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More than ever before, as they teach to an increasingly diverse population, educators need a clear, concise guide to designing and implementing responsive curriculum. This book, built around the lessons of classroom teachers, provides the 'how' of instruction design. The first section identifies the most important components of design: addressing standards, designing multiple assessments, identifying richly detailed source materials, and creat...

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A teacher presents a lesson, and at the end asks students if they understand the material. The students nod and say they get it. Later, the teacher is dismayed when many of the students fail a test on the material. Why aren't students getting it? And, just as important, why didn't the teacher recognize the problem? In Checking for Understanding, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey show how to increase students' understanding with the help of creativ...

2015 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in Education Discover how to enhance teaching and learning using the seven essential elements of the Unstoppable Learning model: (1) planning, (2) launching, (3) consolidating, (4) assessing, (5) adapting, (6) managing, and (7) leading. Examine how to use systems thinking to create a network of interactions that promote best practices in teaching and enhance student learning schoolwide. Every clas...

Substance abuse is one of the most frequent and serious problems encountered by human service workers, criminal justice professionals, and clinicians. Unfortunately, many professionals in these fields receive little, if any, formal training about this problem. Our planned encyclopedia presents state-of-the-art research and evidence-based applications in A-to-Z format. Rather than create a compendium of specific drugs and drug effects, for whic...

What is FIT Teaching? What is a FIT Teacher?" The Framework for Intentional and Targeted Teachingor FIT Teachingis a research-based, field-tested, and experience-honed process that captures the essentials of the best educational environments. In contrast to restrictive pedagogical prescriptions or formulas, FIT Teaching empowers teachers to adapt the most effective planning, instructional, and assessment practices to their particular context ...

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This K-5 book takes implementation and assessment to the next level by digging deeper into specific lessons and providing grade-level strategies, with an emphasis on planning and executing highly effective lessons supported by John Hattie’s Visible Learning research.

If you ever have students who are reluctant to tell you when they don?t understand something?or worse, tell you they understand when they really don?t?then here's a book that gives you lots of better ways to check for understanding. Learn why typical ways to check for understanding are usually ineffective. And explore formative assessment techniques that work in any subject area and grade level: * Seven types of oral language (speaking and lis...

Background knowledge is too often neglected in our push to raise test scores, despite the fact that we know background knowledge is a critical component of comprehension. Background knowledge simply has to become an instructional focus if we want to help students make sense of school. We will lose a generation of learners if we don't act now." - Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey Why background knowledge? Because the "Grapes of Wrath" is dry readin...

In January 2004 a newly founded evangelical organization called PASCH was formed. The word denotes the Passover or time of new beginnings--when God kept people safe in their own homes before leading them into freedom from abuse and oppression. Yet the word PASCH also stands for Peace and Safety in the Christian Home. PASCH began as a small group of therapists, sociologists, domestic-violence experts, clergy, biblical scholars, survivors--and d...

Reading for Information in Elementary School: Content Literacy Strategies to Build Comprehension was written to give k-5 teachers the tools they need to lay an educational groundwork that promotes students' success with informational text from the early grades.  Packed with research-based, classroom-proven strategies, the text follows a before, during, and after reading format that models the most effective approach to reading for information,...

You know one of the real sweet spots of teaching is when you say or do the just-right thing to get students to do the cognitive work of learning. Now you can get there more often with the advice and steps from the book Guided Instruction. Explore an approach to instruction that ensures you make the four strategic moves that help students become more capable and independent learners.

This book is a natural for a teacher study group. It is well worth the time spent reading and discussing with colleagues because the ideas it holds are basic to rethinking and transforming vocabulary teaching." - Karen BromleyBinghamton University, SUNY Make the most of "Word Wise & Content Rich" with online resources for book study groups at no additional charge. Douglas and Nancy provide chapter-by-chapter study guides, audio podscasts, and ...