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Best Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners

What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

By: Randi Stone

How are the best teachers reaching students?

Randi Stone's newest best practice collection will help you reach every learner in your classroom so that all of them can achieve success. This one-of-a-kind educational resource provides exciting, insightful examples from 43 of the best teachers in the country! You can find strategies for:

Motivating reluctant readers, struggling writers, mathphobics, and the scientifically challenged to learn and succeed
Working with at-risk and special learners
Using Multiple Intelligences, learning styles, affinity groups, and reflection
Reaching students through technology, fine arts, rubrics, physical movement, humor, service learning, and more

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761931829
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2004
Page Count: 184
Publication date: March 12, 2004

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How are the best teachers in our nation reaching students?

Educators are always challenged to motivate students to learn, working hard to identify learning standards as well as to find creative and meaningful ways of incorporating them into their classrooms. Best Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners is your guide to how award-winning teachers reach every child and provide what each learner needs to succeed.

Randi Stone's newest best-practice collection takes its cue from the No Child Left Behind legislation, using its theme to create a one-of-a-kind educational resource that provides exciting, insightful classroom strategies from 43 of the best teachers in the country! These ideas cover all areas of your curriculum and all of your learners. You will find:

Content strategies for differentiating social studies, reaching reluctant readers, and teaching mathphobic learners and the "scientifically challenged"
Innovative methods for reaching at-risk and special learners coping with autism, Asperger's syndrome, ADHD, shyness, poverty, and other challenges
Teaching with technology, rubrics, culminating activities, and service learning
Using multiple intelligences, learning styles, affinity groups, and reflection in the classroom
Reaching students through fine arts, physical movement, humor, and more

All students deserve quality instruction focused on individual needs as well as on the academic standards to which educators are held accountable. Help change your students' attitudes about themselves and their abilities!

Key features

Award-winning Corwin author using a proven popular format
Hot topic presented in easy-to-browse segments
Award-winning classroom teachers sharing active teacher practices

Author(s)

Randi Stone

Randi Stone is the author of nine Corwin Press books: Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, and Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. She is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Table of Contents

Preface

About the Author

About the Contributors

1. Language Arts to Reach All Learners

Hometown Hero

Reading the First Day

Using Technology With Struggling Readers and Writers

Using Physical Movement to Motivate At-Risk Students to Read

Educating One Child at a Time

Using Assessment to Drive Instruction

Motivating Middle Schoolers

Inspiring a Reluctant Reader

The Four-Block Literacy Model: Reaching All Learners

Planning for Differentiated Instruction at the High School Level

2. Math Techniques to Reach Students

Techniques and Strategies to Help Low Achievers in Mathematics

Convincing Mathphobics That They Can Be Successful in Math

Empowering Students to Accept Challenges

3. Teaching with Technology

Technology and ADHD

Technology and Shyness

Using Technology to Reach At-Risk Students

4. Teaching Techniques

Reaching a Child With Asperger Syndrome

For Autism, Consistency Is Essential

Magic Happens Here

High-End Learners: Providing Support

Catching a Student Being Good

5. Science to Reach All Learners

The Big Hole River Education Program

Where Does Your Burger Come From?

Enhancing Curriculum Through a Student Space Program

Bringing the Outside Into Your Classroom to Reach Students of All Levels

Reaching All Learners: One Approach

Teaching Chemistry-Challenged Students

Using Culminating Activities to Reach All Learners

The Middle School Means Success Program

An Out of this World Experience!

Addressing Gender Equity Issues Through Alternative Lesson Design Methods

Using Hands-On Science and Math to Engage All Learners

Using Checkpoints to Increase Compliane

Making Science Come Alive

6. Teaching With Styles

Active Introduction to a New Classroom

Establishing a Schoolwide Club

Using Multiple Intellligences in the Classroom

Reaching Special Needs Students Through a Classroom Business

The Use of Service Learning

Humor in the Classroom

Life's Unnerving Little Habits

Using Affinity Groups to Promote Professional Development and Enhance School Climate

Raising Citizens

Weekly Reflections

My Daily Rubric

7. Reaching All Learners With Social Studies

Differentiated Instruction to Reach All Learners: Geography

Research-Based Teaching Practices to Reach All Learners

Differentiated Instruction to Reach All Learners: Economics

Engaging All Learners in Social Studies

8. Reaching Students Through Fine Arts

When Problems of Poverty Interfere With Schooling: Music as a Path to Success

Project Van Go: An Art Outreach to Remote and Rural Schools

Index

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"Regardless of the subject area of instruction or the make up of given classroom, Best Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners will live up to its title and become a favored reference for any teacher, whether in a primary or public, rural or urban, preschool through high school school setting."

Wisconsin Bookwatch, July 2004

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