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Presents a child-centered teaching approach for grades 3-6, one that helps build students' sense of confidence, belonging, and accomplishment. This guide offers teachers detailed information about child development and effective teaching practices targeted for 8-12 year olds. Readers will find: a thorough look at how upper elementary children develop as learners, based on comprehensive research; teaching strategies and assessment techniques to help...
3) A chance to make history: what works and what doesn't in providing an excellent education for all
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America's failure to educate millions of children is a crisis that strikes at our fundamental ideals and health as a nation. Since 1990, Teach For America has been building a movement to end educational inequity in America. Now its founder, Wendy Kopp, shares the lessons learned from the experiences of more than 25,000 teachers and alumni who have taught and led schools in low-income communities . This book cuts through the noise of today's debates...
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"In The Exceptional Teacher, veteran K-12 teacher Elizabeth Aaronsohn examines three important questions: What do our teachers really want our children to get out of school? How do their own schooling experiences inhibit them from achieving these goals? How can a teacher education program give beginning teachers a framework for thinking differently about the whole process of teaching?" "The Exceptional Teacher offers the guidance that teacher educators...
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The Classroom Instruction That Works framework for research-based instruction has helped countless schools and districts on their roads to academic success. Now you can see firsthand exactly how one district is using the nine instructional strategies that have shown to raise student achievement. This DVD series brings to life the Instructional Planning Guide from the second edition. Join co-author Ceri Dean and a group of elementary, middle, or high...
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Reveals in great detail how educators closed the "performance gap" for low-income students by linking expectations and results. Drawing heavily on the words and experiences of students, teachers, and parents, this book describes how students who traditionally had not succeeded academically in school began to do so.
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Using samples from language arts, science, social studies, and math, Karen Tankersley familiarizes teachers with the types of questions that are typical to standardized tests, explains the skills and knowledge students need to do well, and provides lesson ideas, teaching strategies, and learning activities that prepare students to think independently.--From publisher description.
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"What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study, offers valuable answers for all educators. The short answer is -- it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether historians or physicists, in El Paso or St. Paul, the...
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What is the purpose of education? What kind of people do we want our children to grow up to be? How can we design schools so that students will acquire the skills they ll need to live fulfilled and productive lives? These are just a few of the questions that renowned educator Dennis Littky explores in The Big Picture: Education is Everyone's Business, the culmination of more than 30 years of rethinking education and inspiring others to commit their...
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Leon Spreyer draws upon his 27 years of teaching experience to provide student teachers and new teachers with practical information that isn't always taught in teacher education courses. He includes games, book recommendations, specific lesson plans and straightforward, humorous advice on all aspects of teaching. The book covers 82 essential topics (including cooperative learning, communicating with parents, staff meetings, testing, portfolios, and...
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"There is little agreement among school leaders on what constitutes quality teaching and how best to support teachers in improving lessons, assessments, and classroom instruction. This book will show how principals and other school leaders can 'grow' the expertise of teachers to deliver high quality instruction that serves all students well. It introduces principals to a five-part model of effective instruction. It then shows leaders how to make use...
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