http://www.netvouz.com/jgordon/tag/david?feed=rss jgordon's bookmarks tagged "david" on Netvouz http://www.corwin.com/books/Book235077 This book by David A.Sousa combines current research on how the brain learns language with strategies for teaching English language learners in K–12 classrooms. The award-winning author and brain research expert describes the linguistic reorganization needed to acquire another language after the age of 5 years. He supplements this information with immediately applicable tools:among them ready-to-use brain-compatible strategies for teaching English learners across the curriculum and ways to detect ELLs learning problems. Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > English Language Learners jgordon Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:53:05 GMT http://www.stenhouse.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=9038&r=sb061024 David Booth outlines twelve simple steps to help teachers and parents alike revolutionize the way they view – and encourage – children's reading in all kinds of genres and formats. Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > Literacy jgordon Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:22:36 GMT http://pzweb.harvard.edu/Research/SmartSch.htm The Smart Schools principles for good education, developed by David Perkins and colleagues at Harvard Project Zero, are based on the two guiding beliefs: 1. Learning is a consequence of thinking, and good thinking is learnable by all students. 2. Learning should include deep understanding, which involves the flexible, active use of knowledge. These principles provide a structure for schools with a vision of a learning community that is steeped in thinking and deep understanding, that engenders respect for all its members, and that produces students ready to face the world as responsible, thinking members of a diverse society. Higher-order thinking jgordon Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:19:08 GMT http://www.pz.harvard.edu/ebookstore/search_results.cfm David Perkins describes his thoughts on "teaching for understanding" where he promotes the idea of understanding as "performance" (to be able to think and act flexibly with what you know). The elements of "teaching for understanding" include: 1. a generative topic 2. understanding goals 3. ongoing assessment 4. images/mental models. Perkins discusses the idea of transferring learning (making sure that what you teach is something students can transfer to another situation/subject). Rec. by Sarah Benkendorf. Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > Leading School Improvement jgordon Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:28:15 GMT