High-Impact Teaching Strategies for the 'XYZ' Era of Education

by Allen, Richard Howell

• ISBN13: 9780137144266
• ISBN10: 0137144261
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-10
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This book lays out strategies teachers can employ to make the best use of high-impact technology to engage the new, tech-savvy generations that fill today's classroom. Offers 26 (A-Z) High-Impact Strategies, which are divided into seven sections: In General; The Connection; The Big Picture; Focus on Classroom Management; In Practice; Next Step; and Your Ideas Features a series of High-Impact Lessons from real teachers, classrooms, and students Addresses the need for teachers to adjust their teaching strategies to meet the needs of all learners Includes 10 stories for use as classroom examples K-12 classroom teachers

Author Biography

Dr. Rich Allen is a highly regarded educator and master trainer, with a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology. His cognitive learning theory research, which provided understanding on how the brain receives, processes, stores, and recalls information, forms the basis for his radical approach to teaching, presenting and facilitating.

In 25 years of taking his ideas around the world, he has changed the lives of thousands of educators and executives, by giving them practical new presentation and teaching techniques that massively increase personal effectiveness.

Rich is a much sought after keynote speaker at international education conferences and leads workshops for school districts all over the world. He is a regular speaker at the Brain Expo, leads an annual course for student teachers in the UK and works with schools and school districts in the US, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Russia.

A former high school math and drama teacher, Rich was a Director and Lead Facilitator for SuperCamp, a 10-day accelerated learning program for teens, before focusing on teaching brain-based learning strategies to adults. He is the author of a number of best-selling education books including: Impact Teaching and Green Light Classrooms.

Table of Contents

Understanding the Dynamics of the 'XYZ' Era of Education

High-Impact ABC Strategies

Acknowledgment

Being Open

Crest of the Wave

Directions

Entertainment

Frames

Getting Responses

High-Quality Responses

Involve, Don't Tell

Jump Up

Keen Visuals

Labels

Music

Novelty

Ownership

Pause

Questions

Revolutions

Socialization

Tiers

Uniquely Memorable

Vocal Italics

Walk Away

X-Ray Vision

Yesterday Lives!

Zones of Instruction

The Presence of Chlorophyll in Leaves

Natural Resources

Using Question Marks Appropriately

Know Your State

Sentence Types

ABCs on the Move

Photo Journal Review

Native American Legends

Animals in the Ocean

Plotting Points on the Coordinate Grid

American History Time Lines

Can You Dig It?

Review Baseball

Docent of Your Own Museum-Understanding the Visual Arts in Relation to History and Culture

Carrying Capacity of a Landscape

A Final Thought

Lessons in the Language of Learning

Appendix

Stories

The Strawberry

The Traveler

The Animal School

The White Horse

The Castle Wall

The Two Seeds

The 1958 World Series

The Caterpillars

The Bicycle

References

Index

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