Welcome to The Smart Study Guide. Since you’re already looking through this book, we guess you have an interest in learning. We want to help you increase your repertoire of learning strategies, tools and techniques, in order to make your studying easier, more effective and more enjoyable. Does this surprise you?
This writing endeavor is the result of many projects, studies, and prior undertakings involving many individuals. Each of these people contributed in meaningful ways to our understanding of what it means to be an effective teacher. Through countless workshops, we have heard teachers, principals, and superintendents ask:
What is an effective teacher? ▲ How do you help good teachers become even better? ▲ What tools and techniques are available to support and sustain quality teaching? The Handbook for Qualities of Effective Teachers is our way of beginning to address these complex and profoundly important questions.
The best way to understand text is to think and talk about it. This NEW professional guide defines what purposeful talk is, why it is important, and how it increases comprehension. Students will be empowered to have meaningful discussions about texts as they implement the effective strategies modeled in this book. Research-based strategies promote building meaningful conversations with students Model lessons from real classrooms demonstrate how to utilize these effective approaches to get students thinking and talking about text Support is provided for teachers to design lessons and think through essential instructional elements that will ensure successful implementation and gradually release responsibility to students
Total English is a new course for Young adults and adults. It provides solutions to the challenges teachers and students face every day with a complete package of effective, easy-to-use resources.
The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results.
