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Inspiring Elementary Learners

Nurturing the Whole Child in a Differentiated Classroom

Inspire a love for learning through differentiated lessons and activities!

This step-by-step resource illustrates how elementary teachers can use differentiated instructional techniques to nurture a love for learning in socially, culturally, and academically diverse learners. The authors provide lesson examples and assessment rubrics across the core subject areas, showing how to cultivate a community of learners who honor themselves and each other. Based on current educational research on metacognitive strategies, learning styles, constructivist thinking, and choice theory, this handbook helps educators:

  • Design lessons to foster students' intrinsic motivation
  • Teach for deep understanding while meeting content standards 
  • Create and implement differentiated strategies

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: K-5
  • ISBN: 9781412960656
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2008
  • Page Count: 264
  • Publication date: March 12, 2014

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Description

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"One of the very few professional resources that I could not put down. I recommend this book to every teacher I work with, and I use it every day in my work with teachers and students."
—Diane Fleming, Advanced Placement Coordinator
Sioux City Community Schools, IA

"This is differentiation at its best! This valuable resource provides the tools necessary to meet the wide range of student needs and abilities within a classroom. It will be a timeless resource that all educators will want on their desk."
—Jeannie Donoghue, Professional Development Director
Bureau of Education and Research

Inspire a love for learning through differentiated lessons and activities!

Today's classrooms are more diverse than ever before, with students of many languages, cultures, backgrounds, abilities, and skills all in one room. This accessible resource illustrates how elementary teachers can use differentiated instructional techniques to nurture a love for learning in socially, culturally, and academically diverse learners.

Inspiring Elementary Learners offers step-by-step instructions for creating a learning environment that engages all students, and provides creative strategies that can be easily implemented in the classroom. The authors include lesson examples and assessment rubrics across the core subject areas, showing how to cultivate a community of learners who honor themselves and each other. Based on current educational research on metacognitive strategies, learning styles, constructivist thinking, and choice theory, this handbook helps educators:

  • Design lessons to foster students' intrinsic motivation
  • Teach for deep understanding while meeting content standards
  • Create and implement differentiated strategies

This practical guide provides teachers with the tools they need to reach, teach, and inspire diverse student populations and cultivate an engaging classroom environment.


Key features

Research-based and informed by the work of Glasser, Tomlinson, Wolfe, Jensen, Calkins, Atwell, Gardner, Armstrong, Weinbrenner among others, this rich reference offers practical lessons, hands on activities that show teachers, step-by-step, how to connect learning objectives to student's lives in engaging and meaningful ways. The text includes: 

  • Numerous case studies and student work samples
  • Lesson frameworks and planning guides to help teachers develop standards-based differentiated lessons and units
  • Sample lessons—low-prep "Lite-n-Lean" activities and more comprehensive "Deep-n-Dynamic" units
  • Tips and tools for assessing student learning styles and preferences
  • Teacher tips for managing and assessing lessons
  • Rubrics
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Kathleen Kryza

Kathleen Kryza consults internationally for her company, Infinite Horizons, and also presents nationally for the Bureau of Education and Research (BER). Kryza has more than 20 years experience in motivating and reaching children, educators, and others through her teaching, consulting, coaching, and writing. Her expertise is in working with students in special education, gifted education, alternative education, and multicultural education. She has a master's degree in special education and is an adjunct professor in special education at the University of Michigan—Dearborn.
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Alicia Duncan

Alicia Duncan is a consultant, program coordinator, and teacher trainer for the Waterford School District in Waterford, Michigan. She shares her expertise across the state of Michigan and throughout the nation in reaching and teaching English Language Learners, gifted students, culturally diverse learners, and inclusion students through differentiated instruction. She has a master's degree in ESL teaching methodology.
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S. Joy Stephens

S. Joy Stephens has taught middle and high school students of all levels and abilities in differentiated science, math, and foreign language classrooms. She is a presenter and trainer in practical strategies for differentiating classrooms and inspiring students. She has a master's degree in biology.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures


Preface


Acknowledgments


About the Authors


1. Growing Lifelong Learners

2. The Inspiring Classroom: Theory Into Practice

3. Building Community, Honoring Individuals

4. Apprenticeship Learning: Nurturing Lifelong Learners

5. Flexible Grouping

6. Teaching for Meaning

7. Instructional Elements to Differentiate

8. Deep and Dynamic Design #1: Choice Menus

9. Deep and Dynamic Design #2: RAFT Plus

10. Deep and Dynamic Design #3: Tiered Lessons

11. Deep and Dynamic Design #4: Contracts

12. Deep and Dynamic Design #5: Stations

13. Deep and Dynamic Design #6: Compacting

14. Assessment and Grading in the Inspiring Classroom

15. Learning to Grow an Inspiring Classroom

16. Reaping the Harvest: Creating an Inspiring Legacy

Resources


References


Index


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