 | Classroom Instruction from A to Z
Classroom Instruction from A to Z
Barbara R. Blackburn
"Learn the most effective ways to promote student learning. This second edition of bestselling author Barbara Blackburn’s Classroom Instruction from A to Z covers a broad range of key instructional strategies to help you create more meaningful, engaging learning experiences for your students. Each chapter from A to Z offers guidance on a specific aspect of classroom instruction, such as planning strong lessons; assessing student learning; creating more successful homework assignments; differentiating instruction; and scaffolding students for success.
Throughout the book, you’ll find practical strategies and tools that you can implement immediately, no matter what subject area or grade level you teach.
Topics new to this updated edition include:
Exploring blended learning techniques such as flipped classrooms;
Strategies for implementing social emotional learning and mindfulness;
Understanding diverse learners and accommodating all students;
Teaching academic vocabulary in deeper ways; and
Integrating subjects and promoting writing across the curriculum.
With twenty-six chapters each devoted to a different aspect of instruction, this book has something to offer both new and experienced looking to improve student learning.
Edition Number: 2
Published: 8th September 2015
ISBN: 9781138935952
Number Of Pages: 194
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Regular price: 53.00
Discounted member price: 47.00
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 | Rigor and Assessment in the Classroom
Rigor and Assessment in the Classroom
Author: Barbara Blackburn
"Learn how to assess students in a way that truly impacts learning. In Rigor and Assessment in the Classroom, bestselling author Barbara R. Blackburn provides a broad range of practical strategies for increasing the rigor and usefulness of your formative and summative assessments. You’ll discover how to…
* Create an environment where students are expected to learn at high levels;
* Evaluate and check student learning in a way that ensures growth;
* Strengthen the validity and reliability of your assessments;
* Plan assessments in conjunction with planning the instruction;
* Differentiate assessments to increase the rigor for all students;
* Enhance the effectiveness of your grading system and feedback;
* Use performance-based assessment to enhance rigor; and
* Design clear, reader-friendly rubrics and scoring guides.
Each chapter includes ready-to-use tools, examples across the subject areas, and ""Think About It"" questions to help you reflect on what you’ve read. Many of the tools are also offered as free eResources at www.routledge.com/9781138936140, so you can easily print and distribute them for classroom use."
Published: 16th February 2017
ISBN: 9781138936140
Number Of Pages: 148
Regular price: 39.00
Discounted member price: 37.00
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 | Rigor in Your Classroom
Barbara Blackburn
"Teachers are required to increase the rigor for students, but how? This book by bestselling author and rigor expert Barbara Blackburn has the answer! It is a treasure chest of more than 200 practical and highly-effective tools that can be used across grade levels and subject areas to increase student rigor, leading your students to higher engagement and deeper learning.
Topics covered include…
* Asking higher-level questions
* Scaffolding to help all students achieve success
* Differentiating instruction and using modifications
* Fostering independence through gradual release of responsibility
* Increasing text difficulty and teaching close reading
* Setting high expectations
* Changing students’ views of success
* Encouraging effort and goal-setting
* Creating an environment that is conducive to learning
* Using effective grading policies and assessment tools
* Working with parents, colleagues, and administrators
* And much, much more!
Rigor in Your Classroom will be your go-to resource throughout the school year, as you continually return to it to try new tools with your students. Bonus: The tools are accompanied by graphic organizers, charts, templates, and reproducibles for easy implementation."
Published: 1st May 2014
ISBN: 9780415732871
Number Of Pages: 218
Regular price: 75.00
Discounted member price: 70.00
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 | Rigor in Your School: A Toolkit for Leaders, 2nd Edition
by Barbara Blackburn & Ronald WIlliamson
WAS $62.99 NOW $52.99
Raise the level of rigor in your school and dramatically improve student learning with the tools in this book! In Rigor in Your School: A Toolkit for Leaders, Second Edition, each illuminating exercise is tailored to leaders looking to spread the word on rigor and beat the obstacles to achieving school-wide improvement. In this new edition, the authors answer more questions about common obstacles faced by principals, explore how technology can support rigor in your school, and provide additional information on collaborative tools for building a culture that supports rigor for all.
The tools in this book help you:
Assess where you are now
Evaluate and adjust curriculum
Design an advocacy plan
Ensure accountability with parents
Use your school's schedule to increase rigor
And more!
For both new and experienced leaders, you’ll find this easy-to-use toolkit full of practical templates and strategies to implement immediately.
Regular price: 52.99
Discounted member price: 50.99
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 | Rigor Is NOT a Four-Letter Word, 3rd Edn
Rigor Is NOT a Four-Letter Word
Author - Barbara Blackburn
Learn how to increase rigor so that all students can reach higher levels of learning! In this new edition of a best seller, author Barbara R. Blackburn offers practical ideas for raising expectations, increasing complexity, integrating scaffolding into instruction, creating open-ended choices and projects, and much more. This timely new edition provides connections to rigorous standards, plus it features new sections on topics such as questioning models, student ownership, Genius Hour, summative assessments, becoming a teacher-leader, and increasing rigor in instructional technology.
Appropriate for teachers of all grade levels and subject areas, the book is filled with helpful strategies and tools that you can implement immediately.
With its practical advice and helpful tools, Rigor Is NOT a Four-Letter Word will set you and your students on the fast track to higher learning and sustained success.
Edition Number: 3
Published: 5th March 2018
ISBN: 9781138569560
Number Of Pages: 182
Regular price: 44.00
Discounted member price: 40.00
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 | Rigor Made Easy: Getting Started
Rigor Made Easy: Getting Started
Author: Barbara R. Blackburn
Bestselling author and noted rigour expert Barbara Blackburn shares the secrets to getting started, maintaining momentum and reaching your goals. Learn what rigour looks like in the classroom, understand what it means for your students and get the keys to successful implementation.
Learn how to use rigour to raise expectations, provide appropriate support and meet the General Capabilities outlined in the new Australian National Curriculum - whether or not rigour is something mandated in your school or school system!
Published: 1st March 2012
ISBN: 9781596672154
Number Of Pages: 130
Regular price: 35.00
Discounted member price: 33.00
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 | Rigorous Schools and Classrooms: Leading the Way
Authors - Ronald Williamson & Barbara Blackburn
Turn your school into a student-centred learning environment where rigor is at the heart of instruction in every classroom. This comprehensive guide to establishing a schoolwide culture of rigor is for principals and other administrators who want to create the conditions in which rigorous classrooms flourish. School leaders will learn to: Manage a movement toward increased schoolwide rigor, Engage teachers in conversations about improving instruction, Build support for rigor among families, Learn methods for gathering meaningful data on student learning. With practical ready-to-apply strategies, this book outlines and simplifies the steps toward achieving rigor at the school level. It represents a successful program that principals and administrators can use to put student learning first!
Regular price: 45.95
Discounted member price: 43.95
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 | The Principalship from A to Z
Barbara Blackburn
"The second edition of The Principalship from A to Z provides a set of tools that can be used immediately to improve your leadership practice. Organized into 26 chapters—one for each letter of the alphabet—this book covers the most important and prevalent issues and skills for leaders in today’s schools, including matters of limited funding, juggling social media, teacher evaluation, student achievement, school safety, and collaborating with parents. This accessible guide offers specific strategies that will help you navigate the complexity of your job and help you to become a more effective principal.
Topics new to this updated edition include:
A renewed focus on student learning as the first priority of a principal and updated strategies for becoming a powerful instructional coach
Information about restorative justice practices and other disciplinary approaches
Timely new chapters on motivating teachers and students, using social media, and handling limited resources
Updated resources at the end of each chapter
For both new and experienced leaders, you’ll find this book to be full of practical templates and strategies to implement immediately.
Regular price: 48.99
Discounted member price: 46.99
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