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Informationen zum Autor Brian M. Pete , co-founder of Robin Fogarty & Associates, comes from a family of educators-college professors, school superintendents, teachers and teachers of teachers. He has a rich background in professional development. Brian has worked with the adult learner in districts and educational agencies throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand and the GCC in the Middle East. He has an eye for the "teachable moment" and the words to describe what he sees as skillful teaching. He delivers dynamic, humor-filled sessions that energize the audiences with engaging strategies that transfer into immediate and practical on site applications. Comments from school leaders often say that it is the best PD the staff has ever had. ? Brian is co-author of: How to Teach Students to Think Within the Common Core , School Leaders Guide to Common Core Achieving Results , Supporting Differentiated Instruction: A PLC Approach, From Staff Room to Classroom: A Guide to Planning and Coaching Professional Learning , From Staff Room to Classroom II: The One-Minute PD Planner and The Right to Be Literate: 6 Literacy Strategies for the 21st Century. His works in progress include two pieces, one on inquiry learning with a focus on Problem-based Learning and the other on how to explicitly teach thinking skills in IB International Schools. Klappentext Through a meta-analysis of studies on instructional strategies, Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock (2001) have identified nine families of strategies that significantly increase student achievement. The results of this meta-analysis point educator to a proven pedagogy with teacher-tested, tried-and-true techniques that work to increase student achievement through cognitive and cooperative efforts.Nine Best Practices That Make the Difference presents research-based instructional ideas that encompass an essential repertoire for beginning and developing teachers as they become skilled professionals. The skills are organized in a 'framework for quality' that includes observable skills in four instructional areas: Creating an Environment for Learning, Teaching the Standards of Learning, Structuring Interactions with Learning, and Reflecting about the Learning. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements About This Nutshell Book 1. Family of Strategies: Finding Similarities and Differences (1SD) 2. Family of Strategies: Summarizing and Note-taking (2SN) 3. Family of Strategies: Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition (3RR) 4. Family of Strategies: Homework and Practice (4HP) 5. Family of Strategies: Nonlinguistic Representations (5NR) 6. Family of Strategies: Cooperative Learning (6CL) 7. Family of Strategies: Setting Objective and Providing Feedback (7OF) 8. Family of Strategies: Generating and Testing Hypotheses (8HG) 9. Family of Strategies: Questions and Cues and Advanced Organizers (9QCA) Appendix A: People Search: "Best Practices" That Make the Difference Bibliography ...
