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Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom: How to Reach and Teach All Learners, Grades 3-12
by Diane Heacox
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one of the hottest topics in education today-means changing the pace level or kind of instruction in response to learners' needs, style, and/or interests
About The Author
Diane Heacox, Ed. D., is an Assistant Professor of Education at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota, where teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. Previously she was a K-12 instructional specialist and classroom teacher.
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Deciding What to Teach and Test: Developing, Aligning, and Auditing the Curriculum
by Fenwick W. English
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B. L. Nourie, Illinois State University CHOICE, 2000 : "First published in 1992 and now released as the millennium edition, this book is 'for school administrators and teachers who want fast, accurate, and easy-to-use answers' to curriculum questions. It would also be an excellent text for teacher education students just beginning to study curriculum."
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"First published in 1992 and now released as the millennium edition, this book is 'for school administrators and teachers who want fast, accurate, and easy-to-use answers' to curriculum questions. It would also be an excellent text for teacher education students just beginning to study curriculum."
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Time for Literacy Centers: How to Organize and Differentiate Instruction
by Gretchen Owocki
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In a recent survey, 80% of K-3 teachers considered outstanding in literacy instruction reported using literacy centers in their classrooms. Surprised? Gretchen Owocki isn't. She knows that literacy centers are an ideal tool for teachers who seek out opportunities to differentiate their instruction, and in Time for Literacy Centers, she shows you every aspect of using centers successfully.
About The Author
GRETCHEN OWOCKI is an associate professor at Saginaw Valley State University, where she teaches courses in early literacy, reading, and teacher research. Gretchen, her husband David, and their daughter Emilia enjoy life on their Michigan farm with their dog J.R.
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James Madison: A Biography
by Ralph Ketcham
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Integrating Inquiry Across the Curriculum
by Richard H. Audet and Linda K. Jordan
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NSTA Recommends, October 2005 : "There is a series of concrete guidelines and suggestions for facilitating implementation of inquiry-based instruction that teachers will find very useful . . . this is a worthwhile collection of essays that could easily serve as a stimulating and beneficial book for a reading group or staff development resource."
Book Description
Create a whole new world of understanding in your classroom!
Inquiry is a fundamental step in the student learning process, and often the least understood. In Integrating Inquiry Across the Curriculum, the authors offer a collection from leading experts on how to integrate inquiry across the K-12 curriculum. This finely edited volume enables educators to visualize inquiry as the unifying knowledge base to guide students through all major subject areas. An essential resource for curriculum supervisors, professional developers, department heads, teachers, and preservice educators, this compilation includes inquiry’s best practices, current research, and lesson ideas. It is a key for educators exploring ways to integrate material concepts that cut across a variety of content areas. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to learn how to make your classroom the best place it can be, where investigation and discovery learning flourish!
Integrating Inquiry Across the Curriculum includes:
- Field-tested curriculum materials grounded in the national standards
- Practical strategies that provide reliable assessment data about how students perform when engaged in inquiry
- Enlightening first-person accounts illustrating inquiry in the classroom
- An exploration of inquiry from the unique perspectives of geography, science, history, language arts, mathematics, and more
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Designing Effective Instruction
by Gary R. Morrison, Steven M. Ross, and Jerrold E. Kemp
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This valuable resource provides instructional designers with the guidance they need to meet the challenge of creating effective and efficient instruction, Designing Effective Instruction: - Maintains an appropriate balance between theory and applications.
- Presents an eclectic and highly flexible model that can be adapted for use in a variety of settings and situations.
- Gives chapter-opening Getting Started scenarios and questions focus the reader's attention on key points.
- Provides numerous examples based on the authors' experiences in business, higher education, and K-12 education
- Emphasizes the practical application of the instructional design process.
- Contains a sample plan at the end of each primary design chapter.
- Supplies Expert's Edge sections that present real-world insights from practicing instructional designers.
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Key Benefit: This exciting text offers a solid rationale and a set of specific procedures for designing instruction. Key Topics: Grounded in current instructional design trends, the latest cognitive psychology research, and constructivism, Designing Effective Instruction establishes a foundation for systematic instructional planning, then presents a ten-element model that combines both behavioral and cognitive philosophies to create a flexible, heuristic framework for designing both traditional classroom and non-traditional, interactive learning programs.
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Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum: A Guide to Catholic Home Education
by Laura M. Berquist
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Differentiated Instruction: Different Strategies for Different Learners
by Char Forster, Jim Grant, Betty Hollas, and Jill Shaffer
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This resource is designed with the busy teacher in mind, and will provide educators with everything they need right at their fingertips. Differentiated Instruction will find a welcome place in any classroom of students whose learning needs are as varied as the strategies found within this book.
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