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When students take ownership of learning, they achieve at high levels. Filled with practical examples and step-by-step guidelines, Students Taking Charge shows educators how to design innovative learning environments that engage students, build greater responsibility in the classroom, use technology to aid learning and raise academic rigour.

Both the new national curriculum in Australia and the Common Core State Standards in America have identified literacy as a cross-curricular capability that is critical to school and future success. This book will assist content-area teachers in understanding and teaching the literacy skills that apply to their various subjects. The role of literacy learning in humanities and social studies, science and technical subjects is explained in detail, including examples of lessons designed to ensure student mastery. Although the focus of the book is on unpacking the Common Core, there is significant correspondence with the Australian Curriculum, and Australian teachers will find much of value for enhancing their instruction.

Each thematic unit integrates activities across the curriculum in English, maths, science, social studies, art, music and life skills. Many of these activities encourage cooperative learning and suggestions, and patterns for display boards are provided. Culminating activities enable students to synthesise their knowledge in order to create products that can be shard beyond the classroom. Each thematic unit includes: literature selections, planning guides, writing ideas, homework suggestions, curriculum connections, group projects, a culminating activity and a reading list. Each book provides activities and lesson ideas based on two or more popular children’s stories.

The US National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics proposes a framework for mathematics education leaders to develop curriculum, a culture, instruction and assessments to ensure that all students learn the mathematics knowledge at the high levels outlined in the Common Core State Standards. The authors present three supportive conditions and ten imperatives necessary to reach this goal, providing practical recommendations for how each component can be achieved. While It's TIME has been written to address the implementation of the CCSS, it provides clear, research-based guidance on how to raise achievement in mathematics for every student and effectively implement curriculum standards in every classroom.

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.

Give your students the tools they need to motivate themselves with tips from award-winning educator Larry Ferlazzo. A comprehensive outline of common classroom challenges, this book presents immediately applicable steps and lessons plans for all teachers looking to help students motivate themselves. With coverage of brain-based learning, classroom management and using technology, these strategies can be easily incorporated into any curriculum. Blogger and educator Larry Ferlazzo has worked to combine literacy development with short and rigorous classroom lessons on topics such as self-control, personal responsibility, brain growth and perseverance.

Teach Them Thinking Mental Menus for 24 Thinking Skills. If you are convinced of the importance of teaching thinking skills in the classroom, this is a must have resource. Twenty-four skills are presented along with ready to use sample lessons.

Designed for primary students, this resource incorporates the ideas of blooms taxonomy and multiple intelligences in a practical and fun way. The activities cover themes such as seasons, measuring time and cycles in our world and can be used by teachers to supplement their own classroom ideas. Each interdisciplinary unit of work includes activities that are individually coded for multiple intelligences. The activities have defined learning outcomes, promote creative thinking, draw out students' intellectual capabilities.

This is a delightful activity book for early childhood/primary school students, years P-2. The resource contains 20 superbly illustrated themes based around Bloom's Taxonomy and Multiple Intelligences theory. Each theme is broken into parts, providing a thorough investigation of each topic. Activities are designed to promote creative thinking and to stimulate intellectual capabilities. Themes include community, travel, Aborigines, toys, dinosaurs, holidays, plus many more.

Rising Readers: Animal Adventures are for developing readers and are stories based around short fictional tales. The precisely levelled readers integrate literacy with content instruction. Meet your literacy standards with these research-based, levelled books!

What is your first reaction to the term ‘back to basics’? Unfortunately, many students and teachers immediately think of unimaginative workbooks and dull, dry questions and answers. This is a myth laid to rest by The Basic Not Boring Series. Each book represents a carefully researched skills sequence and features exercises based on age-appropriate, high-interest themes developed by a team of experienced educators to make basic, fundamental skills exciting and achievable. The Basic Not Boring books will empower students to master skills and concepts needed to move successfully and with enthusiasm into the next level of lifelong learning. Complete coverage of basic social studies skills in: World Understandings, World Geography, Map Skills, World History, Australian History