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The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through: Changing School Supervisory Practice One Teacher at a Time
Change the entire school culture with this collaborative method of supervision For years, the classic supervision model has frustrated both principals and teachers by fostering superior-subordinate relationships, focusing on teacher conformity rather than growth, or producing checklist data that is irrelevant to the curriculum. The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Throughoffers a practical, time-saving alternative that impacts student achievement by cultivating self-reliant teachers who are continuously improving their practice. Easy to understand and adopt, this method will answer the questions most important to principals: - Is the work of my teachers aligned with the district curriculum?
- Are my teachers using research-based "best practices"?
- Are they choosing the instructional strategies that will promote student achievement?
Also known as the Downey Walk-through, the method presented in The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through has been developed over a 40-year period, tested and refined in actual teaching environments, and taught internationally.
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The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through (Multimedia Kit)
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Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn't Fit All
Praise for the First Edition:
"Highly recommended reading for classroom educators and a seminal contribution to Teacher Education supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections."-Midwest Book Review "A teacher-friendly guide to differentiating instruction based on sound theory and best practice."-Joanne Quinn, OISE University of Toronto "[The book] is highly recommended reading for classroom educators and a seminal contribution to Teacher Education supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections."-Wisconsin Bookwatch , May 2002 "Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn’t Fit Allprovides information about strategies that will enable teachers to plan strategically so they can meet the needs of the wide variety of students in today’s highly diverse classroom. Presented in an easy-to-use format, practical techniques and processes are shared that can be used to plan and adjust learning based on pre-assessment of individual students’ knowledge, skills, experience, preferences, and needs."
-Gifted Child Today, January 2003 "My principals useDifferentiated Instructional Strategiesto design appropriate strategies for evaluating whether the needs of all learners have been met."-Linda S. Tafel, Professor National-Louis University, Evanston Campus Find the strength and uniqueness in every child in your classroom!
Differentiated instruction enables teachers to plan strategically so they can meet the needs of each and every student in today's highly diverse classroom. Now the book offering best practices and techniques for differentiated instruction has been updated and expanded by two of the field's most respected proponents. Differentiated Instructional Strategies, Second Edition, features more of the practical techniques and processes that teachers can use to adjust learning based on individual students’ knowledge, skills, experience, preferences, and needs. Are you looking for the best and newest research-based practices in pedagogy and assessment for learning? The ones that make a real and positive difference in student achievement are explored here in depth. Centers, Projects, Choice Boards, Problem-Based Learning, Inquiry Models, Cooperative Learning, and Contracts are all featured, complete with explanations and examples. More than 75 planning models, templates, matrixes, rubrics, graphic organizers, checklists, and questionnaires are included as well, to help teachers make the right decisions about instruction and assessment on an individual basis. This teacher-friendly guide is sure to be an important resource for any teacher, new or experienced, who wants to help every student in the classroom learn and succeed. (20060603).
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Differentiated Assessment Strategies: One Tool Doesn't Fit All
"Differentiated Assessment Strategies is a bible for assessment strategies that you will keep nearby for easy reference in planning and implementing classroom assessment The use of this book will take away the mystery on how to guide and monitor students’ performances."
From the Foreword by Marti Richardson, NSDC Past President Empower students to self-assess and improve performance with these ready-to-use assessment strategies and tools!Do you have a full toolbox to gather ongoing assessment information to pinpoint student needs and plan instruction? Do you believe a student’s interests can leverage academic success? Would you like to help your students grow as reflective self-assessing thinkers? With this classroom-friendly guide, you’ll become a better teacher as you learn to assess students before, during, and after instruction. Packed with tools, surveys, checklists, questionnaires, assignments, organizers, guidelines, and rubrics, Differentiated Assessment Strategies addresses informal as well as formal assessments, and assessments before, during, and after learning for learners of all types and levels, including K-12, special needs, and gifted students. In addition to application of the latest research, you’ll become skilled in novel assessment tools that provide immediate feedback. Chapman and King provide ready-to-use tools to: - Evaluate and activate students’ prior knowledge
- Transform homework into rich learning opportunities
- Draw higher order thinking from ALL students
- Assess learning to offer feedback to students Assess learner preferences, as well as cognitive styles and multiple intelligences
- Determine student comprehension and requirements for reteaching
- Build students' metacognitive power to self-assess their own learning
Use assessment strategies to build a positive learning culture and energize your students! .
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Tales from the Teachers' Lounge: What I Learned in School the Second Time Around-One Man's Irreverent Look at Being a Teacher Today
From the critically acclaimed author of Daddy Needs a Drink—hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “consistently hilarious”—comes a series of irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means to be a teacher today. With his trademark wit and wisdom, Robert Wilder dissects the world’s noblest profession—whether he’s taming a classroom full of hormonal teenagers or going one-on-one with the school bully. Wilder was twenty-six when he found his true calling. Leaving a lucrative advertising career in New York, he got a job as an assistant first-grade teacher at a Santa Fe alternative school—and never looked back. Now he brings his unique perspective—as a teacher, parent, and former student—to a series of laugh-out-loud essays that show teaching at its most absurd…and most rewarding. With brutal candor he chronicles his own lively adventures in modern education, from navigating cutthroat kindergarten sign-ups to subbing for a class experi-ment gone wrong–and dares to tell about it. He shares the surprising lessons he’s learned in the trenches of his profession, including how to bribe a four-year-old (his own) to stop swearing in a Lutheran preschool and the best way to teach moody teenagers…manage “helicopter” parents…and cope with bullies—whether of the school-yard, Internet, or parental kind. And he offers tough love for cheaters who log on to www.SchoolSucks.com, then puts to rest forever the question of why new teachers gain weight (hint: the free donuts don’t help). In Tales from the Teachers’ Lounge, Robert Wilder charts life’s learning curve with a warmth and humor you don’t find in textbooks. By turns heartwarming, eye-opening, and uproariously funny, these pitch-perfect essays offer priceless lessons in life, family, learning, and teaching from a true lover of education. From the Hardcover edition..
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The One Minute Teacher: How to Teach Others to Teach Themselves
This invaluable book shows how teachers, despite the many difficultiesthey face in today's school systems, can make an important contributionto their students' lives and educations Johnson and Johnson describehow the use of Goal Setting, Praising, and Recovery reinforcesself-esteem and creates a new kind of learning process that will becomelifelong. The One Minute Teacher reveals simple, positive ways to - Discover and instill the love of learning
- Foster success and achievement
- Feel more confident and happy
- Bring out the best in ourselves and others
Practical, wise, and useful in dozens of everyday situations, The OneMinute Teacher is essential reading for anyone who teaches and anyonewho learns. More than eleven million copies of Dr. Johnson's books are in use intwenty-four languages. .
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Sugared & Spiced 100 Monologues for Girls: Monologues for Girls
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Photoshop CS4 Channels & Masks One-on-One
Coming to terms with alpha channels (or masks) is the most sure-fire way to boost the quality of your work in Photoshop But masking isn't easy-in fact, the elusive alpha channel has been described as the least understood feature in Photoshop's enormous arsenal. Now, you can master masking with Deke McClelland's unique and effective learning system. Through step-by-step text lessons, DVD-video demonstrations, and real-world projects, you'll learn how to select and composite highlights, shadows, clouds, fabric, feathers, glass, flame, lightning, eyes, all varieties of hair, and then some. Deke's expert advice and guidance is like working with a personal coach. With this book, you will: - Learn at your own speed with 12 self-paced tutorials
- Try out techniques and best practices with engaging real-world projects
- Get more than 850 full-color photos, diagrams, and screen shots that illustrate every key step
- See exactly how it's done in real time with five hours of all-new video instruction
- Test your knowledge with multiple-choice quizzes in each chapter
And more. In this book, Deke teams up with fellow Photoshop expert Tim Grey, author of O'Reilly's Take Your Best Shot, based on his popular Digital Darkroom Questions email newsletter. Photoshop CS4 Channels & Masks One-on-One simulates a classroom environment that provides one-on-one attention as you proceed from lesson to lesson. You'll learn to use Photoshop faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought possible..
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Grammar and Usage: Grades 6-8 : Inventive Exercises to Sharpen Skills and Raise Achievement (The Basic One Not Boring Series)
Grades 6-8. Developed by a team of experienced educators, this book presents carefully-researched skills, sequences and features age appropriate, high-interest exercises which lay to rest the idea of unimaginative workbooks with dull questions. Designed to: introduce new skills, review and reinforce skills, concepts and content; assess skill mastery; and encourage the use of higher-order thinking skills. 64 pages..
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Elaine's Circle: A Teacher, a Student, a Classroom and One Unforgettable Year
Elaine Moore, a veteran teacher in Eagle River, Alaska, is a firm believer that the classroom is, first and foremost, a community—and that learning is best when shared in a circle of peers. When one of her students, ten-year-old Seamus Farrell, is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, Elaine, her students, and her innovative methods of teaching are put to their most severe test. Elaine's Circle is the true account of this small-town teacher who led her fourth-grade students through the biggest challenge of their young lives. This book provides a heart-wrenching, intimate look at the utterly remarkable achievements of this dedicated teacher, a supportive community, and a group of children who rallied to make Seamus Farrell's impending death an unforgettable lesson about life. .
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