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Presents research-based best practices for teaching adolescent learners in extended sessions, with lesson plans and content area strategies designed to integrate reading, writing, and critical thinking, and reproducible blackline masters.
This bestseller describes alternatives to lecturing, traditional questioning, and individual pencil and paper tasks. It offers practical advice on how teachers can harness the potential of the extended period.
This bestseller describes alternatives to lecturing, traditional questioning, and individual pencil and paper tasks. It offers practical advice on how teachers can harness the potential of the extended period.
This book is full of practical, instructional strategies to help foster high levels of student achievement in the block schedule. It contains strategies for differentiation, powerful brain-based teaching techniques, creative approaches to productively organizing extended periods of time, and proactive classroom management tips. It adds to the repertoire every teacher needs to assure no child is left behind in the teaching-learning process.
Provides detailed instructional strategies, sample lesson plans, and sample assessments which can be adapted in your classroom to help create better readers and more effective writers.
In Teaching to Diversity, Dr. Jennifer Katz synthesizes the research, and 16 years experience of teaching in inclusive classrooms and schools, to provide answers to several questions: How do I make inclusion work for ALL students? What are the foundational best practices of a truly inclusive learning community? How does one create such a community? The author pulls together, in an organized way, a three-block model of universal design for learning (UDL) and suggests a step-by-step approach for implementing it. This framework includes: Block One, Social and Emotional Learning details ways to build compassionate learning communities (K-12) in which all students feel safe and valued, and develop a positive self-concept, sense of belonging, and respect for diverse others. Block Two, Inclusive Instructional Practice includes a framework for planning units from K-12, and explains instructional and management practices for teaching, assessing, grading, and reporting in UDL Classrooms. Block Three, Systems and Structures suggests strategies for creating inclusive learning communities, and explores ways in which resource teachers, student services personnel, and school administrators can support and create socially and academically inclusive schools and classrooms. The three-block model of UDL can empower educators with the knowledge, skills, and confidence required to teach diverse learners in the same classroom--including those who have previously been excluded. Ultimately, it is about creating classrooms and schools that heal by teaching to the heart, mind, and spirit of every student.
"This book shares a vision of project-based learning that is rooted in systemic understandings of social change and provides a pragmatic framework and tools for teachers to develop their practice in creative and sustaining ways. It demonstrates how to support different learners to produce intellectually rigorous and creative work by centering students' lives and experiences and offers the realistic perspective of a teacher working in an urban public high school. The text includes many classroom scenes and examples of curriculum design strategies"--
""""Every teacher and principal should use this book to assure a successful block scheduling initiative." "Dr. Martin Eaddy, Superintendent Lincoln County Schools Lincoln, NC """"Whether on the block or considering block scheduling, every principal and teacher needs his or her own personal copy of"The Block Scheduling Handbook." Wendy Tomberlin, Math Teacher Mt. Pleasant High School Mt. Pleasant, NC """Experience the advantages of block scheduling -- gain the confidence and tools to put your school on the block!"""""Block Scheduling has succeeded in boosting student and teacher performance in an increasing number of schools across the country. Based in the simple idea of organizing a course around one semester in an extended class time of 90 minutes, this versatile scheduling program encourages more comprehensive immersion into subject matter, improved student-teacher rapport, and decreased disciplinary problems.While the benefits of the block are undeniable, changing the conventional scheduling process may seem a daunting task to many educators. The Block Scheduling Handbook assuages this apprehension and bolsters confidence by providing practical information proven to be effective. Covering every aspect of designing the right block scheduling program for your school, this ready-reference manual offers specific tips and tools placed within a broader theoretical context. Highlights include: Classroom management and student-centered instructional strategies, each complete with " History and Research, " " Promises and Pitfalls, " and " Summary" sectionsSample models, lessons, activities, forms, evaluations, and surveys for easy implementationInsightful discussion of elementary, middle, and high schools on the block, including an in-depth case study of an exemplary elementary curriculumStraightforward e