Full Description
Enhance students' higher-level thinking skills, engage their brains, and build their self-esteem and achievement!
Expert teacher and trainer Susan J. Jones presents a no-nonsense, reality-based approach to classroom instruction that will help learners at all levels achieve lifelong success. Her expert knowledge covers a generous collection of teaching strategies, activities, and applications that add up to a blueprint for sound instructional delivery and student success.
Innovative topics Jones discusses include:
Laying the groundwork for learning and organizing experiences for understanding
Illustrating the framework for secure change in the classroom and identifying the big picture for learning
Demonstrating how to engage the brain's capacity for making connections in order to enhance the learning process
Transferring learning to real life and facilitating the recall process
Feedback, assessment, evaluation, and determining mastery learning
Blueprint for Student Success is a dynamic book that stresses the importance of learning through discovery, creativity, application, adaptation, and high-level thinking. Jones reiterates the need for a positive atmosphere, rituals, and procedures, enabling educators in turn to strengthen students' knowledge and achievement, resulting in lifelong success.
is a dynamic book that stresses the importance of learning through discovery, creativity, application, adaptation, and high-level thinking. Jones reiterates the need for a positive atmosphere, rituals, and procedures, enabling educators in turn to strengthen students' knowledge and achievement, resulting in lifelong success.
Contents
Preface
About the Author
1. Laying Groundwork for Learning: Meaning and Memory
2. Fertile Fields for Learning: Supple as Cotton, Rigid as Steel
3. Get 'Em on the Line, Then You Can "Reel 'Em In"
4. Add It Up: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts
5. Paint Me a Picture, Show Me the Way: Reconciling the New with the Known
6. Get Real!: Transferring Learning to Real Life
7. Who Said It Couldn't Be Done?: Blueprints for Student Success
8. I've Got It!: Now How Do I Keep It?
9. Hey, How Am I Doing?: Feedback in the Learning Process
References and Additional Resources
Index
