50 Strategies for Learning without Screens ebook


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In a world buzzing with screens, 50 Strategies for Learning without Screens offers educators engaging, hands-on learning experiences tailored for various grade levels. Each strategy deliberately steps away from the digital noise, concentrating on future-ready skills such as curiosity, critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and compassion. These practical strategies are crafted to engage students and foster deeper learning competencies. This resource provides strategies that empower students to navigate a world driven by innovation, adaptability, and critical thinking. With complete sample lessons and digital resources, educators can seamlessly integrate these strategies into their curriculum. The adaptability of each strategy allows customization to fit individual content, style, and, most importantly, the diverse needs of students, making education a personalized and enriching journey.




It Won't Be Easy


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Tom Rademacher wishes someone had handed him this sort of book along with his teaching degree: a clear-eyed, frank, boots-on-the ground account of what he was getting into. But first he had to write it. And as 2014’s Minnesota Teacher of the Year, Rademacher knows what he’s talking about. Less a how-to manual than a tribute to an impossible and impossibly rewarding profession, It Won’t Be Easy captures the experience of teaching in all its messy glory. The book follows a year of teaching, with each chapter tackling a different aspect of the job. Pulling no punches (and resisting no punch lines), he writes about establishing yourself in a new building; teaching meaningful classes, keeping students a priority; investigating how race, gender, and identity affect your work; and why it’s a good idea to keep an extra pair of pants at school. Along the way he answers the inevitable and the unanticipated questions, from what to do with Google to how to tell if you’re really a terrible teacher, to why “Keep your head down” might well be the worst advice for a new teacher. Though directed at prospective and newer teachers, It Won’t Be Easy is mercifully short on jargon and long on practical wisdom, accessible to anyone—teacher, student, parent, pundit—who is interested in a behind-the-curtain look at teaching and willing to understand that, while there are no simple answers, there is power in learning to ask the right questions.




50 Strategies for Your Virtual Classroom


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Virtual teaching may seem scary, but it does not have to be! Tackle the upcoming school year with confidence and skill by using the insightful material found in 50 Strategies for Your Virtual Classroom. This resource will ease the stress of teaching in distance learning environments by providing a broad range of topics such as building community and engaging students to teaching young readers and English learners. It also provides tips for different learning environments, such as independent and hybrid learning, and includes an annotated list of useful applications and websites as well as student work pages inspired by the strategies.




50 Strategies for Supporting Multilingual Learners ebook


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50 Strategies for Supporting Multilingual Learners is an innovative resource designed for educators seeking to ensure the success of all students in linguistically diverse classrooms. This guide provides teachers with 50 actionable strategies honed from robust research and real-world classroom success stories.This book starts with fundamental knowledge and offers 50 practical strategies neatly organized into categories: creating a supportive environment, language support, listening, speaking, reading, writing, assessment, and visual literacy. These strategies are designed to be adaptable and useful for diverse classroom settings, providing teachers with effective tools grounded in research and practical application to aid multilingual learners throughout their educational journey in K-12 settings.As a part of the 50 Strategies series from Shell Education, this book is user-friendly, enabling educators to effortlessly navigate and cherry-pick strategies that align seamlessly with their classroom dynamics. Crafted with the busy teacher in mind, the full series of books is easily implementable, encouraging a dynamic and engaging learning environment without the overwhelming prep time.




50 Strategies for Cooperative Learning ebook


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Empower your students to become active participants in their learning journey! This guide includes easy-to-implement strategies for fostering an academically engaging and emotionally supportive learning environment where every student can thrive.Whether you’re a new or seasoned educator, 50 Strategies for Cooperative Learning will help transform your classroom into an interactive environment where collaboration flourishes and academic success becomes a shared achievement.Adaptable across grade levels and subject areas, strategies are organized into five chapters designed to develop social and emotional skills alongside academic growth:-Strengthening Self-Awareness to Cultivate Identity: Give learners a safe space to recognize and embrace the unique strengths and values that make them who they are.-Strengthening Self-Management to Cultivate Agency: Equip students with the tools to take charge of their academic journey to better navigate challenges and achieve their fullest potential.-Strengthening Social Awareness to Cultivate Belonging: Create a culture of inclusivity in your classroom with actionable strategies that nurture a sense of connection and social awareness among students.-Strengthening Relationship Skills to Cultivate Collaborative Problem-Solving: Develop essential communication and relationship skills by teaching the value of solving problems as a team.-Strengthening Responsible Decision-Making to Cultivate Curiosity: Explore techniques that promote critical thinking skills and empower students to be their most thoughtful, curious selves in school and beyond.




50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement ebook


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Introducing 50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement, the latest addition to the highly acclaimed 50 Strategies series. Designed to provide K-8 educators with practical, research-backed ideas to enhance the summer school experience, this book is an invaluable resource for teachers seeking innovative and engaging approaches to summer learning. Summer school offers a unique opportunity for students to accomplish grade-level learning objectives in a more relaxed environment, often with smaller class sizes. 50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement is specifically tailored to make summer learning, enjoyable, and engaging. The book is your ultimate guide to infusing your summer school sessions with creative, effective teaching strategies. This strategy book is divided into five main sections, each offering a diverse set of innovative approaches. Outdoor and Community Building: Explore strategies that take learning beyond the classroom and into the great outdoors, fostering a sense of community among students. Performing Arts: Discover creative techniques that utilize performing arts to make learning both fun and educational, encouraging students to express themselves. Culture Studies: Dive into strategies that explore different cultures, helping students gain a broader perspective of the world around them. Playful Learning: Infuse a sense of play and creativity into your summer school curriculum, ensuring students AND teachers remain engaged and motivated. Differentiating for Summer: Tailor your teaching to meet the unique needs of your summer school students, making sure that every learner can thrive. With 50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement, you have access to a treasure trove of educational ideas that can be swiftly integrated into your summer school program. Whether you are a seasoned educator or just beginning your teaching journey, this book is designed to help you create an engaging, enriching summer school experience for your students. Get ready to transform your summer school sessions into a time of growth, exploration, and fun with this outstanding resource.




Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners


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Presents teaching strategies and procedures to help English language students build vocabulary and fluency.




Strategies for Writing in the Science Classroom


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Writing is a valuable learning tool that can quite effectively--and easily--help students learn and understand science content. Teaching it, however, can be challenging for content-area teachers now under pressure from the Common Core Standards' refocused attention on reading and writing. With step-by-step directions, rubrics, student examples, templates, technology tips, and ideas for differentiation, Kopp goes beyond journals or reports to show how science teachers can use writing to develop critical-thinking skills, improve understanding of scientific concepts, assess students' progress, and hone skills in content-area writing. Her writing strategies support the Common Core Standards and, because the focus is on applying writing skills--and not teaching writing as an end in itself--science teachers can easily incorporate these strategies in any unit of study. This comprehensive resource makes it easy to incorporate writing in your science class today--and every day!




Instructional Design Theory


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This pack contains two guides to Microsoft Windows 98. Windows 98 User Manual teaches how to use Windows and Windows 98 Hints and Hacks provides advanced information for the user already familiar with Windows.




Visible Learning: Feedback


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Feedback is arguably the most critical and powerful aspect of teaching and learning. Yet, there remains a paradox: why is feedback so powerful and why is it so variable? It is this paradox which Visible Learning: Feedback aims to unravel and resolve. Combining research excellence, theory and vast teaching expertise, this book covers the principles and practicalities of feedback, including: the variability of feedback, the importance of surface, deep and transfer contexts, student to teacher feedback, peer to peer feedback, the power of within lesson feedback and manageable post-lesson feedback. With numerous case-studies, examples and engaging anecdotes woven throughout, the authors also shed light on what creates an effective feedback culture and provide the teaching and learning structures which give the best possible framework for feedback. Visible Learning: Feedback brings together two internationally known educators and merges Hattie’s world-famous research expertise with Clarke’s vast experience of classroom practice and application, making this book an essential resource for teachers in any setting, phase or country.