Student Teams That Get Results
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
- Grade Level: PreK-12
- ISBN: 9781412917025
- Published By: Corwin
- Year: 2009
- Page Count: 208
- Publication date: November 16, 2009
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Description
"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 areresearch based, data driven, and tied to standards for what learners must know and be able to do
- Each tool includes a reproducible templateaccompanied 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
