Describes quiltmaking basics and provides information on how to organize a Round Robin quilting project in which each participant adds new things to the quilts.
Describes quiltmaking basics and provides information on how to organize a Round Robin quilting project in which each participant adds new things to the quilts.
Use instructional practices that lead students of poverty and diverse cultures to success! Donna Walker Tileston and Sandra K. Darling provide instructional strategies to help teachers improve learning in students of diverse cultures and poverty. This research-based book presents a six-part framework that builds on students’ assets and strengths. The authors discuss: Why some cultures are “turned off” by typical motivational approaches and what educators can do to reach students What research says about the brain’s desire to learn How teachers can build on students’ prior knowledge The importance of resiliency Teaching procedural and declarative knowledge and preparing students for tests
Strategies to Reach Every Student Donna Walker Tileston, Sandra K. Darling.
extracting basic information, or the main idea, from texts; (2) visual scanning; and
(3) retrieval processes. Teaching children the critical characteristics of different
kinds of texts,for example, how informational texts are patterned versushow
literary texts are patterned, helpsthem tostrengthen their metacognitive skillsfor
findingthe main idea of what they are reading. Explicitly teaching children howto
read ...
This book introduces the different sections of the IELTS general training module, familiarizes the user with the instructions, language and question-types used in the IELTS tests, and provids four complete practice tests. --introd.
Translating brain research into best practice, this book offers teachers a concise Strategic Learning Model for the active transfer of knowledge to students' long-term memory.
Five Essentials for Your Teaching Plan Donna Walker Tileston. Powering up
Feedback Creating an environment for learning Figure 3.1 Strategic Learning
Model: Powering Up Getting them involved Synthesizing Outsourcing Providing
new learning Reflecting Plugging in Using the information Evaluating the learning ...
Teach for declarative and procedural knowledge and boost student achievement with these practical, research-proven strategies for incorporating state standards and benchmarks into lessons and assessments.
Apowerful strategy and “broad brush” for teaching procedural grade- level
benchmarks is called heuristics. It can increase learning as much as 38
percentile points (Darling, 1999). What are heuristics? Heuristics are the general
rules, tactics, ...
Informed by new research on the brain’s plasticity and new insights on how culture relates to student motivation, this resource focuses on engaging even the most reluctant students!
Intrinsic motivation is dependent on our knowing the culture and what truly
motivates that student to learn. Before we can create a viable plan for activating
the systems of thinking in our students, it is important to understand the
differences ...
