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This video takes you and your colleagues to schools that use smart, fun, and engaging strategies to build students' vocabulary and boost their knowledge of the key words they need to know for the Common Core State Standards. Drawing from the best-selling book Teaching the Critical Vocabulary of the Common Core: 55 Words That Make or Break Student Achievement, video scenes show teachers using fun strategies like jingles, movements, and graphic organizers to teach key words. Hear author Marilee Sprenger explain how to put brain-research based, time saving strategies for mastering vocabulary into action. And introduce teachers to easy-to-implement, 10-minute or shorter mini-lessons that help students build a robust vocabulary and develop greater confidence in reading, writing, and testing.
Program One in the series takes you into elementary classrooms where teachers attend to the social, emotional, and academic needs of their students. See examples of elementary teachers engaging their students in standards-based instruction while providing scaffolds and strategies that ensure success both in and out of the classroom.
Use Program 1 from this DVD series to introduce teachers to instructional strategies that are proven to be effective in raising student achievement. Robert J. Marzano explains the rationale for each of these strategies, and classroom scenes show how teachers artfully combine these strategies with effective classroom management and curriculum design to produce better student learning.
Here's a resource that will introduce your school to fascinating scientific discoveries about the adolescent brain and how these findings relate to effective classroom practice for secondary school teachers.
Use the DVD and the Facilitator's Guide in teacher workshops, school improvement teams, and study groups to explore the changes that occur in the brains of healthy teens and how these changes affect their thinking, learning, and behavior.
Explain why changes in the adolescent brain reveal the reasons why teens behave the way they do--their difficulties with planning, time management, and deadlines. Show examples of teaching strategies that match with teenagers' developing minds and help support their maturing thinking skills. And focus on how educators can influence teens to avoid negative behaviors--including health- and risk-related issues--that often derail learning. Plus, a short program for students and parents offers you a way to reach out to other audiences in your school who want to explore the challenges of the adolescent years.
Program 1: Almost Adults provides a clear and simple explanation of how brain structures and functions change in the adolescent years.
Program 2: The Engaged Teen takes audiences to actual secondary school classrooms to showcase teaching practices that are especially effective at helping teens learn and retain new content.
Program 3: The Reflective Teen highlights the importance of teaching teenagers thinking skills that help them monitor and direct their own behavior.
Program 4: Know Your Brain ¡K Know Yourself frames the issues from this series in a student's perspective, to help you spark classroom discussions and enlighten parent audiences on what's going on in teenagers' heads.
Improve the motivational quality of your curriculum and instruction using the ideas and strategies in this video series.
Showing this DVD at faculty meetings, workshops, and other events offers classroom teachers and other audiences ways to engage students in learning. Classroom scenes and interviews with educators and experts offer lots of specific, practical strategies that will enhance student motivation in any school environment.
Use Program 1, Motivationally Anchored Instruction, to show classroom teachers and other audiences what highly motivating instruction and learning looks like. Classroom scenes and interviews with teachers illuminate the principles of motivation that every educator should know.
Program 2, Motivationally Anchored Classrooms, takes audiences to schools where educators create the conditions for a highly motivated learning environment by following a Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching. Scenes on the tape demonstrate how the Framework is incorporated into daily classroom activities to help teachers overcome common difficulties they face.
Use Program 3, Motivationally Anchored Schools, to demonstrate how entire schools recognize the importance of student motivation and support teachers in the effort to increase student motivation.
Emily Morrison explores four areas of Parent/Teacher Communication with elementary school teachers. Parents and teachers have a common ground in their deep care and concern for the child's success. The presentation includes suggestions for introductory, ongoing and scheduled parent communication so that it is a regular part of the school week and parent is ever surprised by a report card grade. Ms. Morrison gives you the keys to creating and maintaining a dynamic partnership.
Award-winning teacher, Emily Morrison, guides elementary teachers through the process of establishing a system of simple, fair, and effective classroom rules and consequences that work for all students. This is a critically important first week task that sets the tone for the entire school year. The presentation includes suggested first week activities that reinforce an understanding of classroom rules, ideas for classroom meetings that serve as an aid to discipline, and methods for establishing fair procedures and non-material rewards that give emotional satisfacton.
Follow Emily Morrison through the many paths to assessing and grading students fairly and accurately. Ms. Morrison explains Informal, Interim, Formal and Special Needs Assessment and illustrates how their use results in a comprehensive view of student progress and valuable teacher feedback. Keep current with grading and assure that you can "Make the Grade" with accuracy and ease.
Join award-winning teacher, Emily Morrison, as she brings her dynamic hands-on approach to the important first few days of the school year. This video contains specific practical ideas for setting up an enriching, positive classroom environment. Empowering students through structured choices, creative jobs and job charts, and a simple plan for regular and meaningful communication with parents are a few examples of the many substantive topics that are covered.
Increase your sensitivity to universal needs through a creative visualization exercise. Examine the attributes of a culturally sensitive teacher. Explore teaching strategies that may smooth the way when cultural issues come to the foreground.
Presented by Robert Hanson, Harvey Silver, & Richard Strong
Learn how to
~ Discover a framework for accommodating students' learning styles.
~ Observe educators applying a variety of teaching strategies for student success.
~ Learn four teaching strategies that complement students' learning styles:
~ The COPE Strategy addresses the learner's need for clarity, step-by-step procedures, and content mastery.
~ The Mystery Strategy is for the learner who likes questions that puzzle, data that teases, and has a desire for big ideas.
~ The Metaphorical Expression Strategy addresses selfexpression and creativity.
~ The Reciprocal Learning Strategy provides the satisfaction of working with others.
~ Learn how additional strategies work within these broader strategies.
~ shows the full range of capabilities of an interactive whiteboard helping staff to become confident with both the technology and functionality
~ explores the pedagogy and teaching strategies ensuring that the technology adds value to the learning experience
~ can be used for training groups or for self study
~ shows the full range of capabilities of an interactive whiteboard helping staff to become confident with both the technology and functionality
~ explores the pedagogy and teaching strategies ensuring that the technology adds value to the learning experience
~ can be used for training groups or for self study
This course will give you the theory to enhance your instructional skills and develop strategies that will raise your students' achievement to a new level of quality. Course assignments and activities introduce you to Dr. Glasser's Quality Schools concepts and practices and demonstrate how they can be combined in a comprehensive program of instruction and behavior management.
In this course, you will learn how to:
~ teach your students problem-solving skills to improve achievement.
~ help your students become better listeners and stay on task.
~ manage your classroom in a manner that promotes quality work.
In this course, Dr. Glasser presents his new ideas about competency-based education, assessment, and teaching strategies that help to ensure the success of every student. Featured in the videos are actual lessons taught in Glasser quality schools. The lessons are presented with little or no editing to show from start to finish how you can create and conduct lessons in which every student can succeed.
In this course, you will:
~ learn to build competency and eliminate both failure and discipline problems.
~ create and teach lessons that produce competency-based learning.
~ learn to deal with the major cause of student under achievement.
~ use choice theory to help students become more responsible learners.
This course will give you the theory and skills to create lesson plans that meet the basic psychological needs of students and gain their cooperation in the learning process. Based on the works of Drs. William Glasser, David Johnson and Roger Johnson, you will gain the knowledge and skills to guide your students to become active, enthusiastic partners in the learning process.
In this course, you will learn to:
~ create lessons that involve students.
~ use cooperative learning strategies to encourage quality work.
~ help students solve classroom problems affecting learning.
This course will give you the psychological foundation to understand how learning, motivation, and individual differences relate to improving student achievement. In the videos, you will see demonstrated dozens of strategies that are being successful used to enhance student achievement at all grade levels.
In this course you will learn how to:
~ create effective lessons and units that engage students in the learning process.
~ increase your students' comprehension and retention levels.
~ connect with students who are resisting your best efforts to help them succeed.