Scheduling Strategies for Middle Schools

Scheduling Strategies for Middle Schools
Author: Michael D. Rettig
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2013-10-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317921771

With over 150 sample schedules, this book shows how scheduling strategies can enhance your school's capacity to offer exploratory courses, interdisciplinary teaching teams, teacher-based guidance programs, and other programs and practices which are responsive to the needs of early adolescents.

Elementary School Scheduling

Elementary School Scheduling
Author: Michael D. Rettig
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2013-09-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317928016

This practical book and its accompanying downloadable resources include over 100 schedules to help elementary schools raise student achievement.

The Educational Leader's Guide for School Scheduling

The Educational Leader's Guide for School Scheduling
Author: Elliot Y. Merenbloom
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2017-04-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 131546232X

This essential resource provides strategies for the effective and equitable distribution of available FTEs throughout the district, while helping you work through the many critical questions and decisions involved in the scheduling process.

Getting Smart

Getting Smart
Author: Tom Vander Ark
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2011-09-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118115872

A comprehensive look at the promise and potential of online learning In our digital age, students have dramatically new learning needs and must be prepared for the idea economy of the future. In Getting Smart, well-known global education expert Tom Vander Ark examines the facets of educational innovation in the United States and abroad. Vander Ark makes a convincing case for a blend of online and onsite learning, shares inspiring stories of schools and programs that effectively offer "personal digital learning" opportunities, and discusses what we need to do to remake our schools into "smart schools." Examines the innovation-driven world, discusses how to combine online and onsite learning, and reviews "smart tools" for learning Investigates the lives of learning professionals, outlines the new employment bargain, examines online universities and "smart schools" Makes the case for smart capital, advocates for policies that create better learning, studies smart cultures

How to Build the Master Schedule in 10 Easy Steps

How to Build the Master Schedule in 10 Easy Steps
Author: Steven Kussin
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412955912

Offers a ten-step approach to schedule development and curriculum planning in secondary schools; and includes exercises, worksheets, related anecdotes, and other tools.

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.

Differentiated Instructional Strategies for the Block Schedule

Differentiated Instructional Strategies for the Block Schedule
Author: Gayle H. Gregory
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2010-06-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412950961

Eliminate “idea block” with this practical resource that includes more than 100 planning tools, matrixes, rubrics, templates, and choice boards for differentiating instruction during extended learning blocks.

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.

Block Scheduling

Block Scheduling
Author: Michael D. Rettig
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2013-11-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317921828

This bestseller shows you how block schedules can enhance learning and instruction, increase opportunities for students, and improve teachers' performance. It provides practical tools for planning and implementation.

Focus on the Wonder Years

Focus on the Wonder Years
Author: Jaana Juvonen
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2004-03-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0833036157

Young teens undergo multiple changes that seem to set them apart from other students. But do middle schools actually meet their special needs? The authors describe some of the challenges and offer ways to tackle them, such as reassessing the organization of grades K-12; specifically assisting the students most in need; finding ways to prevent disciplinary problems; and helping parents understand how they can help their children learn at home.