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The Essentials for Achieving Rigour series of instructional guides helps educators become highly skilled at implementing, monitoring and adapting instruction. Readers can put the guides to practical use immediately, adopting day-to-day examples as models for application in their own classrooms.

Transformative Talk assists an aspirant Cognitive Coach in building their coaching capabilities. It draws upon each of the insights and experiences of Cognitive Coaching training associates and agency trainers who are 'walking the talk' in their own lives and careers. Each chapter at varying degrees reflects personal journeys shared with the explicit intention to assist you in making connections to your own work and your growth as a coach.Talk is critical to the complex, challenging and intrinsically satisfying work of educators. This book provides you with the opportunity to continue transforming your talk so you can transform the thinking of others in the process of education.

Why are all teachers responsible for teaching reading? The answer is simple. An emphasis on reading and literacy skills in the content areas has an exponential effect on learning in every discipline. Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who? 3rd Edition draws from new research on the impact of new technologies, the population boom of English language learners and the influence of government standards on student performance, and uses this information to promote better reading strategies and practices in students. This book also includes 40 strategies designed to help students in every year level and across the content areas develop their vocabularies, comprehend informational and narrative texts, and engage in meaningful discussions of what they read.

A call to action that is both passionate and practical, Five practices for equity-focused school leadership is an indispensable roadmap for educators undertaking the journey toward an education system that acknowledges and advances the worth and potential of all students.

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research refers to experiments conducted to address problems in those fields that can be tested using the scientific method. The scientific method is an inquiry process used to systematically study, investigate and to provide explanations for observed phenomenon in the natural world. This method is used by STEM professionals to answer questions they have about important world problems and usually includes carefully orchestrating a situation that allows them to observe, measure and test their ideas.

Marzano Research combines Dr Robert Marzano's 40 years of educational research with continuous action research in all major areas of schooling in order to provide effective and accessible instructional strategies, leadership strategies and classroom assessment strategies that are always at the forefront of best practice. Marzano Research provides teachers and school leaders with the tools they need to effect profound improvement in student achievement. This series is a collection of Marzano Research's invaluable resources.

ASCD Arias publications provide concise answers to challenging questions that you need to solve today—in a convenient format that you can read in one sitting and immediately put into practice. They’re the next-generation, immediate-need resources for everyone committed to the success of each learner.

Activities and Assessments Using the Australian Curriculum will provide specific examples of differentiated activities to teachers at all year levels, clarify how to set up and plan for student choices, explain how to write and implement tiered lessons and units, and translate theory into sound practice. This revised Australian edition includes 50 'how-to' differentiated units of work with student activities and their assessments, and features content descriptions from various Australian Curriculum learning areas. Primarily for F-6 students, content descriptions for Years 7-8 have also been included for use with older students or as extension activities for advanced students.

In this revised Australian edition of The Focus Factor, author James Bellanca examines the importance of an essential set of thinking skills that supports the Australian Curriculum and ensures future success for students in 21st-century life, school and work. Each chapter introduces the what, the why and the how to do it for explicit incorporation of content-crossing competencies. The text features practical how-to classroom examples that make it easy for teachers to integrate the development of important cognitive functions into their daily lessons.

How can teachers connect with and motivate students to embrace learning? According to Inspiring The Best In Students, the secret lies in forging positive relationships with student by meeting their individual social-emotional needs. Inspiring The Best In Students includes step-by-step instruction for dozens of classroom activities for years 3–12 that help build student-teacher relationships while teaching both content and skills. The more students are given freedom to make choices in a safe environment while also having fun, the more their enthusiasm for learning deepens. By Following the advice in Inspiring The Best In Students, you can ensure that the students in your class will remain engaged and inspired to achieve their best.