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Tried and true teaching strategies to boost student engagement. Students need to be actively engaged to learn—intellectually curious, physically active, and emotionally involved in collaborative work that builds their capacity for empathy. What can teachers do to instill these elements in the classroom? Active Learning: 40 Teaching Methods To Engage Students In Every Class and Every Subject is the actionable tool every new and veteran teacher needs to construct dynamic learning experiences for students. This hands-on, easy-to-use guide features 40 carefully curated, high-impact teaching strategies that target learning tools, collaboration structures, reading and writing routines, assessment opportunities and more. It includes: Step-by-step teaching strategies that can be mastered quickly and implemented in any order Tools to help teachers identify the most pressing classroom needs and determine which methods to try first Nine instructional structures including essential questions, strategy groups, stations, and simulations Real-world examples, tips, templates, and other supportive resources that offer guidance for each method, identify common challenges, and detail next steps Whether tweaking your existing strategies or finding new moves that will quickly become your own, this is your go-to guide for designing active, engaging learning experiences for students.
In this, her fifth and most personal book, Gravity uses her gifts for developing teacher agency to take on five powerful practices: Knowing your core beliefs Viewing teaching as a practice Building balanced relationships Driving professional growth Taking care of your whole self
Mindsets & Moves is the guide to how to let go of your default roles of assigner, monitor, and inspector and instead shift to a growth mindset by following the 4Ms: Miner: Uncovering Students' Reading Processes (Focus: Assessment) Mirror: Giving Feedback That Reinforces a Growth Mindset (Focus: Feedback) Model: Showing Readers What We Do (Focus: Demonstration] Mentor: Guiding Students to Try New Ways of Reading (Focus: Guided Practice and Coaching) Easily replicable in any setting, any time, the 4 M framework ultimately lightens the load because they allow students to monitor and direct their reading lives. The book is full of practical examples, lessons, reading process and strategy lists, and a 35-page photo tour of exemplary reading classrooms with captions that distill best practices.
The authors take the guesswork out of determining students' needs with a moment-to-moment guide focused on the decisions that make the biggest impact on readers' skill development. With this book's guidance, teachers can put the authors' next-step resources into action, learning to trust their instincts and students to provide them with information about the next steps that make the most sense for them. Teaching students to engage with and understand fiction becomes personal, purposeful, and a homegrown process that can be replicated from year to year and student to student.
The authors take the guesswork out of determining students' needs with a moment-to-moment guide focused on the decisions that make the biggest impact on readers' skill development. With this book teachers will learn to trust their instincts and their students to provide information about the next steps that make the most sense for them. Teaching students to engage with and understand nonfiction becomes personal, purposeful, and a homegrown process that can be replicated from year to year.
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