Methods category: 10193 books
Bringing Innovation to School: Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World
Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Are you preparing a new generation of innovators? Activate your students’ creativity and problem-solving potential with breakthrough learning projects. Across all grades and content areas, student-driven, collaborative projects will teach students how to generate innovative ideas and then put them into action. You’ll take learning to new heights and help students master core content.
On Being a Teacher
The Human Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
The authors help preservice, beginning, and veteran teachers discover their own special traits that make them superlative teachers.
Poor Students, Rich Teaching
Mindsets for Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Discover practical and research-based strategies to ensure all students, regardless of circumstance, are college and career ready. This thorough resource details the necessary but difficult work that teachers must do to establish the foundational changes essential to positively impact students in poverty....
The Formative Five
Fostering Grit, Empathy, and Other Success Skills Every Student Needs
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
For success in school and life, students need more than proficiency in academic subjects and good scores on tests; those goals should form the floor, not the ceiling, of their education. To truly thrive, students need to develop attributes that aren’t typically measured on standardized tests. In...
When Race Breaks Out
Conversations about Race and Racism in College Classrooms 3rd Revised edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
The third revised edition of "When Race Breaks Out" is a guide for college and high school teachers who want to promote honest and informed conversations about race and racism. Based on the author's personal practice and interviews with students and faculty from a variety of disciplines,...
by Timothy D. Kanold
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Make the transition from traditional, whole-group reading instruction to the 21st century classroom by integrating three innovations that will dramatically improve elementary reading instruction: RTI, differentiated instruction, and technology. Detailed ex
Teaching Global History
A Social Studies Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Teaching Global History challenges prospective and beginning social studies teachers to formulate their own views about what is important to know in global history and why. It explains how to organize the curriculum around broad social studies concepts and themes and student questions about humanity,...
by Angelo M Codevilla
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A concise journey through geopolitics and the continuing debate about America’s role in the world.
Terrorist attacks, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the rise of China, and the decline of Europe have underscored the necessity of understanding the world around us. But how should we approach...
Assessing 21st Century Skills
A Guide to Evaluating Mastery and Authentic Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Go beyond traditional paper-and-pencil tests!
How can you measure student mastery of 21st century skills like creativity, problem solving, and use of technology? Laura Greenstein provides a framework and practical ideas for using authentic learning experiences and rigorous assessment strategies...
Read, Write, Lead
Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Literacy is a skill for all time, for all people. It is an integral part of our lives, whether we are students or adult professionals. Giving all educators the breadth of knowledge and practical tools that help students strengthen their literacy skills is the focus of Read, Write, Lead.
Drawing...
Invite! Excite! Ignite!
13 Principles for Teaching, Learning, and Leading, K–12
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Teacher-to-teacher collaboration is more than a survival tactic; it is the social interaction that propels professional learning. In her new book, master teacher and educational consultant Robin Fogarty offers 13 guiding principles for new teachers and school leaders. These seminal ideas, along with...
Creative Development
Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation, and Invention
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Spark continual creative growth for both learners and educators. Creativity is a key ingredient for success in the knowledge economy of the 21st century, where skills such as collaboration, communication, and critical thinking are central. Most educators agree that encouraging creativity must become...
Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Secondary
Designing Lessons and Assessments for Deep Learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Students become experts and innovators through Concept-Based teaching
Innovators don’t invent without understanding how the world works. With this foundation, they apply conceptual understanding to solve problems. We want students to not only retain ideas, but relate them to other things...
Bold Moves for Schools
How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
What will it take to create truly contemporary learning environments that meet the demands of 21st-century society, engage learners, and produce graduates who are prepared to succeed in the world? What skills and capacities do teachers and leaders need to create and sustain such schools? What actions...