Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson
In Learning Targets, Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart contend that improving student learning and achievement happens in the immediacy of an individual lesson–what they call “today’s lesson”–or it doesn’t happen at all.The key to making today’s lesson meaningful? Learning targets. Written from students’ point of view, a learning target describes a lesson-sized chunk of information and …
This book provides school administrators with practical, easy-to-use, and inexpensive ways to reward and recognize the efforts of their staff. More than 100 ideas are divided into three categories based on the amount of effort they require. Recognizing and rewarding your staff can be as simple as writing a heartfelt thank-you note to a bus driver or as …
Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching, 2nd Edition (Professional Development)
This acclaimed framework for successful teaching practice–a benchmark for thousands of school systems and educators around the world–is now fortified with applications for state standards, formative assessments, and school specialists. Use the book’s 22 components of successful teaching practice to support novice teachers who are concerned with day-to-day survival, experienced teachers who want to improve their effectiveness, and …
Teaching With Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids’ Brains and What Schools Can Do About It
In Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids’ Brains and What Schools Can Do About It, veteran educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the United States and demonstrates how schools can improve the academic achievement and life readiness of economically disadvantaged …