Now, more than ever, quality teaching is essential to assure that all students
achieve their full potential.
Is based on 12 years of classroom research on quality teaching. The books highlight 7 Best Practices that increase achievement across content areas. Ask about Professional Development Packages that include teacher books and student workbooks.
The most powerful research-based strategies are integrated in the Best Practices Book Series. The series gives teachers a full repertoire of standards-based instructional strategies to accelerate student achievement across content areas. Each book has best practices to accelerate achievement for all learners and specific strategies for English learners.
Schools that consistently implemented the Best Practice strategies in this series reported significant gains in student achievement.
Best Practices Interdisciplinary
Vocabulary Development
The Rule of Three
Vocabulary knowledge has the highest correlation with academic achievement.
One daily 20 minute instructional session, or two sessions of 10 minutes each using systematic vocabulary development results in accelerated student achievement across subject areas.
This book outlines the key elements for systematic vocabulary development using the Rule of Three. It gives teachers the strategies to target the critical interdisciplinary words from kindergarten to twelfth grade.
Best Practices Reading Comprehension
The Stoplight Strategy
Each chapter of this book gives research-based best practices for accelerating reading comprehension in both text and digital formats. This book prepares teachers to instruct using non- linear formats that develop 21st century thinking skills.
The Stoplight Strategy, a research-based best practice, is outlined in this book. This strategy has proven to increase students’ comprehension of higher level thinking questions across subject areas.
Best Practices 21st Century Questioning & Problem Solving
Infolinking
This book takes the teacher step by step through the process of how to ask questions that develop 21st century critical and creative thinking skills. It also advocates a process whereby students learn to formulate their own strategic questions for problem solving.
The 21st century problem solving model involves a circular rather than a linear process. This process enables students to use the 2lst century skill of infolinking to connect and integrate information from both text and digital formats.
Best Practices Differentiated Instruction
The Rule of Foot
Research shows that alignment of curriculum and assessment accelerates
achievement for students across subject areas and on high stakes testing.
This book gives teachers the strategies for standards-based instruction across subject areas. It explains grouping patterns and benchmark assessments that allow the teacher to target teach and differentiate instruction. Strategic and aligned instruction is addressed through the three instructional elements of: Teach, Practice and Create/Apply. Specific differentiated strategies are addressed for English learners. Targeted and aligned instruction accelerates student learning and increases their success on High Stakes testing.
Best Practices Motivation and Student Engagement
Creating Power Learners
Research studies confirm the fact that students who are engaged in active learning retain knowledge better and achieve at higher levels.
This book gives teachers 10 critical ways to motivate and engage their students. Each chapter presents step by step instructions on how to implement student engagement strategies such as Think-Write-Pair-Share and Jigsaw across the curriculum. There are 100 student engagement strategies that the teacher can use to motivate and engage students in learning. Most importantly, teachers will learn how to use student engagement strategies across subject areas to create self motivated 21st century Power Learners. This is an important resource book for every teacher.
Best Practices English Language Learning
A Conversational Approach to Language and Literacy
Research has shown that conversation-based learning accelerates language
acquisition across subject areas for English learners.
Each chapter in this book gives the teacher research-based best practices to bridge English language development to the content standards. The process of learning a second language is accelerated through conversational activities that integrate listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. This book has are over 100 conversation-based activities to accelerate language acquisition.
Best Practices 21st Century Teaching
EduRevolution
21st Century Skills: Will Our Students Be Prepared?
Today’s education system faces irrelevance unless we bridge the gap between
classroom instruction and how students live and learn in the multifaceted
technology-driven world of the 21st century. The school system needs no less than an Edu-Revolution. Learn the essential key elements for 21st century learning and the key teaching strategies to transform instruction. This book gives the teacher the background information and the strategies to create the 21st century classroom.
COMING SOON
Thinking and reading are interconnected.
Reading comprehension is best learned in comprehensible chunks of reading!
Book Series and DVD’s for Classroom Teachers
