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Bloomsbury CPD Library: Stretch and Challenge
In the past schools have labelled the most able students in a class or year group as 'gifted and talented'. While segregating these students may help them to achieve their academic potential, there is little benefit in this practice for their 'less able' classmates. Even less so for those who are left in the middle space, identified as neither highly academic nor severely struggling. The Stretch and Challenge model focuses on setting high expectations for all students, regardless of their ability. Encouraging all children to meet universally high targets introduces flexibility between, otherwise rigid, ability groups, and gives children greater opportunities to exceed. Split into two parts, ...
On Excellence in Teaching
Learn from the world’s best education researchers, theorists, and staff developers as they present recommendations on effective instruction. The book provides a comprehensive view of instruction from a theoretical, systemic, and classroom perspective. The authors’ diverse expertise delivers a wide range of ideas and strategies.
Arts with the Brain in Mind
How do the arts stack up as a major discipline? What is their effect on the brain, learning, and human development? How might schools best implement and assess an arts program? Eric Jensen answers these questions--and more--in this book. To push for higher standards of learning, many policymakers are eliminating arts programs. To Jensen, that's a mistake. This book presents the definitive case, based on what we know about the brain and learning, for making arts a core part of the basic curriculum and thoughtfully integrating them into every subject. Separate chapters address musical, visual, and kinesthetic arts in ways that reveal their influence on learning. What are the effects of a fully...
Day One and Beyond
Your teacher training may have provided sound theory and a collection of instructional techniques, but it's often the practical details that can make day-to-day survival difficult in your first days, weeks, and years of teaching. For new teachers or those just new to the middle-school environment, here is an invaluable resource from the author of Meet Me in the Middle that will help you walk in the door prepared to teach. Oriented toward the unique experience of teaching grades 5 through 9, Day One and Beyond delivers proven best practices along with often-humorous observations that provide a window into the middle school environment. Based on his many years of research and experience in the...
Activating & Engaging Habits of Mind
Presents practical advice for using the "habits of mind"--Sixteen types of intelligent behavior--in the classroom, including discussion of their application to mathematics, art, foreign language, reading comprehension, and character instruction.
Assessing & Reporting on Habits of Mind
This is the third in a four-book series describing 16 types of intelligent behavior called habits of mind. It considers how to assess and report student progress in using the habits of mind, maintaining that a critical attribute of intelligence is not only having information but also knowing how to act on it. After the "Series Foreword: Thinking on the Road of Life" (David Perkins), "Preface to the Series" (Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick), and "Preface to Book 3" (Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick), there are 8 chapters: (1) "Defining Indicators of Achievement" (Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick); (2) "Learning Through Reflection" (Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick); (3) "Assessing the Habits of Mind" (Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick); (4) "Wondering To Be Done" (Steve Seidel); (5) "Reporting Growth" (Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick); (6) "Building a Culture Where High Quality Counts" (Steven Levy); (7) "Immersing Parents and Students in the Habits of Mind" (Jodi Bongard and Judy Lemmel); and (8) "Getting Started" (Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick). (Most chapters include references.) (SM)
Teaching Writing
This new resource for writing teachers helps students set purpose and find form for their writing. In today's educational climate, it is more important than ever that we prepare our students to be effective and competent writers who can write for a variety of purposes. How can we teach our students the skills they need to be successful while also fostering an appreciation for the process, craft, and art of writing? Drawing from sound theory and research as well as on many years of experience in the English classroom, Fran Claggett and colleagues Joan Brown, Nancy Patterson, and Louann Reid have created a writing teacher's resource to help both new and experienced teachers sort through the of...
Enhancing Teaching and Learning
A guide for effecting change in a library media program by integrating it into the school's instructional program. Donham (library and information science, U. of Iowa) addresses how all the components of the school environment--the principal, the students, the curriculum, the community--can interact with the library media program. He also discusses collaboration between the library media specialist and teachers, collection development and maintenance, instructional assessment, and technology's place as a component of the library media program. Appends a section on suggested further reading. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Pick and Plan
"If you want to energize your teaching, this is the book for you! The research-based content is full of ideas presented in a practical and user-friendly format."--Joanne Cearbaugh, ESL Methods InstructorTaylor University "A wealth of knowledge and practical strategies are packed into this lesson planning book. Teachers will use this informative resource to design quality lessons to reach all learners. This one won′t gather dust--it will be that dog-eared, coffee-stained, often-used volume!"--Sandra Hess, Assistant SuperintendentWarsaw Community Schools, IN Build your lesson planning collection with this easy-to-use resource! Are you looking for a practical way to infuse your teaching with ...
