Classroom Techniques to Help Students Engage with Content
Can your students encode critical information into their long-term memories? Academic standards call for increased rigor, but simply raising complexity is not enough. Students must also know how to retrieve critical information and comprehend key features of the content. Teachers must strategically impart the skills students need to authentically engage with content so they can effectively process the learning and store it for future use. Processing New Information: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Engage With Content explores explicit techniques for mastering a crucial strategy of instructional practice: processing new information. It includes: Explicit steps for implementation Recommendations for monitoring if students are able to process new information Adaptations for students who struggle, have special needs, or excel in learning Examples and nonexamples from classroom practice Common mistakes and ways to avoid them The Essentials for Achieving Rigor series of instruction
Processing New Information: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Engage With Content explores explicit techniques for mastering a crucial strategy of instructional practice: processing new information.
Usher in the new era of school reform. The authors help you transform your schools into organizations that take proactive steps to prevent failure and ensure student success. Using a research-based five-level hierarchy along with leading and lagging indicators, you’ll learn to assess, monitor, and confirm the effectiveness of your schools. Each chapter includes what actions should be taken at each level.
How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement
For many years, the authors have been fellow travelers on the journey to help educators improve their schools. Their first coauthored book focuses on district leadership, principal leadership, and team leadership and addresses how individual teachers can be most effective in leading students—by learning with colleagues how to implement the most promising pedagogy in their classrooms
Schools can and do affect student achievement, and this book recommends specific-and attainable-action steps to implement successful strategies culled from the wealth of research data.
Schools can and do affect student achievement, and this book recommends specific-and attainable-action steps to implement successful strategies culled from the wealth of research data.
The Common Core State Standards present unique demands on students’ ability to learn vocabulary and teachers’ ability to teach it. The authors address these challenges in this resource. Work toward the creation of a successful vocabulary program, guided by both academic and content-area terms taken directly from the mathematics and English language arts standards.
In these cases, students can use a comparison matrix, which examines several
items according to several attributes. Like the Venn and double bubble diagrams,
the matrix structures students' comparisons and helps them identify meaningful ...
