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Blueprint for Student Success
A Guide to Research-Based Teaching Practices K-12


February 2003 | 168 pages | Corwin

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.

 
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
Key features
  • Research-based instruction that emphasizes brain-based learning and knowledge transfer to real-life situations.
  • Surveys and synthesizes research from Sylwester, Jensen, Marzano, Steinberg, Sousa, and other experts.
  • Covers memory, recall, challenge, risk, performance tasks, content, process, chunking, creativity, motivation, student assessment, and mastery.
  • Stresses students' critical thinking skills and development of self-esteem through achievement.
  • Generously illustrated with boxed features and learning activities.
  • Active teacher, trainer, professor, and leader, currently President-elect (2003) of Florida ASCD.

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