How to Enhance Learning by Building Ideas and Bridging Information Gaps
The "communication effect" is what happens when we saturate our classrooms with authentic communication, which occurs when students use language to build up ideas and do meaningful things. For starters, authentic communication deepens and increases language development, learning of content concepts and skills, rigor and engagement, empathy and understanding of others' perspectives, agency and ownership of core ideas across disciplines, and social and emotional skills for building strong relationships. And these are just the starters. With The Communication Effect, Dr. Jeff Zwiers challenges teachers in Grades 3 and up to focus less on breadth and more on depth by grounding instruction and assessment in authentic (rather than pseudo-) communication. This book provides: Ideas for cultivating classroom cultures in which authentic communication thrives Clear descriptions and examples of the three features of authentic communication: 1. building up key ideas (claims and concepts); 2. clarifying terms and supporting ideas; and 3. creating and filling information gaps Over 175 suggestions for using the three features of authentic communication to enhance twenty commonly used instructional activities across disciplines Additional examples of not-so-commonly-used activities that embody the three features Suggestions for improving four different types of teacher creativity needed to design effective lessons, activities, and assessments that maximize authentic communication Our students deserve to get the most out of each minute of each lesson. Authentic communication can help. As you read The Communication Effect and apply its ideas, you will see how much better equipped and inspired your students are to grow into the amazing and gifted people that they were meant to become.
For California teachers only! Here at last is that single teaching resource for making the critical link between the ELD Standards and the CCSS ELA Standards. Standard by standard, you'll quickly discover how to integrate language development into your day-to-day content instruction, fully armed with an insider's understanding of how best to support our many ELs. Horizontal and vertical views reveal how each ELD Standard changes and progresses by grade and proficiency level. What the Student Does sections unpack what meeting a standard looks like in practice. CCSS ELA Standards are displayed side by side with California's ELD Standards so you can appreciate the purposeful alignment. What the Teacher Does sections provide specific instructional guidance.
For California teachers only! Here at last is that single teaching resource for making the critical link between the ELD Standards and the CCSS ELA Standards. Standard by standard, you'll quickly discover how to integrate language development into your day-to-day content instruction, fully armed with an insider's understanding of how best to support our many ELs. Horizontal and vertical views reveal how each ELD Standard changes and progresses by grade and proficiency level. What the Student Does sections unpack what meeting a standard looks like in practice. CCSS ELA Standards are displayed side by side with California's ELD Standards so you can appreciate the purposeful alignment. What the Teacher Does sections provide specific instructional guidance.
"This is an era of extraordinary promise and support for addressing the needs of California's English learners. That's why this book, The California ELD Standards Companion, is so important. It's exactly the kind of bridge teachers need between standards and what it looks like in the classroom." -LAURIE OLSEN, Strategic Adviser, The Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL) Initiative California teachers: you're going to love this! Here at last is that single teaching resource for making the critical link between our ELD Standards and the CCSS ELA Standards. Standard by standard, you'll quickly discover how to integrate language development into your day-to-day content instruction, armed with an insider's understanding of how best to support our many English learners. Modeled after Jim Burke's Common Core series, this Grades 9-12 volume of The California ELD Standards Companion is every bit "that version of the standards you wish you had" because it's just so easy to digest and apply. It's all here: Horizontal and vertical views reveal how each ELD Standard changes and progresses grade by grade and proficiency level by proficiency level. What the Student Does Sections, also scannable by grade and proficiency level, unpack in student-friendly language what meeting a standard looks like in practice. CCSS ELA Standards are displayed side by side with California's ELD Standards so you can appreciate the purposeful alignment between the two as the basis for remodeling instructional practice. What the Teacher Does Sections provide specific instructional guidance by grade band, including student prompts and tips for differentiation across proficiency level. A dedicated vocabulary section offers a quick-reference glossary of key words and phrases as they are used within each ELD Standard. Each section concludes with a vignette from the California ELA/ELD Framework to illustrate exemplary standards-based instruction. Thanks to the ELD Standards, we are now free to teach our ELs the way we knew best all along: language and content taught hand in hand across the school day. Lean on Ivannia Soto and Linda Carstens' California ELD Standards Companion as your one-stop guide for delivering that excellent education our ELs so deeply deserve.
Everyday Assessment Techniques for Every Math Classroom
All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out. "The On-Your-Feet Guide provides a great reminder of the 5 strategies for formative assessment. It is a great way to increase the impact on mathematics education in the classroom. It's a must-have to keep those strategies fresh in your mind. Too often we forget the key ideas from a book- this guide serves as a quick reminder of the key points." -Kevin Dykema, 8th Grade Math Teacher, Mattawan, MI Formative assessment is frequently thought of as something "extra" when really it should be integral to what teachers and students are actually doing within a mathematics lesson. Skip Fennell, Beth Kobett, and Jon Wray show that when used regularly, the Formative 5 assessment techniques represent viable, classroom-validated, in-the-moment practices for monitoring your students' mathematics learning and identifying your instructional next steps. This On-Your-Feet Guide provides: A brief look at each of five every-day formative assessment techniques: Interviews, Observations, Show Me, Hinge Questions, and Exit Tasks Critical questions and tools for implementing each technique. Special considerations and ways to assess your effectiveness in order to plan your next mathematics lesson. Brief videos with comments from authors and teachers along with classroom footage showing the Formative Five in action. Using the Formative 5 daily in your planning and teaching will truly influence student learning. On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher. Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched. Use the On-Your-Feet Guides When you know the "what" but need help with the "how" As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book To learn how to implement foundational practices When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself
Classroom-Ready Tools for Teachers and Students, Grades K-6
Pamela Koutrakos offers tools and ready-to-go resources to help teachers put the inquiry-based structures, lessons, and routines she delivered in Word Study That Sticks into action.
There is something quite magical about forming a connection to a book: the way in which the words on the page can conjure feelings of excitement, fun, joy, laughter or tears, channeling the part of our being that fundamentally makes us human. The journey that children take as they travel towards becoming a competent and confident reader can be a long, winding and complex road. This book helps teachers understand how to build a quality reading rich curriculum that supports the needs of all the children in their classroom. Starting with a section on choosing texts, the book goes on to explore a variety of essential teaching approaches from a read aloud programme, to drama and storytelling, art and illustration. This is a practical resource that provides teachers and schools ideas to support the embedding of text experience and deliver a reading rich curriculum that leads to higher student attainment and working at greater depth.
Bridging the Gap Between Three-Dimensional Standards, Research, and Practice
Curriculum Topic Study (CTS) is a professional development strategy that links science standards to curriculum, instruction, and assessment. The book was developed to be used by individual teachers, teacher teams, or in workshop settings. The CTS process will help teachers: Develop pedagogical and content knowledge Contribute to curriculum planning Define formative and summative assessment goals and strategies Learn to recognize and anticipate students' misconceptions and address them through instructional strategies, resources, and materials.
A Culturally Proficient Guide to Family, School, and Community Engagement
Here at last is a resource that will open up access and reveal all-new ways to forge more culturally inclusive partnerships with families and communities.
