How do we truly help all students achieve their fullest potential? What are the roles of motivation, deliberate practice, and coaching in developing talent and abilities in students? This hands-on guide examines each of these elements in detail providing definitions, relevant research, discussions, examples, and practical steps to take with students in elementary, middle, and high school. The authors examine cutting-edge research on world-class performance and distill information specifically for educators. Offering guidelines to help teachers spot and encourage all students’ exceptional aptitudes, passionate interests, and special strengths, they show concretely how to promote greater motivation for learning and success. This foundational book infuses new ideas into established teaching. User-friendly chapters include thought-provoking insights, vignettes of how notable talents were developed, teaching and learning tips, grade-level examples, and discussion questions. Book Features: <ul>
<li>Offers practical versions of ideas that impact instruction: motivation, practice, and coaching.</li> <li>Examines how “the brain learns deeply,” including emergent brain science on myelin and its contribution to memory, learning, and automaticity.</li> <li>Illuminates findings that question the “10,000 Hour Rule” about becoming an expert.</li> <li>Explores the important differences between practice and “deliberate practice” in the classroom.</li> <li>Explains research findings on the motivational factors that impact student learning and expertise.</li> <li>Highlights the role and features of the most effective formative assessment.</li> <li>Addresses the “Is Talent Born or Made?” question and elaborates with actions educators can take.</li> <li>Guides teachers in unlocking their students’ talent and helping them reach their true potential.</li>
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Unlocking Student Talent: The New Science of Developing Expertise

Science & Math

Fogarty, Robin J.

Kerns, Gene M.

Pete, Brian M.

Behavioral Sciences

Teachers' College Press

This invaluable research-based guidebook illustrates how quality teaching can overcome the impact of low socioeconomic conditions and improve student performance dramatically. The authors present instructional techniques that require students to speak with skill, write with clarity and purpose, read with a critical eye, and listen with active engagement. Using six practical strategies, educators can overcome the odds and guide learners to success by: Setting high expectations for all students Making differentiation part of everything they do Challenging students to think critically Insisting on results-oriented goals

Close the Achievement Gap: Simple Strategies That Work (In a Nutshell)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Skyhorse

Through a meta-analysis of studies on instructional strategies, Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock (2001) have identified nine families of strategies that significantly increase student achievement.

Nine Best Practices that Make the Difference (In a Nutshell)

Twelve Brain Principles That Make the Difference by Brian Pete and Robin Fogarty, is about how the brain learns best and all the things teachers can do to facilitate the learning part of the teaching scene. This book presents a unique organization of Renate and Geoffrey Caine's twelve brain principles. The twelve principles are arranged in four specific quadrants. Each quadrant speaks to a particular aspect of the high-achieving classroom and highlights how instructional decisions are governed by the twelve principles.

Twelve Brain Principles That Make the Difference (In a Nutshell)

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Books by Pete, Brian M.

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Unlocking Student Talent: The New Science of Developing Expertise

Close the Achievement Gap: Simple Strategies That Work (In a Nutshell)

Nine Best Practices that Make the Difference (In a Nutshell)

Twelve Brain Principles That Make the Difference (In a Nutshell)