Teaching English in the Block

Teaching English in the Block
Author: Dan Walker, Jr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317920120

Provides detailed instructional strategies, sample lesson plans, and sample assessments which can be adapted in your classroom to help create better readers and more effective writers.

Tools for Teaching in the Block

Tools for Teaching in the Block
Author: Roberta Sejnost
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2009-04-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412957133

Presents research-based best practices for teaching adolescent learners in extended sessions, with lesson plans and content area strategies designed to integrate reading, writing, and critical thinking, and reproducible blackline masters.

Teaching in the Block

Teaching in the Block
Author: Michael D. Rettig
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-11-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317921232

This bestseller describes alternatives to lecturing, traditional questioning, and individual pencil and paper tasks. It offers practical advice on how teachers can harness the potential of the extended period.

Teaching for a Living Democracy

Teaching for a Living Democracy
Author: Joshua Block
Publisher:
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2020
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807764167

"This book shares a vision of project-based learning that is rooted in systemic understandings of social change and provides a pragmatic framework and tools for teachers to develop their practice in creative and sustaining ways. It demonstrates how to support different learners to produce intellectually rigorous and creative work by centering students' lives and experiences and offers the realistic perspective of a teacher working in an urban public high school. The text includes many classroom scenes and examples of curriculum design strategies"--

Teaching English by the Book

Teaching English by the Book
Author: James Clements
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2017-12-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1315448947

Teaching English by the Book is about putting great books, wonderful poems and rich texts at the heart of English teaching, transforming children’s attitudes to reading and writing and having a positive impact on learning. It offers a practical approach to teaching a text-based curriculum, full of strategies and ideas that are immediately useable in the classroom. Written by James Clements, teacher, researcher, writer, and creator of shakespeareandmore.com, Teaching English by the Book provides effective ideas for enthusing children about literature, poetry and picturebooks. It offers techniques and activities to teach grammar, punctuation and spelling, provides support and guidance on planning lessons and units for meaningful learning, and shows how to bring texts to life through drama and the use of multimedia and film texts. Teaching English by the Book is for all teachers who aspire to use great books to introduce children to ideas beyond their own experience, encounter concepts that have never occurred to them before, to hear and read beautiful language, and experience what it’s like to lose themselves in a story, developing a genuine love of English that will stay with them forever.

Teaching to Diversity

Teaching to Diversity
Author: Jennifer Katz
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1553793536

In Teaching to Diversity, Dr. Jennifer Katz synthesizes the research, and 16 years experience of teaching in inclusive classrooms and schools, to provide answers to several questions: How do I make inclusion work for ALL students? What are the foundational best practices of a truly inclusive learning community? How does one create such a community? The author pulls together, in an organized way, a three-block model of universal design for learning (UDL) and suggests a step-by-step approach for implementing it. This framework includes: Block One, Social and Emotional Learning details ways to build compassionate learning communities (K-12) in which all students feel safe and valued, and develop a positive self-concept, sense of belonging, and respect for diverse others. Block Two, Inclusive Instructional Practice includes a framework for planning units from K-12, and explains instructional and management practices for teaching, assessing, grading, and reporting in UDL Classrooms. Block Three, Systems and Structures suggests strategies for creating inclusive learning communities, and explores ways in which resource teachers, student services personnel, and school administrators can support and create socially and academically inclusive schools and classrooms. The three-block model of UDL can empower educators with the knowledge, skills, and confidence required to teach diverse learners in the same classroom--including those who have previously been excluded. Ultimately, it is about creating classrooms and schools that heal by teaching to the heart, mind, and spirit of every student.

Teaching Mathematics in the Block

Teaching Mathematics in the Block
Author: Carla Hunt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2013-10-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317920686

Provides detailed instructional strategies, sample lesson plans, and sample assessments so that mathematics teachers can make the best use of the additional time.

Teaching Foreign Languages in the Block

Teaching Foreign Languages in the Block
Author: Deborah Blaz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2013-11-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 131792066X

Provides detailed instructional strategies, sample lesson plans, and sample assessments so that foreign language teachers can make the best use of the additional time.