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Culturally Responsive Standards-Based Teaching

Classroom to Community and Back

By: Steffen Saifer

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Culturally Responsive Standards-Based Teaching

Classroom to Community and Back

By: Steffen Saifer

Teaching children from diverse backgrounds begins with simple questions: What is my culture? What are my students' cultures? How does culture affect how I teach and how my students learn? Can I learn to value and honour the unique experiences and cultures of my students? These are essential questions for educators with a sincere desire to help all students succeed. This comprehensive guide provides detailed examples that show why and how to create culturally responsive, standards-based (CRSB) instruction in the classroom, schoolwide, and at the district level. Results of effective programs include: increased academic success for all learners; engaged and motivated students; development of critical thinking skills ncessary for higher learning; and strengthened partnerships between students, families, and communities. This new edition is enhanced with nationwide examples, up-to-date resources, and tools that can be implemented immediately. Principals, administrators, K - 12 teachers, curriculum and staff developers, and college instructors will find this handbook a valuable and powerful tool for promoting student engagment and improving struggling schools.

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Corwin Press

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1412987024

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9781412987028

Practical Solutions to Practically Every Problem

The Survival Guide for Early Childhood Professionals

By: Steffen Saifer

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Practical Solutions to Practically Every Problem

The Survival Guide for Early Childhood Professionals

By: Steffen Saifer

An encyclopedic how-to guide for the universal early childhood program problems. Practical Solutions to Practically Every Problem attempts to provide solutions to every possible problem faced by early childhood teachers—before teachers encounter them. This classic resource has been updated to focus on current issues faced by educators, including teaching twenty-first century life skills, technology, and cultural responsiveness. This easy-to-use guide gives you quick practical help, now! Educators will save time and energy with over eight hundred solutions to two hundred problems, including: Daily dilemmas and classroom issues Partnering with families to raise happy children Dealing with problematic behaviors from co-workers Learning to take care of yourself to prevent burn-out Steffen Saifer, EdD, a former early childhood teacher and Head Start director and trainer, is currently an international consultant and writer based in Spain. He has worked on projects for the Open Society Foundation, The World Bank, and UNICEF, in many countries including Bangladesh, Russia, and Zimbabwe. Dr. Saifer works with programs on culturally responsive curriculum development and implementation and with universities to develop graduate programs for ECD teachers, administrators, and leaders. When in the United States, Saifer resides in Portland, Oregon

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Redleaf Press

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1605545139

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9781605545134

Practical Solutions to Practically Every Problem

The Survival Guide for Early Childhood Professionals

By: Steffen Saifer

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The Survival Guide for Early Childhood Professionals

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Culturally Responsive Standards-Based Teaching

Classroom to Community and Back

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HOT Skills

Developing Higher-Order Thinking in Young Learners

By: Steffen Saifer

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Developing Higher-Order Thinking in Young Learners

By: Steffen Saifer

Too many teaching and learning activities require students to use only lower-order thinking (LOT), and many of the attempts educators make to promote higher-order thinking (HOT) are misconstrued. Higher-order thinking makes teaching and learning more engaging and intentional, adds intellectual rigor to any curriculum, and aids in the development of some important life skills among young learners Even preschoolers are capable of a great deal of higher-order thinking. Infusing a play-based curriculum with activities and interactions that promote higher-order thinking creates the type of play that fosters cognitive, language, physical, and social development. It is important to start developing students’ higher-order thinking skills when they are young, and this book provides numerous strategies for doing so. Most of the activities are in the form of open-ended interactive games that can be easily modified to be responsive to variety of cultures and to meet a range of learning abilities, styles, and intelligences.

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Redleaf Press

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1605545570

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Teaching Higher-Order Thinking to Young Learners, K–3

How to Develop Sharp Minds for the Disinformation Age

By: Steffen Saifer

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Teaching Higher-Order Thinking to Young Learners, K–3

How to Develop Sharp Minds for the Disinformation Age

By: Steffen Saifer

To be truly educated today, students need more than knowledge; they need higher-order thinking skills. Critical and creative thinking is required to recognize and counter disinformation, to overcome thinking errors, and to be successful in school and life. To effectively teach these skills, we must start early, when young minds are still forming. While K–3 students are capable of higher-order thinking, most lessons engage only their lower-order thinking. In this comprehensive book based on sound science, Dr. Saifer offers many practical and engaging ways to develop students’ logical, critical, and creative thinking skills within nearly every lesson, in all subject areas, and throughout the day. Teaching Higher-Order Thinking to Young Learners, K–3: How to Develop Sharp Minds for the Disinformation Age is key reading for any early childhood teacher, leader, or parent.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040110576

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Teaching Higher-Order Thinking to Young Learners, K–3

How to Develop Sharp Minds for the Disinformation Age

By: Steffen Saifer

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How to Develop Sharp Minds for the Disinformation Age

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HOT Skills

Developing Higher-Order Thinking in Young Learners

By: Steffen Saifer

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Culturally Responsive Standards-Based Teaching

Culturally Responsive Standards-Based Teaching

Practical Solutions to Practically Every Problem

Practical Solutions to Practically Every Problem

Practical Solutions to Practically Every Problem

Practical Solutions to Practically Every Problem

Culturally Responsive Standards-Based Teaching

Culturally Responsive Standards-Based Teaching

HOT Skills

HOT Skills

Teaching Higher-Order Thinking to Young Learners, K–3

Teaching Higher-Order Thinking to Young Learners, K–3

Teaching Higher-Order Thinking to Young Learners, K–3

Teaching Higher-Order Thinking to Young Learners, K–3

HOT Skills

HOT Skills

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