Blueprint for Student Success

A Guide to Research-Based Teaching Practices K-12
Susan J. Jones - Educational consultant, St. Augustine, FL
Blueprint for Student Success
February 2003 | 168 pages | Corwin
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Enhance students' higher-level thinking skills, engage their brains, and build their self-esteem and achievement!

Expert teacher and trainer Susan J. Jones presents a no-nonsense, reality-based approach to classroom instruction that will help learners at all levels achieve lifelong success. Her expert knowledge covers a generous collection of teaching strategies, activities, and applications that add up to a blueprint for sound instructional delivery and student success.

Innovative topics Jones discusses include:

  • Laying the groundwork for learning and organizing experiences for understanding
  • Illustrating the framework for secure change in the classroom and identifying the big picture for learning
  • Demonstrating how to engage the brain's capacity for making connections in order to enhance the learning process
  • Transferring learning to real life and facilitating the recall process
  • Feedback, assessment, evaluation, and determining mastery learning

Blueprint for Student Success is a dynamic book that stresses the importance of learning through discovery, creativity, application, adaptation, and high-level thinking. Jones reiterates the need for a positive atmosphere, rituals, and procedures, enabling educators in turn to strengthen students' knowledge and achievement, resulting in lifelong success.

is a dynamic book that stresses the importance of learning through discovery, creativity, application, adaptation, and high-level thinking. Jones reiterates the need for a positive atmosphere, rituals, and procedures, enabling educators in turn to strengthen students' knowledge and achievement, resulting in lifelong success.

Contents

Preface

Preface

About the Author

About the Author

1. Laying Groundwork for Learning: Meaning and Memory

1. Laying Groundwork for Learning: Meaning and Memory

2. Fertile Fields for Learning: Supple as Cotton, Rigid as Steel

2. Fertile Fields for Learning: Supple as Cotton, Rigid as Steel

3. Get 'Em on the Line, Then You Can "Reel 'Em In"

3. Get 'Em on the Line, Then You Can "Reel 'Em In"

4. Add It Up: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

4. Add It Up: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

5. Paint Me a Picture, Show Me the Way: Reconciling the New with the Known

5. Paint Me a Picture, Show Me the Way: Reconciling the New with the Known

6. Get Real!: Transferring Learning to Real Life

6. Get Real!: Transferring Learning to Real Life

7. Who Said It Couldn't Be Done?: Blueprints for Student Success

7. Who Said It Couldn't Be Done?: Blueprints for Student Success

8. I've Got It!: Now How Do I Keep It?

8. I've Got It!: Now How Do I Keep It?

9. Hey, How Am I Doing?: Feedback in the Learning Process

9. Hey, How Am I Doing?: Feedback in the Learning Process

References and Additional Resources

References and Additional Resources

Index

Index

Description

Enhance students' higher-level thinking skills, engage their brains, and build their self-esteem and achievement!

Expert teacher and trainer Susan J. Jones presents a no-nonsense, reality-based approach to classroom instruction that will help learners at all levels achieve lifelong success. Her expert knowledge covers a generous collection of teaching strategies, activities, and applications that add up to a blueprint for sound instructional delivery and student success.

Innovative topics Jones discusses include:

  • Laying the groundwork for learning and organizing experiences for understanding
  • Illustrating the framework for secure change in the classroom and identifying the big picture for learning
  • Demonstrating how to engage the brain's capacity for making connections in order to enhance the learning process
  • Transferring learning to real life and facilitating the recall process
  • Feedback, assessment, evaluation, and determining mastery learning

Blueprint for Student Success is a dynamic book that stresses the importance of learning through discovery, creativity, application, adaptation, and high-level thinking. Jones reiterates the need for a positive atmosphere, rituals, and procedures, enabling educators in turn to strengthen students' knowledge and achievement, resulting in lifelong success.

is a dynamic book that stresses the importance of learning through discovery, creativity, application, adaptation, and high-level thinking. Jones reiterates the need for a positive atmosphere, rituals, and procedures, enabling educators in turn to strengthen students' knowledge and achievement, resulting in lifelong success.

Contents

Preface

Preface

About the Author

About the Author

1. Laying Groundwork for Learning: Meaning and Memory

1. Laying Groundwork for Learning: Meaning and Memory

2. Fertile Fields for Learning: Supple as Cotton, Rigid as Steel

2. Fertile Fields for Learning: Supple as Cotton, Rigid as Steel

3. Get 'Em on the Line, Then You Can "Reel 'Em In"

3. Get 'Em on the Line, Then You Can "Reel 'Em In"

4. Add It Up: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

4. Add It Up: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

5. Paint Me a Picture, Show Me the Way: Reconciling the New with the Known

5. Paint Me a Picture, Show Me the Way: Reconciling the New with the Known

6. Get Real!: Transferring Learning to Real Life

6. Get Real!: Transferring Learning to Real Life

7. Who Said It Couldn't Be Done?: Blueprints for Student Success

7. Who Said It Couldn't Be Done?: Blueprints for Student Success

8. I've Got It!: Now How Do I Keep It?

8. I've Got It!: Now How Do I Keep It?

9. Hey, How Am I Doing?: Feedback in the Learning Process

9. Hey, How Am I Doing?: Feedback in the Learning Process

References and Additional Resources

References and Additional Resources

Index

Index

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Blueprint for Student Success

A Guide to Research-Based Teaching Practices K-12


February 2003 | 168 pages | Corwin

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Enhance students' higher-level thinking skills, engage their brains, and build their self-esteem and achievement!

Expert teacher and trainer Susan J. Jones presents a no-nonsense, reality-based approach to classroom instruction that will help learners at all levels achieve lifelong success. Her expert knowledge covers a generous collection of teaching strategies, activities, and applications that add up to a blueprint for sound instructional delivery and student success.

Innovative topics Jones discusses include:

  • Laying the groundwork for learning and organizing experiences for understanding
  • Illustrating the framework for secure change in the classroom and identifying the big picture for learning
  • Demonstrating how to engage the brain's capacity for making connections in order to enhance the learning process
  • Transferring learning to real life and facilitating the recall process
  • Feedback, assessment, evaluation, and determining mastery learning

Blueprint for Student Success is a dynamic book that stresses the importance of learning through discovery, creativity, application, adaptation, and high-level thinking. Jones reiterates the need for a positive atmosphere, rituals, and procedures, enabling educators in turn to strengthen students' knowledge and achievement, resulting in lifelong success.

is a dynamic book that stresses the importance of learning through discovery, creativity, application, adaptation, and high-level thinking. Jones reiterates the need for a positive atmosphere, rituals, and procedures, enabling educators in turn to strengthen students' knowledge and achievement, resulting in lifelong success.

Table Of Contents:

  • Preface
  • About the Author
  • 1. Laying Groundwork for Learning: Meaning and Memory
  • 2. Fertile Fields for Learning: Supple as Cotton, Rigid as Steel
  • 3. Get 'Em on the Line, Then You Can "Reel 'Em In"
  • 4. Add It Up: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts
  • 5. Paint Me a Picture, Show Me the Way: Reconciling the New with the Known
  • 6. Get Real!: Transferring Learning to Real Life
  • 7. Who Said It Couldn't Be Done?: Blueprints for Student Success
  • 8. I've Got It!: Now How Do I Keep It?
  • 9. Hey, How Am I Doing?: Feedback in the Learning Process
  • References and Additional Resources
  • Index

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