Full Description
This book offers easy-to-use classroom strategies for middle and high school English and Social Studies classrooms. They demonstrate how teaching, learning, and assessment are inseparable and seamless. Each strategy will engage your students in activity and reflection, consuming little class time, costing nothing, and uniting the three dimensions of education through reflective practice.
The chapters begin with a reflective teaching strategy, followed by classroom examples. Guiding icons will help you coordinate and implement each strategy. Chapters conclude with a set of learning community discussion questions to guide personal growth as well as faculty discussions.
Contents
strategy1 I Learned; strategy2 Think Aloud; strategy3 The Week in Review; strategy4 Post It Up; strategy5 Jigsaw; strategy6 Key Idea Identification; strategy7 Authentic Applications; strategy8 Parents on Board; strategy9 Search for Meaning; strategy10 I Can Teach; strategy11 Write It Down; strategy12 Learning Illustrated; strategy13 Clear and Unclear Windows; strategy14 Letting Questions Percolate; strategy15 Record Keeping; strategy16 Pyramid Discussion; Epilogue;
