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Celebrates educators and their creativity in turning everyday objects - beach balls, Venetian blinds, rotten fruits and vegetables, PVC pipes, to name a few - into practical, fun, hands-on teaching supplies and learning tools.
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This book contains 101 classroom-tested, easy-to-implement strategies. Well-indexed, it provides teachers with easy access to a variety of ideas to help out in different problem areas. Strategies are arranged by grade level within each of the following sections: Classroom Management, Community Building, Teacher's Toolbox, Literacy, Math, and Assessment. Also includes helpful graphics, time-saving reproducibles, and a comprehensive resource list.
Differentiation: From Planning to Practice , author Rick Wormeli provides an overview of the cognitive science behind differentiation. As a teacher, you know a one-size-fits-all education doesn't work; students are more diverse than ever. In his book, Wormeli gives a step-by-step process to create a fully crafted differentiation lesson and shows the necessary planning for an effective lesson design for diverse classrooms.Wormeli demonstrates how to weave common and novel differentiation strategies into all subjects and offers clear advice about what to do when things don't go as expected. Based on nearly thirty years of experience as a teacher and instructional coach, his thoughtful and imaginative classroom accommodations will help teachers succeed with advanced students, struggling students, English language learners, and students across the multiple intelligences spectrum. Differentiation provides a practice guide to create lessons that will prepare students for real life success and build their critical thinking skills in the process.
Effective communication enhances quality of life. In Changing Seasons: A Language Arts Curriculum for Healthy Aging, Denise Calhoun provides a language-based, interdisciplinary program to help older adults improve their communication skills. Each activity reveals new, creative, and fun ways to get individuals to speak, think, write, engage with others, and use their imagination. As the activities promote meaningful interactions and the creation of a stimulating environment, Changing Seasons underscores the importance of sustaining quality of life as we and those we love age.
This innovative and creative book gives young children a variety of interactive opportunities to learn, practice, and master early math concepts and skills in a language-based setting. Using fanciful illustrations of nursery rhymes and thematic scenes, you will be able to: engage young children in fun but focused discussions; inspire them to create and share their own math stories; establish home-school connections so children can "talk math" with parents and siblings; differentiate instruction and scaffold content for diverse learners. Filled with B&W illustrations as well as 20 full-color transparencies, this appealing book is ideal for remedial second-graders and English language learners, too! Grades PreK-1. --amazon.com.
Surviving the Move and Learning to Thrive is a collection of seven chapters that provide tools for all students, especially struggling and reluctant learners, to find a better path to learning while moving through middle and high school. Each chapter addresses critical areas of need from learning styles to parent involvement in a way that is easy to understand and implement.
"Singapore Math strategies can do wonders for student achievement--but only if the parents are behind the program. Get them on your side by showing them exactly how the strategies work and why they're so effective. And save hours of prep time by using these ready-to-go handouts to provide explanations and practice. Even includes special tips for winning over difficult parents! (Grades 1-6)"--Amazon.