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5 Myths About Classroom Technology
How do we integrate digital tools to truly enhance learning?
by Matt Renwick
Part of the ASCD Arias series
What's keeping your school behind the technology curve? Is it a fear of the unfamiliar? Expenses? Or some other myth? Have you considered how students with special needs or students learning a second language may benefit from using digital tools? If you've fallen for the perception that technology is too expensive, unnecessary for real learning, or a distraction in the classroom, then you need this book. You use technology in your job. Why not help your students use it in theirs? Educator Matt Renwick debunks five common myths about technology and helps you consider how to fund and manage the devices and create a supportive, schoolwide program. Renwick uses his school's experiences and examples as a foundation to explain how you can assess and answer your students' technology needs in terms of access, purpose, and audience--and why you and your school cannot afford to keep students from using technology in their education.
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Stress-Busting Strategies for Teachers
How do I manage the pressures of teaching?
by M. Nora Mazzone
Part of the ASCD Arias series
Does stress keep you up at night? Is there never enough time to do what you want and need to do at school and at home? Veteran educators Nora Mazzone and Barbara Miglionico have been there, too. Here, they offer simple, proven tactics to help you manage the stresses of being a classroom teacher. Learn how to:
• Employ healthy practices that positively affect your mindset
• React, generalize, and maintain to create a positive environment
• Identify and use your ideal professional pace
• Exploit your intrinsic preferences for how to get the work done
• Make food and exercise choices that will better fuel your mind and body
Choose to act now so that you can look forward to entering the classroom every day for many years and finding and keeping a healthy balance between work and home.
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Starting School Right
How do I plan for a successful first week in my classroom?
by Otis Kriegel
Part of the ASCD Arias series
Packed with ideas for both new and veteran teachers of K–8 students, this book touches on a variety of topics that are especially relevant to the first week of school. The author provides critical information that includes arranging and navigating the classroom, setting basic expectations, communicating routines, and understanding your students' needs. Plus, you'll see how these efforts actually work in the classroom as the author shares experiences, anecdotes, and quick tips. You'll gain new insight into how these fundamentals support an authentic, effective, and thorough plan for the first week of school and set the stage for a successful year for students, parents, and teachers. Otis Kriegel is a 15-year veteran elementary and middle school teacher. He has taught dual language, monolingual, and integrated coteaching classrooms throughout the United States and Europe.
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Teacher Teamwork
How do we make it work?
by Margaret Searle
Part of the ASCD Arias series
Packed with strategies, tips, and activities you can quickly put into practice, this book shows how to build productive teams and intentionally create an environment of professional engagement in your school. Authors Margaret Searle and Marilyn Swartz organize the work into four key steps: (1) establishing guidelines and protocols, including drafting agendas and timelines; (2) managing and resolving conflicts, including giving honest feedback and building team morale; (3) refining decision-making skills, including creating win-win situations and improving flexibility and efficiency; and (4) building team capacity, including evaluating and sustaining teamwork. With the guidance in this book, you'll soon see the benefits that come from highly effective teams of teachers who powerfully focus on student results.
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Ditch the Daily Lesson Plan
How do I plan for meaningful student learning?
by Michael Fisher
Part of the ASCD Arias series
Designing and implementing daily lesson plans can be among the most frustrating and time-consuming aspects of teaching-a tedious exercise that places artificial restrictions on student creativity and engagement with learning. In this game-changing book, author and instructional coach Michael Fisher shows teachers how they can free themselves from rigid and ineffective busywork by replacing lesson plans with learning journeys that are guided by the students' abilities, interests, and skill levels rather than by pre-selected checklists of day-to-day benchmarks. Loaded with tips, strategies, and detailed real-life examples, Ditch the Daily Lesson Plan is the perfect guide to crafting student-centered learning experiences at all levels and across the content areas.
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Grading and Group Work
How do I assess individual learning when students work together?
by Susan M. Brookhart
Part of the ASCD Arias series
Learn how to formatively assess and grade group work, including learning skills, group interaction skills, and individual achievement.
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Vocab Rehab
How do I teach vocabulary effectively with limited time?
by Marilee Sprenger
Part of the ASCD Arias series
A collection of engaging 10-minute strategies for teaching content vocabulary across content areas.
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Solving 25 Problems in Unit Design
how do I refine my units to enhance student learning?
by Jay McTighe
Part of the ASCD Arias series
Curriculum design experts Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins have reviewed thousands of curriculum documents and unit plans across a range of subjects and grades. In this book, they identify and describe the 25 most common problems in unit design and recommend how to fix them--and avoid them when planning new units. McTighe and Wiggins, creators of the Understanding by Design® framework, help you use the process of backward design to troubleshoot your units and achieve tighter alignment and focus on learning priorities. Whether you're working with local or national standards or with other learning goals, you can rely on their practical and proven solutions to promote deeper and better learning for your students.
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Affirmative Classroom Management
How do I develop effective rules and consequences in my school?
by Richard L. Curwin
Part of the ASCD Arias series
This publication offers clear and positive strategies that empower teachers and administrators to develop effective rules and consequences.
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Freedom to Fail
How do I foster risk-taking and innovation in my classroom?
by Andrew K. Miller
Part of the ASCD Arias series
In The Freedom to Fail, veteran educator Andrew K. Miller explains the many benefits of intentionally designing opportunities for students to "fail forward" in the classroom. He provides a raft of strategies for ensuring that students experience small, constructive failures as a means to greater achievement, and offers practical suggestions for ensuring that constructive failure doesn't detrimentally affect students' summative assessments. He also describes how teachers, too, can benefit from failure. Establishing a culture that embraces the freedom to fail helps students to adopt a growth mindset, take risks in the service of greater learning, and develop realistic expectations of what it takes to succeed in the world at large. If we deliberately let our students fail in small ways today, we can help to ensure that they'll triumph in a big way tomorrow.
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Self-Regulated Learning for Academic Success
How do I help students manage their thoughts, behaviors, and emotions?
by Carrie Germeroth
Part of the ASCD Arias series
Specific instructional strategies to help teachers at all grade levels foster self-regulation-the critical fourth "R" of education that students need in order to set and achieve academic goals and interact appropriately in the classroom.
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Success with IEPs
Solving Five Common Implementation Challenges in the Classroom
by Vicki Caruana
Part of the ASCD Arias series
As the inclusive classroom becomes the placement of choice for many students with disabilities, the implementation of a student's individualized education plan (IEP) is no longer the sole responsibility of a special education teacher. Together the general education teacher and the special education teacher work to ensure each student's progress toward meeting carefully crafted goals. Success with IEPs provides teachers with practical, research-based advice and solutions to five of the most common challenges posed by IEPs:
• Understanding the full scope of the teacher's role
• Doing the critical prep work for IEP meetings
• Offering modifications and accommodations
• Contributing to the IEP team
• Monitoring student progress
Author and educator Vicki Caruana explores principles that debunk some common misconceptions about how to work with students with disabilities. She offers insights, tips, and strategies that will help teachers fine-tune their practice to better meet each child's unique needs. For teachers uncertain of their ability to meet the needs of students with IEPs, this manageable guide is a great place to start.
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Handling Student Frustrations
How do I help students manage emotions in the classroom?
by Renate Caine
Part of the ASCD Arias series
With grade-specific examples throughout, Handling Student Frustrations offers strategies that educators at all levels can immediately apply to foster classrooms where students can overcome stress to focus on learning.
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Professional Development That Sticks
How Do I Create Meaningful Learning Experiences For Educators?
by Fred Ende
Part of the ASCD Arias series
How can we approach professional development in a thoughtful way, keep teachers motivated, and make the process worthwhile? It's a truth that school leaders can't deny: teachers tend to think of PD as a distraction from the "real work" of the classroom-as something to get through instead of an opportunity to engage, learn, and grow as professionals. Too often, they're absolutely right. When PD is packaged as a one-size-fits-all, one-and-done experience, even content that teachers might greet with enthusiasm won't stay with them for long. It just doesn't stick. In Professional Development That Sticks, Fred Ende makes the case for a better approach-one that melds traditional PD structures with personalized learning. Here, school leaders will find a framework for developing professional learning experiences that spark and maintain teacher motivation and lead to real changes in practice. Ende's three-stage professional development for learning (PDL) process covers critical aspects of planning, providing, and following up. In addition, PDL's Think, Act, and Reflect method ensures your teachers will acquire meaningful, deep, "sticky" learning that lasts.
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Getting Started With Blended Learning
How do I integrate online and face-to-face instruction?
by William Kist
Part of the ASCD Arias series
Do you want to incorporate purposeful and effective online learning into your classes but aren't sure where to begin? Here's the perfect introductory guide to planning a hybrid class for grades 4–12. Author and educator William Kist enthusiastically advocates for blended learning as he explains how to:
• Navigate the technical details of Internet access and learning management systems.
• Decide which learning experiences are best delivered online and which should be saved for face-to-face instruction.
• Organize your online space for maximum effectiveness, respond to your students, and structure online discussions that are most beneficial for students.
• Evaluate the design of your blended instruction, and refine it for the next class.
No matter what subject you teach, Getting Started with Blended Learning can help you develop the skills and confidence to introduce students to this engaging way of learning.
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10 Steps to Managing Change in Schools
How do we take initiatives from goals to actions?
by Jeffrey Benson
Part of the ASCD Arias series
Whether they're the result of a mandate from on high, a crisis that needs addressing, or simply a desire for improvement, change initiatives are a constant in most every school. In this book, veteran teacher, administrator, and consultant Jeffrey Benson provides educators with a proven, practical, and broadly applicable system for implementing new practices methodically and effectively. Topics include:
* Identifying and communicating a clear and understandable vision of change;
* Ensuring that all voices in the school are heard and respected during the change process;
* Thoroughly and thoughtfully collecting, classifying, and analyzing data related to the change initiative; and
* Delegating responsibilities among staff and stakeholders.
Replete with checklists, surveys, and worksheets, 10 Steps to Managing Change in Schools is a practical guide for educators determined to seamlessly weave new practices or procedures into the fabric of the school.
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Teaching Students to Self-Assess
How Do I Help Students Reflect and Grow As Learners?
by Starr Sackstein
Part of the ASCD Arias series
In this essential guide, Starr Sackstein-a National Board Certified Teacher-explains how teachers can use reflection to help students decipher their own learning needs and engage in deep, thought-provoking discourse about progress. She explains how to help students set actionable learning goals, teach students to reflect on and chart their learning progress, and use student reflections and self-assessment to develop targeted learning plans and determine student mastery. Filled with practical tips, innovative ideas, and sample reflections from real students, this book shows you how to incorporate self-assessment and reflection in ways that encourage students to grow into mindful, receptive learners, ready to explore a fast-changing world.
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Encouragement in the Classroom
How do I help students stay positive and focused?
by Joan Young
Part of the ASCD Arias series
Explore practical ways to foster humor, mindfulness, resilience, curiosity, and gratitude for a positive classroom that engages students and enhances their learning.
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Real Engagement
How do I help my students become motivated, confident, and self-directed learners?
by Allison Zmuda
Part of the ASCD Arias series
Students following directions, dutifully completing assignments, and quietly cooperating. For some teachers, this kind of compliance is a goal worth pursuing, but for you, it's not enough. You want real engagement-a classroom filled with students who ask intriguing questions, immerse themselves in assignments, seek feedback on their performance, and take pride in their progress. So even as you race to cover a demanding curriculum and address standards, you're wearing yourself out searching for the hooks that will inspire your students and make them eager to learn. It's not that you're not doing enough to motivate your students; it's that you're probably focusing on the wrong things. In this book, Allison Zmuda and Robyn R. Jackson explain the four keys to real engagement: clarity, context, challenge, and culture. Their smart, concrete strategies for improving classroom assignments, assessments, and environments will help you create learning experiences that are rigorous, meaningful, and rewarding for your students and yourself.
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