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Differentiation for the Adolescent Learner: Accommodating Brain Development, Language, Literacy and Special Needs

Name: Differentiation for the Adolescent Learner: Accommodating Brain Development, Language, Literacy and Special Needs
Author: Glenda Beamon Crawford
ISBN: 9781412940542

by Glenda Beamon Crawford

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Overview

Activate learning in all adolescents—including ELLs and advanced learners—with these practical, developmentally appropriate techniques based on brain research, technology, and a six-point differentiation model.

Synopsis

Activate learning in all adolescents-including ELLs and advanced learners-with these practical, developmentally appropriate techniques based on brain research, technology, and a six-point differentiation model.

About the Author, Glenda Beamon Crawford

Glenda Beamon Crawford's experiences with young adolescent learners span nearly thirty years. She has taught in grades 4-12 and currently coordinates the middle grades program at Elon University, where she is a professor of teacher education. She has authored three books, including Managing the Adolescent Classroom and Sparking the Thinking of Students, Ages 10-14, as well as articles on structuring classrooms for adolescent thinking and learning. She consults and presents regularly at state, national, and international conferences. Her research and teaching honors include the 2002 North Carolina Award for Outstanding Contribution to Gifted Education, the North Carolina ASCD Outstanding Research Award, and the Teacher of the Year Award.

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Editorials

Patricia Long Tucker

"Provides research-based strategies that are easy to understand and implement."

Cynthia Grindy

"An important contributionfor teachers serious about helping adolescents learn. The book provides tools for a deliberate approach to focus on student learning."

Maria Timmons Flores

"Presents a broad and coherent framework that builds connections across theories of adolescent learning and development. The curriculum ideas, questions that prompt teachers’ self-reflection, and guidance for curriculum development all offer tangible tools to teacher educators and leaders in professional development efforts."

Mark A. Springer

"There is something for everyone here.A valuable resource for experienced teachers starting on the road to curriculum integration or switching to teaching adolescents. Preservice teachers would also benefit, because the book emphasizes the nature of the learner."

David H. Reilly

"Crawford admirably succeeds at addressingperhaps the most demanding of all adolescent educational endeavors: the daily challenge in educating and preparing adolescents' minds and talents for continued future growth. This is a must-read book for teachers and an excellent guide for parents."

Michele Woodson

"The implications of this type of learning environment for the middle school student are profound. My students will be excited to be a part of such a classroom!"

Tina Mashburn

"Provides teachers with practical approaches to integrate and implement research-based instructional practices that focus on individual student needs."

Judith Howard

"Crawford has done a remarkable job of bringing together cutting edge ideas on the differentiation of curriculum and instruction. Her six Es give readers a framework for thinking about the essential aspects of differentiation while her overarching goal of empowering students to manage their own learning provides a vital thread throughout."

Melaine Rickard

"Crawford's book is one that middle grades teachers can truly use. This is the kind of reference that becomes well worn, dog-eared, and written in, not dusty and hidden on a bookshelf."