Teaching With The Instructional Cha Chas

Author : LeAnn Nickelsen,Melissa Dickson
Publisher : Solution Tree
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 1945349956

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Teaching with the Instructional Cha-chas by LeAnn Nickelsen,Melissa Dickson Pdf

With foreword by Rick Wormeli Merging educational neuroscience with a formative assessment process and differentiated instruction, LeAnn Nickelsen and Melissa Dickson developed a four-step cycle of instruction -- (1) chunk, (2) chew, (3) check, and (4) change -- that has the power to double the speed of student learning. Compatible with any subject area, the book's brain-friendly teaching strategies and plentiful tools are designed to help transform students into active learners and independent thinkers. Educational neuroscience- and research-based teaching strategies to improve student achievement: Combine brain science with a formative assessment process and differentiated instruction to maximize student learning. Examine effective teaching strategies and differentiation practices so you can bump it up or break it down according to student needs. Consider the four-step instructional cycle and understand the components of chunk, chew, check, and change. Explore how the formative assessment process can double the speed of learning. Learn how to plan instruction and preassess efficiently so that daily learning targets and formative assessments enable each student to meet standards. Receive templates and teaching strategies that can be easily differentiated and implemented in daily lesson plans. Contents: Introduction: Maneuver Your Footwork With Four Steps Part I: Setting Up Your Classroom Dance Floor Chapter 1: Choreograph Your Instruction With the Cha-Cha Steps Chapter 2: Move Smoothly From Broad Ideas to Smaller Ideas Chapter 3: Get to Know Your Dance Partners Part II: Putting the Steps Together Chapter 4: Take Step One: Chunk (Instruct) Chapter 5: Take Step Two: Chew (Learn) Chapter 6: Take Step Three: Check (Evaluate) Chapter 7: Take Step Four: Change (Differentiate) Chapter 8: Finesse the Chunk, Chew, Check, and Change Cycle Epilogue: Swing Into Action With the Four Steps

Author : LeAnn Nickersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1945349964

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Author : LeAnn Nickelsen,Melissa Dickson
Publisher : Solution Tree
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 1945349956

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Teaching with the Instructional Cha-chas by LeAnn Nickelsen,Melissa Dickson Pdf

With foreword by Rick Wormeli Merging educational neuroscience with a formative assessment process and differentiated instruction, LeAnn Nickelsen and Melissa Dickson developed a four-step cycle of instruction -- (1) chunk, (2) chew, (3) check, and (4) change -- that has the power to double the speed of student learning. Compatible with any subject area, the book's brain-friendly teaching strategies and plentiful tools are designed to help transform students into active learners and independent thinkers. Educational neuroscience- and research-based teaching strategies to improve student achievement: Combine brain science with a formative assessment process and differentiated instruction to maximize student learning. Examine effective teaching strategies and differentiation practices so you can bump it up or break it down according to student needs. Consider the four-step instructional cycle and understand the components of chunk, chew, check, and change. Explore how the formative assessment process can double the speed of learning. Learn how to plan instruction and preassess efficiently so that daily learning targets and formative assessments enable each student to meet standards. Receive templates and teaching strategies that can be easily differentiated and implemented in daily lesson plans. Contents: Introduction: Maneuver Your Footwork With Four Steps Part I: Setting Up Your Classroom Dance Floor Chapter 1: Choreograph Your Instruction With the Cha-Cha Steps Chapter 2: Move Smoothly From Broad Ideas to Smaller Ideas Chapter 3: Get to Know Your Dance Partners Part II: Putting the Steps Together Chapter 4: Take Step One: Chunk (Instruct) Chapter 5: Take Step Two: Chew (Learn) Chapter 6: Take Step Three: Check (Evaluate) Chapter 7: Take Step Four: Change (Differentiate) Chapter 8: Finesse the Chunk, Chew, Check, and Change Cycle Epilogue: Swing Into Action With the Four Steps

Author : Moyles, Janet,Hargreaves, Linda,Merry, Roger
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335212132

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Interactive Teaching In The Primary School by Moyles, Janet,Hargreaves, Linda,Merry, Roger Pdf

* What is 'interactive teaching' in primary classrooms? * What do primary teachers and children do to interact effectively? * Are there benefits in such interactions to both teaching and learning? A research partnership of tutors and teachers strives towards answers to these key questions. This book is the story of this intriguing and exciting research project. The authors examine the practical and theoretical aspects that are key to understanding and undertaking interactive teaching in primary classrooms. The project is unique in using its own interactive processes, 'Reflective Dialogues', to help teachers make sense of their own teaching. This process includes capturing and analysing classroom sessions on video; and cameos of these classroom interactions are discussed throughout the book. The research context is the Literacy Hour in Key Stages 1 and 2. This new title is key reading for academics, researchers, teacher educators, policymakers and primary school teachers.

Author : Matt O'Leary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136316746

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Classroom Observation by Matt O'Leary Pdf

Classroom Observation explores the pivotal role of lesson observation in the training, assessment and development of new and experienced teachers. Offering practical guidance and detailed insight on an aspect of training that is a source of anxiety for many teachers, this thought-provoking book offers a critical analysis of the place, role and nature of lesson observation in the lives of education professionals. Illustrated throughout with practical examples from a range of education settings, it considers observation as a means of assessing teaching and learning and also as a way of developing teachers’ skills and knowledge. Key topics include: The purposes and uses of lesson observation The socio-political and historical context in which lesson observation has developed Practical guidance on a range of observation models and methods Teacher autonomy and professional identity Performance management, professional standards and accountability Peer observation, self-observation and critical reflection Using video in lesson observation. Written for all student and practising teachers as well teacher educators and those engaged in educational research, Classroom Observation is an essential introduction to how we observe, why we observe and how it can be best used to improve teaching and learning.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264007413

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Formative Assessment Improving Learning in Secondary Classrooms by OECD Pdf

This study features a collection of eight case studies of exemplary cases from secondary schools as well as international literature reviews and policy analysis related to formative assessment.

Author : Laura Robb
Publisher : Teaching Resources
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Individualized reading instruction
ISBN : 043990725X

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Teaching Reading with Think Aloud Lessons by Laura Robb Pdf

With this giant flip chart, you can teach comprehension to your whole class or small groups with great ease and impact. Or prop the chart up on an easel for students to use on their own! Two-page spreads show a strategy lesson on one side and on the other, a nonfiction or fiction passage with Robb's think aloud highlighted. Finally, your students can see the kinds of thoughts a reader makes to puzzle the meaning of a word, visualize, and so on. Includes lessons for 8 key strategies, including inferring, posing questions, making connections, discerning cause and effect, and more. Engaging journal writing prompts support students as they practice the strategies independently. For use with Grades 4 & Up.

Author : Philip Hubbard,Mike Levy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293329

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Teacher Education in CALL by Philip Hubbard,Mike Levy Pdf

This volume addresses the need for a more considered and systematic approach to teacher education and training in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), in all its forms: Technology Enhanced Language Learning, Network-Based Language Learning, Information and Communication Technologies for Language Learning and so on. The 20 chapters of the book are divided into five parts: (1) foundations of teacher education in CALL; (2) CALL degree programs; (3) CALL pre-service courses; (4) CALL in-service projects, courses, and workshops; (5) alternatives to formal CALL training. The chapters cover a broad range of levels, environments, countries, and languages. Rather than simply offering inspired speculation, the chapters provide practical information to readers, reporting on what has actually been done in a wide variety of teacher education programs and courses around the world. In many cases, the chapters describe how programs and courses have evolved, and include either qualitative or quantitative research, or both, to inform the structure of CALL courses, tasks and activities.

Author : Barbara Carnes
Publisher : Association for Talent Development
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781607283713

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Making Learning Stick by Barbara Carnes Pdf

Training may be a pleasant break from the usual routine, but too often the long-term results are lacking. With Making Learning Stick, you'll have a practical handbook to help ensure that transfer of training happens, so that what people learn in class is actually applied on the job, where it counts. This easy-to-use guide and resource details 20 low-cost techniques to integrate education (TIEs), ranging from use of podcasts to involvement of training buddies. Serving as both a step-by-step guide and an ongoing resource, this book provides sample forms and examples, plus a complementary website with additional materials. Your training efforts can evolve into a way of life for your trainees, and your organization will reap the long-term results that indicate successful transfer of training.

Author : Nancy Fordham,Alexa L. Sandmann
Publisher : Scholastic Teaching Resources
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123404589

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Teaching Reading Strategies with Literature that Matters to Middle Schoolers by Nancy Fordham,Alexa L. Sandmann Pdf

"Help students learn and apply key reading strategies while exploring different themes commonly taught in middle school, such as Forging One's Identity, Friendship, Making choices, and the Pioneering Spirit."--p. 4 of cover.

Author : Faridah Pawan,Kelly Ann Wiechart,Amber Warren,Jaehan Park
Publisher : Tesol Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : English language
ISBN : 1942799136

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Pedagogy and Practice for Online English Language Teacher Education by Faridah Pawan,Kelly Ann Wiechart,Amber Warren,Jaehan Park Pdf

Pedagogy - not technology - drives effective online instruction. The authors of this book discuss foundational theories of pedagogy and link those theories with their own practices in online courses for language teacher education and language teaching. Learn how the online medium offers opportunities to explore new and exciting possibilities in teaching and learning. Includes online resources.

Author : Nicola Call
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441108036

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The Thinking Child Resource Book by Nicola Call Pdf

In this new edition of a popular resource, the authors provide a wealth of practical suggestions on how to implement the most up-to-date research findings into how children learn best in early years settings. It is fully-updated with reference to all the latest initiatives including the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Every Child Matters. This practical resource includes ways to promote self-esteem and emotional intelligence; ideas for teaching through play, music and movement; activities for circle time; advice on managing behaviour positively and fostering relationships with parents and carers. This resource book can be used independently or as a companion to The Thinking Child, also in its second edition. Handy margin references direct you to the appropriate pages of the sister book should you wish to learn more about the theory and research behind the practical techniques. An indispensable resource for early years practitioners of all settings, this book will also appeal to trainee teachers and parents.

Author : Peter Geekie,Brian Cambourne,Phil Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Stylus Publishing, LLC.
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 1858560861

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Understanding Literacy Development by Peter Geekie,Brian Cambourne,Phil Fitzsimmons Pdf

This book presents an account of literacy learning based on what effective teachers and learners actually do. It demonstrates how literacy develops in social and communicative exchanges. Learning to be literate - - like all learning -- involves negotiating meanings with others, through whom learners clarify, confirm and expand their understandings of literacy and how they can use it. This approach demands a focus on learning itself, rather than on the alleged complexity of written language. Failure to learn is due to failure in communication and this book establishes a framework to enhance the understandings required of children learning to read. The book draws on videotaped research during literacy sessions in Australian schools and is principally addressed to primary teachers. It will also interest academics and teacher educators. This account of how children learn to be literate breaks new ground by presenting an account of literacy learning based on what effective teachers and learners actually do. The book demonstrates how literacy develops in social and communicative exchanges. Learning to be literate - like all learning - involves negotiating meanings with others, through whom learners clarify, confirm and expand their understandings of literacy and how they can use it. This approach demands a focus on learning itself, rather than on the alleged complexity of written language. Failure to learn is due to failure in communication and this book establishes a framework to enhance the understandings required of children learning to read. Based on videotaped research during literacy sessions in Australian schools, Understanding Literacy Development records the practice of three experienced teachers working in different schools, all of who use similar techniques in their classrooms. There is a class of 5-year olds, a class of 9-year olds, and a class in a special school of children with emotional and personality disorders. In each, the teachers' engagement with the students as they set about writing is recorded and analyzed so that we can see what succeeds, why, and how these approaches can be adopted in primary classrooms. Designed mainly for primary teachers, this book will also interest academics, teacher educators and students, and teachers of children with special needs.

Author : Dennis Shirley,Andy Hargreaves
Publisher : Solution Tree
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1942496680

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Five Paths of Student Engagement: Blazing the Trail to Learning and Success (Your Guide to Promoting Active Engagement in the Classroom and Improving by Dennis Shirley,Andy Hargreaves Pdf

This is a breakthrough book on student engagement. Join Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves, two award-winning authors and leaders in their field, on a profound educational quest that will take you through exciting and challenging terrain. Five Paths of Student Engagement will open your eyes, heart and mind and empower you to implement practices that lead directly to your students' well-being, learning, and success. By integrating psychological and sociological perspectives, and using inspiring examples from seven years of research, this book delves deeply into the what, why, and how of student engagement. It reveals who and what the true enemies of student engagement are, and shows you how to defeat them. It will enrich and reward your work for years to come. Utilize research-based strategies to promote active engagement in the classroom and build the foundation for student growth: Learn why active engagement is the new frontier of student achievement. Understand how engaging students means so much more than defeating boredom. Consider psychological and sociological theories that cast new light on engagement and motivation. Reflect on how engagement is about mystery and magic, meaning and purpose, and focus and mastery. Understand why increasing classroom engagement requires much more than surveys, rubrics and observation protocols. Learn strategies to battle all five enemies of engagement in order to engage students totally and motivate unmotivated students. Explore five clear paths of engagement that lead to improving student learning and success that all teachers and schools can embark upon immediately. Contents: Preface Chapter 1: From Achievement to Engagement--Two Ages of Educational Change Chapter 2: Theories of Engagement and Motivation--From Maslow to Flow Chapter 3: Three Myths of Engagement--Relevance, Technology, and Fun Chapter 4: The Five Enemies of Engagement--How to Defeat Them Chapter 5: Standardized Testing--The Archenemy of Engagement Chapter 6: The Five Pathways of Student Engagement--In Theory and Practice Chapter 7: The Promise of Engagement--A Battle for Change References Index

Author : Ann F. V. Smith,Gregory Strong,Maria Dantas-Whitney,Sarah Rilling,Lilia Savova
Publisher : Classroom Practice
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1931185611

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Adult Language Learners: Context and Innovation by Ann F. V. Smith,Gregory Strong,Maria Dantas-Whitney,Sarah Rilling,Lilia Savova Pdf

Adult Language Learners: Context and Innovation presents instructional practices that are particularly successful with adults. Adult language learners are goal oriented and direct their learning to fulfill particular needs or demands: to advance their studies, to progress up the career ladder, to follow business opportunities, to pass a driving test, to assist their children with homework, or simply to be successful users of the language. They usually require immediate value and relevance from their studies, and they often learn best when they are engaged in developing their own learning objectives. The volume examines learning environments as varied as Brazil, China, Iran, Japan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vietnam, always with an emphasis on classroom practice rather than theory. The book is divided into three main areas of education: language teachers as adult learners themselves developing their teaching practice; different means of expanding learner autonomy, an important trait of the adult language learner; and innovative classroom practices. By reading these chapters you will gain an overview of recent developments in adult language learning and of ideas and techniques that can be easily adapted to your own teaching context.