Helping you to help your students — a guidebook to improving student attention and performance in the classroom. Across North America, self-regulation is being associated with the kinds of “21st century learning skills” that schools need to foster , empowering learners to succeed from primary grades through the adult years. While interest in self-regulation and self-regulated learning (SRL) is intensifying among researchers, policy-makers and educators, few resources are available to professionals interested in enhancing their practice in this area. Developing Self-regulating Learners is a guidebook to helps in-service candidates and teachers guide students to improved attention spans and more positive behaviour, assisting in connecting research on self-regulation and learning in classrooms and effectively combining theoretical content with practical classroom applications and strategies.
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It’s All About Thinking: Creating Pathways for All Learners in the Middle Years
In this third volume of It’s All About Thinking, the authors focus their expertise on teaching and learning in the middle years, translating principles into practices and exploring questions such as:
- How can we help students develop the competencies they need to become successful learners?
- How can we create pathways to deep learning of important concepts?
- How can we engage and support diverse learners in inclusive classrooms?
Nicole, Linda and Leyton explore these questions and offer classroom examples to help busy teachers develop communities where all students learn. These three experienced educators offer a welcoming and “can-do” approach to the big ideas in middle years education today. In this book, you will find:
- insightful ways to teach diverse learners (arts integration, open-ended strategies, cooperative learning, inquiry/project-based learning, community/social-emotional learning, formative assessment/self-regulated learning, diverse texts, new literacies/emerging technologies)
- units and lessons crafted using curriculum design frameworks (universal design for learning and backward design)
- assessment for, as, and of learning
- fully fleshed-out lessons and lesson sequences to help students develop deep learning and 21st Century learning competencies
- assessment tools (and student samples) for concepts drawn from middle years curricula
- excellent examples of theory and practice made accessible to teachers
- real school examples of collaboration – teachers working together to create better learning opportunities for their students
It’s All About Thinking: Collaborating to Support All Learners in Mathematics and Science
In this second volume of It’s All About Thinking, the authors focus their expertise on the disciplines of mathematics and science, translating principles into practices that help other educators with their students.
- How can we help students develop the thinking skills they need to become successful learners?
- How does this relate to deep learning of important concepts in mathematics and science?
- How can we engage and support diverse learners in inclusive classrooms where they develop understanding and thinking skills?
In this book, Faye, Leyton and Carole explore these questions and offer classroom examples to help busy teachers develop communities where all students learn. This book is written by three experienced educators who offer a welcoming and “can-do” approach to the big ideas in math and science education today. In this book you will find:
- insightful ways to teach diverse learners (Information circles, open-ended strategies, inquiry, manipulatives and models)
- lessons crafted using curriculum design frameworks (udl and backwards design)
- assessment for, as, and of learning
- fully fleshed-out lessons and lesson sequences; inductive teaching to help students develop deep learning and thinking skills in Math and Science
- assessment tools (and student samples) for concepts drawn from learning outcomes in Math and Science curricula
- excellent examples of theory and practice made accessible
- real school examples of collaboration — teachers working together to create better learning opportunities for their students
Pulling Together: Integrating inquiry, assessment, and instruction in today’s English classroom
Complete with diagrams, graphic organizers, classroom examples, assessment tools, and lists of core understandings, Pulling Together presents a comprehensive answer to the current big ideas in teaching—formative assessment, backward design, inquiry learning, strategic teaching, metacognition. The authors show how this collaborative process is reflected in all aspects of the literacy learning, from unit planning and lesson sequences, through the inquiry process and gradual release of responsibility in the classroom, to linking formative and summative assessment for responsive planning. For a review of Pulling together, click here.
Listen as Mehjabeen Datoo and Leyton Schnellert discuss their latest book, Pulling Together, and how teachers can use as few as three units during a school year while using diverse texts to engage students, differentiate, and build confidence.
It’s all about Thinking: Collaborating to Support All Learners
How can we help students develop the thinking skills they need to be successful learners? How does this relate to deep learning of important concepts? How can we engage and support diverse learners in inclusive classrooms where they develop understanding and thinking skills? In this book, Faye and Leyton explore these questions and offer classroom examples to help busy teachers develop communities where all students learn.
This book is written by two experienced educators who offer a welcoming and “can do” approach to the big ideas in education today. In this book, you will find:
- insightful ways to teach diverse learners, e.g., literature and information circles, open-ended strategies, cooperative learning, inquiry
- curriculum design frameworks, e.g., universal design for learning (UDL) and backward design
- assessment for, of, and as learning
- lessons to help students develop deep learning and thinking skills in English, Social Studies, and Humanities
- excellent examples of theory and practice made accessible
- real school examples of collaboration — teachers working together to create better learning opportunities for their students
Meet Leyton and Faye and learn more about “It’s All About Thinking”
Student Diversity: Classroom Strategies to Meet the Learning Needs of All Students
This practical handbook shows teachers how to use collaboration, assessment, and strategic teaching to meet the needs of all students — from ESL learners and children with disabilities to students with different learning styles. From relationship-building activities to ways to meet specific curriculum expectations, the book offers practical strategies and organizational frameworks that help teachers reach all students. It demonstrates how to:
- choose key strategies and skills, and model these strategies for students;
- adapt units of study to make them more accessible for all students;
- incorporate the power of multiple intelligences in planning lessons;
- design effective learning sequences within the classroom;
- provide students with special needs support to reach their learning goals;
- use assessment to inform instruction;
- create learning experiences that help all students grow and succeed.
Based on extensive classroom experience, the authors present teaching scenarios that embrace collaboration between classroom and support teachers. They offer samples of exemplary classroom practices ranging from structured activities, strategies, and sequences to workshops, projects, and thematic units. First steps in implementing and modeling strategies for students are an integral part of the book.
This updated edition has been expanded to include major sections on narrative and personal writing as well as specific strategies that tie assessment to lesson planning. New approaches to novel study, math, and social studies instruction are also included.
Leyton Schnellert 