Through your use of words and tone, you can more fully engage students in their learning and support their positive development as young adults. You'll gain practical information about the key types of positive teacher language, including: envisioning language; reinforcing language; reminding language; redirecting language; open-ended questions. Book features: guidelines for using each type of language; practical tips to strengthen your use of language; numerous examples to use as models; charts to help you track your progress.

Teachers know it instinctively, research bears it out: Students learn more, and with more joy, when offered intriguing lessons that connect with their lives and interests while challenging them to stretch and grow. In this book, you'll find practical, ready-to-use strategies for creating active and exciting lessons. You'll learn about: Partnering and grouping students for optimum learning; using interactive learning structures such as Maitre d' and Swap Meets to support active learning; incorporating acting, drawing, debating, and more into daily lessons while still meeting...

These tried-and-true learning structures encourage all students to do their best learning, stay fully engaged, and work with one another in dynamic, purposeful, and respectful ways. Discover how to meet the developmental needs of young adolescents for physical movement and socializing with peers while helping students meet lesson objectives in any content area. Samples of learning structures include: Consensus Mapping: Small groups of students work together to identify and reach agreement on the main ideas; Debate Duos: Pairs of students learn to respectfully debate both sides of...