What Every Teacher Should Know About Effective Teaching Strategies

The essential bag of tools for teaching the standards-based curriculum for higher-level student learning and achievement! This concise collection of effective teaching strategies will be an invaluable guide for every teacher who knows that the way we teach is just as important as what we teach. Chapters cover: Making good decisions about instructional objectives Teaching tools for beginning activities Teaching tools for working with declarative information: vocabulary, facts, data, and more Teaching tools for procedural activities: constructing models, using procedural knowledge, and more Thinking tools and graphic organizers Verbal tools such as brainstorming, Socratic seminars, real world applications, and more Guidelines for lesson planning Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary Bibliography and Index

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Unleash powerful teaching and the science of learning in your classroom Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning empowers educators to harness rigorous research on how students learn and unleash it in their classrooms. In this book, cognitive scientist Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D., and veteran K–12 teacher Patrice M. Bain, Ed.S., decipher cognitive science research and illustrate ways to successfully apply the science of learning in classrooms settings. This practical resource is filled with evidence-based strategies that are easily implemented in less than a minute—without additional prepping, grading, or funding! Research demonstrates that these powerful strategies raise student achievement by a letter grade or more; boost learning for diverse students, grade levels, and subject areas; and enhance students’ higher order learning and transfer of knowledge beyond the classroom. Drawing on a fifteen-year scientist-teacher collaboration, more than 100 years of research on learning, and rich experiences from educators in K–12 and higher education, the authors present highly accessible step-by-step guidance on how to transform teaching with four essential strategies: Retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and feedback-driven metacognition. With Powerful Teaching, you will: Develop a deep understanding of powerful teaching strategies based on the science of learning Gain insight from real-world examples of how evidence-based strategies are being implemented in a variety of academic settings Think critically about your current teaching practices from a research-based perspective Develop tools to share the science of learning with students and parents, ensuring success inside and outside the classroom Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning is an indispensable resource for educators who want to take their instruction to the next level. Equipped with scientific knowledge and evidence-based tools, turn your teaching into powerful teaching and unleash student learning in your classroom.

The essential guide to lesson planning in the standards-based classroom! Use this clear-sighted guide to keep your focus on what your students need to know and be able to do. Based on state-of-the-art research, this guide will take you from pre-planning through reflection, evidence of learning, and teaching for transfer to real-life situations. Topics include: Pre-planning tools and backward design Using standards Building effective declarative objectives Designing behavioral objectives Helping students organize and store knowledge Evidence of learning: Do they understand? Can they use the information? Planning meaningful learning experiences Building connections between old and new knowledge Putting lesson planning into practice Specific parts of the lesson Declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge, and reflection Building a model for lesson planning Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary Bibliography and Index

"Emphasizes the importance of matching instructional strategies to the appropriate outcomes.Thia is very important!" —Cindy Harrison, Educational Consultant "My peers would benefit from having this handbook to guide new and struggling teachers and to inspire the expert teacher on staff. Practical suggestions give educators incremental steps toward increasing the active learning level within any classroom, without giving up control of content." —Beverly C. Eidmann, Principal, Arvada Middle School, CO Make a difference in student learning with the latest and best brain-based teaching strategies! Translating brain research into best practice, Donna Walker Tileston, award-winning author, educator, and trainer, offers teachers a simple and concise Strategic Learning Model applicable to all grade levels, content areas, and instructional settings. This systematic cycle focuses on five essentials that teach learners to plug in, power up, synthesize, outsource, and reflect on their learning. Based on the latest brain and educational research, this student-centered, teacher-friendly guide includes: A carefully chosen collection of instructional strategies for promoting the active transfer of knowledge to students′ long-term memory A step-by-step process for planning powerful lessons that make a difference in student learning Sample lesson forms and reproducible templates Sample strategies such as question-and-answer profiles, technology integration, mindjogs, KNLH, group memory, making predictions, cooperative learning, six-hat thinking, collaborative retelling, graphic organizers, thinking at right angles, plus-minus-interesting, and much more This is the teaching methods book for all teachers, instructional leaders, and curriculum designers who want to build students′ motivation, confidence, self-efficacy, and achievement.

The concise guide to differentiating instruction for special learners Teaching and learning strategies have a profound effect on students with disabilities as well as on gifted and talented students. This resource for the classroom teacher covers: Special education categories Special education regulations, laws, programs, and processes: IDEA, 504, referral, assessment, placement, IEP, and more Identifying and working with special learners Special learners in the regular classroom Helping students use a variety of modalities to process, store, and retrieve information Effective teaching and learning strategies for at-risk students: grouping strategies, peer tutoring, computer-assisted instruction, and more Differentiating content, process, and product for gifted students Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary Bibliography and index