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Teaching Strategies for Active Learning

Donna E. Walker Tileston
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Brain research
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Curriculum development
Differentiation
Educational Psychology
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Strategic learning model
Student motivation
Teaching Methods
Teaching MethodsLearning Styles

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  • ISBN 9780761938552
  • Weight: 340g
  • Dimensions: 215 x 279mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Feb 2007
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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"Emphasizes the importance of matching instructional strategies to the appropriate outcomes.Thia is very important!"
—Cindy Harrison, Educational Consultant

"My peers would benefit from having this handbook to guide new and struggling teachers and to inspire the expert teacher on staff. Practical suggestions give educators incremental steps toward increasing the active learning level within any classroom, without giving up control of content."
—Beverly C. Eidmann, Principal, Arvada Middle School, CO

Make a difference in student learning with the latest and best brain-based teaching strategies!

Translating brain research into best practice, Donna Walker Tileston, award-winning author, educator, and trainer, offers teachers a simple and concise Strategic Learning Model applicable to all grade levels, content areas, and instructional settings. This systematic cycle focuses on five essentials that teach learners to plug in, power up, synthesize, outsource, and reflect on their learning.

Based on the latest brain and educational research, this student-centered, teacher-friendly guide includes:

  • A carefully chosen collection of instructional strategies for promoting the active transfer of knowledge to students′ long-term memory
  • A step-by-step process for planning powerful lessons that make a difference in student learning
  • Sample lesson forms and reproducible templates
  • Sample strategies such as question-and-answer profiles, technology integration, mindjogs, KNLH, group memory, making predictions, cooperative learning, six-hat thinking, collaborative retelling, graphic organizers, thinking at right angles, plus-minus-interesting, and much more

This is the teaching methods book for all teachers, instructional leaders, and curriculum designers who want to build students′ motivation, confidence, self-efficacy, and achievement.
About Donna E. Walker Tileston
Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna’s publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin′s bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her EdD from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com

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