Growing Tomorrow's Citizens in Today's Classrooms

Growing Tomorrow's Citizens in Today's Classrooms
Author: Cassandra Erkens
Publisher: Solution Tree
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-12-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781943874729

"Promote student mastery of essential 21st century skills, including collaboration, critical and creative thinking, digital citizenship, and more. Learn the qualities of the most important soft skills and how we can assess and measure them" -- provided by publisher.

Beyond Technology

Beyond Technology
Author: David Buckingham
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0745655300

Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people and digital media. Disputing both utopian fantasies about the transformation of education and exaggerated fears about the corruption of childhood innocence, it offers a level-headed analysis of the impact of these new media on learning, drawing on a wide range of critical research. Buckingham argues that there is now a growing divide between the media-rich world of childrens lives outside school and their experiences of technology in the classroom. Bridging this divide, he suggests, will require more than superficial attempts to import technology into schools, or to combine education with digital entertainment. While debunking such fantasies of technological change, Buckingham also provides a constructive alternative, arguing that young people need to be equipped with a new form of digital literacy that is both critical and creative. Beyond Technology will be essential reading for all students of the media or education, as well as for teachers and other education professionals.

Best Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners

Best Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners
Author: Randi Stone
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2004-03-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483360385

How are the best teachers in our nation reaching students? Educators are always challenged to motivate students to learn, working hard to identify learning standards as well as to find creative and meaningful ways of incorporating them into their classrooms. Best Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners is your guide to how award-winning teachers reach every child and provide what each learner needs to succeed. Randi Stone′s newest best-practice collection takes its cue from the No Child Left Behind legislation, using its theme to create a one-of-a-kind educational resource that provides exciting, insightful classroom strategies from 43 of the best teachers in the country! These ideas cover all areas of your curriculum and all of your learners. You will find: Content strategies for differentiating social studies, reaching reluctant readers, and teaching mathphobic learners and the "scientifically challenged" Innovative methods for reaching at-risk and special learners coping with autism, Asperger′s syndrome, ADHD, shyness, poverty, and other challenges Teaching with technology, rubrics, culminating activities, and service learning Using multiple intelligences, learning styles, affinity groups, and reflection in the classroom Reaching students through fine arts, physical movement, humor, and more All students deserve quality instruction focused on individual needs as well as on the academic standards to which educators are held accountable. Help change your students′ attitudes about themselves and their abilities!

Essential Assessment

Essential Assessment
Author: Cassandra Erkens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781943874491

While much research has revealed which assessment practices have the most positive impact on student achievement and instruction, out-of-date, unproductive practices, which students find disengaging and disheartening, still persist. Discover how to use the power of assessment to instill hope, efficacy, and achievement in your students. With this research-based resource, you'll explore six essential tenets of assessment--assessment purpose, communication of assessment results, accurate interpretation, assessment architecture, instructional agility, and student investment--that will help deepen your understanding of assessment to not only meet standards but also enhance students' academic success and self-fulfillment. Benefits Interpret the research-based tenets of assessment that are necessary to maximize all students' learning. Gain advice and strategies for immediately acting on the six essential assessment tenets, including how to communicate assessment results to give feedback that produces constructive responses. Discover why it is vital that assessment practices build students' and teachers' hope, efficacy, and achievement. Consider scenarios that illustrate traditional, outmoded assessment practices and revised scenarios that feature practices that better reflect modern assessment needs. Reflect on questions related to the content of each chapter and study next steps that teaching teams can take. Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement Chapter 2: Assessment Purpose Chapter 3: Communication of Assessment Results Chapter 4: Accurate Interpretation Chapter 5: Assessment Architecture Chapter 6: Instructional Agility Chapter 7: Student Investment References Index

Instructional Agility

Instructional Agility
Author: Cassandra Erkens
Publisher: Solution Tree
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-10-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781943874705

Readers will : learn how to foster and maintain a culture of learning in K-12 classrooms ; discover how the tenet of instructional agility fits within the assessment framework ; gain strategies to enhance their instructional agility and assessment practices ; consider examples of teachers and administrators applying instructional agility in their daily practice ; answer questions to contemplate their next steps in bringing effective assessment and instructional agility to the classroom.--Publisher.

Curriculum Connections for Tree House Travelers for Grades K-4

Curriculum Connections for Tree House Travelers for Grades K-4
Author: Jane Berner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2007-10-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1586833553

If your students love the Magic Tree House books, you will love this book! Cross all curricular areas and engage students in meaningful and stimulating learning experiences. Guide students on thrilling trips through time to Magic Tree House locations where they will discover dinosaurs, knights and castles, Egyptian mummies and pyramids, and pirates and buried treasure. Collaborate with technology specialists, art teachers, and classroom teachers to create units that touch every student. Find cross-curricular lessons and in-depth studies of time and place, designed to promote deep learning in students while motivating them to read both fiction and nonfiction. Designed for elementary students, these literature-based units are easily adaptable to middle school students.

Teaching for Excellence. Honors Pedagogies revealed

Teaching for Excellence. Honors Pedagogies revealed
Author: Marca V.C. Wolfensberger
Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3830978235

What exactly are the characteristics of honors pedagogy? What are the teaching strategies that are particularly relevant and successful for academically gifted and motivated students? In spite of the substantial body of literature about the practice of honors education, largely referring to the United States, very little systematic and empirical research has been done about honors pedagogy. This study contributes to a better understanding of honors pedagogies, focusing not just on what might distinguish honors teaching and learning from standard expectations and methodologies but also on how honors pedagogy offers both instructors and students an opportunity to fundamentally rethink their philosophy of education. The present study points out the similar and different approaches and dispositions in American and Dutch honors teaching. Cultural differences, distinctive educational systems, and diverse priorities play a role in defining both the shared and unique perspectives on honors education in both countries. Therefore, a baseline comparison is made between American and Dutch honors teachers with respect to their teaching strategies.

Advocating for English Learners

Advocating for English Learners
Author: Diane Staehr Fenner
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2013-09-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452257698

"English learners (ELs) are the fastest-growing segment of the K-12 population. But Els and their families, who are in the process of learning English and navigating an often-unfamiliar education system, may not have a voice powerful enough to articulate their needs. Consequently, all teachers and administrators must advocate for this all-important diverse group of students who will become tomorrow's workforce."--Back cover.