Best Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners

What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do
Randi B. Sofman - Educational Consultant, Keene, NH
Best Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners
March 2004 | 184 pages | Corwin
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How are the best teachers in our nation reaching students?

Educators are always challenged to motivate students to learn, working hard to identify learning standards as well as to find creative and meaningful ways of incorporating them into their classrooms. Best Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners is your guide to how award-winning teachers reach every child and provide what each learner needs to succeed.

Randi Stone's newest best-practice collection takes its cue from the No Child Left Behind legislation, using its theme to create a one-of-a-kind educational resource that provides exciting, insightful classroom strategies from 43 of the best teachers in the country! These ideas cover all areas of your curriculum and all of your learners. You will find:

  • Content strategies for differentiating social studies, reaching reluctant readers, and teaching mathphobic learners and the "scientifically challenged"
  • Innovative methods for reaching at-risk and special learners coping with autism, Asperger's syndrome, ADHD, shyness, poverty, and other challenges
  • Teaching with technology, rubrics, culminating activities, and service learning
  • Using multiple intelligences, learning styles, affinity groups, and reflection in the classroom
  • Reaching students through fine arts, physical movement, humor, and more

All students deserve quality instruction focused on individual needs as well as on the academic standards to which educators are held accountable. Help change your students' attitudes about themselves and their abilities!

Contents

Preface

Preface

About the Author

About the Author

About the Contributors

  • 1. Language Arts to Reach All Learners
  • Hometown Hero
  • Reading the First Day
  • Using Technology With Struggling Readers and Writers
  • Using Physical Movement to Motivate At-Risk Students to Read
  • Educating One Child at a Time
  • Using Assessment to Drive Instruction
  • Motivating Middle Schoolers
  • Inspiring a Reluctant Reader
  • The Four-Block Literacy Model: Reaching All Learners
  • Planning for Differentiated Instruction at the High School Level
  • 2. Math Techniques to Reach Students
  • Techniques and Strategies to Help Low Achievers in Mathematics
  • Convincing Mathphobics That They Can Be Successful in Math
  • Empowering Students to Accept Challenges
  • 3. Teaching with Technology
  • Technology and ADHD
  • Technology and Shyness
  • Using Technology to Reach At-Risk Students
  • 4. Teaching Techniques
  • Reaching a Child With Asperger Syndrome
  • For Autism, Consistency Is Essential
  • Magic Happens Here
  • High-End Learners: Providing Support
  • Catching a Student Being Good
  • 5. Science to Reach All Learners
  • The Big Hole River Education Program
  • Where Does Your Burger Come From?
  • Enhancing Curriculum Through a Student Space Program
  • Bringing the Outside Into Your Classroom to Reach Students of All Levels
  • Reaching All Learners: One Approach
  • Teaching Chemistry-Challenged Students
  • Using Culminating Activities to Reach All Learners
  • The Middle School Means Success Program
  • An Out of this World Experience!
  • Addressing Gender Equity Issues Through Alternative Lesson Design Methods
  • Using Hands-On Science and Math to Engage All Learners
  • Using Checkpoints to Increase Compliane
  • Making Science Come Alive
  • 6. Teaching With Styles
  • Active Introduction to a New Classroom
  • Establishing a Schoolwide Club
  • Using Multiple Intellligences in the Classroom
  • Reaching Special Needs Students Through a Classroom Business
  • The Use of Service Learning
  • Humor in the Classroom
  • Life's Unnerving Little Habits
  • Using Affinity Groups to Promote Professional Development and Enhance School Climate
  • Raising Citizens
  • Weekly Reflections
  • My Daily Rubric
  • 7. Reaching All Learners With Social Studies
  • Differentiated Instruction to Reach All Learners: Geography
  • Research-Based Teaching Practices to Reach All Learners
  • Differentiated Instruction to Reach All Learners: Economics
  • Engaging All Learners in Social Studies
  • 8. Reaching Students Through Fine Arts
  • When Problems of Poverty Interfere With Schooling: Music as a Path to Success
  • Project Van Go: An Art Outreach to Remote and Rural Schools

Index

Index

Description

How are the best teachers in our nation reaching students?

Educators are always challenged to motivate students to learn, working hard to identify learning standards as well as to find creative and meaningful ways of incorporating them into their classrooms. Best Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners is your guide to how award-winning teachers reach every child and provide what each learner needs to succeed.

Randi Stone's newest best-practice collection takes its cue from the No Child Left Behind legislation, using its theme to create a one-of-a-kind educational resource that provides exciting, insightful classroom strategies from 43 of the best teachers in the country! These ideas cover all areas of your curriculum and all of your learners. You will find:

  • Content strategies for differentiating social studies, reaching reluctant readers, and teaching mathphobic learners and the "scientifically challenged"
  • Innovative methods for reaching at-risk and special learners coping with autism, Asperger's syndrome, ADHD, shyness, poverty, and other challenges
  • Teaching with technology, rubrics, culminating activities, and service learning
  • Using multiple intelligences, learning styles, affinity groups, and reflection in the classroom
  • Reaching students through fine arts, physical movement, humor, and more

All students deserve quality instruction focused on individual needs as well as on the academic standards to which educators are held accountable. Help change your students' attitudes about themselves and their abilities!

Contents

Preface

Preface

About the Author

About the Author

About the Contributors

  • 1. Language Arts to Reach All Learners
  • Hometown Hero
  • Reading the First Day
  • Using Technology With Struggling Readers and Writers
  • Using Physical Movement to Motivate At-Risk Students to Read
  • Educating One Child at a Time
  • Using Assessment to Drive Instruction
  • Motivating Middle Schoolers
  • Inspiring a Reluctant Reader
  • The Four-Block Literacy Model: Reaching All Learners
  • Planning for Differentiated Instruction at the High School Level
  • 2. Math Techniques to Reach Students
  • Techniques and Strategies to Help Low Achievers in Mathematics
  • Convincing Mathphobics That They Can Be Successful in Math
  • Empowering Students to Accept Challenges
  • 3. Teaching with Technology
  • Technology and ADHD
  • Technology and Shyness
  • Using Technology to Reach At-Risk Students
  • 4. Teaching Techniques
  • Reaching a Child With Asperger Syndrome
  • For Autism, Consistency Is Essential
  • Magic Happens Here
  • High-End Learners: Providing Support
  • Catching a Student Being Good
  • 5. Science to Reach All Learners
  • The Big Hole River Education Program
  • Where Does Your Burger Come From?
  • Enhancing Curriculum Through a Student Space Program
  • Bringing the Outside Into Your Classroom to Reach Students of All Levels
  • Reaching All Learners: One Approach
  • Teaching Chemistry-Challenged Students
  • Using Culminating Activities to Reach All Learners
  • The Middle School Means Success Program
  • An Out of this World Experience!
  • Addressing Gender Equity Issues Through Alternative Lesson Design Methods
  • Using Hands-On Science and Math to Engage All Learners
  • Using Checkpoints to Increase Compliane
  • Making Science Come Alive
  • 6. Teaching With Styles
  • Active Introduction to a New Classroom
  • Establishing a Schoolwide Club
  • Using Multiple Intellligences in the Classroom
  • Reaching Special Needs Students Through a Classroom Business
  • The Use of Service Learning
  • Humor in the Classroom
  • Life's Unnerving Little Habits
  • Using Affinity Groups to Promote Professional Development and Enhance School Climate
  • Raising Citizens
  • Weekly Reflections
  • My Daily Rubric
  • 7. Reaching All Learners With Social Studies
  • Differentiated Instruction to Reach All Learners: Geography
  • Research-Based Teaching Practices to Reach All Learners
  • Differentiated Instruction to Reach All Learners: Economics
  • Engaging All Learners in Social Studies
  • 8. Reaching Students Through Fine Arts
  • When Problems of Poverty Interfere With Schooling: Music as a Path to Success
  • Project Van Go: An Art Outreach to Remote and Rural Schools

Index

Index

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Best Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners

What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do


March 2004 | 184 pages | Corwin

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How are the best teachers in our nation reaching students?

Educators are always challenged to motivate students to learn, working hard to identify learning standards as well as to find creative and meaningful ways of incorporating them into their classrooms. Best Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners is your guide to how award-winning teachers reach every child and provide what each learner needs to succeed.

Randi Stone's newest best-practice collection takes its cue from the No Child Left Behind legislation, using its theme to create a one-of-a-kind educational resource that provides exciting, insightful classroom strategies from 43 of the best teachers in the country! These ideas cover all areas of your curriculum and all of your learners. You will find:

  • Content strategies for differentiating social studies, reaching reluctant readers, and teaching mathphobic learners and the "scientifically challenged"
  • Innovative methods for reaching at-risk and special learners coping with autism, Asperger's syndrome, ADHD, shyness, poverty, and other challenges
  • Teaching with technology, rubrics, culminating activities, and service learning
  • Using multiple intelligences, learning styles, affinity groups, and reflection in the classroom
  • Reaching students through fine arts, physical movement, humor, and more

All students deserve quality instruction focused on individual needs as well as on the academic standards to which educators are held accountable. Help change your students' attitudes about themselves and their abilities!


Table Of Contents:

  • Preface
  • About the Author
  • About the Contributors
  • 1. Language Arts to Reach All Learners
  • Hometown Hero
  • Reading the First Day
  • Using Technology With Struggling Readers and Writers
  • Using Physical Movement to Motivate At-Risk Students to Read
  • Educating One Child at a Time
  • Using Assessment to Drive Instruction
  • Motivating Middle Schoolers
  • Inspiring a Reluctant Reader
  • The Four-Block Literacy Model: Reaching All Learners
  • Planning for Differentiated Instruction at the High School Level
  • 2. Math Techniques to Reach Students
  • Techniques and Strategies to Help Low Achievers in Mathematics
  • Convincing Mathphobics That They Can Be Successful in Math
  • Empowering Students to Accept Challenges
  • 3. Teaching with Technology
  • Technology and ADHD
  • Technology and Shyness
  • Using Technology to Reach At-Risk Students
  • 4. Teaching Techniques
  • Reaching a Child With Asperger Syndrome
  • For Autism, Consistency Is Essential
  • Magic Happens Here
  • High-End Learners: Providing Support
  • Catching a Student Being Good
  • 5. Science to Reach All Learners
  • The Big Hole River Education Program
  • Where Does Your Burger Come From?
  • Enhancing Curriculum Through a Student Space Program
  • Bringing the Outside Into Your Classroom to Reach Students of All Levels
  • Reaching All Learners: One Approach
  • Teaching Chemistry-Challenged Students
  • Using Culminating Activities to Reach All Learners
  • The Middle School Means Success Program
  • An Out of this World Experience!
  • Addressing Gender Equity Issues Through Alternative Lesson Design Methods
  • Using Hands-On Science and Math to Engage All Learners
  • Using Checkpoints to Increase Compliane
  • Making Science Come Alive
  • 6. Teaching With Styles
  • Active Introduction to a New Classroom
  • Establishing a Schoolwide Club
  • Using Multiple Intellligences in the Classroom
  • Reaching Special Needs Students Through a Classroom Business
  • The Use of Service Learning
  • Humor in the Classroom
  • Life's Unnerving Little Habits
  • Using Affinity Groups to Promote Professional Development and Enhance School Climate
  • Raising Citizens
  • Weekly Reflections
  • My Daily Rubric
  • 7. Reaching All Learners With Social Studies
  • Differentiated Instruction to Reach All Learners: Geography
  • Research-Based Teaching Practices to Reach All Learners
  • Differentiated Instruction to Reach All Learners: Economics
  • Engaging All Learners in Social Studies
  • 8. Reaching Students Through Fine Arts
  • When Problems of Poverty Interfere With Schooling: Music as a Path to Success
  • Project Van Go: An Art Outreach to Remote and Rural Schools
  • Index

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"Regardless of the subject area of instruction or the make up of given classroom, Best Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners will live up to its title and become a favored reference for any teacher, whether in a primary or public, rural or urban, preschool through high school school setting."
Wisconsin Bookwatch, July 2004

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