to enter the realm of learning expectantly. Through their words, we visualize the educational scaffolding process, as students foster a love and an appreciation of critical thinking that promises to remain long after the last test question has been answered. Best practices emerge and are shared with the reader. Reflective questions and commentaries provide educators an opportunity to investigate their own philosophies of accountability testing and its place in the classroom. This study offers the support and guidelines necessary to break the cycle of "teaching to the test." Let each educator teach so that every child can become an engaged learner, an explorer, an individual who recognizes and respects the opportunities available from gaining a real education that is not merely a cookie-cutter mantra.
How to Use Grading to Improve Learning
Author: Susan M. Brookhart
Publisher: ASCD
Published: 2017-07-19
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1416624104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrades are imperfect, shorthand answers to “What did students learn, and how well?” In How to Use Grading to Improve Learning, best-selling author Susan M. Brookhart guides educators at all levels in figuring out how to produce grades—for single assignments and report cards—that accurately communicate students’ achievement of learning goals. Brookhart explores topics that are fundamental to effective grading and learning practices: Acknowledging that all students can learn Supporting and motivating student effort and learning Designing and grading appropriate assessments Creating policies for report card grading Implementing learning-focused grading policies Communicating with students and parents Assessing school or district readiness for grading reform The book is grounded in research and resonates with the real lessons learned in the classroom. Although grading is a necessary part of schooling, Brookhart reminds us that children are sent to school to learn, not to get grades. This highly practical book will help you put grading and learning into proper perspective, offering strategies you can use right away to ensure that your grading practices actually support student learning.
Effective Teachers=Student Achievement
Author: James Stronge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-23
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1317926293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch has shown that there is no greater influence on a student's success than the quality of his or her teacher. This book presents the research findings which demonstrate the connection between teacher effectiveness and student achievement. Author James Stronge describes and explains the value-added teacher-assessment research that has emerged in the past decade and demystifies the power and practices of effective teachers.
Blueprint for Student Success
Author: Susan J. Jones
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2003-02-06
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780761946984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a reality-based approach to classroom instruction designed to help learners at all levels achieve lifelong success. It offers teaching strategies, activities, and applications to enhance student achievement, stressing the importance of learning through discovery, creativity, application, adaptation, and high level thinking. It also reiterates the need for a positive atmosphere, rituals, and procedures enabling educators to strengthen students' knowledge and achievement for lifelong success. Nine chapters focus on: (1) "Laying the Groundwork for Learning: Meaning and Memory"; (2) "Fertile Fields for Learning: Supple as Cotton, Rigid as Steel"; (3) "First Get 'Em on the Line--Then You Can Reel 'Em In!"; (4) "Add it Up: The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts"; (5) "Paint Me a Picture, Show Me the Way: Reconciling the New with the Known"; (6) "Get Real! Transforming Learning to Real Life"; (7) "Who Said It Couldn't Be Done? Blueprints for Student Success"; (8) "I've Got It! Now How Do I Keep It?"; and (9) "Hey, How Am I Doing? Feedback in the Learning Process." (Contains 24 references.) (SM).
Teaching as Inquiry
Author: Alexandra Weinbaum
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2004-04-16
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780807744574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an engaging and effective approach to improving teacher and student learning. Based on the experiences of three leading educational organizations, the authors provide invaluable, research-based guidelines for incorporating inquiry into teacher's instructional practices and student work as part of the ongoing work of schools. In addition to discussing the lessons learned and questions raised by inquiry work, this volume includes specific considerations for determining who should be involved, what work should be under review, how it should be reviewed, and how such inquiry should be supported by the school.
