MORE Best Practices for High School Classrooms : What Award-Winning Secondary Teachers Do

by Randi Stone

• ISBN13: 9781412963442
• ISBN10: 1412963443
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-26
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

Peek into The Classrooms of Your Award-Winning Colleagues as they Share Their Most Successful Teaching Ideas!

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. x
About the Author	p. xi
About the Contributors	p. xii
Classroom Practices Across the Curriculum	p. 1
Classroom Management and Co-Teaching	p. 2
Classroom Management: Ideas I've Picked Up Along the Way	p. 2
Teenagers and Rules and Learning ... Oh My!	p. 6
Nine Co-Teaching Tips From Two Co-Teaching Gurus	p. 9
Differentiated Instruction	p. 17
Every Student Has a Story: Students With Special Needs and English Language Learners in the Secondary Classroom	p. 17
Buffet-Style Teaching: Reviewing and Re-Teaching	p. 21
Using Technology in the Classroom	p. 29
Using Technology Doesn't Have to Be Expensive	p. 29
Using Computer-Assisted Instruction in High School Mathematics Classes	p. 31
Video Analysis Unlocks the Physics World	p. 35
Teaching Science and Math	p. 43
Teaching Science	p. 44
Fertilizers: Testing Different Options	p. 45
My Life on a Podcast	p. 50
Getting the Dirt on Soil	p. 58
Water Purification	p. 64
Atom-Building Bingo	p. 70
Modéle: An Electron Configuration Experience	p. 73
Remote Sensing	p. 78
Teaching Math	p. 83
Mathematical Trends and Baby Names	p. 84
Box and Whisker Plot Extravaganza	p. 86
Maze Madness	p. 88
Parabolic Solar Cooker	p. 92
Pascal's Triangle With Sequences and Series	p. 95
Water Rocket Lesson	p. 98
Teaching Language Arts and Social Studies	p. 105
Teaching Language Arts	p. 106
Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Building Sentence Sense Without Teaching Grammar	p. 107
Descriptive Diner	p. 115
Deconstructing the Writer's Craft	p. 116
Story Stew	p. 120
Catering to Student Needs: Menu-Style Study Guides	p. 122
Navigating Spoon River While Putting Your Students in the Spotlight	p. 126
"Let's Argue!" A Research-Oriented Approach to Classroom Debates	p. 130
Discoveries in Hemingway's "A Clean Well Lighted Place"	p. 134
Teaching Social Studies	p. 139
Piecing Together the Past: An Introduction to the Study of History	p. 140
African Lunch Sack and Picnic	p. 144
Presidential Caucus Simulation	p. 149
Electoral College Review Game	p. 153
Economics in My Hometown	p. 156
Do What You Do Best and Trade for the Rest	p. 160
Teaching Music, Art, and Physical Education	p. 173
Teaching Music and Art	p. 174
Creating Correct Vowels for Singing	p. 174
Wayne Thiebaud-Style Plasticine Painting	p. 180
Art Integration: Enrolling in the Hudson River School to Study American Romanticism	p. 184
Teaching Physical Education	p. 190
Interactive Muscle Assignment	p. 190
Aerobic/Anaerobic Fitness Stations	p. 192
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