This practical book outlines how you can challenge students to grapple with complex problems and engage more meaningfully with information across the content areas, rather than rely solely on rote memorization and standardized testing to measure academic success. Author John Barell shares vignettes from effective middle and high school teachers around the country, analyzes what works and what doesn't when encouraging students to dig deeper, and offers practical strategies that you can try in your own classroom.
Topics include:
Guiding students to hone their skills...
This practical book outlines how you can challenge students to grapple with complex problems and engage more meaningfully with information across t...
This practical book outlines how you can challenge students to grapple with complex problems and engage more meaningfully with information across the content areas, rather than rely solely on rote memorization and standardized testing to measure academic success. Author John Barell shares vignettes from effective middle and high school teachers around the country, analyzes what works and what doesn t when encouraging students to dig deeper, and offers practical strategies that you can try in your own classroom.
Topics include:
Guiding students to hone their skills in...
This practical book outlines how you can challenge students to grapple with complex problems and engage more meaningfully with information across t...
This standards-based, teacher-friendly second edition offers step-by-step procedures that make this effective teaching model highly doable for all teachers, with examples showing problem-based learning in action.
This standards-based, teacher-friendly second edition offers step-by-step procedures that make this effective teaching model highly doable for all tea...
This standards-based, teacher-friendly second edition offers step-by-step procedures that make this effective teaching model highly doable for all teachers, with examples showing problem-based learning in action.
This standards-based, teacher-friendly second edition offers step-by-step procedures that make this effective teaching model highly doable for all tea...
Discover how inquiry leads to problem-solving and learn specific steps for formative assessment that informs instruction of 21st century skills such as critical thinking and collaboration.
Discover how inquiry leads to problem-solving and learn specific steps for formative assessment that informs instruction of 21st century skills such a...
One vast ocean--the Pacific--and two ships that should have been able to avoid each other during a furious midnight storm. The resulting maximum hazard--being in extremis--leads to a tragic encounter naval personnel strive to avoid at all costs, one with fatal consequences. Officer of the Deck Lt. Stephen Wheatley is held responsible and faces a heated and contentious court martial during which he almost attacks the prosecuting attorney physically. Unfortunately, the court finds him responsible and he pays the dreaded price. Subsequently, he must search for redemption to regain his personal...
One vast ocean--the Pacific--and two ships that should have been able to avoid each other during a furious midnight storm. The resulting maximum hazar...
Antarctic Adventures is more than a set of guidelines for how to take control of our lives through goal setting, decision making, and problem solving. It is also an approach to living a productive life characterized by inquiry, critical thinking, learning to pay attention to natural wonders, and being fully awake to life's mysteries and opportunities. Based on the author's experiences exploring Antarctica, this book finds life lessons in the most renowned polar explorers as well as those like Sally Ride, who explored outer space, and successful men and women in sports and business.
Antarctic Adventures is more than a set of guidelines for how to take control of our lives through goal setting, decision making, and problem solvi...
