GEN: Professional Resources: Instructional Design; Strategies; Collaboration; Inspiration

...this second edition will help you develop your instructional approach, broaden your influence as a teacher, and enhance the learning potential of all your students. We haven't reinvented the wheel. We've taken classroom instruction that works and made it thrive.

This book is based on a careful theorizing of classroom power relations that sees them as constructed from the actions of all participants. Contrary to the common assumption that the teacher is the source of classroom power, it sees that power as arising from the interaction between students and teachers

... takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with themselves, their students, their colleagues, and their vocations, and reclaiming their passion for one of the most challenging and important of human endeavors. This book builds on a simple premise: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher.

Because faculty members are now deeply committed to engaging students in learning, the syllabus has evolved into a useful, if lengthy, document. Today's syllabus provides details about course objectives, requirements and expectations, and also includes information about teaching philosophies, specific activities and the rationale for their use, and tools essential to student success.

...lays bare the actions of both partners and shows how mentoring actually worked in an urban public middle school.

The book covers seven key points on learning and the authors show the research that supports their views. They also say that the book is designed for college professors and do focus on this level of education, but it can easily be applied to K-12 education and indeed to any educational situation.

Project-based learning (PBL) has the potential to fully engage students of the digital age, changing student-teacher dynamics and giving students greater influence and agency in their learning. Discover user-friendly strategies for implementing PBL to equip students with essential 21st century skills, strengthen their problem-solving abilities, and prepare them for college and careers.

Covering classroom management, planning, getting to know students, and a wealth of other topics, The Intentional Teacher is a comprehensive guide to reaching students of all ages in independent schools.

In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca's likably irreverent questioning, he also reveals his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools.

(T)he authors show why meeting planning is a high-leverage strategy for changing how people work together in the service of school improvement.

The authors try to understand human relations rather than educational processes, behaviors, methods, curriculum, etc. The authors also examine the dangers that a pedagogy of relations may present, and the implications such a pedagogy may have for curriculum and educational policy.

This book represents the next step in the critical role that lesson planning plays in effective teaching. The authors examine practices from many different areas of education in the U.S. and around the world to create an approach to lesson planning and evaluation that will work in today's diverse school settings. The heart of the book demonstrates collaborative lesson planning for teachers at particular career phases, pre-service, novice, and experienced.

demonstrates how schools can transform their teams into more effective learning communities that foster teacher leadership.

[The] groundbreaking company has also trained thousands of educators and students through its Improvisation for Creative Pedagogy program, which uses improv exercises to teach a wide variety of content areas, and boost skills that are crucial for student learning: listening, teamwork, communication, idea-generation, vocabulary, and more.

Designed as a practical guide for practitioners working to broaden their teaching skills, the book combines theory with practice and focuses on 18 critical areas of classroom performance

The Strategic Teacher offers a repertoire of strategies designed and proven to meet today’s high standards and reach diverse learners. Twenty reliable, flexible strategies (along with dozens of variations) are organized into groups of instruction

You'll be able to assess your current self-reflective tendencies, identify opportunities to reflect on your instruction, and begin to forge a path toward continuous growth and educational excellence.

Teaching is not just a job, but a life journey. Although your contact with a student may be as brief as a single year, the impact can be felt across a lifetime. Bestselling authors Jeffrey and Ellen Kottler are here to help you navigate the typical milestones, challenges, and joys

Brookfield ... explore(s) how student learn to think this way, and what teachers can do the help students develop this capacity. He outlines a basic protocol of critical thinking as a learning process that focuses on uncovering and checking assumptions, exploring alternative perspectives, and taking informed actions as a result.

Walks teachers through the "teaching for understanding" process.The authors offer classroom examples, practical tips, and worksheets to help clarify the process.

For those considering adopting team teaching, or interested in reviewing their own practice, this book offers an over-view of this pedagogy, its challenges and rewards, and a rich range of examples in which teachers present and reflect upon their approaches.

This book serves as resource for novice and veteran teachers who wish to develop, expand, polish and/or reinvigorate the instructional skills that define them as educators.