lesson planning

"In Formative Tools for Leaders in a PLC: Assessing, Analyzing, and Acting to Support Collaborative Teams, authors Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic provide school leaders with tools and strategies to gauge the work of teams in implementing the professional learning community (PLC) process. Using the three stages of assessing, analyzing, and acting as a feedback loop, leaders examine the current reality of their schools along with major indicators of PLCs. The authors offer guidance for gathering evidence from school teams, processes, and artifacts and using data to inform and support areas that need improvement and celebrate those that are doing well. By reading this book, K-12 leaders will learn how to use a formative process to improve their schoolwide PLC practices"--Provided by publisher.

A comprehensive guidebook designed to help K-6 teachers structure the first six weeks of school and lay the groundwork for a productive year; includes daily plans for the first three weeks, detailed guidelines of building community, and a collection of games, activities, songs, read-alouds, and resources.

A teacher's guide to effectivly using technology in education.

"A teacher's day begins well before students arrive at school and ends long after they have left for the day. A Day with a Teacher introduces young readers to the behind-the-scenes aspects of a community member they witness in action regularly. In age-appropriate language, A Day with a Teacher describes how teachers use evidence-based practices to connect with students and help them to learn and grow. Readers will come away with an understanding of how teachers design lessons, why they grade assignments, and how they use technology to prepare students for college and careers"--.

Collects fifty standards-based lessons for elementary grades that weave reading together with curriculum goals and inquiry-based learning.

"Demonstrates ways to use the Shared Foundations and Domains in . . . instructional design while collaboratively planning personalized learning experiences with content-area educators"--Amazon.com.

Describes twenty strategies teachers may use to engage students' brains in the learning process, based on the findings of learning style theorists and neuroscientists, including the use of humor and stories, the incorporation of games in lessons, singing and dancing, and others.

Provides a series of strategies to organize and manage classroom instruction, along with a five-step lesson-planning process, teaching techniques, team-building activities, and more.