Best Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do / Edition 1

by Randi B. Sofman

Overview

How are the best teachers in our nation reaching students? This one-of-a-kind educational resource provides ideas from 43 of the best teachers in the country!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761931829
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/12/2004
Series:	1-Off Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Randi Stone is the author of nine Corwin Press books: Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, and Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. She is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Table of Contents

Preface
About the Author
About the Contributors
1. Language Arts to Reach All Learners
Hometown Hero - Ali Hickey and Michael Stanton
Reading the First Day - Sharon Lancaster
Using Technology With Struggling Readers and Writers - Carla Hurchalla
Using Physical Movement to Motivate At-Risk Students to Read - Carla Hurchalla
Educating One Child at a Time - Terri L. Boutin
Using Assessment to Drive Instruction - Terri L. Boutin
Motivating Middle Schoolers - Rochelle Waggenspack
Inspiring a Reluctant Reader - Patricia Kammeyer
The Four-Block Literacy Model: Reaching All Learners - Kathleen Kessel
Planning for Differentiated Instruction at the High School Level - Renee A. Moore
2. Math Techniques to Reach Students
Techniques and Strategies to Help Low Achievers in Mathematics - Curt Boddie
Convincing Mathphobics That They Can Be Successful in Math - Cynthia Baird and Jennifer Rhawn
Empowering Students to Accept Challenges - Wesley Yuu
3. Teaching with Technology
Technology and ADHD - Helen F. Melvin
Technology and Shyness - Helen F. Melvin
Using Technology to Reach At-Risk Students - Laurie Richards
4. Teaching Techniques
Reaching a Child With Asperger Syndrome - Cynthia L. Pochomis
For Autism, Consistency Is Essential - Linda Hickam
Magic Happens Here - Jeannette Lucy
High-End Learners: Providing Support - Stephanie Blackburn
Catching a Student Being Good - Patricia Kammeyer
5. Science to Reach All Learners
The Big Hole River Education Program - Allen R. Bone
Where Does Your Burger Come From? - Rebecca J. Baker
Enhancing Curriculum Through a Student Space Program - Sue Mc Pherson
Bringing the Outside Into Your Classroom to Reach Students of All Levels - Patrick Boehmer
Reaching All Learners: One Approach - Loretta Loykasek
Teaching Chemistry-Challenged Students - Julie Gaubatz
Using Culminating Activities to Reach All Learners - Lorine Lee
The Middle School Means Success Program - P. J. Goodwin
An Out of this World Experience! - Jennifer Linrud
Addressing Gender Equity Issues Through Alternative Lesson Design Methods - David Brock
Using Hands-On Science and Math to Engage All Learners - Coleen M. Martin
Using Checkpoints to Increase Compliane - Brandy Fenenga
Making Science Come Alive - Jim Miller
6. Teaching With Styles
Active Introduction to a New Classroom - Vicki L. Richey
Establishing a Schoolwide Club - Christine R. Chaney
Using Multiple Intellligences in the Classroom - Fran Mulhern
Reaching Special Needs Students Through a Classroom Business - Cynthia L. Pochomis
The Use of Service Learning - Nancy B. Mc Iver
Humor in the Classroom - Marcia Wanous
Life's Unnerving Little Habits - Brandy Fenenga
Using Affinity Groups to Promote Professional Development and Enhance School Climate - Susan Okeson
Raising Citizens - Deni Lynn Lopez
Weekly Reflections - Wendy Miller
My Daily Rubric - Wendy Miller
7. Reaching All Learners With Social Studies
Differentiated Instruction to Reach All Learners: Geography - Lynn Williams
Research-Based Teaching Practices to Reach All Learners - Marc Stanke
Differentiated Instruction to Reach All Learners: Economics - Marc Stanke
Engaging All Learners in Social Studies - Denise L. Carlson
8. Reaching Students Through Fine Arts
When Problems of Poverty Interfere With Schooling: Music as a Path to Success - Stephen Lin
Project Van Go: An Art Outreach to Remote and Rural Schools - Jennifer Williams
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Regardless of the subject area of instruction or the make up of given classroom, Best Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners will live up to its title and become a favored reference for any teacher, whether in a primary or public, rural or urban, preschool through high school school setting. "

Wisconsin Bookwatch