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Teaching Strategies for Active Learning - Book Cover Look Inside

Teaching Strategies for Active Learning

Five Essentials for Your Teaching Plan

Make a difference in student learning with the latest and best brain-based teaching strategies!

Translating brain research into best practice, Donna Walker Tileston offers teachers a concise Strategic Learning Model that focuses on five specific teaching essentials. Based on the latest brain and educational research, this student-centered, teacher-friendly guide emphasizes:

  • The active transfer of knowledge to students' long-term memory
  • Sample lesson forms and reproducible templates applicable to all grade levels, content areas, and instructional settings 
  • Strategies that build students' motivation, confidence, self-efficacy, and achievement

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Teaching Strategies for Active Learning - Book Cover Look Inside
Product Details
  • Grade Level: K-12
  • ISBN: 9780761938552
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2006
  • Page Count: 120
  • Publication date: March 13, 2014
Price: $30.95
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Description

Description

"Emphasizes the importance of matching instructional strategies to the appropriate outcomes.Thia is very important!"
—Cindy Harrison, Educational Consultant

"My peers would benefit from having this handbook to guide new and struggling teachers and to inspire the expert teacher on staff. Practical suggestions give educators incremental steps toward increasing the active learning level within any classroom, without giving up control of content."
—Beverly C. Eidmann, Principal, Arvada Middle School, CO

Make a difference in student learning with the latest and best brain-based teaching strategies!

Translating brain research into best practice, Donna Walker Tileston, award-winning author, educator, and trainer, offers teachers a simple and concise Strategic Learning Model applicable to all grade levels, content areas, and instructional settings. This systematic cycle focuses on five essentials that teach learners to plug in, power up, synthesize, outsource, and reflect on their learning.

Based on the latest brain and educational research, this student-centered, teacher-friendly guide includes:

  • A carefully chosen collection of instructional strategies for promoting the active transfer of knowledge to students' long-term memory
  • A step-by-step process for planning powerful lessons that make a difference in student learning
  • Sample lesson forms and reproducible templates
  • Sample strategies such as question-and-answer profiles, technology integration, mindjogs, KNLH, group memory, making predictions, cooperative learning, six-hat thinking, collaborative retelling, graphic organizers, thinking at right angles, plus-minus-interesting, and much more

This is the teaching methods book for all teachers, instructional leaders, and curriculum designers who want to build students' motivation, confidence, self-efficacy, and achievement.


Key features

  • Teaching strategies for active transfer of knowledge to students' long-term memory, all based on brain research and educational research
  • By award-winning author, educator, and speaker Donna Walker Tileston
  • Uses a Strategic Learning cycle applicable to all grade levels, content areas, and instructional settings
  • Includes sample lesson forms and reproducible templates for immediate classroom implementation of a carefully chosen selection of instructional strategies
  • Sample strategies include: question and answer profiles; technology integration; mindjogs; KNLH; group memory; making predictions; cooperative learning; six-hat thinking; collaborative retelling; graphic organizers; thinking at right angles; plus-minus-interesting; and much more
  • Student-centered, teacher-friendly, research-based, and ready-to-use
Author(s)

Author(s)

Donna E. Walker Tileston photo

Donna E. Walker Tileston

Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna’s publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin's bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her EdD from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Does the Strategy Follow Current Brain Research?

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. Teaching in the 21st Century

Elements of the Strategic Learning Model

The Teacher’s Role

2. Plugging In

Part 1 of the Model: Plugging In

Self-Efficacy as a Key to Motivation for Learning

Activities for Building a Sense of Community in the Classroom

Integrating Technology as a Tool for Building Community

Summary

What Does the Research Say?

3.Powering Up

Beginning With the Self-System of the Brain

Mind Jogs

Building Connections

Summary

What Does the Research Say?

4. Synthesizing

The Metacognitive System

Building Declarative Knowledge

Summary

What Does the Research Say?

5.Outsourcing

Concrete Models

Brainstorming Models

Thinking in Categories

Summary

What Does the Research Say?

6. Reflecting

Summary

What Does the Research Say?

Resources

Resource A: Sample Lesson Forms

Resource B: Blackline Masters

References

Index

Reviews

Reviews

Quote by Beverly C. Eidmann, Principal, Arvada Middle School, Arvada, CO: "My peers would benefit from having this handbook to guide new and struggling teachers as well as to inspire the expert teacher on staff. Practical suggestions give educators steps toward increasing the active learning level within any classroom, without giving up control of content, while also potentially increasing academic achievement by having more students tune in to their learning."
"My peers would benefit from having this handbook to guide new and struggling teachers as well as to inspire the expert teacher on staff. Practical suggestions give educators steps toward increasing the active learning level within any classroom, without giving up control of content, while also potentially increasing academic achievement by having more students tune in to their learning."
Beverly C. Eidmann, Principal
Arvada Middle School, Arvada, CO
Quote by Cindy Harrison, Educational Consultant: "Emphasizes the importance of matching instructional strategies to the appropriate outcomes, taking into account the brain research. This is very important!"
"Emphasizes the importance of matching instructional strategies to the appropriate outcomes, taking into account the brain research. This is very important!"
Cindy Harrison, Educational Consultant
Quote by Russ Adams, Principal, MOC-Floyd Valley High School, Orange City, IA: "Reinforces much of what we know about teaching and learning."
"Reinforces much of what we know about teaching and learning."
Russ Adams, Principal
MOC-Floyd Valley High School, Orange City, IA
Quote by NSTA Recommends: "Teaching is a craft, and the design of the craft is the same regardless of the discipline. Tileston has created a user-friendly how-to reference that will help teachers move learners from a position of spectator to one of active player. Teaching Strategies for Active Learning makes the secret of learning visible, with clear explanations, easy-to-implement suggestions, and connections to the current brain research on learning."
"Teaching is a craft, and the design of the craft is the same regardless of the discipline. Tileston has created a user-friendly how-to reference that will help teachers move learners from a position of spectator to one of active player. Teaching Strategies for Active Learning makes the secret of learning visible, with clear explanations, easy-to-implement suggestions, and connections to the current brain research on learning."
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