The Strategic Teacher offers a repertoire of strategies designed and proven to meet today’s high standards and reach diverse learners. Twenty reliable, flexible strategies (along with dozens of variations) are organized into these groups of instruction: · mastery style to emphasize the development of student memory; · understanding style to expand students’ capacities to reason and explain; · self-expressive style to stimulate and nourish students’ imaginations and creativity; · interpersonal style to help students find meaning in the relationships they forge as partners and team members, united in the act of learning; and · four-style strategies that integrate all four styles. To guide teachers in delivering content to students, the authors started with the best research-based teaching and learning strategies and created a tool called the Strategic Dashboard. The dashboard provides information about each teaching strategy in a concise, visual profile; it is also designed to document how one incorporates current, highly respected research into instructional plans. For each strategy, the book offers the following information: <ul>
<li> a brief introduction to the strategy; </li>
<li> an example of a teacher using the strategy in a classroom; </li>
<li> the research base supporting the strategy and how the strategy benefits students; </li>
<li> how to implement the strategy using a list of clear steps; </li>
<li> guidance through the planning process, providing steps, examples, and suggestions for designing superior lessons; and </li>
<li> additional tools, strategies, and resources for adapting and expanding the use of each strategy. </li> </ul> The authors have combined their years of research and practice to deliver reliable, high-impact, flexible teaching and learning strategies grounded in current, highly regarded research to teachers at all levels of experience.

The Strategic Teacher: Selecting the Right Research-Based Strategy for Every Lesson

Education & Teaching

Richard W. Strong

Harvey F. Silver

Matthew J. Perini

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

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 by states, regions, and districts. <ul>
<li>Rigor: helping students make sense of challenging texts and ideas.</li> <li>Thought: helping students become adept users of powerful learning disciplines.</li> <li>Diversity: helping students understand themselves and others.</li> <li>Authenticity: helping students apply what they learn to the real world.</li> </ul>
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. Drawing from the work of educators across the country, the book demonstrates that manageable standards-when married to practical approaches to instruction and assessment-can prepare students to perform well on state tests while preserving the democratic traditions of U.S. education.

Teaching What Matters Most: Standards and Strategies for Raising Student Achievement

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

ASCD

It goes without saying that deep, meaningful learning is an active process. This award-winning best seller features over 80 classroom-tested, ready-to-use techniques (or tools) that will promote in-depth student learning and transform any classroom into an "aerobics session for the mind." Build an instructional "toolbox" with techniques designed to actively engage all students, develop critical thinking skills, improve assessment, and inspire students to do their best work, both individually and collaboratively.

Tools for Promoting Active, In-Depth Learning

Thoughtful Education Press

Make this year the year of better student behavior, stronger classroom relationships, increased student engagement, and higher levels of thinking and learning. TOOLS FOR A SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL YEAR lays out the essential elements that characterize effective classrooms. More important, it provides over twenty ready-to-use tools for building these "cornerstones" in your classroom, regardless of the grade level or content area you teach. This book gives you the practical techniques you need to make this year your most successful yet--starting on day one.

Tools for a Successful School Year (Starting on Day One): Classroom-Ready Techniques for Building the Four Cornerstones of an Effective Classroom

Abigail L. Boutz

Thoughtful Education Press (Silver Strong & Associates)

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