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Lesh, Bruce – Stenhouse Publishers, 2011
Every major measure of students' historical understanding since 1917 has demonstrated that students do not retain, understand, or enjoy their school experiences with history. Bruce Lesh believes that this is due to the way we teach history--lecture and memorization. Over the last fifteen years, Bruce has refined a method of teaching history that…
Descriptors: Evidence, Historical Interpretation, Historians, History Instruction
Wilfong, Lori – Eye on Education, 2013
Update your vocabulary practices to meet the Common Core and improve students' word knowledge! This new, clearly-structured guide shows you how. It's packed with engaging, research-based, classroom-ready strategies for teaching vocabulary. Topics include: (1) Selecting meaningful words for direct instruction; (2) Strategies for engaging students…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Second Language Learning, Direct Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Himmele, Persida; Himmele, William – ASCD, 2011
Yes, there are easy-to-use and incredibly effective alternatives to the "stand and deliver" approach to teaching that causes so many students to tune out--or even drop out. Here's your opportunity to explore dozens of ways to engage K-12 students in active learning and allow them to demonstrate the depth of their knowledge and understanding. The…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
Buttner, Amy – Eye on Education, 2011
Put your interactive whiteboard to immediate use with confidence and skill, and launch your classroom directly into the 21st-century! In this book, teacher and SMART-Certified Trainer Amy Buttner provides clear, practical steps for making the most of your interactive whiteboard, plus other multimedia tools and the web. You'll learn how to design…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Internet, Computer Uses in Education, Visual Aids
You Can't Do It Alone: A Communications and Engagement Manual for School Leaders Committed to Reform
Johnson, Jean – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
Experts and reformers have suggested many promising ideas for improving schools and ramping up student learning, but in too many cases, proposals for change run up against resistance, confusion, and anxiety from key stakeholders such as teachers, parents, students, and members of the broader public. To propel change--and to sustain it--school…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Change, Social Scientists, Teachers
Dallalfar, Arlene, Ed.; Kingston-Mann, Esther, Ed.; Sieber, Tim, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
"Transforming Classroom Culture" is an anthology of original work authored by diverse faculty who work in a variety of New England college and university settings--private and public, racially homogeneous and diverse. The authors focus on institutional contexts that promote innovation in teaching practice, faculty identity as a resource…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Classroom Environment, Colleges, Institutional Characteristics
Sanders, Ethel, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Introducing creativity to the classroom is a concern for teachers, governments and future employers around the world, and there has been a drive to make experiences at school more exciting, relevant, challenging and dynamic for all young people, ensuring they leave education able to contribute to the global creative economy. "Leading a Creative…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, School Councils, Educational Change, Teachers
Tobolowsky, Barbara F., Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2014
Higher education institutions are more diverse than ever before, as are the students they serve. Because of this great diversity, there is no silver bullet--one approach--that will work for teaching all students in all circumstances. This book offers a succinct description of several pedagogical paths available to faculty that can actively engage…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Diversity, Teaching Methods, College Students
Boushey, Gail; Moser, Joan – Stenhouse Publishers, 2014
"The Daily 5, Second Edition" retains the core literacy components that made the first edition one of the most widely read books in education and enhances these practices based on years of further experience in classrooms and compelling new brain research. The Daily 5 system provides a way for any teacher to structure literacy (and now…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Instruction, Literacy Education, Time Factors (Learning)
Piacentini, Mario; Monticone, Chiara – OECD Publishing, 2016
More than ever, students need to engage with mathematics concepts, think quantitatively and analytically, and communicate using mathematics. All these skills are central to a young person's preparedness to tackle problems that arise at work and in life beyond the classroom. But the reality is that many students are not familiar with basic…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Keengwe, Jared, Ed.; Maxfield, Marian B., Ed. – IGI Global, 2015
Rapid advancements in technology are creating new opportunities for educators to enhance their classroom techniques with digital learning resources. Once used solely outside of the classroom, smartphones, tablets, and e-readers are becoming common in many school settings. "Advancing Higher Education with Mobile Learning Technologies: Cases,…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Handheld Devices
Sharratt, Lyn; Fullan, Michael – Corwin, 2012
Students are people--not data. Assessment data can bury you or give you focused information on how to reach every student. "Putting Faces on the Data" shows how to develop a common language for sharing all students' progress with all teachers and leaders and how to use ongoing assessment to inform instruction. Based on worldwide research from more…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, School Culture, Academic Achievement, Data Analysis
Jaquith, Diane B., Ed.; Hathaway, Nan E., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2012
Educators at all levels want their students to develop habits of self-directed learning and critical problem-solving skills that encourage ownership and growth. In "The Learner-Directed Classroom," practicing art educators (PreK-16) offer both a comprehensive framework for understanding student-directed learning and concrete pedagogical strategies…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Problem Solving, Art Teachers
Preble, Bill; Gordon, Rick – Corwin, 2011
Most educators agree that children learn better in an honoring and respectful culture. They also know that top-down imposed change rarely sticks. In "Transforming School Climate and Learning", Bill Preble and Rick Gordon show how to accomplish lasting results by engaging both teachers and students in the five-step SafeMeasures[TM] process, a…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Action Research, Formative Evaluation, Educational Change
Chauncey, Caroline T., Ed.; Walser, Nancy, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2009
Only when students feel engaged both socially and academically can schools and teachers lay the groundwork to motivate achievement. This volume, the fifth in the "Harvard Education Letter" Spotlight series, brings together fifteen seminal articles that examine research and practice on these complex and interrelated issues. Contributors include:…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement, Learning Motivation