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Student Teams That Get Results

Teaching Tools for the Differentiated Classroom

Advance learning and raise achievement levels by unleashing the power of student teams!

Combining effective grouping strategies with other research-based practices, this resource focuses on the power of student collaboration and dialogue in differentiated classrooms. The authors demonstrate how diverse students working in teams can strengthen critical thinking and achievement through three key skills: teaming to learn, sharing knowledge and skills, and integrating and applying learning. The book features more than 100 reproducible planning tools and shows teachers how to help learners:

  • Scaffold critical layers of meaning
  • Generalize and infer
  • Integrate content
  • Identify patterns
  • Increase adaptive and analytical reasoning

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781412917025
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2009
  • Page Count: 208
  • Publication date: November 16, 2009
Price: $43.95
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Description

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"An excellent resource that provides tools to increase student engagement, critical thinking, and collaboration. Districts or teachers who utilize these strategies can experience increased student achievement!"
—Troy McCarley, Associate Superintendent for Campus Development
Pasadena Independent School District, TX

"A valuable resource for all educators that provides practical and easy-to-use templates and clear instructions, with research-based instructional strategies that support collaborative learning in student teams."
—Sue McAdamis, Director of Professional Development
Rockwood School District, Eureka, MO

Advance learning and raise achievement levels by unleashing the power of student teams!

Using the same principles introduced in the best-selling book Teacher Teams That Get Results, this resource shows how students who work together and share ideas with one another can deepen their understanding of essential concepts.

Combining effective grouping strategies with other research-based practices, this resource focuses on the power of student collaboration and dialogue in differentiated classrooms. Students can strengthen critical thinking and achievement through three key skills: teaming to learn, sharing knowledge and skills, and integrating and applying learning. The authors offer more than 100 reproducible planning tools to help learners:

  • Improve critical thinking
  • Scaffold critical layers of meaning
  • Generalize and infer
  • Integrate content
  • Identify patterns
  • Increase adaptive and analytical reasoning

By utilizing these innovative teaching tools and strategies with their student teams, teachers can prepare all students for deeper thinking and success—both in the classroom and on assessments!


Key features

  • 100 best-practice teaching tools that are research based, data driven, and tied to standards for what learners must know and be able to do
  • Each tool includes a reproducible template accompanied by how-to-use-instructions and examplars of the form in use across content areas and grade levels.
  • By the authors of Corwin's best-selling Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn't Fit All, Data Driven Differentiation in the Standards-Based Classroom, and Differentiated Literacy Strategies
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Gayle H. Gregory

Gayle H. Gregory is first and foremost a teacher, having experienced teaching and learning in elementary, middle, and secondary schools, community colleges, and universities. She has had extensive district-wide experience as a curriculum consultant and staff development coordinator. Gayle was principal/course director at York University for the Faculty of Education, teaching in the teacher education program.
Her areas of expertise include brain-compatible learning, differentiated instructional and assessment strategies, block scheduling, emotional intelligence, student motivation, RTI Tier One, collaborative learning, common core, renewal of secondary schools, enhancing teacher quality, coaching and mentoring, managing change, and building professional learning communities. She also a trainer for Visible Learning Plus with Corwin.

She is an author of numerous books related to educational neuroscience and differentiated instruction, assessment, and curriculum, including the following titles:

• Data Driven Differentiation in the Standards-Based Classroom, Second Edition (2014, with Lin Kuzmich)
• Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn’t Fit All, Third Edition (2013, with Carolyn Chapman)
• Differentiated Instructional Strategies Professional Learning Guide: One Size Doesn’t Fit All, Third Edition (2013)
• Differentiated Literacy Strategies for English Language Learners, Grades K–6 and Differentiated Literacy Strategies for English Language Learners, Grades 7–12 (2011, with Amy Burkman)
• Differentiated Instructional Strategies for the Block Schedule (2010, with Lynne E. Herndon)
• Student Teams That Get Results: Teaching Tools for the Differentiated Classroom (2009, with Lin Kuzmich)
• Teacher Teams That Get Results: 61 Strategies for Sustaining and Renewing Professional Learning Communities (2009, with Lin Kuzmich)
• Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Science, Grades K–8 (2009, with Elizabeth Hammerman)
• Differentiating Instruction With Style: Aligning Teacher and Learner Intelligences for Maximum Achievement (2005)
• The Activities for Differentiated Classroom series (2007, with Carolyn Chapman)

She is affiliated with organizations such as ASCD and Learning Forward. Her ASCD publication is The Motivated Brain: Improving Student Attention engagement and Perseverance (2015, with Martha Kaufeldt).

Gayle consults internationally with teachers, administrators, and staff developers.

She and her family of two daughters and two granddaughters all reside in Burlington, Ontario.

Gayle is committed to lifelong learning and professional growth for herself and others. She may be contacted at gregorygayle@netscape.net, www.gaylehgregory.com, and @gaylegregory6.

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Lin Kuzmich

Lin Kuzmich, of KCS, Inc., is an educational consultant, professor, and author from Loveland, CO. She served the Thompson School District in several roles as the assistant superintendent, executive director of secondary and elementary instruction, director of professional development, and a building principal. Her school was named a 2000 winner of the John R. Irwin Award for Academic Excellence and Improvement. In addition, for the past decade she has been involved in staff development through several universities and the Tointon Institute for Educational Change. Kuzmich is an adjunct professor at both Colorado State University and University of Northern Colorado. She is a senior consultant for the International Center for Leadership in Education, has provided training and consulting to school districts around the country, and has presented at numerous national conferences.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments


About the Author


1. Introduction

2. Teaming to Learn

Introduction

Community Circle

Find Someone Who

Four Corner Cards

Random Partners

T-Chart, Y-Chart

Graffiti

Think-Pair-Share Say and Switch

3. Sharing Knowledge and Skills

Introduction

A-B-C Conversations

3-2-1

Jigsaw Methods

Concept Formation

Content Dialog

Note-Taking and Summarizing

Wallpaper Poster

4. Integrating and Applying Learning

Introduction

Four Squares for Creativity

Point of View

iREAP

Question Cubing

Cause and Effect

Right Angle

Synectics

5. Conclusion

References


Index


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