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Higher-Order Thinking Skills
Explicit instruction in thinking skills must be a priority goal of all teachers. In this book, the author presents a framework of the five Rs: Relevancy, Richness, Relatedness, Rigor, and Recursiveness. The framework serves to illuminate instruction in critical and creative thinking skills for K-12 teachers across content areas. Each chapter treats one category of thinking skills. A chapter begins with a brief anecdote that illustrates the category, then discusses the skill, presents relevant life questions, and concludes by examining chosen strategies for the three thinking levels.
Multiple Intelligences for Differentiated Learning
Offers a framework of strategies, including graphics, to move teachers from curiosity to confidence and competence in understanding and using multiple intelligences theory in inclusive classrooms.
More Than 50 Ways to Build Team Consensus
"As a single source of ideas for facilitators and school leaders, this book is excellent. The author very thoroughly covers the material, and the procedures are easy to follow." -Stephen H. Laub, Principal Rolla Junior High School, MO Foster committed, participative teamwork in any environment! Today′s workplace is increasingly shifting from top-down, authoritative leadership to engendering participation from all the stakeholders in a team. In response to this ever-growing trend, R. Bruce Williams provides group facilitators with insights and research about teams working together to reach consensus and accomplish their goals. This revised edition presents current brain research and its imp...
Brain-Compatible Learning for the Block
"Provides a clear understanding of the instructor′s responsibilities when teaching in the block, explains what a brain-compatible class looks like, and gives sample lesson plans." —Randy Thompson, Educational Consultant "Educators who teach in a school system that utilizes block scheduling will find this text very useful." —Melissa Awenowicz, Coordinator of Field Placement University of Pittsburgh Use brain-friendly teaching strategies to maximize the benefits of extended time formats! Believing that block scheduling is one of the best environments for applying brain-compatible instructional methods, the authors have compiled a rich resource to show both novice and veteran teachers how...
36 Tools for Building Spirit in Learning Communities
"Revitalize the spirit of your school community and strengthen your common vision and purpose! Many of today's schools suffer from stress fractures as they struggle with challenges of achievement gaps, class sizes, differentiating instruction for diverse students, and responding to ever greater demands for accountability. Longtime facilitator R. Bruce Williams gets to the heart of the matter, emphasizing that change is not just external but also comes from within through revitalized individuals and strong culture. Williams provides administrators with essential tools to nurture the spirits of hard-working professionals and raise morale in their school communities. Each chapter ends with step...
Twelve Roles of Facilitators for School Change
This updated edition shows school leaders how to become powerful agents of school change. The author provides 55 tools to aid in the transformation and reform process, allowing all participants to develop skills that foster communication, consensus, and schoolwide support. This valuable resource outlines twelve roles based on the four main functions of effective facilitators: leading the collaboration and change process, providing skills training, acting as a resource consultant, and motivating and energizing the group.
Cooperative Learning
Cooperative Learning reveals some of the structural complexities involved in implementing authentic cooperative learning in the classroom. It also suggests that when full cooperative learning structures are implemented, the benefits in student achievement often can be astounding. Descriptions, decisions, designs, and developments, a simple four-part scheme, introduce and refine the skillful use of cooperative learning in the K-12 classroom.
Twelve Roles of Facilitators for School Change
Formerly a SkyLight publication. Required reading for anyone assisting in the process of school change, Twelve Roles of Facilitators for School Change clarifies the potentially complex and confusing roles of facilitators and offers useful guidance and solutions. For ease of use, the book divides the facilitator's job into 12 roles, each represented in a different chapter. For each role, the author provides: A description of the skills and tools needed for the role Instructions for using the tools Scenarios of how the role is implemented in a school change situation
A Hero in the Making
Gideon-A Hero In the MakingFrightened, defeated, oppressed and suffering from a severe case of poor self-esteem, Gideon was the most unlikely answer to his nation's need for a liberator and leader. But God has a way of choosing the most unlikely people to rise to greatness and even alter the course of history. Gideon-A Hero in the Making is a series of sermons that charts how God carefully, skillfully, patiently and miraculously makes and molds a man named Gideon into the hero that God intended for him to be and into the hero his nation sorely needed. God literally transforms the life of one of the "least of these" and uses him to deliver a nation. However, this book is not just a story of w...
Leading for Success
Poignant, real-life stories of successful leadership in business and education are woven throughout the dynamic book Leading for Success: Fourteen Lessons to Great Leadership. Each story is dedicated to describing a specific dimension that the authors assert is crucial to success, and storytelling is deemed critical to illustrate the import of each leadership dimension. The fourteen lessons are organized under four dominant themes: gathering relevant information, forging strategic direction, manifesting exemplary style, and providing occasion employee buy-in. The book is simple to grasp and its concrete examples make the points stick. Each lesson concludes with questions to help you connect ...
