Instructional Strategies Matrix About the Authors Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1: Hooking Them In: Powerful Strategies for Opening a Lesson Chapter 2: Keep Calm and Question On: Creating Quality Questions for Critical Thinking Chapter 3: Let Them Talk: Structuring Academic Conversations and Effective Communication Chapter 4: Two Heads are Better than One: Strategies for Effective Collaboration Chapter 5: Get Moving: Embedding Purposeful Movement into Instruction Chapter 6: Make it Stick: Powerful Strategies for Closing a Lesson and Providing Reflection Resources: Strategy Templates References Index
This book will allow teachers and administrators to facilitate effective collaboration and communication in the classroom and embed critical thinking in students while working with the content being learned. It is designed so that a teacher can use it immediately to enhance classroom instruction, an administrator can facilitate meaningful conversations with teachers, academic coaches can use it a resource, and as a professional development tool to model strategies. It will help make sense of all the standards, initiatives, and other instructional demands on teachers and how to make them work together to provide purposeful, meaningful and effective instruction for their students.
Denise White taught on both the elementary and secondary levels for many years before working with adults in an instructional coaching capacity. She is currently working with teachers around the country as an education consultant. Denise lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her husband and twin sons and can often be spotted riding her pink bike by the river. Alisa H. Braddy is a former primary, elementary, and high school teacher with over two decades of teaching experience. Alisa was a literacy specialist and instructional coach before she left to dedicate her full-time attention to educational consulting. She makes her home in Florence, South Carolina with her husband, son, and a whole zoo full of animals.