A blueprint for science lessons that develop students' higher-level thinking skills! This second edition of Catch Them Thinking in Science offers easy-to-use strategies to help students gather, process, analyze, and apply information throughout the science curriculum. The author presents units of study that align with national science standards and offers strategies for cooperative learning groups to increase student comprehension in science. Providing a research-based rationale for each activity and strategy, this revised edition includes: Updated researchA new section on designing your own science activitiesAn expanded discussion of assessment methodsAn assortment of handy reproducibles to use with your lesson plans
Strategies for Teaching in Extended Periods of Time
This book offers practical, tested strategies for teaching within extended periods of instructional time -- blocks. An excellent guide for teachers and administrators lookking to implement block scheduling in their schools.
Strategies for Teaching in Extended Periods of Time
This book offers practical, tested strategies for teaching within extended periods of instructional time -- blocks. An excellent guide for teachers and administrators lookking to implement block scheduling in their schools.
This guide grew out of two educators' desire to create a lesson planning book where everything a teacher needed was in one place, with flexibility to allow them to arrange pages as they saw fit. Collectively, these pages offer a comprehensive, flexible way of responding to the daily, monthly, and yearly challenges and opportunities of teaching, in a practical, time efficient manner.
"This should become a standard graduate school text for up-and-coming school counselors. The author knows school counseling, school counselors, and what school counselors face on a daily basis. This book helps it all make sense, and makes it even easier to grow as a counselor." -Gloria Avolio DePaul, Elementary School Counselor School District of Hillsborough County, Tampa, FL Blend individual therapeutic approaches into a model that works for you! The process of behavioral change often transcends any single counseling methodology. However, successfully employing diverse intervention strategies requires a coherent framework and an integrated approach. Richard D. Parsons presents a transtheoretical, or eclectic, model school counselors can use to evaluate student information, select the most effective interventions from a variety of theories, and coordinate the interventions with sequential steps for behavioral change. Following the format of the companion books on behavioral, cognitive, and solution-focused school counseling, this concise text includes: A reflective, meaning-making model as a basis for effective school counseling An introduction to the fundamental principles of eclectic or transtheoretical practice Clinical illustrations of eclectic intervention strategies that promote change In-depth case studies and guided practice exercises Ideal for individual study or for use in group development, this practical guide allows new and less experienced practitioners to grow from "novice" to "expert" through ample opportunities for practice and feedback.
Emphasizing a reflective practice, this book presents an eclectic model for evaluating student information and selecting the most effective interventions from a variety of therapeutic approaches.
Thinking and Acting Like a Solution-Focused Counselor provides counsellors with a practical guide to learning to think and then act like an expert counsellor.
"This should be a required text for a school counseling degree." -Jill R. Boyd, Counselor and Olweus Bullying Prevention Trainer John Bullen Middle School, Kenosha, WI "The author knows solution-focused counseling inside and out. He describes in excellent detail how to use this technique with multiple problems and multiple ages. The examples are spot on." -Cynthia Knowles, Prevention Specialist Livonia Central School District, NY Learn how to emphasize students' strengths to help them resolve problems! This book helps new and experienced school counselors engage with students using a solution-focused approach that stresses cooperation and highlights positive attributes to facilitate goal achievement. Thinking and Acting Like a Solution-Focused School Counselor provides the background and expertise needed to establish collaborative student relationships, identify student skills and abilities, and reframe problems into attainable goals. Emphasizing practice and feedback, the author includes actual session transcripts to help new and less-experienced counselors apply concepts directly to their own practice. Benefits of this book include: A reflective, meaning-making model as a basis for effective school counseling An introduction to the fundamental principles of solution-focused counseling Clinical illustrations of solution identification and implementation strategies In-depth case studies and guided practice exercises Like the companion books on behavioral, cognitive, and eclectic school counseling, this concise guide offers the knowledge and skills necessary to help troubled students in need of encouragement and hope.
"The author successfully leads the school counselor through this approach in a manner that makes it easy for the reader to use the model effectively with students." -Diane Smith, School Counselor Smethport Area School District, PA Help students change negative thinking by employing a cognitive model! How people think affects how they behave. Because of this fundamental connection, cognitive therapy can produce rapid and effective treatment results. In this concise how-to guide, Richard D. Parsons presents theory, analysis, and practical suggestions to support a cognitive counseling framework and shows school counselors how to use that framework when working with students. This book offers clear strategies for helping new and experienced counselors understand how thoughts connect to feelings and how to discern functional from dysfunctional thinking. To assist readers in developing their skills as cognitive school counselors, the author provides: A reflective, meaning-making model as a basis for effective school counseling An introduction to the fundamental principles of cognitive counseling Clinical illustrations of intervention strategies targeting dysfunctional cognition In-depth, verbatim case studies and guided practice exercises Like Parsons' companion books on behavioral, solutions-focused, and eclectic counseling, Thinking and Acting Like a Cognitive School Counselor shows how new and even experienced counselors can put different therapies to practical use and move confidently from "knowing" to "doing."
