Strategic Classroom Design

by Jessica Martin (Educational consultant)

Author	: Jessica Martin (Educational consultant)
Publisher	: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages	:
Release	: 2019-11
Genre	: Classroom environment
ISBN	: 9780325109152

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"This book by first-time Heinemann author Jessica Martin is about creating structure and environment to address classroom management issues. Most importantly, it highlights the necessity of co-designing with students-not just for students. Jessica spent a lot of time in real classrooms (especially west coast settings) to collect ideas and capture a multitude of design options that will offer flexible, inclusive learning"--

Understanding by Design

by Grant P. Wiggins

Author	: Grant P. Wiggins
Publisher	: ASCD
Total Pages	: 383
Release	: 2005
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1416600353

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What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

The Strategic Teacher

by Harvey F. Silver

Author	: Harvey F. Silver
Publisher	: ASCD
Total Pages	: 290
Release	: 2007-10-15
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1416616977

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Are you looking for high-impact, research-based strategies to transform your students into high-achieving and inspired learners? In The Strategic Teacher, you'll find a repertoire of strategies designed and proven to meet today's high standards and reach diverse learners. Twenty reliable, flexible strategies (along with dozens of variations) are organized into these groups of instruction: *mastery style to emphasize the development of student memory; *understanding style to expand students' capacities to reason and explain; *self-expressive style to stimulate and nourish students' imaginations and creativity; *interpersonal style to help students find meaning in the relationships they forge as partners and team members, united in the act of learning; and *four-style strategies that integrate all four styles. To guide teachers in delivering content to students, the authors started with the best research-based teaching and learning strategies and created a tool called the Strategic Dashboard. The dashboard provides information about each teaching strategy in a concise, visual profile; it is also designed to document how you incorporate current, highly respected research into your instructional plans. For each strategy, you'll find the following information: *a brief introduction to the strategy; *an example of a teacher using the strategy in the classroom; *the research base supporting the strategy and how the strategy benefits students; *how to implement the strategy using a list of clear steps; *guidance through the planning process, providing steps, examples, and suggestions for designing superior lessons; and *additional tools, strategies, and resources for adapting and expanding the use of each strategy. The authors have combined their years of research and practice to deliver reliable, high-impact, flexible teaching and learning strategies grounded in current, highly regarded research to teachers at all levels of experience.

Classroom Instruction that Works

by Robert J. Marzano

Author	: Robert J. Marzano
Publisher	: ASCD
Total Pages	: 187
Release	: 2001
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 0871205041

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Describes nine different teaching strategies which have been proven to have positive effects on student learning and explains how those strategies can be incorporated into the classroom.

Strategic Co-teaching in Your School

by Richael Barger-Anderson

Author	: Richael Barger-Anderson
Publisher	: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2012-12-15
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 9781598571660

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This text gives readers a detailed, step-by-step guide to the research-based 'Co-Design Model', an innovative, schoolwide approach used in districts nationwide to strengthen collaboration and inclusion.

Designing Effective Classroom Management

by Jason E. Harlacher

Author	: Jason E. Harlacher
Publisher	: Solution Tree Press
Total Pages	: 182
Release	: 2015-06-19
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 0990345866

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Discover the components of proactive classroom management. With this practical, step-by-step guide, teachers and school administrators will uncover five components that help improve student achievement and decrease classroom problems. Create clear expectations and rules, establish procedures and structure, reinforce expectations, actively engage students, and manage misbehavior. Learn how to develop individualized behavior plans to help students who continue to struggle.

Engagement by Design

by Douglas Fisher

Author	: Douglas Fisher
Publisher	: Corwin Press
Total Pages	: 193
Release	: 2017-08-19
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1506394469

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The focus of this book is to provide teachers with the tools to cultivate engaged learners, which includes developing healthy relationships with their students, based on research suggesting that positive teacher-student relationships improve achievement.

Universal Design for Learning in the Classroom

by Tracey E. Hall

Author	: Tracey E. Hall
Publisher	: Guilford Press
Total Pages	: 177
Release	: 2012-07-31
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1462506313

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"Clearly written and well organized, this book shows how to apply the principles of universal design for learning (UDL) across all subject areas and grade levels. The editors and contributors describe practical ways to develop classroom goals, assessments, materials, and methods that use UDL to meet the needs of all learners. Specific teaching ideas are presented for reading, writing, science, mathematics, history, and the arts, including detailed examples and troubleshooting tips. Particular attention is given to how UDL can inform effective, innovative uses of technology in the inclusive classroom. Subject Areas/Keywords: assessments, classrooms, content areas, curriculum design, digital media, educational technology, elementary, inclusion, instruction, learning disabilities, literacy, schools, secondary, special education, supports, teaching methods, UDL, universal design Audience: General and special educators in grades K-8, literacy specialists, school psychologists, administrators, teacher educators, and graduate students"--

The Boundless Classroom

by Nathan Lang-Raad

Author	: Nathan Lang-Raad
Publisher	: International Society for Technology in Education
Total Pages	: 242
Release	: 2022-08-12
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1564849368

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Discover how to plan effective blended instruction with purpose and intention with help from this definitive, practical guide to lesson design. A global pandemic hit our world and education has forever changed. But have your instructional practices changed? Teachers must now leverage technology to provide students with high-quality teaching and learning experiences that transcend a traditional classroom’s walls. This is a historic opportunity to abandon antiquated teaching practices and reimagine instruction in ways that boost learning outcomes and prepare students for living and working in the digital age. This book offers guidance for creating and sustaining rigorous and engaging blended learning solutions. Opening with lessons learned from the pandemic, the book addresses impacts on lesson design and delivery, student engagement, assessment, and teacher training and PD. The following chapters build on and address these experiences, with each chapter featuring strategies and examples of how to implement effective approaches to lesson design for blended and online instruction. This book: • Explores seven different blended learning models, with strategies and suggestions for implementing each one. • Provides detailed guidance for planning a blended learning curriculum, from establishing a digital infrastructure to integrating students into a learning management system (LMS) to mapping a course scope and sequence. • Provides step-by-step design essentials for developing a pacing guide and creating effective blended and virtual lessons. • Features downloadable templates, checklists and guided professional learning tasks in every chapter to help design virtual and blended lessons. • Includes strategies for implementing authentic, student-led assessments. The book is sure to meet the needs of varying practitioners who are eager to learn about designing successful blended learning courses and understanding what makes each course work. Audience: K-12 teachers and instructional designers; faculty in higher education programs