Teaching Strategies
Classroom Instruction that Works - What works in education? How do we know? How can teachers find out? How can educational research find its way into the classroom? How can we apply it to help our individual students?
Questions like these arise in most schools, and busy educators often don't have time to find the answers. Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock have examined decades of research findings to distill the results into nine broad teaching strategies that have positive effects on student learning: *Identifying similarities and differences. *Summarizing and note taking. *Reinforcing effort and providing recognition. *Homework and practice. *Nonlinguistic representations. *Cooperative learning. *Setting objectives and providing feedback. *Generating and testing hypotheses. *Questions, cues, and advance organizers. Author/Company: Marzano, Pickering and Pollock Grades: K-12 Book Code: ITTS1 |
Teaching What Matters Most: Crafting a set of standards that are at once manageable, attainable, and good for all students has been elusive. With 10 years of research and work in more than 300 schools to guide them, Strong, Silver, and Perini offer four standards that will help all students meet the various standards dictated y states, regions, and districts. In this book, the authors go beyond simply showing what each standard looks like in various school settings. They provide research-based teaching strategies that can help all students meet each standard along with assessment practices that allow schools and teachers to respond thoughtfully to the diversity of students' needs.
Author/Company: Strong, Silver and Perini Grades: K-12 Book Code: ITTS2 |
Visual Tools for Constructing Knowledge: Three types of visual tools can help students and teachers construct knowledge, organize information, and communicate their learning with others: brainstorming webs, task-specific organizers, and thinking process maps. This book explains what visual tools are, why we should use them, and how to get the most out of these tools. Hyerle provides sample lessons, assessments, and "portraits" of visual tools in action. he emphasizes interdisciplinary and collaborative uses of such graphic organizers, as well as technological approaches that facilitate the create of visual tools and construction of learning projects.
Author/Company: Hyerle Grade: K-12 Book Code: ITTS3 |
A Field Guide to Using Visual Tools: This book takes readers deeper into the practical applications of visual tools such as brainstorming webs, task-specific organizers, and thinking-process maps. Graphic overviews map the big picture for each chapter and also synthesize the key information about each type of tool. Stories, quotes, and insights from parents, students, teachers, administrators, brain researchers, and software developers illustrate how they use visual tools in their everyday work. A complete chapter on Thinking Maps and Software explicitly shows how these tools have brought about changes in students' reading comprehension and writing from kindergarten to college and into the workplace.
Author/Company: Hyerle Grade: K-12 Book Code: ITTS4 |
Test Success for the Brain Compatible Classroom: Test day... do these words lift your heart? Are your students ready with eager minds and sharpened pencils? Probably not. In addition to content, students need a thorough knowledge of test-taking skills in school and beyond. The authors of Test Success in the Brain-Compatible Classroom show how to transform the testing experience from a dreaded event into a celebration of the brain's phenomenal abilities. Like the director of a Broadway production, you can set the stage for top performance.
Author/Company: Chapman Grade: K-12 Book Code: ITTS5 |
Mapping Inner Space: In this color picture filled book you can expect to find:
*Learning to Mind Map *Applications *Finding and Creating Symbols *Mapping with Young Students *Mapping with Older Students and Adults *Mapping in business and Community Settings * Discovering Our Inner Capacities *Anything Goes! Author/Company: Wheatley Grade: K-12 Book Code: ITTS6 |
Learning vs. Testing: This book will cover such topics as:
1. How Children Learn vs. How Schools Test 2. The Reading Solution - Foundations First Success Program 3. What You and Your School Can Do to Raise Reading Scores 4. Word Wizard - Vocabulary Mastery 5. Recipe for Super Spellers 6. Math Facts Mastery 7. Mind Matters 8. Magnificent Memory Strategies 9. Brain Smart - Body Smart Author/Company: Wyman Grade: K-8 Book Code: ITTS7 |
Organizing Thinking I: Involve students in these active thinking lessons using graphic organizers and watch them significantly improve their study skills, comprehension, and memory in all subjects. This book meets grade-level content objectives and includes easy-to-use teaching guidelines, focus questions, and all of the source materials needed.
Author/Company: Parks and Black Grade: 2-5 Book Code: ITTS8 |
Organizing Thinking II: Complete, easy-to-use graphic organizer activities that integrate practical, fondational thinking skills into content instruction, imporving comprehension and retention in all subjects. Graphic organizer activities for writing, language arts, social studies, mathematics, and science.
Author/Company: Parks and Black Grade: 4-8 Book Code: ITTS9 |
Visual Literacy: Signs are everywhere - for those who can read them. Because of television, advertising, and the Internet, the primary literacy of the 21st century will be visual. It's no longer enough to read and write text. Our students must learn to process both words and pictures. They must be able to move gracefully and fluently between text and images, between literal and figurative worlds. This practical book examines the effect on education of a primarily visual world. Burmark provides guidance on many topics, including:
*A definition and history of visual literacy *The uses of different typefaces and fonts *The effect of color *Using visuals to welcome students *A new approach to presentations *Combining real and virtual worlds Author/Company: Burmark Grade: K-12 Book Code: ITTS10 |
Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction: is the ideal companion to Erickson's landmark Stirring the Head, Heart, and Soul, Second Edition. Here, the author explores concept-based learning on a more in-depth level across disciplines and grade levels. Teachers can use the specific strategies to create a seamless learning program that teachers students the skills they really need to think conceptually and to solve problems in today's complex, changing world.
Learn how to: *Take learning beyond the facts *Facilitate deep understanding and knowledge *Develop conceptual systems in the brain to process new information *Meet higher academic standards related to content knowledge, process abilities, quality performance, and school-to-work transitions *Align your curriculum with state and national standards and establish appropriate performance assessments Author/Company: Erickson Grade: K-12 Book Code: ITTS11 |
How to Raise Test Scores is a sensational resource for educators who struggle with testing in the classroom. This succinct booklet provides teachers with ten proven instructional strategies to enhance learning and raise student test scores. How to Raise Test Scores is developed in the structure of the acronym TEST SCORES. Each letter in the phrase represents the first letter of a different technique that educators can use to raise students' test scores. With these research-based methods from experts such as Elliot Eisner, Robert Slywester, Howard Gardner, and many others, teachers can support and prepare their students for test taking, as well as foster academic and lifelong success.
Author/Company: Fogarty Grade: K-12 Book Code: ITTS12 |
Hands on Thinking is a gently, but thorough look at something all kids are familiar with - their hands. The concept is horizontal enrichment. That is, a certain idea or concept is expanded and elaborated upon before moving onto anther. In this case the idea or theme is hands.
The activities turn and twist through questioning, vocabulary building, creativity, imagination and critical thinking. The focus is on seeing and doing, involving kids in active learning. The activities are teacher and student "friendly". Each one is filled with extra examples and choices. Teachers can easily eliminate certain examples to reduce the difficulty of a lesson for remedial students or offer the entire activity as a challenge to gifted and talented students. Author/Company: Nancy Johnson Grade: 2-6 Book Code: ITTS13 |
Brain Compatible Strategies: This classic bestseller from author Eric Jensen will get you excited about teaching all over again! Updated to reflect new knowledge about the brain and in an improved format, Brain Compatible Strategies is a virtual gold mine of creative, ready-to-use ideas to motivate, inspire and encourage students of every age. These powerful and effective activities will change the way you view education and the way you teach. Includes: The Chemistry of Choice, Increase "By-Product" Learning, Trigger Learning, The Real Power of Music, Remove Barriers to Learning, Discipline Strategies that Make Sense and many more!
Author/Company: Eric Jensen Grade: K-12 Book Code: ITTS14 |
How to Assess Higher-Order Thinking Skills In Your Classroom: Educators know it's important to get students to engage in "higher-order thinking." But what does higher-order thinking actually look like? And how can K-12 classroom teachers assess it across the disciplines? Author, consultant, and former classroom teacher Susan M. Brookhart answers these questions and more in this straightforward, practical guide to assessment that can help teachers determine if students are actually displaying the kind of complex thinking that current content standards emphasize.
Brookhart begins by laying out principles for assessment in general and for assessment of higher-order thinking in particular. She then defines and describes aspects of higher-order thinking according to the categories established in leading taxonomies, giving specific guidance on how to assess students in the following areas: *Analysis, evaluation, and creation *Problem Solving *Logic and reasoning *Creativity and creative thinking *Judgment Author/Company: Susan M. Brookhart Grades: K-12 Book Code: ITTS15 |