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Too often, students who fail a grade or a course receive
remediation that ends up widening rather than closing achievement
gaps. According to veteran classroom teacher and educational
consultant Suzy Pepper Rollins, the true answer to supporting
struggling students lies in acceleration. In Learning in the Fast
Lane, she lays out a plan of action that teachers can use to
immediately move underperforming students in the right direction
and differentiate instruction for all learners-even those who excel
academically. This essential guide identifies eight high-impact,
research-based instructional approaches that will help you: Make
standards and learning goals explicit to students. Increase
students' vocabulary-a key to their academic success. Build
students' motivation and self-efficacy so that they become active,
optimistic participants in class. Provide rich, timely feedback
that enables students to improve when it counts. Address skill and
knowledge gaps within the context of new learning. Students deserve
no less than the most effective strategies available. These
hands-on, ready-to-implement practices will enable you to provide
all students with compelling, rigorous, and engaging learning
experiences.
When schools fail to address the problems of struggling students,
the consequences can be dire: course failures, absenteeism,
suspensions or expulsions, dropouts. Those effects continue to
ripple after school with lower rates of college attendance and
graduation, underemployment and lower wages and even incarceration.
Yet many of these students can experience a very different
trajectory when their learning difficulties are addressed. Whether
it's a student with ADHD who has trouble sitting still, a student
just arrived from abroad who speaks no English or a traumatised
student who dissociates in class; there are strategies that have
proven effective in overcoming the hurdles they face. This guide
will help teachers recognise the most common barriers to learning
and apply solutions that will work in their classrooms.
From Suzy Rollins, author of Teaching Vulnerable Students, a
collection of effective practices to move students forward in a
positive way when they have gaps in learning, whether due to the
COVID-19 slide or other factors. In this QRG in the new set of
Strategies for Distance Learning Guides, Rollins outlines how to
tactically address academic gaps in the context of new learning
situations, using well-tested strategies: Learning maps Scaffolding
devices Prior knowledge activation Vocabulary-building Cooperative
Learning Motivational Techniques With extensive tips for how to
maintain these goals in both synchronous and asynchronous learning
activities, this guide will be a go-to resource for teachers of
newcomers and English learners. Each 8.5" x 11" multi-panel guide
is laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder
storage.
Teaching in the Fast Lane offers teachers a way to increase student
engagement: an active classroom. The active classroom is about
creating learning experiences differently, so that students engage
in exploration of the content and take on a good share of the
responsibility for their own learning. It's about students reaching
explicit targets in different ways, which can result in increased
student effort and a higher quality of work. Author Suzy Pepper
Rollins details how to design, manage, and maintain an active
classroom that balances autonomy and structure. She offers
student-centered, practical strategies on sorting, station
teaching, and cooperative learning that will help teachers build on
students' intellectual curiosity, self-efficacy, and sense of
purpose. Using the strategies in this book, teachers can
strategically ""let go"" in ways that enable students to reach
their learning targets, achieve more, be motivated to work, learn
to collaborate, and experience a real sense of accomplishment.
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