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Teach Smart
Transform your classroom from teacher-centered to learner-centered! This book shows you how with eleven easy-to-implement strategies you can use immediately to put students at the center! Get your students geared up for success and high achievement with great ideas for For each strategy, you get a clear example of what it looks like in action, as well as a breakdown of how to make it work in your classroom!
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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December 30, 2013
Very usable book. As an instructional coach in a district where learner centered is the motto, this book lays out an easy to use guide for how to help each teacher get better at the craft. It also includes real life examples of classrooms, easy to use strategies for any grade level and black line masters for some of the strategies.
1. Begin on day one describes the importance of consistency and how to start up a classroom.
2. Communicate to your audience means selling the product to our students every day and using assessment to see if they "bought it/got it."
3. Provide a roadmap describing what, why and how students are learning in order to increase rigor and relevance.
4. Give the work back, if you assign it, give it back quickly.
5. Differentiate daily (and don't forget to enrich and let those kids increase higher level thinking skills.)
6. Give students the right to choose in assignments, in how they show they learn, some things can be negotiable, but the more you use it the better your classroom will be.
7. Students first homework where students complete it because they can and want to.
8. Questions for kids and how to increase thinking skills and group work success. (Great chapter for those looking to increase cooperative learning in class.)
9. Intentional engagement through letting students choose and expressing themselves.
10. Classroom management creating a vision is just as important as getting to know your students.
11. Seek feedback from anyone who is willing to give it. (Always a challenge some teachers are scared to have us in their classroom).
One of my favorite ideas in this book was the idea of using groups to design assessment questions, now you have created a way for students to show what they know and the next day answer those questions. The data driven dialogue spin off was also awesome, love the honesty and creativity in getting students sharing their results.
1. Begin on day one describes the importance of consistency and how to start up a classroom.
2. Communicate to your audience means selling the product to our students every day and using assessment to see if they "bought it/got it."
3. Provide a roadmap describing what, why and how students are learning in order to increase rigor and relevance.
4. Give the work back, if you assign it, give it back quickly.
5. Differentiate daily (and don't forget to enrich and let those kids increase higher level thinking skills.)
6. Give students the right to choose in assignments, in how they show they learn, some things can be negotiable, but the more you use it the better your classroom will be.
7. Students first homework where students complete it because they can and want to.
8. Questions for kids and how to increase thinking skills and group work success. (Great chapter for those looking to increase cooperative learning in class.)
9. Intentional engagement through letting students choose and expressing themselves.
10. Classroom management creating a vision is just as important as getting to know your students.
11. Seek feedback from anyone who is willing to give it. (Always a challenge some teachers are scared to have us in their classroom).
One of my favorite ideas in this book was the idea of using groups to design assessment questions, now you have created a way for students to show what they know and the next day answer those questions. The data driven dialogue spin off was also awesome, love the honesty and creativity in getting students sharing their results.
November 24, 2013
PJ & Todd do a wonderful job of sharing explicit details of what strategies they are talking about. A gread read for any educator or administrator looking for an boost so that they can share with others. Great job!
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