effective teaching

The fourth in a series of books about sixteen types of intelligent behavior known as habits of mind, describing strategies for integrating habits of mind into the culture and daily life of the school.

Presents practical advice for using the "habits of mind"--sixteen types of intelligent behavior--in the classroom, including discussion of their application to mathematics, art, foreign language, reading comprehension, and character instruction.

Presents overviews of essential math concepts for kindergarten through eighth grade, along with examples, hands-on activities, and reproducible blackline masters.

A guide to using the Response to Intervention system for educational redesign, providing an overview of Response to Intervention, and discussing the components of leadership, problem-solving teams, interventions, data use, parent involvement, special education, evaluation, and sustainability.

Describes strategies for using technology to complement and enhance learning in the classroom, discussing word processing applications, organizing and brainstorming software, multimedia, data collection tools, and Web resources.

Provides a leveled list of more than 45,000 books suitable for classroom reading for the 2013-2015 school years. Offers a variety of classic and contemporary titles and a wide range of choices within each genre, organized alphabetically by title.

Discusses the implications of national, state, and local standards in the classroom, describes each of the four components of a classroom that is aligned with standards, and provides strategies for helping students meet the standards requirements.

Examines and explains the multiple dimensions of language learning, teaching, and evaluating that teachers must know and understand in order to be effective educators and communicators; and includes an extensive list of resources.