This practical handbook shows teachers how to use collaboration, assessment, and strategic teaching to meet the needs of all students — from ESL learners and children with disabilities to students with different learning styles. From relationship-building activities to ways to meet specific curriculum expectations, the book offers practical strategies and organizational frameworks that help teachers reach all students. It demonstrates how to:
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<li>choose key strategies and skills, and model these strategies for students;</li>
<li>adapt units of study to make them more accessible for all students;</li>
<li>incorporate the power of multiple intelligences in planning lessons;</li>
<li>design effective learning sequences within the classroom;</li>
<li>provide students with special needs support to reach their learning goals;</li>
<li>use assessment to inform instruction;</li>
<li>create learning experiences that help all students grow and succeed.</li>
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Based on extensive classroom experience, the authors present teaching scenarios that embrace collaboration between classroom and support teachers. They offer samples of exemplary classroom practices ranging from structured activities, strategies, and sequences to workshops, projects, and thematic units. First steps in implementing and modeling strategies for students are an integral part of the book.
This updated edition has been expanded to include major sections on narrative and personal writing as well as specific strategies that tie assessment to lesson planning. New approaches to novel study, math, and social studies instruction are also included.

Student Diversity: Classroom Strategies to Meet the Learning Needs of All Students

Education & Teaching

Brownlie, Faye

Feniak, Catherine

Schnellert, Leyton

Schools & Teaching

Pembroke Publishers

Complete with diagrams, graphic organizers, classroom examples, assessment tools, and lists of core understandings, Pulling Together presents a comprehensive answer to the current big ideas in teaching—formative assessment, backward design, inquiry learning, strategic teaching, metacognition. The authors show how this collaborative process is reflected in all aspects of the literacy learning, from unit planning and lesson sequences, through the inquiry process and gradual release of responsibility in the classroom, to linking formative and summative assessment for responsive planning.

Pulling Together

From ice-breaking activities to ways to meet expectations in all areas of the curriculum, teachers will discover practical strategies and organizational frameworks that will help them to reach all students. Whether searching for new ways to inspire students with different learning styles, celebrate the abilities of the physically challenged, or boost the skills of those learning English for the first time, Student Diversity has what teachers need to meet and defeat the wide variety of challenges in today's classroom. Packed with student exemplars and reproducibles, this book will help to smooth the daily path of beginning and experienced teachers alike.

Student Diversity: Teaching Strategies to Meet the Learning Needs of All Students in K-10 Classrooms

How can we help students develop the thinking skills they need to be successful learners? How does this relate to deep learning of important concepts? How can we engage and support diverse learners in inclusive classrooms where they develop understanding and thinking skills? In this book, Faye and Leyton explore these questions and offer classroom examples to help busy teachers develop communities where all students learn. This book is written by two experienced educators who offer a welcoming and ?can do? approach to the big ideas in education today. In this book, you will find: insightful ways to teach diverse learners, e.g., literature and information circles, open-ended strategies, cooperative learning, inquiry curriculum design frameworks, e.g., universal design for learning (UDL) and backward design assessment for, of, and as learning lessons to help students develop deep learning and thinking skills in English, Social Studies, and Humanities excellent examples of theory and practice made accessible real school examples of collaboration ? teachers working together to create better learning opportunities for their students

Collaborating to Support All Learners in English, Social Studies, and Humanities (It's All About Thinking)

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Portage & Main Press

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Student Diversity: Classroom Strategies to Meet the Learning Needs of All Students

Pulling Together

Student Diversity: Teaching Strategies to Meet the Learning Needs of All Students in K-10 Classrooms

Collaborating to Support All Learners in English, Social Studies, and Humanities (It's All About Thinking)