Blueprints for Thinking in the Cooperative Classroom

James A. Bellanca

Skylight Publishing

BLUEPRINTS FOR THINKING IN A COOPERATIVE CLASSROOM presents practical ideas and model lessons for encouraging cooperative learning in elementary, junior-high and high school classrooms. Tasks are designed with rigor and complexity inherent in the assignments. Higher order thinking strengthens cooperative learning (Joyce 1988) through the cycle of the small-group process. The "Blueprints" approach creates a thinking classroom and a collaborative climate that catches the student cooperating through a sense of need. BLUEPRINTS contains a research-based collection of "best-practice" for the K-12 teacher: *Basics for forming a thinking cooperative classroom; *Easy-to-use lesson models; *High-content, high-support lessons for all teachers; and *High-challenge lessons for all students.

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Skylight Professional Developm

Implement the Common Core State Standards with downloadable reproducibles, lists of resources to support the many topics affected, discussion questions, and relevant information to share with your colleagues. Explore the background of the standards and the changes that must take place to meet them. The authors offer five principles for school leaders on effective coaching and feedback. Benefits: 
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<li>Understand the CCSS and your role in implementing them into the English language arts and mathematics curricula. </li> <li>Gain tips and strategies to support teachers, and create long-term professional learning as schools adopt the CCSS. </li> <li>Select the best assessment tools to study and track student progress. </li> <li>Access reproducibles, discussion questions, and other resources to support CCSS implementation and maintenance. </li> <li>Use models of classroom observations to foster collaborative conversations about teaching and learning. </li> <li>Learn and apply guidelines for effective coaching and feedback strategies. </li>
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Contents: Chapter 1: The Shift to the Common Core: Transitioning or Transforming Your School Chapter 2: The Shift in Implementation: Sustaining Professional Learning Chapter 3: The Shift in Instruction: Attaining Rigor and Real-World Relevance Chapter 4: The Shift in Coaching and Feedback: Leading With Guiding Principles Chapter 5: The Shift in Assessing Results: Informing All Stakeholders

School Leader's Guide to the Common Core: Achieving Results Through Rigor and Relevance (Solutions)

Education & Teaching

Robin J. Fogarty

Brian M. Pete

and Rebecca L. Stinson

Schools & Teaching

Solution Tree

Ensure your students develop the complex, higher-order thinking skills they need to not just survive but thrive in a 21st century world. The latest edition of this best-selling guide by James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, and Brian M. Pete details a three-phase teaching model and dives deep into how to teach seven key student proficiencies: critical thinking, creative thinking, complex thinking, comprehensive thinking, collaborative thinking, communicative thinking, and cognitive transfer. How to teach higher-order thinking skills for student engagement and achievement: 
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<li>Receive guidance on teaching higher-order thinking skills according to any given standard, including state standards and content-area standards.</li> <li>Learn how to weave thinking skills and technology into your existing teaching strategies and lesson plans.</li> <li>Understand how to adapt lessons for various grade levels and subjects.</li> <li>Gain questions to reflect on after lessons, to ensure that students learn at the highest levels and grow their problem solving and innovative thinking.</li> <li>Attain tools and reproducibles to facilitate learning and understanding of teaching critical thinking and other 21st century skills.</li>
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Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Authors Introduction Student Proficiency 1: Critical Thinking Chapter 1: Analyze Chapter 2: Evaluate Chapter 3: Problem Solve Student Proficiency 2: Creative Thinking Chapter 4: Generate Chapter 5: Associate Chapter 6: Hypothesize Student Proficiency 3: Complex Thinking Chapter 7: Clarify Chapter 8: Interpret Chapter 9: Determine Student Proficiency 4: Comprehensive Thinking Chapter 10: Understand Chapter 11: Infer Chapter 12: Compare and Contrast Student Proficiency 5: Collaborative Thinking Chapter 13: Explain Chapter 14: Develop Chapter 15: Decide Student Proficiency 6: Communicative Thinking Chapter 16: Reason Chapter 17: Connect Chapter 18: Represent Student Proficiency 7: Cognitive Transfer Chapter 19: Synthesize Chapter 20: Generalize Chapter 21: Apply Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Glossary References &amp; Resources Index

How to Teach Thinking Skills: Seven Key Student Proficiencies for College and Career Readiness; Teaching Thinking Skills for Student Success in a 21st Century World

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Solution Tree Press

Access simple yet powerful personalized learning plans that any teacher--regardless of grade, existing curriculum, or student load--can adapt, scale, and sustain. Achieve deep learning with teaching strategies that foster students' cognitive, digital, and social-emotional learning (SEL) skills. Use this how-to guide to plan and implement deep learning outcomes: <ul> <li>Explore the three critical skill sets needed to thrive in the 21st century: (1) complex cognitive, (2) social-emotional, and (3) digital.</li> <li>Learn how to foster a trusting learning environment that enhances student engagement.</li> <li>Understand how digital-management tools, electronic templates, and websites can help transform the classroom into a place where students experience deeper learning.</li> <li>Observe numerous classroom examples of personalized deeper learning at the elementary and secondary levels.</li> <li>Study specific teaching strategies to enhance learning transfer.</li> </ul> Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Personalized Learning Plans Chapter 2: Engagement Chapter 3: Outcomes-Driven Instruction and Assessment Chapter 4: Student Agency Chapter 5: Skill Transfer Chapter 6: The Complex Cognition Skill Set Chapter 7: The Social-Emotional Skill Set Chapter 8: The Digital Skill Set Conclusion: Personalized Deeper Learning for a Lifetime Appendix: Templates

Personalized Deeper Learning: Blueprints for Teaching Complex Cognitive, Social-Emotional, and Digital Skills (A How-To Guide for Deep Learning and Student Engagement With Any Curriculum)

Rely on Shifting to Digital to deliver clear and concise answers to all of your remote teaching questions. This comprehensive guide provides specific strategies for planning high-engagement instruction, handling technology, assessing collaboration and assignments, and more. You'll also gain access to a helpful list of digital tools, along with online-specific lessons and projects for various subjects. <ul> <li>Learn how to engage and manage multiple students online at one time.</li> <li>Create effective lesson plans that incorporate synchronous and asynchronous instruction based on best-practice cooperative learning and project-based learning.</li> <li>Gauge students' executive function and increase their self-direction--a crucial part of online learning.</li> <li>Understand how to best teach and support English learners and students with special needs.</li> <li>Plan communications for students, parents, and guardians that address technology procedures, expectations, and privacy.</li> </ul> Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Technology Chapter 2: Instructional Planning Chapter 3: Document Handling Chapter 4: Mindful Engagement Chapter 5: Positive Interaction and Social-Emotional Learning Chapter 6: Feedback Chapter 7: Assessment Chapter 8: Students With Special Needs Chapter 9: Communication With Parents and Guardians Epilogue Appendix: Distance Learning Lesson and Project Designs References and Resources Index

Shifting to Digital: A Guide to Engaging, Teaching, and Assessing Remote Learners

Computers & Technology

Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert

Kate Bellanca

Programming Languages

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