How To Integrate The Curricula

Robin J. Fogarty

Brian M. Pete

Corwin Press

Examine how PLCs provide the decision-making platform for the rigorous work of differentiated classroom instruction. A practical guide to implementing differentiation in the classroom, this book offers a road map to effective teaching that responds to diverse learning needs. Takeaway objectives at the beginning of each chapter guide discussion, and each chapter ends with action options of highly interactive strategies. Benefits: 
<ul>
<li>Utilize chapter takeaways to guide discussion for all teachers at all grade levels. </li> <li>Gain highly interactive action options to accomplish chapter takeaways. </li> <li>Use differentiated instruction in PLCs to maximize student achievement. </li> <li>Explore summaries of relevant theories and research on building teams, forging shared beliefs, dissecting data, attaining consensus, and teaching responsively. </li>
</ul>
Contents: Introduction: PLCs and Differentiated Instruction Chapter 1: All About Collaboration Chapter 2: All About Differentiation Chapter 3: All About the Learners Chapter 4: Changing the Content Chapter 5: Changing the Process Chapter 6: Changing the Product Chapter 7: Diverse-Learner Strategies Chapter 8: Changing Lessons for Student Success Chapter 9: Changing Units for Student Success Chapter 10: Next Steps

Supporting Differentiated Instruction: A Professional Learning Communities Approach

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Solution Tree

Students of the digital age have access to a voluminous amount of information, and literacy skills are of paramount importance. In this book, teachers and administrators will explore the six comprehensive skill areas essential to 21st century literacy: reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and representing. Educators can either read straight through the book to explore all the presented standards-based strategies for widening literacy skills or look for specific strategies they haven t yet tried. The second of each chapter pair includes assessment ideas and tips for parents to also help students develop literacy skills for 21st century success. With The Right to Be Literate s resources, educators can encourage the behaviors they want all students to gain in pursuing college and career success. 
Benefits 
<ul>
<li>Examine aspects of receptive and expressive language.</li> <li>Understand the different categories of formative assessment.</li> <li>Explore examples of each literacy strategy at the elementary, middle, and secondary levels.</li> <li>Contemplate standards-based strategies and the thinking skills they target.</li> <li>Access discussion questions, and review literacy strategies to use in a professional learning community.</li> <li>Discover what parents can do to support student literacy skills.</li>
</ul>
Contents Preface Introduction: Receptive and Expressive Language Chapter 1: Read Fast: Read With Reason and Purpose Chapter 2: Write Well: Write Every Day in Every Way Chapter 3: Listen Hard: Hear What Is Said Chapter 4: Speak True: Say What You Mean Chapter 5: View Always: Picture It Chapter 6: Represent Often: Show, Don t Tell Afterword Appendix: Strategies to Use in a Professional Learning Community References and Resources

The Right to Be Literate: Six Essential Literacy Skills - strategies for teaching students the skills they need to think critically and communicate collaboratively in the 21st century

Implement the Common Core State Standards with downloadable reproducibles, lists of resources to support the many topics affected, discussion questions, and relevant information to share with your colleagues. Explore the background of the standards and the changes that must take place to meet them. The authors offer five principles for school leaders on effective coaching and feedback. Benefits: 
<ul>
<li>Understand the CCSS and your role in implementing them into the English language arts and mathematics curricula. </li> <li>Gain tips and strategies to support teachers, and create long-term professional learning as schools adopt the CCSS. </li> <li>Select the best assessment tools to study and track student progress. </li> <li>Access reproducibles, discussion questions, and other resources to support CCSS implementation and maintenance. </li> <li>Use models of classroom observations to foster collaborative conversations about teaching and learning. </li> <li>Learn and apply guidelines for effective coaching and feedback strategies. </li>
</ul>
Contents: Chapter 1: The Shift to the Common Core: Transitioning or Transforming Your School Chapter 2: The Shift in Implementation: Sustaining Professional Learning Chapter 3: The Shift in Instruction: Attaining Rigor and Real-World Relevance Chapter 4: The Shift in Coaching and Feedback: Leading With Guiding Principles Chapter 5: The Shift in Assessing Results: Informing All Stakeholders

School Leader's Guide to the Common Core: Achieving Results Through Rigor and Relevance (Solutions)

James A. Bellanca

and Rebecca L. Stinson

Ensure your students develop the complex, higher-order thinking skills they need to not just survive but thrive in a 21st century world. The latest edition of this best-selling guide by James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, and Brian M. Pete details a three-phase teaching model and dives deep into how to teach seven key student proficiencies: critical thinking, creative thinking, complex thinking, comprehensive thinking, collaborative thinking, communicative thinking, and cognitive transfer. How to teach higher-order thinking skills for student engagement and achievement: 
<ul>
<li>Receive guidance on teaching higher-order thinking skills according to any given standard, including state standards and content-area standards.</li> <li>Learn how to weave thinking skills and technology into your existing teaching strategies and lesson plans.</li> <li>Understand how to adapt lessons for various grade levels and subjects.</li> <li>Gain questions to reflect on after lessons, to ensure that students learn at the highest levels and grow their problem solving and innovative thinking.</li> <li>Attain tools and reproducibles to facilitate learning and understanding of teaching critical thinking and other 21st century skills.</li>
</ul>
Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Authors Introduction Student Proficiency 1: Critical Thinking Chapter 1: Analyze Chapter 2: Evaluate Chapter 3: Problem Solve Student Proficiency 2: Creative Thinking Chapter 4: Generate Chapter 5: Associate Chapter 6: Hypothesize Student Proficiency 3: Complex Thinking Chapter 7: Clarify Chapter 8: Interpret Chapter 9: Determine Student Proficiency 4: Comprehensive Thinking Chapter 10: Understand Chapter 11: Infer Chapter 12: Compare and Contrast Student Proficiency 5: Collaborative Thinking Chapter 13: Explain Chapter 14: Develop Chapter 15: Decide Student Proficiency 6: Communicative Thinking Chapter 16: Reason Chapter 17: Connect Chapter 18: Represent Student Proficiency 7: Cognitive Transfer Chapter 19: Synthesize Chapter 20: Generalize Chapter 21: Apply Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Glossary References &amp; Resources Index

How to Teach Thinking Skills: Seven Key Student Proficiencies for College and Career Readiness; Teaching Thinking Skills for Student Success in a 21st Century World

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Solution Tree Press

Despite efforts toward literacy reform, reading growth commonly flatlines in the secondary years. In Literacy Reframed, the authors offer a game-changing new way to think about--and teach--literacy at all levels. You will gain a dynamic path forward for creating classrooms that fully support students on their literacy journeys and prepare them to become not just literate, knowledgeable citizens but also lifelong lovers of reading. Use this resource to implement a robust, research-affirmed alternative to classroom skill work: <ul> <li>Gain a thoroughly researched background on the current issues and challenges in the world of literacy.</li> <li>Understand how phonics gives students a foundation in decoding words and the mechanics of reading to underpin a lifetime of literacy success.</li> <li>Grasp the necessity of immersing students in vocabulary words throughout their classroom experience.</li> <li>Discover how background knowledge is essential to reading comprehension and becoming literate.</li> <li>Consider the role of digital reading in a literacy-rich classroom.</li> </ul> Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Authors Preface Introduction Chapter 1: The Sound of Literacy--Decoding and Phonics Chapter 2: The Look of Literacy--Vocabulary Chapter 3: The Knowingness of Literacy--Knowledge Chapter 4: Digital Reading Closing: Ready to Reframe Literacy? References and Resources Index

Literacy Reframed: How a Focus on Decoding, Vocabulary, and Background Knowledge Improves Reading Comprehension (A guide to teaching literacy and boosting reading comprehension)

Gene M. Kerns

Jan Bryan

Cheryl Ballou

Cultivate classrooms where students actively think, critique, create, and question. With Thinking About Thinking in IB Schools, educators will discover how to employ the rich and rigorous curriculum of International Baccalaureate schools to develop these essential qualities in students. Each chapter opens with a driving question, dives into a specific skill, and offers concrete strategies for engaging students in deep thinking. Use this resource to foster critical, creative thinkers in your IB classroom: <ul> <li>Study the Theory of Knowledge and its driving question: How do we know what we know?</li> <li>Explore the International Baccalaureate school curriculum as a framework for the book.</li> <li>Identify the higher-order-thinking processes that characterize reflective, proficient learners.</li> <li>Discover the seven "think links" that tie together metacognitive attributes and behaviors.</li> <li>Encounter research and real-life examples that support and illustrate the importance of each metacognitive think link.</li> <li>Learn specific teaching strategies for enhancing student learning through self-reflection.</li> </ul> Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Authors Preface Foreword Introduction: Noble Goals Chapter 1: Curious Minds Inquire Chapter 2: Confident Minds Risk Chapter 3: Thinking Minds Connect Chapter 4: Reasoned Minds Resolve Chapter 5: Decisive Minds Act Chapter 6: Mindful (Mirrored) Minds Reflect Chapter 7: Global Minds Network: Generalize References and Resources Index

Thinking About Thinking in IB Schools: How We Know What We Know (A teaching strategies guide for rigorous curriculum in International Baccalaureate schools)

Robin J. Forgarty

Higher & Continuing Education

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Brian M. Pete. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Brian M. Pete