Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
How to Integrate the Curricula
"This book should make educators stop and consider exactly what they mean when they discuss curriculum integration." —Julie Prescott, Assessment Coordinator Vallivue High School, Caldwell, ID "The biggest strength of Fogarty′s work is its clear, concise organization centered on the guiding questions of each chapter." —John C. Baker, Eighth-Grade Social Studies Teacher Salem Middle School, Apex, NC Strategies for moving students towards more holistic and authentic types of learning! For both students and teachers, the mission is essential: to connect ideas, discern themes, and thread skills of various content areas into a cohesive whole. Yet, the question remains: "What does integrating...
Think About...Block Scheduling
Formerly a SkyLight publication. Block scheduling works, and Robin Fogarty will show you why. Starting with a quick overview of the benefits of block scheduling, she walks through different instructional strategies that can be utilized in block scheduling, such as cooperative learning, graphic organizers, and higher- order thinking. Finally, she covers curricular frameworks and discusses the Tri-Assessment Model in block scheduling. It's quick, concise, and immediately useful.
Invite! Excite! Ignite!
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 the stories that accompany them, will invite, excite, and ignite teachers from kindergarten to college. Each chapter includes a description of the guiding principle, a companion vignette, classroom examples, teaching and learning tips, and discussion questions. While designed for new and pre-service teachers, coaches, mentors, and seasoned veterans will also find new perspectives and ideas for their own practice and for mentoring newcomers to the profession.
From Staff Room to Classroom
This valuable guide offers a wealth of strategies for designing, presenting, and facilitating professional development with follow-up coaching that meets the unique needs of adult learners.
From Staff Room to Classroom II
Through their extensive experience conducting professional development sessions with educators nationally and internationally, the authors have acquired a vast compendium of effective presentation and facilitation strategies. Now, in their companion to From Staff Room to Classroom, they present 144 strategies for leading staff development workshops, professional learning communities, and staff meetings. These proven, easy-to-use activities are organized into four "morphological grids", with columns corresponding to the three principles for successful presentations: Openers, capture the audience's attention; Meat of the Matter, captivate with the information; Closers, close with keepers. Using different strategies from each column of a morphological grid, presenters can create a different presentation format every time. Ideas can be arranaged or rearranged according to personal preference, group needs, or as a random creative act. Designed for staff developers, school leaders, and professional learning community facilitators, From Staff Room to Classroom II makes planning creative and winning presentations effortless.
Brain-Compatible Classrooms
"An excellent guide for new and veteran teachers who are looking to empower students through brain-compatible lessons." —Heather Vaughn, Early Childhood Program Coordinator Albuquerque Public Schools, NM "A fine, useful update of Fogarty′s long-time search for appropriate practical classroom applications of cognitive neuroscience research." —Robert Sylwester, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Oregon Author, The Adolescent Brain Use the latest findings in brain research to build high-achievement classrooms! In recent years, much attention has been paid to the research findings on how the brain functions and how that understanding can be used to improve instruction and learn...
Nine Best Practices that Make the Difference
Through a meta-analysis of studies on instructional strategies, Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock (2001) have identified nine families of strategies that significantly increase student achievement.
Multiple Intelligences
Formerly a SkyLight publication. This edited collection from Robin Fogarty and James Bellanca consolidates the best research and writing available about Gardner`s multiple intelligences theory. Leading proponents of the thoughtful classroom introduce, examine, and support evidence that this theory is effective with all your students.
Ten Things New Teachers Need to Succeed
Help ensure your teaching success with these powerful professional tools! In a quick-reference format, this second edition offers 10 high-impact strategies to help new and experienced instructors succeed in the classroom. The author has organized topics to give teachers the option of studying and growing together by discussing and applying one chapter each month. Updated throughout, this easy-to-use resource recommends ways to connect with a mentor and offers readings, related film clips, discussion questions, and action steps for successful: Curriculum and lesson design Assessment and rubrics construction Discipline and classroom management Communication with parents, and more
