Learn to meet the demanding needs of diverse students and implement techniques to enhance learning and differentiate curriculum. New teachers and educators who want to stay current will appreciate the up-to-date, research-based theory and practical applications designed to help teachers implement effective instructional strategies in today's increasingly diverse classrooms. Each chapter in the book covers a different strategy including a definition of each strategy, why each should be used, and provides ideas for use.
Drama for Students The purpose of Drama for Students (DfS) is to provide readers with a guide to understanding, enjoying, and studying dramas by giving them easy access to information about the work. Part of Gale's "For Students" literature line, DfS is specifically designed to meet the curricular needs of high school and undergraduate college students and their teachers, as well as the interests of general readers and researchers considering specific plays.
As teacher-educators contemplate the 21st century, they face a clear and compelling challenge to offer strong teacher education programs that will help teachers become as effective as possible in influencing student learning. The complex conditions of student learning, the increasing diversity of school populations, and the rapidly changing knowledge base about teaching combine to make this challenge particularly daunting. It is clear that teacher-educators must find ways to provide aspiring teachers with approaches, experiences, and ways of thinking that will enable them to perform effectively in their classrooms.
This step-by-step introduction to teaching thinking skills in the primary grades will be useful to teachers, librarians and staff development personnel. It will be of particular interest to teachers of the gifted. Each thinking skill is explained in a full-page reproducible format followed by a page offering booktalks to be used to introduce favorite picture books that can be used to teach that skill to young children and two pages of reproducible activities for the children to practice the newly learned skill. Over 30 skills are taught ranging from analogy to hypothesizing to inferring to patterning and reversible thinking.
