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What Award-Winning Secondary Teachers Do

By: Randi Stone

Peek into the classrooms of your award-winning colleagues as they share their most successful teaching ideas!

Outstanding teachers from across the country share firsthand accounts of innovative classroom practices for high school learners in this sequel to Randi Stone's best-selling Best Practices for High School Classrooms. Filled with ready-made techniques for classroom management, co-teaching, integrating the curriculum, and using technology, this one-stop resource offers strategies supported by objectives, recommended grade levels, materials lists, and applicable national and state standards. Divided by subject areas, this is a rich collection of ideas, lessons, projects, and units of study for teaching:

Science and mathematics
Language arts and social studies
Music, art, and physical education

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Grade Level: 9-12
ISBN: 9781412963442
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2010
Page Count: 224
Publication date: November 29, 2012

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"The variety of activities sparks ideas for different subjects. The book presents content in an easy-to-follow framework, provides very doable lessons, and clearly identifies the necessary materials."
—Linda D. Jungwirth, President
Convening Conversations

Peek into the classrooms of your award-winning colleagues as they share their most successful teaching ideas!

Filled with ready-made techniques for classroom management, co-teaching, integrating the curriculum, and using technology, this one-stop resource offers strategies supported by objectives, recommended grade levels, materials lists, and applicable national and state standards. Divided by subject areas, this is a rich collection of ideas, lessons, projects, and units of study for high-quality instruction in

Science and mathematics
Language arts and social studies
Music, art, and physical education

Engage your high school students' energy, enthusiasm, and excitement for learning with these proven practices from successful teachers nationwide!

Key features

An inspirational, one-stop guide to the teaching practices of the nation's outstanding high school teachers
Detailed, first-hand accounts of successful instructional strategies, divided by topic and subject area
Innovative projects, lesson plans, and units of study across the content areas, in addition to more general tips and insights from nationally recognized teachers in exemplary classrooms—a smorgasbord of ideas for aspiring or practicing high school teachers

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

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Contributors

Part I. Classroom Practices Across the Curriculum

Classroom Management and Co-Teaching

1. Classroom Management - Ideas I've Picked Up Along the Way

2. Teenagers and Rules and Learning . . . Oh My!

3. Nine Co-Teaching Tips From Two Co-Teaching Gurus!

Differentiated Instruction

4. Every Student Has a Story: Students With Special Needs and English Language Laerners in the Secondary Classrooms

5. Buffet-Style Teaching: Reviewing and Re-Teaching

Using Technology in the Classroom

6. Using Technology Doesn't Have To Be Expensive

7. Using Computer-Assisted Instruction in High School Mathematics Classes

8. Video Analysis Unlocks the Physics World

Part II. Teaching Science and Math

Teaching Science

9. Fertilizers: Testing Different Options

10. My Life on a Podcast

11. Getting the Dirt on Soil

12. Water Purification

13. Atom-Building Bingo

14. Modele: An Electron Configuration Experience

15. Remote Sensing

Teaching Math

16. Mathematical Trends and Baby Names

17. Box and Whisker Plot Extravaganza

18. Maze Madness

19. Parabolic Solar Cooker

20. Pascal's Triangle With Sequences and Series

21. Water Rocket Lesson

Part III. Teaching Language Arts and Social Studies

Teaching Language Arts

22. Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Building Sentence Sense Without Teaching Grammar

23. Descriptive Diner

24. Deconstructing the Writer's Craft

25. Story Stew

26. Catering to Student Needs: Menu-style Study Guides

27. Navigating Spoon River While Putting Your Students in the Spotlight

28. "Let's Argue!" A Research-Oriented Approach to Classroom Debates

29. Discoveries in Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"

Teaching Social Studies

30. Piecing Together the Past: An Introduction to the Study of History

31. African Lunch Sack and Picnic

32. Presidential Caucus Simulation

33. Electoral College Review Game

34. Economics in My Hometown

35. Do What You Do Best and Trade for the Rest

PART IV: Teaching Music, Art, and Phsyical Education

Teaching Music and Art

36. Creating Correct Vowels for Singing

37. Wayne Thiebaud Style Plasticine Painting

38. Art Integration: Enrolling in the Hudson River School to Study American Romanticism

Teaching Phsyical Education

39. Interactive Muscle Assignment

40. Aerobic/Anaerobic Fitness Stations

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"The variety of activities sparks ideas for different subjects. The book presents content in an easy-to-follow framework, provides very doable lessons, and clearly identifies the necessary materials."

Linda D. Jungwirth, President
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