Teacher-to-teacher collaboration is more than a survival tactic; it is the social interaction that propels professional learning. In her new book, master teacher and educational consultant Robin Fogarty offers 13 guiding principles for new teachers and school leaders. These seminal ideas, along with the stories that accompany them, will invite, excite, and ignite teachers from kindergarten to college. Each chapter includes a description of the guiding principle, a companion vignette, classroom examples, teaching and learning tips, and discussion questions. While designed for new and preservice teachers, coaches, mentors, and seasoned veterans will also find new perspectives and ideas for their own practice and for mentoring newcomers to the profession. 
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<li> A conversational tone, including stories that entertain yet make a key point.</li>
<li> Tips for incorporating new information from neuro research on how we learn.</li>
<li> Proven techniques for differentiating instruction to meet the talents and needs of students.</li>
<li> Examples of strategies in each chapter with do-it-yourself activities to try. </li>
<li> Helpful insights appropriate for school leaders as well as teachers.</li>
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Invite! Excite! Ignite!: 13 Principles for Teaching, Learning, and Leading, K–12

Education & Teaching

Fogarty, Robin J.

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

How do we truly help all students achieve their fullest potential? What are the roles of motivation, deliberate practice, and coaching in developing talent and abilities in students? This hands-on guide examines each of these elements in detail providing definitions, relevant research, discussions, examples, and practical steps to take with students in elementary, middle, and high school. The authors examine cutting-edge research on world-class performance and distill information specifically for educators. Offering guidelines to help teachers spot and encourage all students’ exceptional aptitudes, passionate interests, and special strengths, they show concretely how to promote greater motivation for learning and success. This foundational book infuses new ideas into established teaching. User-friendly chapters include thought-provoking insights, vignettes of how notable talents were developed, teaching and learning tips, grade-level examples, and discussion questions. Book Features: <ul>
<li>Offers practical versions of ideas that impact instruction: motivation, practice, and coaching.</li> <li>Examines how “the brain learns deeply,” including emergent brain science on myelin and its contribution to memory, learning, and automaticity.</li> <li>Illuminates findings that question the “10,000 Hour Rule” about becoming an expert.</li> <li>Explores the important differences between practice and “deliberate practice” in the classroom.</li> <li>Explains research findings on the motivational factors that impact student learning and expertise.</li> <li>Highlights the role and features of the most effective formative assessment.</li> <li>Addresses the “Is Talent Born or Made?” question and elaborates with actions educators can take.</li> <li>Guides teachers in unlocking their students’ talent and helping them reach their true potential.</li>
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Unlocking Student Talent: The New Science of Developing Expertise

Science & Math

Kerns, Gene M.

Pete, Brian M.

Behavioral Sciences

If you are convinced of the importance of teaching critical and creative thinking skills in the classroom, this is a must-have resource. Twenty-four skills are presented along with ready-to-use sample lessons.

Teach Them Thinking: Mental Menus for 24 Thinking Skills

Bellanca, James A.

Corwin

Formerly a SkyLight publication. Ignite learning in any block-scheduled class with the simple cooperative strategies in this handbook by well-known author Robin Fogarty.

Designs for Cooperative Interactions

Formerly a SkyLight publication. Written by leading voices in the field, these carefully selected articles offer a deeper understanding of the multifaceted concept of curricular integration.

Integrating the Curricula: A Collections

Stoehr, Judy

Formerly a SkyLight publication. Take the mystery out of metacognition with the proven methods in this guide. With these easy-to-follow models you`ll discover how easy it is to incorporate reflection and how beneficial this strategy is for student learning.

How to Teach Metacognitive Reflection

Formerly a SkyLight publication. With Start Them Thinking: A Handbook of Strategies for the Early Years, you′ll learn how to establish the climate for thinking and encourage student interaction to foster thinking. It couldn′t be easier with the host of strategies in this collection of 38 ready-to-use lesson plans.

Start Them Thinking: A Handbook of Strategies for the Early Years

Opeka, Kay

Formerly a SkyLight publication. This unique and practical book combines Howard Gardner′s eight multiple intelligences and Robin Fogarty′s ten curriculum integration models to develop activities for building teams, exploring how to put power into themes, and ways to thread life skills through the subject matter content. Integrating Curricula With Multiple Intelligences: Teams, Themes, and Threads provides educators with creative methods for applying the multiple ways of knowing, learning, and assessing.

Integrating Curricula With Multiple Intelligences: Teams, Themes, and Threads

Formerly a SkyLight publication. This edited collection from Robin Fogarty and James Bellanca consolidates the best research and writing available about Gardner`s multiple intelligences theory. Leading proponents of the thoughtful classroom introduce, examine, and support evidence that this theory is effective with all your students.

Multiple Intelligences: A Collection

An essential repertoire for beginning and developing teachers, these nine teacher-tested techniques can significantly increase student achievement through cognitive and cooperative efforts.

Nine Best Practices That Make the Difference (In A Nutshell Series)

Pete, Brian Mitchell

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