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Explains how to use reflection to help students decipher their own learning needs and engage in deep, thought-provoking discourse about progress. Filled with practical tips, innovative ideas, and sample reflections, this book shows you how to incorporate self-assessment in ways that encourage students to grow into mindful, receptive learners.

As digital natives, our students are certainly at home online, but how much do they know about using the Internet as a research tool? Do they know how to ask the right questions, find the best and most credible resources, evaluate the "e;facts"e; they come across, and avoid plagiarism and copyright violations when they incorporate others' work into their own? For too many, the answer is noNand research projects intended to engage students in independent learning wind up wasting time or creating incomplete or faulty understandings.In this step-by-step guide, classroom veteran Erik Palmer explains how to teach students at all grade levels to conduct deeper, smarter, and more responsible research in an online environment. You'll find practical lesson ideas for every stage of the research process and dozens of tips and strategies that will build your students' Internet literacy, establish valuable academic habits, and foster skills for lifelong learning.Note: This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book.

How can school leaders use technology to be more effective? In this book, award-winning blogger and educational technology expert Steven Anderson explains how and why leaders should use technology and outlines what should be in every leader's digital toolkit.

Combining the goals of the Common Core with the principles of differentiation, differentiated instruction experts Carol Ann Tomlinson and Marcia Imbeau present an eight-step process to help teachers make rich, intellectually rigorous curriculum accessible to a very broad range of students.

Explores what types of assignments are worth engaging online, how teachers and students can leverage global interactions to improve their work, and how teachers can assess digital projects and other work. Along the way, Fisher offers practical advice on rigor and relevance, digital citizenship, formative assessment, and digital portfolios.

Based on research from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the experiences of nearly 3,000 teachers across the United States, Vicki Phillips and Lynn Olson reveal multiple ways to identify effective teaching and provide teachers with actionable, reliable information they can trust to continuously improve their performance.

Reading comes easily to some students, but many struggle with some part of this complex process that requires many areas of the brain to operate together through an intricate network of neurons.As a classroom teacher who has also worked as a neurologist, Judy Willis offers a unique perspective on how to help students not only learn the mechanics of reading and comprehension, but also develop a love of reading. She shows the importance of establishing a nonthreatening environment and provides teaching strategies that truly engage students and help them* Build phonemic awareness* Manipulate patterns to improve reading skills* Improve reading fluency* Combat the stress and anxiety that can inhibit reading fluency* Increase vocabulary*Overcome reading difficulties that can interfere with comprehensionBy enriching your understanding of how the brain processes language, emotion, and other stimuli, this book will change the way you understand and teach reading skills--and help all your students become successful readers.Note: This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book.

Crafting a set of standards that are at once manageable, attainable, and good for all students has been elusive. With 10 years of research and work in more than 300 schools to guide them, Strong, Silver, and Perini offer four standards that will help all students meet the various standards dictated by states, regions, and districts. Rigor: helping students make sense of challenging texts and ideas. Thought: helping students become adept users of powerful learning disciplines. Diversity: helping students understand themselves and others. Authenticity: helping students apply what they learn to the real world.In this book, the authors go beyond simply showing what each standard looks like in various school settings. They provide research-based teaching strategies that can help all students meet each standard along with assessment practices that allow schools and teachers to respond thoughtfully to the diversity of students' needs.Drawing from the work of educators across the country, the book demonstrates that manageable standards-when married to practical approaches to instruction and assessment-can prepare students to perform well on state tests while preserving the democratic traditions of U.S. education.

This book explores how school leaders can develop responsive, personalized, and differentiated classrooms classrooms in which teachers attend to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students. Chapters discuss the theory behind this approach, the conditions that are necessary

Equips general classroom teachers with the information and strategies they need to spot, advocate for, engage, and challenge exceptional learners in their classrooms.

Presents the story of Ana, a newcomer to the US and, in a month-by-month format, reveals how assessment affects students, teachers, families, and school leaders. This book shows teachers how to collect, analyse, and act upon data about multilingual learners, with the goal of improving instruction for this growing population of students.

Self-regulated learning can be taught - in every content area and at every grade level, from preK to high school. In this resource, Carrie Germeroth and Crystal Day-Hess present instructional strategies and ideas you can implement in your classroom to put all your students on the path to positive, empowered learning and greater academic success.