Search results for ""Author Emily Mofield""

Book SynopsisHow can we help students develop resilience to persevere in the face of setbacks? How can we ignite a drive that will inspire them to sustain effort even through difficulty? This book equips teachers to deliberately cultivate psychosocial skills, including self-awareness, problem solving to deal with setbacks, assertive interpersonal skills, and intellectual risk-taking. By teaching students to be aware of how their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors affect their pursuit of excellence, students can learn to tackle challenges and setbacks that they might experience as they reach to achieve. Lessons include engaging activities and curriculum connections, covering topics related to perfectionism, mindset, grit, stress, procrastination, social-emotional intelligence, and more. Grades 4-

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Book SynopsisGifted students spend most of their time in the regular classroom, yet few general education teachers have the specialized training to address their unique needs. This book provides the structures, processes, and resources needed to facilitate GT (Gifted/Talented) coaching as a means of building capacity among classroom teachers to identify, serve, and teach gifted and high-potential learners. Guided by best practices and research in professional learning, this resource provides the steps, strategies, and tools needed to create and sustain effective coaching practices designed to maximize access to advanced learning and differentiation throughout a school. Bolstered by downloadable resources, chapters address how to support, stretch, and sustain teachersâ instructional practices through a sequence of co-thinking, co-planning, and reflection that emphasizes ongoing and sustainable professional learning.Outlining a step-by-step guide for the coaching process, this valuabTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Coaching as a Catalyst for Change 2. What is a GT Coach? 3. Coaching Conversations 4. The Coaching Circuit: Set a Purpose 5. The Coaching Circuit: Plan and Act 6. The Coaching Circuit: Reflect 7. Building Collective Capacity for Change Appendix A: GT Coaching Circuit and Coaching Notes Appendix B: Coaching Scenario Appendix C: GT Toolkit of Strategies and Thinking Models Appendix D: Differentiation Features to "Create the Challenge" About the Authors

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