Search results for ""author brian m. pete""
Skyhorse Publishing Close the Achievement Gap: Simple Strategies That Work
This invaluable research-based guidebook illustrates how quality teaching can overcome the impact of low socioeconomic conditions and improve student performance dramatically. The authors present instructional techniques that require students to speak with skill, write with clarity and purpose, read with a critical eye, and listen with active engagement. Using six practical strategies, educators can overcome the odds and guide learners to success by:Setting high expectations for all studentsMaking differentiation part of everything they doChallenging students to think criticallyInsisting on results-oriented goals
£12.99
Skyhorse Publishing Nine Best Practices that Make the Difference
Educators Brian Pete and Robin Fogarty present research-based instructional ideas that encompass an essential repertoire for beginning and developing teachers as they become skilled professionals.Through a meta-analysis of studies on instructional strategies, they have identified nine families of strategies that significantly increase student achievement. The results of this meta-analysis point educator to a proven pedagogy with teacher-tested, tried-and-true techniques that work to increase student achievement through cognitive and cooperative efforts.The skills are organized in a 'framework for quality' that includes observable skills in four instructional areas: Creating an Environment for Learning, Teaching the Standards of Learning Structuring Interactions with Learning, Reflecting about the Learning. This is useful reading for anyone who wants to develop as a teacher.
£13.05
Skyhorse Publishing Twelve Brain Principles That Make the Difference
Here Brian Pete and Robin Fogarty explain how the brain learns best and all the things teachers can do to facilitate the learning part of the teaching scene.They present a unique organization of Renate and Geoffrey Caine's twelve brain principles. The twelve principles are arranged in four specific quadrants. Each quadrant speaks to a particular aspect of the high-achieving classroom and highlights how instructional decisions are governed by the twelve principles. The Table of Contents:Part One: Climate for LearningChallenge/Threat: Learning PrincipleEmotions/Cognition: Learning PrincipleFocused/Peripheral: Learning PrinciplePart Two: Skills of LearningParts/Whole: Learning PrincipleSpatial/Rote: Learning PrincipleParallel Processing: Learning PrinciplePart Three: Interactions With LearningPhysiology: Learning PrincipleBrain Uniqueness: Learning PrincipleSocial/Experience: Learning PrinciplePart Four: Learning About LearningMeaning: Learning PrinciplePatterning: Learning PrincipleConscious/Unconscious: Learning Principle
£13.05
Teachers' College Press Unlocking Student Talent: The New Science of Developing Expertise
How do we truly help students achieve their fullest potential? What are the roles of motivation, deliberate practice, and coaching in developing talent and abilities in students? This hands-on guide examines each of these elements in detail providing definitions, relevant research, discussions, examples, and practical steps to take with students in elementary, middle, and high school. The authors examine cutting-edge research on world-class performance and distill information specifically for educators. Offering guidelines to help teachers spot and encourage students’ exceptional aptitudes, passionate interests, and special strengths, they show concretely how to promote greater motivation for learning and success. This foundational book infuses new ideas into established teaching. User-friendly chapters include thought-provoking insights, vignettes of how notable talents were developed, teaching and learning tips, grade-level examples, and discussion questions.
£31.46
