CRISP offers a collection of science\/content books, teaching strategies, curriculum resources and DVDs that may be checked out for classroom use.<\/p>\n
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Synopsis<\/b>: Using the same principles introduced in the best-selling book Teacher Teams That Get Results<\/a>, this resource shows how students who work together and share ideas with one another can deepen their understanding of essential concepts. Combining effective grouping strategies with other research-based practices, this resource for the differentiated classroom demonstrates how students can strengthen critical thinking and achievement through three key skills: teaming to learn, sharing knowledge and skills, and integrating and applying learning. By utilizing these innovative teaching tools and strategies (presented in this book) with their student teams, teachers can prepare all students for deeper thinking and success both in the classroom and on assessments! More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Synopsis<\/b>: Distinguished researcher Joseph Murphy has gathered and analyzed the most up-to-date research and data to help school leaders understand what the achievement gap is, why it persists, and what educators can do about it. This comprehensive handbook:<\/p>\n Synopsis<\/b>: This practical workbook's strategies, proven activities, reflective questions, staff development activities, and facilitator's guide will teach how to effectively reach culturally and ethnically diverse students. More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Synopsis<\/b>: Wiggins makes the most convincing case yet that school-based assessment should aim mainly to improve, rather than to audit, student performance. This book covers all aspects of assessment design, including how to craft performance tasks that meet rigorous educational standards, how to score assessments fairly, and how to structure and judge student portfolios. It also looks at how performance assessment can be used to improve curriculum and instruction, grading and reporting - and teacher accountability. More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Synopsis<\/b>: A practical nuts and bolts guide for teachers from any discipline who want to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities. More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Synopsis: <\/strong>More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Synopsis<\/strong>: In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they're born.<\/p>\n Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the fundamental question posed by Academically Adrift: are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there? For a large proportion of students, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's answer to that question is a definitive \"no.\" More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Synopsis<\/b>: What year are you preparing your students for? 1973? 1995? Can you honestly say that your school's curriculum and the program you use are preparing your students for 2015 or 2020? Are you even preparing them for today? With those provocative questions, author and educator Heidi Hayes Jacobs launches a powerful case for overhauling, updating, and injecting life into the K-12 curriculum. More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/div>\n Synopsis<\/b>: This book presents a way that teachers can use findings immediately, to revitalize their work in the classroom for even greater effectiveness. More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Synopsis<\/b>:This book uses exemplary teaching to illustrate how approaches based on what we now know in in-depth learning. It examines these finding and their implications for what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess what our children learn. More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Synopsis<\/b>:With emphasis on the essential connection to student outcomes, this volume provides an in-depth analysis of each approach, plus concrete guidelines for effective implementation and program evaluation. Based on the belief that all models can succeed if properly implemented, the book examines:<\/p>\n Synopsis<\/b>: Combining professional learning communities and action research, this step-by-step guide provides coaches, workshop leaders, and staff developers with strategies, activities, and tools to develop inquiry-oriented PLCs. More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Synopsis<\/b>: This book has become the gold standard text in many colleges and school districts across the country for studying generic pedagogy. Designed for both the novice and the experienced educator. The Skillful Teacher is a unique synthesis of the Knowledge Base on Teaching with powerful repertoires for matching teaching strategies to student needs. Designed as a practical guide for practitioners working to broaden their teaching skills, the book combines theory with practice and focuses on 18 critical areas of classroom performance. A must for instructional coaches and mentors! More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Synopsis<\/b>: This book came about due to an increasing national recognition of a need for improved preparation of physics and physical science teachers. Although there is an extensive and growing body of research and research-based practice in physics teacher education, there has been no single resource for scholarly work in this area. In response, The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) project management selected Editors and an Editorial Board for the book based on recommendations from the physics education community. The editorial group worked to devise a set of guidelines regarding submission of manuscripts. This resulting book includes new reports that reflect cutting-edge research and practice, as well as reprints of previously published seminal papers. More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Synopsis<\/b>: This book offers colleges and universities a framework and tools to design an effective and collaborative assessment process appropriate for their culture and institution. It encapsulates the approach that Peggy Maki has developed and refined through the hundreds of successful workshops she has presented nationally and internationally. More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Synopsis<\/b>: This book provides a comprehensive and effective preparation for science teachers by integrating educational theory, research, and practice. The authors recognize the importance of both the intellectual development of students and the processes and nature of science teaching and learning. Their instructional model provides a clear and logical framework for the presentation of fundamental concepts of teaching, such as getting and giving feedback, planning and evaluating instruction, and managing classroom discipline. Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Synopsis<\/b>: Common Core State Standards (CCSS) bring state curricula into alignment with each other by following the principles of standards-based education reform. The big idea behind CCSS is to, \"provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them.\" Navigating Implementation of the Common Core State Standards, the first of a four book series, provides background on CCSS and helps create a plan to implement the standards. More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Synopsis<\/b>: Each new headline about American students' poor performance in math and science leads to new calls for reform in teaching. Education Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology puts the whole picture together by synthesizing what we know about the quality of math and science teaching, drawing conclusions about why teacher preparation needs reform, and then outlining recommendations for accomplishing the most important goals before us. More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Synopsis<\/b>: This is a practical guide to evaluating professional development programs at five increasing levels of sophistication: participants' reaction to professional development; how much participants learned; evaluating organizational support and change; how participants use their new knowledge and skills; and improvements in student learning. More Info<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \n
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