Autore	Urbanski Cynthia D.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2006
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (193 p.)
Disciplina	373.973
Soggetto topico	English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching (Secondary) Language arts (Secondary)
ISBN	1-4833-6187-X 1-4833-6404-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Chapter 1 - Running and Writing""; ""The Workshop Culture: A Study of Coaching""; ""Conclusions and Mission""; ""Chapter 2 - Who Writes the Rule Book Anyway? Accountability, Tests, and the History of Rhetoric""; ""A Bit of History""; ""And What about the Other Parts of My Curriculum?""; ""Testing and Accountability""; ""Conclusions""; ""Suggested Reading""; ""Chapter 3 - Coaching and Teaching by Doing: Modeling Thinking, Writing, and Reading""; ""A Horror Story in Two Scenes"" ""Scene I: Sunday Night Back in the Dark Ages""""Scene II: Sunday Night One Week Later""; ""Modeling: A Simple Concept with Huge Benefits""; ""Modeling Gives us Fresh Experiences to Draw from""; ""Modeling can Transform our Classrooms""; ""Modeling Fosters Authentic Learning""; ""Modeling Will Supercharge our Planning Time""; ""Modeling in Our Classrooms: What Do We Do?""; ""Modeling Concepts for Writing""; ""A Lesson in Modeling Writing""; ""Modeling Concepts for Reading""; ""A Lesson in Modeling Close Reading and Analysis""; ""Conclusions: Pulling it all Together and Coming Full Circle"" ""Chapter 4 - Warming up the Writing Muscles: Two Tools for Invention""""Free Writing""; ""What is Free Writing . . . Really?""; ""Why Does Free Writing Work?""; ""Application: Helping Our Students Discover the Magic""; ""A Lesson in Free Writing""; ""The Last Word on Free Writing""; ""Daybooks: A Place to Store Free Writing and Thinking""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 5 - The Practice Field: Building Strength and Confidence in Writing and Literary Analysis""; ""Types of Practice""; ""Reader Response and Invention""; ""In-Class Drafting and Revision"" ""Types and Progression of Assignments as Practice""""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 6 - Race Day: Evaluation and the Idea of Grammar""; ""Grammar in Context""; ""The Bottom Line on Grammar""; ""A Grammar Lesson""; ""A Word of Caution""; ""For Further Ideas . . .""; ""A Word About Standards""; ""Watching the Race: Evaluating Student Writing""; ""Grading Practice Writing without Eradicating its Purpose""; ""Grading Response Journals or Daybooks""; ""Grading Published Pieces""; ""Portfolios: Looking at the Whole Season and Student Growth over Time""; ""Conclusions""; ""Suggested Reading"" ""Chapter 7 - Responding as a Spectator: The Writing Conference""""Why Conference Anyway?""; ""A Trek through a Conference Log""; ""Writing Conventions/Skills in Context""; ""A 50-Minute Tutoring Session Translated into a 90-Minute Class""; ""Basic Behavior in the Writing Conference""; ""A Close-up Look at a Conference""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 8 - Becoming Independent: Writing and Literature Groups""; ""A Scenario: Student Writing as Class Literature""; ""Student Response to Groups""; ""How to Make Groups Work""; ""Model Functional Groups""; ""Provide Structure and Incentive"" ""Help Students Find Their Own Structure""
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Autore	Thombs Margaret M.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (152 p.)
Disciplina	300.78/5
Soggetto topico	Social sciences Social sciences - Study and teaching - Activity programs Internet - Activity programs Internet in education Activity programs in education Education - Computer network resources Teaching - Computer network resources
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4522-6119-9 1-4522-1301-1 1-4416-5391-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The challenge of culturally responsive teaching -- The technologically competent social studies teacher -- The webquest model -- Designing webquests -- Getting started : learners, topics, and design patterns -- Authentic and engaging tasks -- Evaluation rubrics -- The webquest process : how, what, and when -- Finalizing your webquest design -- The challenge ahead : a quest for peace.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910479907703321

Autore	Hyerle David
Edizione	[Second edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (193 p.)
Disciplina	370.15/23
Soggetto topico	Visual learning Constructivism (Education) Thought and thinking Critical thinking Cognition
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4522-9324-4 1-4129-2427-8 1-4522-0786-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Contents; Foreword; Prologue; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Summary Definition of Visual Tools; Introduction: Transforming Static Information into Active Knowledge; Blind Insights; Right Now: Jumping the Achievement Gap for All Children; Overview of the Book; Chapter 1 - The Mapping Metaphor; Cognitive Dissonance in Representation Systems; The Elephant in the Room; The Mapping Metaphor: Terra Incognita; Mapping the Brain; Visual Tools for Mapmaking; The Foundation of the Mapping Metaphor: Seeing; Chapter 2 - Facilitating the Networking Brain and the Patterning Mind Nonlinguistic and Linguistic RepresentationsResearch Studies on Graphic Organizers; Reading Comprehension and Reading First Research; Mapping Living Systems; The Brain is a Pattern Detector; The Visual Brain; The Mind Organizes into Schematic Patterns; Multiple Intelligences as Active Patterns; Habits of Mind; Chapter 3 - Using Visual Tools; Clarifying a Confusion of Terms and Tools; Content-Specific Visual Tools; Defining Visual Tools; Theory-Embedded Tools; Types of Visual Tools; Reviewing Your Toolkit; Choosing Appropriate Visual Tools; The Importance of Student Ownership of Visual Tools Saving TimeConstructing Knowledge in Cooperative Groups; Beyond Blueprints, Templates, and Blackline Masters; Chapter 4 - Brainstorming Webs for Facilitating the Creative Mind; Flow of Information and Knowledge; Thinking in Pictures; The Brain and Brainstorming; The Misconceptions about Brainstorming Webs; Webs for Facilitating Habits of Mind; Software for Brainstorming Webs; Brainstorming Webs for Collaborative Reflection; Mind Mapping; Viewing Book Reviews; Mindscapes from Metaphors; Seeking Personal Growth; Chapter 5 - Graphic Organizers for Analytical Tasks An Overview of Graphic OrganizersComparing Graphic Organizers and Brainstorming Webs; Organizers for Habits of Mind; Chunking, Memory, and the Organizing Brain; Content-Specific Graphics as an Advanced Organizer; Process-Specific Maps; The Big-Picture Organizers; Mapping Lesson Plans; Design and Understanding; Chapter 6 - Conceptual Mapping for Integrating Creative and Analytical Thinking; Thinking about the Box; Habits of Mind and Conceptual Maps; When Thinking Became Popular; Novak and Gowin's Concept Mapping Techniques; The Inductive Tower; Argument Maps and Rationale Feedbacks and Flows in the SystemConnection Circles; Systems Thinking; Leaving Tracks; An Integration of Visual Representations: Teaching with Unit Visual Frameworks; Chapter 7 - Thinking Maps: A Synthesis Language of Visual Tools; A Short History of Thinking Maps; Defining Thinking Maps as a Language; Five Levels of Thinking Maps Implementation; Differentiated Thinking Patterns for English-Language Learners; Essential Cognitive Questions Based in Standards; Using Thinking Maps Software to Map the Standards; From Students and Teachers to Leadership Development and Whole-School Transformations The Role of Thinking Maps in the Process of Becoming a Professional Learning Community
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910480035503321

Autore	Israel Susan E.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , [2009]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (145 p.)
Disciplina	372.6044
Soggetto topico	Vocabulary - Study and teaching (Early childhood) - Activity programs English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching (Early childhood) Language arts (Early childhood)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4522-8051-7 1-4522-1362-3 1-4416-5381-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Part I. Vocabulary voices I hear : development of vocabulary through oral language literacy -- School success -- Oh, the words we know! -- Phonics and teamwork -- Part II. Read-to-me words : building rich vocabulary through storybooks and other print-rich materials -- New genres -- Informational storybooks / by T. Lee Williams -- Celebrations -- Part III. How I use words I can read : developing vocabulary literacy through writing -- Writers learning new words.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910480136103321

Autore	Tileston Donna Walker
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2006
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (89 p.)
Disciplina	371.2
Soggetto topico	Education - Standards - United States Educational tests and measurements - United States Education - Parent participation - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4833-6145-4 1-4833-6362-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Chapter 1 - Whose Standards?""; ""The History behind School Standards""; ""No Child Left Behind""; ""How to Access the Standards for Your Childâ€?s School""; ""National Standards""; ""Chapter 2 - Why Standards are Important to Education""; ""How Standards Help Produce the Alignment That Leads to Equity""; ""Alignment in the Classroom""; ""Standards as a Measuring Rod for Schools""; ""Why Adequate Yearly Progress Matters""; ""What to Do if Adequate Yearly Progress is Not Being Achieved"" ""Why Alignment is Important""""The Reality of Alignment""; ""Five Things Parents can Do""; ""Chapter 3 - Standards and Alignment""; ""The Format of Standards and Benchmarks""; ""How Standards are Used as a Guide for What Teachers Teach""; ""Why the Instructional Practice is Important to Student Success""; ""How Standards are Used as a Guide for What Teachers Assess""; ""What Does the Research Say is the Best Way to Teach Vocabulary?""; ""What Processes Will Students Need to Know?""; ""Chapter 4 - Asking the Right Questions"" ""What are the Standards and Benchmarks for My Stateâ€?s Schools?""""How Do I Know That My Childâ€?s School is Teaching to the State Standards?""; ""What Do I Need to Know about the High Stakes Test Given in My State?""; ""What Information Do I Need at the Local School Level?""; ""What Other Information is Important to Examine on the Schoolâ€?s State Report Card?""; ""How can I be Sure That My Childâ€?s School Keeps Current with Quality Research on Learning?""; ""What Questions Should I Ask When Adequate Yearly Progress is Not Being Achieved?"" ""What can We Do to Improve the Education System?""""Where can I Go for More Information?""; ""What if?""; ""Chapter 5 - Helping Your Child Master High Stakes Tests""; ""Know the Vocabulary""; ""Practice Compare and Contrast""; ""Pay Attention to Your Childâ€?s Stress Levels""; ""Glossary""; ""References""; ""Index""
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910480372403321