Chủ Nhật, 27 tháng 8, 2017

The Grammar Teachers Activity a Day - 5 Minute Fundamentals Series Jossey Bass Teacher Grades 5-12

This must-have resource features 180 practical, ready-to-use grammar and usage lessons and activities–one for each day of the school year.


The activities included help students in grades 5-12 to acquire, improve, and expand their grammar skills, and become more adept and confident writers.

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The Dyslexia Checklist A Practical Reference for Parents and Teachers - Jossey-Bass Teacher

The Dyslexia Checklist is a valuable guide for parents and teachers that can help them better understand children and teenagers with dyslexia and other reading- and language-based disabilities.


The book relays the most current research available and is filled with practical strategies, supports, and interventions. Using these tools teachers and parents can accommodate the needs and strengthen the skills of students with reading and writing disabilities across all age levels.


The book is presented in a simple, concise, easy-to-read checklist format and is filled with useful advice and information on a wide range of topics.
* Explains what we now know about dyslexia from decades of research
* Contains games to strengthen a child's literacy and language skills
* Provides important information for hooking in reluctant and struggling readers
* Offers suggestions for enhancing skills in vocabulary, comprehension, composition and written expression, spelling, math, and more The book also provides information on the educational rights of students with dyslexia.

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The Differentiated Instruction Book of Lists - Jossey Bass Teacher

1-The Differentiated Instruction Book of Lists - Jossey Bass Teacher Grades 5-8
Hundreds of useful ideas for meeting the needs of each child The Differentiated Instruction Book of Lists is the definitive reference for DI for teachers in grades K-12. Ready for immediate use, it offers over 150 up-to-date lists for developing instructional materials, lesson planning, and assessment.
 
 
Organized into 12 convenient sections, the book is full of practical examples, teaching ideas, and activities that can be used or adapted to meet students' diverse needs. Coverage includes curriculum design, lesson planning, instructional strategies, assessment, classroom management, strategies by subject area (from Language Arts to Math to Physical Education), new media, etc.




This book offers teachers proven techniques for designing and delivering effective science instruction, measuring success, getting students to work together, and collaborating with other professionals.
 
 
The ready-to-use activities are tied to core curriculum standards for middle school students and each lesson incorporates adaptations for students with different learning needs.
 
 
Includes strategies for teaching a standards-based science curriculum
 
 
Contains a wealth of activities that can be adapted for learners of all abilities
 
 
Offers information for delivering effective instruction, measuring success, and student collaboration
The authors, both experienced teachers, offer a range of techniques, such as station/group activities, enrichment activities, and modifications for students with specific disabilities.

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The Algebra Teachers Activity a Day - 5 Minute Fundamentals Series Jossey Bass Teacher Grades 5-12

Fun-filled math problems that put the emphasis on problem-solving strategies and reasoning
 
 
The Algebra Teacher's Activity-a-Day offers activities for test prep, warm-ups, down time, homework, or just for fun. These unique activities are correlated with national math education standards and emphasize problem-solving strategies and logical reasoning skills. In many of the activities, students are encouraged to communicate their different approaches to other students in the class.
 
 
Filled with dozens of quick and fun algebra activities that can be used inside and outside the classroom
Designed to help students practice problem-solving and algebra skills
 
 
The activities address a wide range of topics, skills, and ability levels, so teachers can choose whichever best suit the students' needs.

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Teaching Content Outrageously by Stanley Pogrow - Jossey Bass Teacher Grades 4-12

A powerful instructional method for "hooking" students on academic learning
 
 
Drawing from a teaching model designed to banish boredom and student apathy, this book explains how dramatic practices can serve as powerful tools for enlivening lessons and captivating students, even the most resistant learners.
 
 
Filled with intriguing classroom examples, Pogrow shows how any teacher can make use of dramatic techniques, such as surprise, humor, fantasy, role plays, games, and simulations to create standards-based content lessons that are riveting, effective, and meaningful. The author explains how to design such lessons into any content area.
 
 
Stanley Pogrow (San Francisco, CA), a noted authority on teaching practices for disadvantaged students, is professor of educational leadership at San Francisco State University, where he coordinates the Educational Leadership for Equity Program.
 
 
Table of Contents
Contents
About This Book
About the Author
Acknowledgments
One Why Teach Outrageously in All the Content Areas?
Two Perspectives on Dramatizing Content Instruction
Three From Discipline to Outrageous Teaching: Classroom Use of Dramatic Techniques
Four How to Design Outrageous Lessons: Essential Steps
Five Outrageous Lessons: Examples from the Classroom
Six Suspense and Surprise: Why Outrageous Lessons Work
Seven Getting Started
Eight So…Let's Do It!
Appendix A The Origins of Drama
Appendix B Games and Quizzes—Selected Resources
Appendix C Simulation Units—Selected Resources
Appendix D Lesson Plans for the Sample Lessons
Appendix E Teaching Outrageously in the Early Grades
References
Index

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Teaching As Leadership by Steven Farr - Jossey Bass

The Teaching As Leadership framework inspires teachers to: Set Big Goals; Invest Students and Their Families; Plan Purposefully; Execute Effectively; Continuously Increase Effectiveness; Work Relentlessly. The results are better educational outcomes for our nation's children, particularly those who live in low-income communities.
 
 
Inspires educators to be leaders in their classrooms and schools
 
 
Demystifies what it means to be an effective teacher, describes key elements of practice and provides a clear vision of success
 
 
Addresses the challenges every teacher, in every classroom, faces on a daily basis
An accompanying website includes a wealth of tools, videos, sample lessons, discussion boards, and case studies.

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Supported Literacy for Adolescents - Jossey Bass Teacher Grades 6-12

Supported Literacy for Adolescents, written by nationally recognized experts, introduces an innovative and field-tested instructional framework for preparing secondary students to succeed academically in a fast-changing and globally networked world.
 
 
 
Filled with examples from science, history, literature, and special education classrooms, the book shows how teachers can enable diverse students, including under-performers, to develop critical thinking and other essential competencies along with the "multi-literacy" tools needed to engage in twenty-first century content learning.
 
 
 
 
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
The Authors
The Contributors
Acknowledgments
Education Development Center
Chapter One A New Vision of Adolescent Literacy
Chapter Two Inside the Supported Literacy Framework
Chapter Three Using the Framework to Teach Content: A Science Unit
Chapter Four Teaching Writing to Understand Text: A Fiction Unit
Chapter Five Meaning Making with Special Education Students
Chapter Six Responding to Adolescent Reading Difficulties
Chapter Seven Engaging the Whole School in Supported Literacy
Key Terms
Appendix A Lesson Unit for “Understanding Climate Change”
Appendix B Lesson Unit for “How Far Would You Go to Fit In?”
Appendix C Reading Assessment: Sample Diagnostic Tests
Appendix D A Schoolwide Approach to Reading Difficulties
Appendix E Digital and Multimedia Tools for Content Inquiry
References
Index

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