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Building Background Knowledge For Academic Achievement: Research On What Works In Schools
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In Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement, Robert J. Marzano shows how a carefully structured combination of two approaches–sustained silent reading and instruction in subject-specific vocabulary terms–can help overcome the deficiencies in background knowledge that hamper the achievement of many children. Readers will learn
* The principles that underlie an effective sustained silent reading program
* A five-step process for using sustained silent reading to enhance background knowledge
* The defining characteristics of effective vocabulary instruction
* A six-step process for direct instruction in vocabulary in each discipline
* The vocabulary terms critical … More >>
Building Background Knowledge For Academic Achievement: Research On What Works In Schools
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Successful Schools and Educational Accountability: Concepts and Skills to Meet Leadership Challenges
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This text in AB’s new Educational Leadership series from Peabody College, discusses how the standards and accountability movement has affected teachers and school leaders and illustrates its impact on learning. This text stands out due to authorship and breadth of research used. It was developed by the leading scholars in educational accountability as part of a series from one of the leading Schools of Education in the world. No other text discusses policy and practice in such a systematic way, with such a strong basis in current research…. More >>
Successful Schools and Educational Accountability: Concepts and Skills to Meet Leadership Challenges
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Best Practice, Today’s Standards for Teaching and Learning in America’s Schools
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Best practice is the pillar that supports powerful teaching, and the first two editions of the highly acclaimed Best Practice have promoted instructional excellence for more than ten years. Now the third edition, with forty-five percent new material, does still more to make the big ideas of education accessible, identifying the teaching methods that help students learn, explaining how to implement them in the classroom, and showing what exemplary instruction really looks like. Recognizing that the themes of American education have changed dramatically, Steven Zemelman, Harvey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde reconvened, and their new edition provides fresh, inspiring examples of state-of-the-art teaching methods in … More >>
Best Practice, Today’s Standards for Teaching and Learning in America’s Schools
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