Zemelman, Steven

What really matters to your students? The issues in front of them at school and in life. When students inquire into those issues and know that their arguments will be read with a skeptical eye next week by the city council or published in the local newspaper, they're eager to research and find relevant information in nonfiction texts to bolster their claims. They become committed to write, revise, edit, and correct their grammar. They want to think broadly about what reasoning will be effective with their audience. Want that kind of engagement in your classroom? Whether you teach English, social studies, science, or math, From Inquiry to Action will show you how step-by-step. Its projects for civic-engagement help kids become not only college and career ready but citizen ready. And not ready someday, but right now.

Explains how to create units on family history in primary and secondary classes to encourage student interest in a variety of academic topics, including instructions for activities such as family member interviews, kinship charts, family and formal history time lines, and family history videos.

Draws from national reports, research summaries, and professional position papers to provide explanations of what constitutes instructional excellence in the main school curriculum areas; and includes examples of those standards at work in real classrooms at all grade levels.

Examines teaching methods across the curriculum that help students learn, and describes how to implement those strategies into the regular classroom.

Draws from national reports, research summaries, and professional position papers to provide explanations of what constitutes instructional excellence in the main school curriculum areas; and includes examples of those standards at work in real classrooms at all grade levels.

A guide for teachers that defines and explains best practice teaching in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies, and includes strategies for meeting state and Common Core State Standards, classroom vignettes, and tips for special education, struggling readers, the arts, and technology in the classroom.