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.

Blueprints for Thinking in the Cooperative Classroom

James A. Bellanca

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Designed to help you see how to diminish the barriers between different subjects, this book provides a spectrum of inventive approaches to curricular integration. Ten models are presented, ranging from the traditional fragmented model to those that connect, sequence, nest, share, web, thread, integrate, network, and immerse one in curricular integration. It`s an essential tool to help students see the exciting connections between the things they learn.

How to Integrate the Curricula

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Robin Fogarty

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Formerly a SkyLight Publication Learn how to tap into practical strategies and techniques for developing and nurturing the full spectrum of intelligences identified by researcher Howard Gardner.

Seven Ways of Knowing: Teaching for Multiple Intelligences

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David G. Lazear

Schools & Teaching

Formerly a SkyLight publication This nationally recognized educator and teacher trainer offers both new and veteran teachers updated strategies to meet the critical challenges of today's diverse classrooms and the unique needs of their students.

What to Do With the Kid Who: Developing Cooperation, Self Disipline and Responsibility in the Classroom

K. Burke

For courses in assessment, general methods, and select courses in educational psychology. This text presents a wide range of alternative forms of assessment. They are presented in a meaningful and practical format, which makes their use easily applicable to those in schools and classrooms searching for more authentic forms of assessment. They will prove valuable to teaching teams wishing to collect data to evaluate their curriculum and instructional decision making. They will assist in communicating more thoughtfully to parents. Most importantly, they will signal to students that self-assessment is the ultimate goal of the mindful school. Its non-threatening approach offers explanations of learning standards, performance tasks, portfolio development and scoring rubrics. This book was written to help educators expand their repertoire of strategies to provide a more balanced assessment of student learning and to help students increase achievement and meet both knowledge and performance standards.

The Mindful School: How to Assess Authentic Learning

Kay Burke

Remember, a standardized test score is only a `snapshot` of a student on a particular day. A portfolio shows how the student`s work evolves over time. This how-to book details the purposes and types of portfolios, the 10 steps to developing portfolios, practical ideas for implementing portfolios, and lesson options, examples, and suggestions for encouraging creative and critical thinking.

The Mindful School: The Portfolio Connection

Burke, Kay

`There`s a strong possibility that this will become one of the most used books on the educator`s bookshelf, and that`s all to the good because ultimately it will be the students who benefit.` – Pat Wolfe Translating vast amounts of research into a teacher-friendly, practical guide to brain-compatible instruction, the authors have taken what is known about how the brain learns, combined it with the best of what is known about teaching, and generated the ultimate brain-compatible teaching kit. This valuable tool covers it all–cognitive research, pedagogical theory, theories of intelligence, cooperative group learning, collaborative skills, thinking skills, graphic organizers, and assessments–in an easy-to-digest format that explains what the key concepts are, why they are important, how they are relevant, and how they can be used. Complete with blackline masters and a list of resources, this is the most thorough guide to brain-compatible learning.

Designing Brain-Compatible Learning

Terrence Parry

What are possibilities of teaching for, with, and about multiple intelligences in the classroom? This practical guidebook takes readers through each of the eight intelligences and helps teachers expand their teaching repertoire by exploring hundreds of new ways for teachers to present, and their students to process, information. This book can help teachers transform their classrooms into a place where fun and learning take place at the same time.

Eight Ways of Teaching: The Artistry of Teaching for Multiple Intelligences

David Lazear

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