lesson planning

Offers teachers practical advice and strategies to help them design and implement co-teaching programs in mixed-ability classrooms, explaining how special education teachers and general education teachers can work together to meet the individual needs of all their students and promote high achievement.

Provides information about block scheduling, presenting guidelines designed to help educators decide whether block scheduling is appropriate for their schools, looking at different types of block scheduling, and offering advice on how to best implement such a program and use it to its best advantage.

Discusses literacy coaching and professional formats for coaches, such as collaborative resource management, content presentations, coplanning, study groups, demonstration lessons, peer coaching, and coteaching, and describes the roles, procedures, and responsibilities of each.

Offers ready-to-use strategies, lessons, and activities educators can use to help students with diverse learning styles, ability levels, skills, and behaviors; and includes over one hundred reproducible management tools.

"Practicing librarians and library educators demonstrate the power of inquiry to achieve the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and promote school librarians as key partners in implementing this type of critical teaching and learning in K-12 schools"--Provided by publisher.