Douglas Fisher: 33 books
Checking for Understanding
Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
A teacher presents a lesson, and at the end asks students if they understand the material. The students nod and say they get it. Later, the teacher is dismayed when many of the students fail a test on the material. Why aren’t students getting it? And, just as important, why didn’t the teacher...
by Gay Ivey, Douglas Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
What teacher hasn't sometimes believed that the entire class understands a lesson, even though only a few students are nodding their heads and answering questions? Later, the teacher is dismayed when many students fail a related test. Why aren't students getting it? And, just as important, why didn't...
Enhancing RTI
How to Ensure Success with Effective Classroom Instruction and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Are we missing the opportunity to reach struggling learners from the very beginning? Are we hastily--and unnecessarily--referring students to intervention programs that substitute for high-quality core instruction? What if we could eliminate the need for intervention programs in the first place?Response...
The Path to Get There
a Common Core Road Map for Higher Student Achievement Across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Common Core State Standards represents a call for all teachers to focus on the literacy learning of their students. Together, these skills—reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing—comprise the literacies that students must develop if they are to master content and be successful in...
Better Than Carrots or Sticks
Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and more wide reaching....
How to Reach the Hard to Teach
Excellent Instruction for Those Who Need It Most
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
For every teacher it's different, but you know who they are for you—the students who are "hard to teach." Maybe they're reading far below grade level. Maybe they're English learners. Maybe they have diagnosed learning disabilities or behavioral issues. Maybe they're underachieving for...
Intentional and Targeted Teaching
A Framework for Teacher Growth and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
What is FIT Teaching? What is a FIT Teacher?
The Framework for Intentional and Targeted Teaching®—or FIT Teaching®—is a research-based, field-tested, and experience-honed process that captures the essentials of the best educational environments. In contrast to restrictive pedagogical...
The Formative Assessment Action Plan
Practical Steps to More Successful Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Join Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher as they outline a clear-cut, realistic, and rewarding approach to formative assessment. They explain how four discrete steps work in tandem to create a seamless, comprehensive formative assessment system—one that has no beginning and no end. This ongoing approach...
The Purposeful Classroom
How to Structure Lessons with Learning Goals in Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
How can teachers guarantee that what they teach results in students learning what they really need to know? In The Purposeful Classroom: How to Structure Lessons with Learning Goals in Mind, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey present a variety of strategies that teachers at all levels can use to ensure...
Productive Group Work
How to Engage Students, Build Teamwork, and Promote Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
The benefits of collaborative learning are well documented—and yet, almost every teacher knows how group work can go wrong: restless students, unequal workloads, lack of accountability, and too little learning for all the effort involved. In this book, educators Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Sandi...
Building Equity
Policies and Practices to Empower All Learners
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Imagine a school with a diverse student body where everyone feels safe and valued, and all—regardless of race, culture, home language, sexual orientation, gender identity, academic history, and individual challenges—have the opportunity to succeed with interesting classes, projects, and activities....
Better Learning Through Structured Teaching
A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
In this updated 2nd edition of the ASCD best-seller, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey dig deeper into the hows and whys of the gradual release of responsibility instructional framework. To gradually release responsibility is to equip students with what they need to be engaged and self-directed learners....
All Learning Is Social and Emotional
Helping Students Develop Essential Skills for the Classroom and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
While social and emotional learning (SEL) is most familiar as compartmentalized programs separate from academics, the truth is, all learning is social and emotional. What teachers say, the values we express, the materials and activities we choose, and the skills we prioritize all influence how students...
by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
You know that repeating the same words and the same instructions—or simply announcing the answers to questions—doesn’t help students learn. How do you get past the predictable and really teach your kids how to learn? Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey say that helping students develop immediate and...