New ways to teach reading, taking a look at the history behind our education system, futurizing your classroom, and assessment based education.
Adventures in Graphica: Using Comics and Graphic Novels to Teach Comprehension, Grades 2-6 (BOOK): by Terry Thompson
Comic books and graphic novels, known collectively as "graphica," have long been popular with teenagers and adults. Recently graphica has grown in popularity with younger readers as well, motivating and engaging some of our most reluctant readers who often shun traditional texts. While some teachers have become curious about graphica's potential, many are confused by the overwhelming number of new titles and series, in both fiction and nonfiction, and are unsure of its suitability and function in their classrooms.
Drawing on his own success using graphica with elementary students, literacy coach Terry Thompson introduces reading teachers to this popular medium and suggests sources of appropriate graphica for the classroom and for particular students. Taking cues from research that supports the use of graphica with students, Terry shows how this exciting medium fits into the literacy framework and correlates with best practices in comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency instruction. Adventures in Graphica contains numerous, easy-to-replicate, instructional strategies, including examples of how graphic texts can be used to create a bridge as students transfer abstract comprehension strategies learned through comics and graphic novels to traditional texts.
American Education: A History (BOOK): by Wayne J. Urban and
Now in its fourth edition, American Education: A History is the best general history of American education in print today. With twelve chapters containing material ranging from Native American education in pre-colonial
Anticipate the School You Want: Futurizing K-12 Education (BOOK): by Arthur B. Shostak
How can you make sure that your classroom and students stay ahead of the curve? Anticipating can help your class be an effective propulsion point in the lives of students. As a teacher, our abilities to adapt will translate into our student’s quality of education.
Assessment-Centered Teaching: A Reflective Practice (BOOK): by Kathryn DiRanna
"All assessment is formative-what a great idea! Here's a resource to take you from good assessment ideas to good assessment practices. Building on the work of many assessment and professional development experts, DiRanna and her colleagues have created a reasoned and realistic guide to assessment-centered teaching that is grounded in the realities of the classroom and that aspires to greater student learning." –Elizabeth K. Stage, Director, Lawrence Hall of Science
"An excellent and timely resource for administrators, teachers, teacher educators, and inservice professionals. This book sheds light on the all-too-often missing link in teaching and learning: formative assessment. Applicable across subject areas and grade levels, this resource provides a very helpful balance of educational vision and rationale, practical tools and procedural guidance, and compelling stories of transformed instruction in teachers’ own words."—Pamela Aschbacher, Director of Research and Evaluation
"Makes practical the notion that teaching, learning, and assessment go hand-in-hand. Good teaching activities make good assessment tasks and vice versa. The reflective practitioner, as envisioned in this book, uses assessment information to re-engage students and move them along a progression of learning. This is a valuable book for practitioners who wish to improve their teaching and their students’ learning, and for researchers concerned with putting ideas of formative assessment into teaching practice.”—Richard J. Shavelson, Margaret Jack Professor of Education
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