Best teaching practices for reaching all learners : what award-winning classroom teachers do / / Randi Stone ; cover designer, Tracy E. Miller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480354103321
• Autore: Stone Randi
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2004; ©2004
• ISBN: 1-4833-6257-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (185 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.102
• Soggetti: Effective teaching - United States; Teacher-student relationships - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Chapter 1 - Language Arts to Reach all Learners""; ""Hometown Hero""; ""Reading the First Day""; ""Using Technology with Struggling Readers and Writers""; ""Using Physical Movement to Motivate At-Risk Students to Read""; ""Educating One Child at a Time""; ""Using Assessment to Drive Instruction""; ""Motivating Middle Schoolers""; ""Inspiring a Reluctant Reader""; ""Four-Block Literacy Model: Reaching all Learners""; ""Planning for Differentiated Instruction at the High School Level""; ""Chapter 2 - Math Techniques to Reach Students""""Techniques and Strategies to Help the Low Achiever in Mathematics""; ""Convincing Mathphobics That They can be Successful in Math""; ""Empowering Students to Accept Challenges""; ""Chapter 3 - Teaching with Technology""; ""Technology and ADHD""; ""Technology and Shyness""; ""Using Technology to Reach At-Risk Students""; ""Chapter 4 - Teaching Techniques""; ""Reaching a Child with Asperger Syndrome""; ""For Autism, Consistency is Essential""; ""Magic Happens Here""; ""High-End Learners: Providing Support""; ""Catching a Student Being Good""; ""Chapter 5 - Science to Reach all Learners""""The Big Hole River Education Program""; ""Where Does Your Burger Come from?""; ""Enhancing Curriculum Through a Student Space Program""; ""Bringing ; the Outside into Your Classroom to Reach Students of all Levels""; ""Reaching all Learners: One Approach""; ""Teaching Chemistry-Challenged Students""; ""Using Culminating Activities to Reach all Learners""; ""The Middle School Means Success Program""; ""An out of This World Experience!""; ""Addressing Gender Equity Issues Through Alternative Lesson Design Methods""; ""Using Hands-On Science and Math to Engage all Learners""""Using Checkpoints to Increase Compliance""; ""Making Science Come Alive""; ""Chapter 6 - Teaching with Styles""; ""Active Introduction to a New Classroom""; ""Establishing a Schoolwide Club""; ""Using Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom""; ""Reaching Special Needs Students Through a Classroom Business""; ""The Use of Service Learning""; ""Humor in the Classroom""; ""Lifeâ€?s Unnerving Little Habits""; ""Using Affinity Groups to Promote Professional Development and Enhance School Climate""; ""Raising Citizens""; ""Weekly Reflections""""My Daily Rubric""; ""Chapter 7 - Reaching all Learners with Social Studies""; ""Differentiated Instruction to Reach all Learners: Geography""; ""Research-Based Teaching Practices to Reach all Learners""; ""Differentiated Instruction to Reach all Learners: Economics""; ""Engaging all Students in Social Studies""; ""Chapter 8 - Reaching Students Through Fine Arts""; ""When Problems of Poverty Interfere with Schooling: Music as a Path to Success""; ""Project Van Go: An Art Outreach to Remote and Rural Schools""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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!