• English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies that Work
  This learner-empowering text by Larry Ferlazzo offers educators a five-step methodology for teaching that builds on students' assets rather than viewing ELLs through the typical lens of "deficits". The five principles around which the process revolves are: building relationships, accessing prior knowledge through student stories, developing student leadership, learning by doing, and reflection. The book emphasizes "high-order" thinking skills. In addition to providing detailed lessons, the book shares a framework teachers can use to create their own lessons, and it shows how to take advantage of technology and games as teaching tools.
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• English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking
  Deep understanding, critical thinking, subject knowledge, and control of academic literacy are goals we have for all our students. Pauline Gibbons presents an action-oriented approach that gives English learners high-level support to match our high expectations. Focusing on the middle grades of school, she shows how to plan rigorous, literacy-oriented, content-based instruction and illustrates what a high-challenge, high-support curriculum looks like in practice.Strongly recommended by Jim Cummins
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• Graphic Organizers info and links by Enhancing Learning with Technolgy
  Graphic Organizers are structures or diagrams which visually represent information. They can be used in all phases of learning from brainstorming to generate ideas, for analyzing and organizing information to presenting findings.
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• Introduction to Teaching Strategies
  This page is dedicated to making it easier to implement a variety of teaching methods and techniques. Scroll down to find scores of teaching strategies that help students take more responsibility for their own learning and enhance the process of teaching for learning.
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• The Language-Rich Classroom: A Research-Based Framework for Teaching English Language Learners
  In this book Persida Himmele and William Himmele present a five-part, research-based framework--CHATS--that teachers can use to help ELLs, as well as other students, attain greater language skills and deeper content comprehension. The CHATS framework provides teachers with Content reading strategies, Higher-order thinking skills, Assessment tools, Total participation techniques, and Scaffolding strategies. The book also contains helpful planning worksheets, assessment logs, scaffolding tools, more than 25 classroom and team-building activities and specific tips about how these activities benefit ELLs.
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• Thinking Skills
  Resources on thinkings skills, graphic organizers, questioning, constructivism, and more from Enhance Learning with Technology
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• Analogies Lesson by Diana Dell, Ed.S.
  List of common analogy types with related links.
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• Bloom's taxonomy and English language learners
  Strategies for Promoting Success for the Second Language Learner in Grades K-12 by Judie Haynes Explore other resources on this site
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• Constructivist Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners
  Sharon Adelman Reyes, Trina Lynn Vallone: This book provides guidelines for using constructivist teaching methods with English language learners and includes classroom examples, grade-level connections, and strategies that promote educational equity.
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• Critical Thinking in Education (skills for life)
  This site explains in depth what critical thinking is and explains why teachers need to teach these skills. Rec. by Colorin Colorado newsletter
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• Instructional Strategies Online: Concept Attainment
  Concept Attainment is an indirect instructional strategy that uses a structured inquiry process. It is based on the work of Jerome Bruner. In concept attainment, students figure out the attributes of a group or category that has already been formed by the teacher. See other strategies in the HOME link
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• Introduction to Thinking Skills
  Instructional Framework This site provides templates for educators to use to enhance higher order thinking skills, including samples of types of questions that can stimulate students to think more critically. Rec. by Colorin Colorado
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• Introduction to Thinking Skills
  This page is designed for busy practitioners trying to design performance assessment tasks that align standards and benchmarks with assessments that really measure what's valued and that incorporate higher order thinking skills.
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• Learning Skills Program
  Bloom's Taxonomy Here you can read more about the different stages behind this theory, as it also provides educators with a short description of each thinking skill.
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• Making Math Engaging
  Discrete Mathematics, through its puzzle-like problems set in real-world contexts, help students master new concepts and think creatively.
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• Q Tasks: How to Empower Students to Ask Questions and Care About Answers
  View entire book online. Carol Koechlin and Sandi Zwaanh off this step-by-step book which outlines more than 80 tried-and-proven classroom activities that will take students beyond memorization and rote learning. Teachers will find innovative ways to help students ask real questions that focus on personal understanding and give them ownership of their learning experience
  Stenhouse books and videos help K-12 teachers deepen their professional knowledge and build their students' skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.
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• Socratic Seminar
  This differentiation strategy for group interaction and individual accountability is based on the Socratic Method. Description, Process, Examples, Assessment and Resourcs. Samples (War in Iraq for secondary students is the most thorough)
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• Stenhouse Publishers - Asking Better Questions (Second Edition):
  Browse entire book online. The new edition of the classic book Asking Better Questions by Morgan and Saxton helps teachers encourage active learning and democratic participation by providing models, techniques, and activities that promote better questioning by both teachers and students.
  Stenhouse books and videos help K-12 teachers deepen their professional knowledge and build their students' skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.
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• The Constructivist View of Education
  Enhance Learning with Technology provides an overview of the Principles of Constructivism and Related links
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• Welcome to the SuperThinkers Website!
  This is a site where students with more advanced English proficiency can practice using higher thinking skills. It provides opportunities for them to analyze information and to solve problems while they are having fun. They can also practice their reading skills! Rec. by Colorin Colorado
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