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EPI Lending Library
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Text describes how various technologies can be used to engage and support different learning activities, such as investigating, exploring, writing, modeling, community building, communicating, designing, visualizing, and assessing. The text is designed to help teachers guide their students’ use of technology to construct meaningful learning. By using these processes teachers also encourage their students to take on more responsibility and become active participants in their own learning. Through this approach, teachers help their K-12 students build the knowledge needed for successful test taking and a lifetime of meaningful learning.
The effective theory and research-based strategies and methods for integrating technology that educators find invaluable…now enriched with Educational Technology in Action: Problem-Based exercises for Technology Integration! This 2004 Update provides readers with hands-on practice applying chapter content to realistic classroom situations, resulting in practical decision-making skills they can use in their own classrooms.
Authenticity – Bringing in the voices of K-8 teachers and students, Literacy for the 21st Century will help you envision the opportunities and challenges that await you when teaching reading and writing.
This book features the hands-on approach with practical activities that build on theory taught in methods courses and can be used in the field with college supervisors to strengthen the link between theory and practice. The chapters move pre-service teachers through their practicum experiences sequentially, beginning with the question, “Why do you want to be a teacher?” then progressing to the creation of a portfolio, tips for the job search, and a checklist for setting up a first classroom.
A true nut-and-bolts general K-12 methods text, K-12 Classroom Teaching: A Primer for New Professionals is a core text for pre-service teachers who are taking introduction to teaching courses, field experience courses or general methods courses. It is a quick but thorough core text for alternative certification teachers. Its clear, reader-friendly language helps readers explore key aspects of classroom teaching including the context of teaching today, strategies for learning about students, planning and assessment, instruction and instructional strategies, classroom management and professional growth.
This book is written for any educator directly or indirectly involved in the K-12 education of culturally and linguistically diverse exceptional learners. It is appropriate for use with both practicing as well as pre-service educators in college or university courses that are designed to teach methods for assessing and educating culturally and linguistically diverse learners with disabilities. This book may also serve as a valuable resource for professional development staff, school administrators, school psychologists, and other related service providers as well as content teachers for identifying and selecting appropriate methods for meeting diverse needs in the classroom.
Written by teachers for teachers, this text offers a clear and current look at educational technology within a framework of teaching and learning to help pre-service and in-service teachers explore, evaluate and effectively integrate the full range of instructional technologies in their classroom.
Early Childhood Education 06/07 is one in a series of over sixty-five volumes, each designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current, carefully selected articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Within the pages of this volume are interesting, well-illustrated articles by educators, researchers, and writers providing effective and useful perspectives on today’s important topics in the study of early childhood education.
Comprehensive Classroom Management presents practical methods for creating a positive learning environment, working with behavioral problems, and dealing with a range of challenges in the K-12 classroom. This text uses real-life examples to help both pre- and in-service teachers understand and apply the principles of classroom management in their own classroom situations. Through numerous case studies, examples, and descriptions of specific strategies based on solid research and classroom experience, Comprehensive Classroom Management features classrooms ranging form kindergarten through twelfth grade. The book focuses on creating positive learning environments for students, and provides extensive, practical materials on both problem solving and building individual behavior change plans for students with behavioral problems.
The purpose of this text is to provide prospective elementary teachers with instruction that will assist them in developing a sound understanding of both the content and pedagogy of phonics.
This teacher manual presents user-friendly information on 10 classroom management plans, derived form an empirical research basis, for use with individual children or entire classes. Management plans are detailed for two common problems areas: 1) Disruptive behavior and rule violations, and 2) On-task and assignment completion problem.
Misunderstanding of special education is common, even among educators. Just what special education is, who gets it or who should get it, and why it is necessary are matters that relatively few teachers, parents, school administrators, or educators of teachers can explain accurately or with much confidence. This book will help readers build a foundation of understanding from which to fashion a realistic, rational view of the basic assumptions and knowledge on which special education rests.
Why is preparation so critical for literacy teachers? Because research tells us that it’s the teacher who makes the difference in effective reading instruction. Capable literacy teachers think about their teaching decisions and they understand and meet the needs of individual students. The new edition of Teaching Children to Read: The Teacher Makes the Difference emphasizes the teacher’s role in literacy development, pointing out the five pillars of effective reading instruction: teacher knowledge, assessment, effective practice, differentiated instruction, and family/home connections. Chapters are organized around each of these pillars to present a solid understanding of the teacher’s role in every aspect of literacy education.
Derived from Anita Woolfolk’s market-leading Educational Psychology, ninth edition, the most thorough, accessible, and authoritative text on the market, this new Active Learning Edition breaks educational psychology content into manageable “modules.” The Ninth Edition’s 15 chapters now appear as 42 briefer modules, which are easy to cover in shorter academic terms and will make learning easier for students. In addition to presenting comprehensive, expert coverage of all topics teachers need to understand about how students learn and all the classroom applications for which the author is justly renowned, the modules are grouped into clusters that allow for deeper context and background for each topic. Further, each module is a self-contained learning unit, with learning objectives and review questions (“Check Yourself”) that provide immediate reinforcement of key concepts and build students’ confidence in their grasp of the material.
Are you looking for new ways to help your new immigrant students and English learners succeed in school? Teaching English Learners and Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools provides you with practical, research-based approaches and strategies to ensure the inclusion and academic success of all students.
Are you looking for a methods book to facilitate literacy and academic development in your K-12 classroom? Based on a solid foundation in language acquisition and learning theory, this text shows you how to examine your own practice and design lessons that consider the individual needs of English language learners and accelerate their achievement. It is designed to help your students develop proficiency in both everyday and academic English while developing their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. The text focuses on high-level, high-quality, and high-expectation instruction with respect to language, literacy development, and academic achievement
This book provides pre-service and in-service elementary and middle school teachers and administrators with a handbook that introduces the interdisciplinary method and offers practical suggestions on how to plan for and implement the method in classrooms.
Are you prepared to meet the learning needs of your English language learners? Closely aligned to the TESOL standards, Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners offers you a wealth of practical strategies for enhancing student instruction through planning, supporting student involvement, building vocabulary and fluency, and strengthening comprehension. Each strategy is presented in a clear, step-by-step, procedural format, with scenarios that show how to use them in your classroom.
Are You Prepared to Teach Reading? Presents future teachers an opportunity to self-assess and monitor their understanding of reading development, assessment, and instruction. Covering the NCATE/IRA Standards for Reading Professionals, this concise and wide-ranging discussion of current findings on best-practice reading pedagogy provides a timely and thorough review to prepare pre-service teachers for licensure testing. The text includes a sample examination with classroom-based multiple-choice questions, short essays, and a well-developed case study. A collection of suggested readings directs readers to additional resources, ensuring their success as they prepare for licensure.
Teachers, Schools, and Society is designed to introduce you to the world of education and: How one becomes a teacher; Who the students are today-what student diversity means; What it means to be an effective teacher; What schools are like today; What is taught in schools today; Key issues in education-like the No Child Left Behind legislation-that have a large impact on how teachers teach; The history of education; What it means to have a philosophy of education; The role of the government in schools; The roles of law and ethics in education; How technology is used in education and; What your first classroom will be like.
With increasing demands being placed on teachers, those new to the profession need an understanding of what it truly means to be a professional. They need to enter their classrooms armed with the necessary skills to face those demands with aplomb and confidence. The purpose of this supplemental, nuts-and-bolts book is to provide new teachers with practical, yet theory-based approaches to becoming the professional teachers they dream of being.
This booklet was developed in response to pre-school to high school level teachers’ concerns regarding the management of their classrooms and productive relationships with administration, their colleagues, and parents and within their communities.
In this fourth edition of her best-selling book, renowned scholar Sonia Nieto explores the meaning, necessity, and benefits of multicultural education for students of all backgrounds. Intended for preservice and in-service teachers and educators, Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education looks at how personal, social, political, cultural, and educational factors affect the success or failure of students in today’s classroom. Expanding upon the popular case-study approach, the fourth edition examines the lives of 18 real students who are affected by multicultural education, or a lack thereof. Topics include racial, linguistic, religious, cultural, and sexual diversity. Social justice is firmly embedded in this view of multicultural education, and teachers are encouraged to work for social change in their classrooms, schools, and communities.
Quick Guide to the Text: Case Studies – Case studies are incorporated into nearly all chapters. These case studies provide realistic applications of concepts and principles of classroom management. They may be used as a basis for class discussions, or for self-study. Preparations for the School Year – Provides checklists that summarize key elements of classroom management: Room Preparation; Rules and Procedures; Accountability Procedures; Preparation for Beginning of School; Planning for Instruction; Planning for Cooperative Group Instruction. Activities and Problems – At the end of each chapter, several activities or problems are suggested to reinforce or extend ideas presented in the text. These can be used as individual or small-group assignments. Beginning of the Year – Planning and preparation for the beginning of the year emphasized. Designed to provide a concrete and systematic guide to this important time so that teachers will be able to focus their energies on what’s really important to attend to. Cooperative Learning – Cooperative Learning groups are increasingly being used in elementary and secondary classrooms. Text addresses managerial aspects of this instructional approach so that teachers who would like to use it have some guidance about what key areas they should address in their planning.
The Art of Classroom Management is written to provide teacher educators, teachers, administrators, those enrolled in preservice teacher preparation programs, and anyone who shares the belief that every child should have a fair chance to be successful in life with a comprehensive overview of the legal, ethical, and cultural issues associated with classroom management. Public school educators are addressing and increasingly diverse student population that brings with it a broad range of personal needs and interests. A one-size-fits-all approach to management cannot adequately serve teachers who seek to create calm, safe, and productive learning environments for all their students. It is time to expand our shared professional vision of what is meant by the term classroom management.
A Focus on Core Ideas and Helping You Understand Those Ideas Deeply: An emphasis on identifying, discussing, and summarizing core concepts and principles that matter in classrooms; A persistent focus on helping you discover more about yourself as a thinker and learner in Experiencing Firsthand exercises and other features; Practical teaching strategies and concrete classroom examples in tables and features, including Creating a Productive Classroom Environment, Principles/Assumptions, and Into the Classroom.
A Focus on Core Ideas and Helping You Understand and Apply Those Ideas: An even more tightly focused presentation, an even more accessible text; An emphasis on identifying, discussing, and summarizing core concepts and principles that matter in classrooms; A persistent focus on helping you discover more about yourself as a thinker and learner in Experiencing Firsthand exercises and other features; Practical teaching strategies and concrete classroom examples in tables and features including Creating a Productive Environment, Principles/Assumptions, and Into the Classroom.
One reality of today’s classrooms is the limited help available to teachers trying to support English learners’ literacy skills. The educators and researchers who developed Words Their Way understand this challenge. Their original text-a phenomenon in word study-provides the proven framework and application to allow students to develop literacy skills. And now they apply this approach to teaching English learners. Based on the same solid research, Words Their Way with English Learners helps you determine what your students bring with them from their home languages, where their instruction in English orthography should begin, and how best to move these students through their literacy development. Word study can be a powerful instructional method for teachers and their English learning students. With this text, you can evaluate students’ language needs. You can empower your students to grasp this new language at the word level, building skills to understand how English differs from their primary language and providing them with the skills to predict word meaning through spelling. Words Their Way with English Learners will help you build vocabulary, spelling, and word recognition skills in your English learners, giving them the foundation to master their new language.
Are you looking for classroom-tested content strategies to help your English Language Learners achieve academic success in your classroom? This user-friendly resource offers 102 practical instructional and assessment strategies built on a strong foundation of second language acquisition theories and principles that you can easily incorporate into your daily classroom instruction. All 102 strategies are concise and easy to follow with helpful guides to maximize your students’ performance potential at every level of English language development. These strategies address cultural considerations, instructional processes, difficulties of traditional testing, alternative testing formats, grading, and accountability in high-stakes tests.
This versatile and practical book helps pre-service and in-service teachers create a teaching portfolio that can be used effectively in their interviews and throughout their teaching careers. This manual provides clear, manageable, step-by-step guidelines and tips for professional portfolio development that can be followed by teachers at all stages of their careers. This new edition now includes a chapter on Digital Teaching Portfolios to help students learn to create portfolios on the web or on CD-ROM.
Today’s teachers must prepare all students to understand, master, and apply important concepts and skills in mathematics and science and become able problem solvers and inquirers. As someone who plans professional development, you are in a unique position to meet these challenges by designing more powerful professional learning programs-programs that deepen teachers’ content and pedagogical knowledge, improve teaching skills, explore student thinking, and build a learning community.
An invaluable resource for any teacher in search of new ideas! The new edition of this bestseller is packed with new activities and strategies for teaching reading. It weaves together the complex and varied strategic approaches needed to help students develop reading and spelling skills. Written by well-known author Patricia Cunningham, Phonics They Use offers a coherent collection of practical, hands-on activities that provide a framework for teaching phonics.
Practical in approach, this text focuses on how preservice and experienced teachers can demonstrate the attributes, acquire the competencies, and meet the standards essential to effective teaching. The framework for the text is the “Teacher Competency Profile,” which guides the preservice student’s professional development from basic teaching approaches to sophisticated strategies, methods, and skills. By identifying the essential competencies of teaching and providing guidelines for meeting professional standards, this text is also of value for use in seminars, workshops, and professional reading by practicing teachers.
The second edition of the best-selling case based introduction to teaching text, Introduction to Teaching: Becoming a Professional, is organized around three themes-Professionalism, Reform, and Decision Making-which provides the threads that bind the topics of the chapters together. As the only case-based introduction to teaching text, each chapter begins with a case study that provides a framework for the discussions that follow and helps the reader understand how chapter topics relate to the real world of teaching.
Student Teaching: A Process Approach to Reflective Practice encourages student or intern teachers and those pursuing alternative teacher certification to engage in reflective writing-the doors that lead to effective thinking, reflective practice, and reflective writing-the doors that lead to effective teaching based on sound pedagogy. Authentic teacher tasks are designed to invite beginning teachers to recall learning acquired through courses in art and sciences, content from the teaching major, and educational research and best practice. These reflective activities are process oriented and challenge each student or intern teacher to take ownership of the journey by actively engaging in a thoughtful examination of what they do in the classroom and the rationales that fuel their performance.
Based on a survey of thousands of comparisons between experimental and control groups, using a wide variety of instructional strategies in K-12 classrooms, across a variety of subject area, we were able to identify nine categories of instructional strategies proven to improve student achievement:
This handbook is intended as a self-study guide to the effective use of specific strategies in each of these nine categories. Although you can use this handbook without having read Classroom Instruction That Works, we recommend that you do so, particularly if you are interested I the research that underlies the recommendation in this handbook.
Computers in Education, Twelfth Edition, is one in a series of over sixty-five volumes, each designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current, carefully selected articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Within the pages of this volume are interesting, well-illustrated articles by technicians, educators, researchers, and writers providing effective and useful perspectives on today’s important topics in the study of computers in education.
Teaching in America, Fourth Edition, is a unique active learning text that provides pre-service teachers with comprehensive, current, and practical information about the profession of teaching and a realistic understanding of the foundations of education in America. The fourth Editions maintains its unique, engaging “working-text” style, providing pre-service teachers with extensive opportunities to interact with the text while establishing both the foundations of American education and a clear picture of the realities of contemporary teaching.
Principles and Standards for School Mathematics is intended to be a resource and guide for all who make decisions that affect the mathematics education of students in prekindergarten through grade 12. The recommendations in it are grounded in the belief that all students should learn important mathematical concepts and process with understanding. Principles and Standards makes an argument for the importance of such understanding and describes ways students can attain it. Its audience includes mathematics teachers; teacher-leaders in schools and districts; developers of instructional materials and frameworks; district-level curriculum directors and professional development leaders; those responsible for educating mathematics teachers; preservice teachers; school, state, and provincial administrators; and policymakers. In addition, the document can serve as a resource for researchers, mathematicians, and others with an interest in school mathematics. Principles and Standards has been produced by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), an international professional organization committed to excellence in mathematics teaching and learning for all students.
More than ever young adults are struggling with career and life decisions that can sometimes see overwhelming. Some return home to live with their parents, or find themselves in unsatisfying jobs, or lack a sense of direction in their lives. They suffer from what Dr. Mel Levine calls “work-life unreadiness,” which prevents them from making a transition to full adulthood and which can cause considerable anguish. In Ready or Not, Here Life Comes, Dr. Levine examines why many young people seem to stall before beginning their adult lives and shows how they can get back on track.
“DIFERENT MINDS LEARN DIFFERENTLY,” writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known learning experts and pediatricians in America today. Some students are strong in certain areas and some are strong in others, but no one is equally capable in all. Yet most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy. As a result, many children struggle because their learning patterns don’t fit the way they are being taught.
Make a list of your state’s standards. Then see how many of them you can meet with the easy and practical suggestions presented in Morning Meeting, Afternoon Wrap-Up. Within this simple meeting framework, experienced teacher and presenter Donna Whyte shares hundreds of ideas she’s used in her own classroom to: Keep kids focused and engaged; Encourage every child to participate; Get kids working together and building a sense of community in the classroom; Teach students to solve their own problems; Assess learning every day for every child-in minutes; Deal with problem behaviors quickly, effectively, and in a positive way.
Teachers often refer to gray-area children as slow learners, at-risk students, or the “tweeners.” These children qualify for no special education services. Without accommodations made for their particular learning needs, they are often in danger of falling between the cracks in the regular classroom.
Struggling learners, or gray-area children, are often called “tweeners” or “crackers” because they can easily fall between the cracks of the educational system. While they don’t qualify for special education services, they do need more help than other students in order to succeed in school.
Drawing on years of classroom experience, as well as from popular presentations at national educational conferences, the authors have compiled a collection of best practices and successful strategies that help students reach their full academic potential. With activities that range from literacy, math, and community building to assessment, management, and teaching tools, this invaluable resource will enable you to: capture students’ interest with dynamic, relevant, and meaningful work; discover tried-and-true ways to reach and teach special needs students; compact your curriculum for gifted students or for those who just need something more to do; work with individuals, small groups, or large groups without losing control of the classroom; create a child-friendly classroom where students work with and learn form each other; save time and effort with ready-to-use reproducibles; and much more!
(K-5): Donna VanderWeide, M.S.
Differentiated Instruction: Different Strategies for Different Learners contains 101 unique, practical, and easy-to-implement classroom-tested strategies. Designed with the busy teacher in mind, this resource will provide educators with everything they need-right at their fingertips: Strategies arranged by grade level within each of the six sections: Classroom Management, Community Building, Teacher’s Toolbox, Literacy, Math, and Assessment; Helpful graphics and brief explanations of how teachers can immediately and most effectively use strategies in their classrooms; Time-saving reproducibles and supplementary materials; A comprehensive recommended resources list sure to assist teachers in locating information on anything from curriculum issues to teaching practices.
The Qualitative Reading Inventory-4 continues to emphasize authentic assessment of children’s reading abilities, from the most emergent readers to advanced readers. With expanded coverage of critical areas of assessment, the QRI-4 is a valid research-based measure of reading improvement.
Every new headline about American students’ poor performance in mathematics and science leads to calls for reform for teaching. Educating Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology examines the key issues in the debate and offers a vision and recommendations for improving teacher education in science, mathematics and technology.
Provides a clear set of goals and guidelines for achieving literacy in mathematics and science was established. Designing Mathematics or Science Curriculum Programs has been developed to help state and district level education leaders create coherent, multi-year curriculum programs that provide students with opportunities to learn both mathematics and science in a connected and cumulative way throughout their schooling.
The National Science Education Standards set broad content goals for teaching grades K-12. For science teaching programs to achieve these goals-indeed, for science teaching to be most effective-teachers and students need textbooks, lab kits, videos, and other materials that are clear, accurate, and help students achieve the goals set by the standards. Selecting Instructional Materials provides a field-tested procedure to help education decisionmakers evaluate and choose materials for the science classroom. The recommended procedure is unique, adaptable to local needs, and realistic given the time and money limitations typical to school districts.
With the release of the National Science Education Standards, the National Research Council set board goals for teaching and learning science in grades K-12-so that all children would have the opportunity to experience the wonder and awe that learning science promises. Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards is the follow-up book that educators have been waiting for-a practical guide to teaching inquiry and teaching through inquiry. Clearly an important resource for all educators, it is especially relevant to those who must help others understand why science can’t be taught “the way it used to be.”
Are you prepared to teach in today’s diverse classrooms? The eighth edition of this well-respected text now enables you to apply your understanding of multicultural education. Real classroom videos-on ethnicity and race, class and socioeconomic status, gender and sexual orientation, exceptionality, language, religion, geography, and age-will help you relate to, understand, and celebrate micro-cultures you may encounter in your future classrooms.
Examines the methods, materials, outcomes, and technologies of past literacy practice.
Since the publication of the first edition in 1988, Reading Process and Practice has helped countless numbers of preservice and practicing teachers to better understand the reading process and to translate this understanding into practice in the classroom. This second edition will be a major resource for teachers who want to implement a whole language curriculum that bases reading instruction on what is currently known about how children learn and how they learn to read and write naturally.
Designed to improve skills, this innovative text offers a hands-on, step-by-step approach to reading skill development and application. Following a structured approach, skills are presented in logical sequence, broken down into small units for easy mastery. Students are provided with opportunities for interactive learning experiences through critical thinking/writing assignments that follow the reading selections. Assignments encourage students to apply newly learned skills to reading materials of their own choice outside this text.
Structured Reading offers a systematic, research-based approach for helping students improve their reading comprehension skills. Research in reading improvement consistently confirms that grade-point averages are raised significantly when instruction emphasizes the analytical and critical reading skills used in this book. Our approach in Structured Reading is grounded in psycholinguistic theory, based on the principle that readers improve not by reading about reading. Students learn best from guided, hands-on experience with the reading of complete, not excerpted, selections.
In learning prose surgery, students learn techniques for revising, editing, and proofreading your writing. Six chapters introduce them to basic revising and editing “operations,” and an Appendix provides practical help for generating and drafting papers. Throughout this self-teaching text, students learn by doing-adding details and support, cutting unneeded material, reorganizing, diagnosing coherence, trimming flabby sentences, and correcting sentence errors. As they probe for meaning-without taking shortcuts-students learn to write incisively.
Whether you are a student struggling through term papers, a business executive wrestling with budget proposals or a would-be novelist sweating through your first work of art, you know how painful the creative process can be.
Here are the texts of the experts, rich with questions for researchers and an important resource for professors and their students. They tell us where the reading field has been, is now, and might be going. The earlier editions of Theoretical models and processes of Reading are known to many of us, and readers of this edition will be eager to see what is new and to ponder the criteria for selection of what is old.
The purpose of this text is to provide prospective teachers with a sound, basic understanding of phonics content and strategies of instruction, and it is presented in the belief that teachers who are knowledgeable in phonics will be better equipped to effectively meet the many demands of teaching reading.
This book is written in the form of a story. Its core consists of ten sequential episodes that are set in a classroom. The story, told from the point-of-view of one of its character-a writing teacher, deals with both the theory and technique of sentence combining. While this teacher persona is based in part on my own classroom experience, it mainly grows out of my observations of excellent writing teachers in action.
This publication is one of many League efforts aimed at inspiring community college educators to take the strategic steps that will help provide the necessary information technology access and skill sets for a growing number of underserved and economically challenged populations. This publication is a call for community college educators to move beyond definition and dialogue about the Digital Divide and take actions. Specifically, this volume (1) defines and describes the Digital Divide in the community college context; (2) review the literature; and (3) describes model programs and successful strategies based on key recommendations.
Resource and Test includes every presentation with PowerPoint and Handouts that can be copied for use in classrooms.
Based on the New York Times bestseller The Essential 55, this workbook will provide the tools any parent or teacher needs to show a child how to act with consideration and respect, and how to receive the same from that child. The workbook provides a step-by-step guideline to help the reader utilize the rules, including ways to improve classroom learning and homework. To make it fun, there are dozens of games, quizzes, word searches, and riddles to get kids excited and proud of the effort they put forth. Every one of Ron Clark’s 55 rules is outlined here, with specific and fun suggestions to get kids to understand why each rule is important and how to implement it. |
