http://netvouz.com/jgordon/tag/hots?feed=rss jgordon's bookmarks tagged "hots" on Netvouz http://www.amazon.com/English-Language-Learners-Teaching-Strategies/dp/1586835246 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. Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > English Language Learners jgordon Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:25:10 GMT http://www.heinemann.com/products/E01203.aspx 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 Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > English Language Learners jgordon Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:51:02 GMT http://members.shaw.ca/priscillatheroux/graphicorganizers.html 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. Graphic Organizers jgordon Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:49:11 GMT http://www.aea267.k12.ia.us/cia/index.php?page=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. Graphic Organizers jgordon Tue, 02 May 2006 15:08:46 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Language-Rich-Classroom-Research-Based-Framework-Teaching/dp/1416608419/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top 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. Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > English Language Learners jgordon Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:46:19 GMT http://members.shaw.ca/priscillatheroux/thinkingskills.html Resources on thinkings skills, graphic organizers, questioning, constructivism, and more from Enhance Learning with Technology Higher-order thinking jgordon Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:34:09 GMT http://mrsdell.org/analogies/ List of common analogy types with related links. Higher-order thinking jgordon Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:50:53 GMT http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/blooms_taxonomy_language_learn_16902.php Strategies for Promoting Success for the Second Language Learner in Grades K-12 by Judie Haynes Explore other resources on this site Higher-order thinking jgordon Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:42:19 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Constructivist-Strategies-Teaching-Language-Learners/dp/141293687X/ref=sr_1_69?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313181989&sr=1-69 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. Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > English Language Learners jgordon Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:52:49 GMT http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/think/critical.htm This site explains in depth what critical thinking is and explains why teachers need to teach these skills. Rec. by Colorin Colorado newsletter Higher-order thinking jgordon Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:03:47 GMT