Teaching Strategies for Active Learning: Five Essentials for Your Teaching Plan

"Emphasizes the importance of matching instructional strategies to the appropriate outcomes.Thia is very important!"
--Cindy Harrison, Educational Consultant

"My peers would benefit from having this handbook to guide new and struggling teachers and to inspire the expert teacher on staff. Practical suggestions give educators incremental steps toward increasing the active learning level within any classroom, without giving up control of content."
--Beverly C. Eidmann, Principal, Arvada Middle School, CO

Make a difference in student learning with the latest and best brain-based teaching strategies!

Translating brain research into best practice, Donna Walker Tileston, award-winning author, educator, and trainer, offers teachers a simple and concise Strategic Learning Model applicable to all grade levels, content areas, and instructional settings. This systematic cycle focuses on five essentials that teach learners to plug in, power up, synthesize, outsource, and reflect on their learning.

Based on the latest brain and educational research, this student-centered, teacher-friendly guide includes:

• A carefully chosen collection of instructional strategies for promoting the active transfer of knowledge to students' long-term memory
• A step-by-step process for planning powerful lessons that make a difference in student learning
• Sample lesson forms and reproducible templates
• Sample strategies such as question-and-answer profiles, technology integration, mindjogs, KNLH, group memory, making predictions, cooperative learning, six-hat thinking, collaborative retelling, graphic organizers, thinking atright angles, plus-minus-interesting, and much more

This is the teaching methods book for all teachers, instructional leaders, and curriculum designers who want to build students' motivation, confidence, self-efficacy, and achievement.

Donna Walker Tileston has served education as a leader in teaching, administration, research, writing, software development, and national consulting for the past thirty years. She has been responsible for curriculum development, management, technology, finance, grants management, public relations, and drug abuse prevention programs. For the past twenty-five years, she has been actively involved in brain research, including research on factors that inhibit learning or increase the brain's ability to put information into long-term memory. Tileston's ten-book collection What Every Teacher Should Know (Corwin Press 2003) received the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing by the Association of Educational Publishers. Other Corwin press titles include What Every Parent Should Know About Schools, Standards, and High-Stakes Tests (2005), Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2005), and Strategies for Teaching Differently (1998). Tileston has presented extensively at local, state, national, and international conferences, notably at The Hague in November 2005 and in Prague during March 2006.