Douglas Fisher Libros

It is essential that students learn to examine, review, and evaluate knowledge and ideas through a process of scientific investigation and argumentation. Using these instructional methods and lesson scenarios, teachers of all disciplines will gain the tools needed to offer students a richer, lasting understanding of science, its concepts, and its place in their lives and the global community. Chapter 1: Empowering Students to Learn Scientific PracticesChapter 2: Learning to Talk Like a ScientistChapter 3: Learning to Write Like a ScientistChapter 4: Learning to Read Like a ScientistChapter 5: Empowering Students to Think Like Scientists

Renowned educators Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp saw it was high time classroom teachers had an encyclopedia’s worth of practical, research-based ideas organized into concise modules. You will love the lively tone, the contemporary research findings, and the abundance of activities that help children become skilled readers. This resource goes deep, it goes wide―and yet most brilliantly, it reveals the crucial connections that make for high-impact instruction.

Your Hands-On Guide to Thriving Your First Year of Teaching You’ve made the incredible decision to become an educator because you want to impact the learning lives of young people. Thank you, and welcome. We welcome you to this amazing profession with open arms, and with an arsenal of experience and essential tools, strategies, and lessons to help you establish a successful and satisfying teaching career. We wanted to make it easier for you to learn and practice these techniques that research shows increase student learning. To do so, we also considered cognitive psychology research that tells us that images and illustrations can help strengthen communication and our own understanding. This helped us develop the unique format for this part hands-on playbook, part professional book, and all highly illustrated, it is designed to make complicated concepts more digestible and memorable. This extensive guide for new teachers provides everything you need to impact learning from your first day on, Teaching is without a doubt one of the most challenging professions there is. But those who chose to accept that challenge are what make teaching the best profession in the world!

Students in the 21st century still need to develop traditional reading and writing skills, and they must also learn how to use technology for communicating and collaborating in new ways. This book offers specific teaching strategies for developing student literacy in using search engines efficiently, evaluating information found on websites, avoiding plagiarism, communicating with a wide audience, working collaboratively, and creating multimedia products.

The Texas Edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills standards. This edition is tailored specifically for educators and students in Texas, ensuring that the content aligns with state educational requirements for enhanced learning and teaching effectiveness.

Transform negative behavior into a teachable moment at your school, utilizing restorative practices that are grounded in relationships and a commitment to the well-being of others.

Disrupting the cycle starts with you. It's human nature to carry implicit bias, which can lead to negative assumptions and labels of students. This book helps you take an active approach toward disrupting the negative effects of labels that interfere with student learning. Inside RemovingLabels, you'll find: · 40 practical, replicable teaching techniques based in research and best practice · Suggestions for actions on an individual, classroom, and schoolwide level · Student-facing printables available for download · Ready-to-go tools to use in planning and instruction

2007 [Glencoe Science] California Grade 6: Focus on Earth Science (CA)(H) by Julie Berwald, Sergio A. Guazzotti, Douglas Fisher, Joseph J. Kerski, Elizabeth A. Nagy-Shadman, Donna L. Ross, Julie Meyer Sheets, Nancy Trautmann, Jan Vermilye, & Dinah Zike *** 9780078794285 ***710 Pages

Explore strategies for integrating the Common Core State Standards for English language arts for grades 3 5 in this interdisciplinary resource, which focuses on areas of instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention. You ll also learn how to implement the CCSS within the powerful PLC at Work process. Critical chapter-opening questions guide discussion and help you leverage the CCSS to optimize student learning."

Let’s make the "next normal" a "better normal" If there ever was a time for our heroic school leadership to persevere, it’s now. Because now, well over one year since the pandemic stretched the resilience and reserves of our school systems, it’s time to "rebound." It’s time to leverage this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reboot teaching and learning as we know it so that we magnify the effective practices from the past while leveraging the so many recent lessons learned. This is where Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, Dominique Smith, and John Hattie, coauthors of The Distance Learning Playbook series , are ideally equipped to serve as your collaborators. Inside Leading the 20+ Must-Dos to Restart Teaching and Learning you’ll find immediate actions, mindsets, and approaches to take if we’re to reimagine and improve our schools and school systems. What’s more Leading the Rebound is backed up with all kinds of resources--including VISIBLE LEARNING® research, sample planning tools, and other essential tips and strategies--to provide you with a start-to-finish roadmap for navigating this absolutely critical next leg in our journey toward a "better normal."