The heart of teaching
Subtitle: creating high-impact lessons for the adolescent learner
By: Audrey J. Sirota, with contributions by Laura Ianacone Taschek ; foreword by Roland Tharp.
Contributors: Taschek, Laura Ianacone.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2006
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: High school teaching.; Effective teaching.; Motivation in education.; Teacher-student relationships.
Description: "The Heart of Teaching offers practical guidance in designing lessons and classroom activities that are powerfully effective for all types of students, including those placed at risk of educational failure due to linguistic, socioeconomic, racial, and geographic factors. The approach is easily geared to standards and can be used to strengthen and enrich scripted lessons or mandated curricular units. With a strong emphasis on literacy, the book shows teachers how to assess a lesson plan and then how to design activities and exercises that can meaningfully engage all students, event hose who have difficulty in school. The book also shows teachers how to use learning centers for differentiating lessons and for breaking the classroom into small, participatory settings."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Teachers and students producing together : joint productive activity-collaboration or bust!; title: Developing language and literacy across the curriculum; title: Contextualization or making meaning : connecting school to students' lives; title: Challenging activities : teaching complex thinking; title: Teaching through dialogue : the instructional conversation; title: Conclusion : a model of assistance; title: Appendix. Creating and managing classroom activity centers.