Actively engage students in their own learning. Discover strategies to promote student mastery of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts across the curriculum. Explore techniques to lead students in close reading, activate their background knowledge to prepare them for learning, and gain insight into habit formation. You'll develop the know-how to effectively structure teaching to empower all students.
Benefits:
- Understand the components of engaged classrooms, and create an environment where students are active participants in their learning.
- Structure learning that encourages students to work smarter, not harder.
- Teach students to engage emotionally with text and to retain and explain what they read.
- Distinguish between top-down, passive classrooms and two-way engaged-for-success classrooms that promote higher-level thinking and learning.
- Complement Common Core lesson plans with CCSS-based activities, lists, and other reproducibles.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Success Formula for Engagement
Chapter 2: The Common Core State Standards
Chapter 3: How to Turn Standards Into Targets
Chapter 4: Zone 1: Engage to Build Basics
Chapter 5: Strategies for Zone 1
Chapter 6: Zone 2: Engage to Explore
Chapter 7: Strategies for Zone 2
Chapter 8: Zone 3: Engage to Own
Chapter 9: Strategies for Zone 3
Chapter 10: The Big Picture
Appendix A: Incorporating Differentiation
Appendix B: Matching the Engagement Strategies With Anchor Standards
Eric Jensen is a former teacher who has taught students from the elementary level through the university level. Jensen cofounded SuperCamp, the United States most innovative and largest academic enrichment program, now with nearly sixty thousand graduates. He has authored twenty-nine books, including
Engaging Students With Poverty in Mind, Enriching the Brain, Student Success Secrets, Teaching With the Brain in Mind, SuperTeaching, and
Teaching With Poverty in Mind.Jensen's academic background includes a bachelor of arts in English and a master of arts in organizational development, and he is now completing his doctorate. Jensen has made over fifty-five visits to neuroscience labs and interacts with countless neuroscientists. He is deeply committed to making a positive, significant, lasting difference in the way we learn. Currently, Jensen does staff development, conference speaking, and in-depth trainings. To learn more about Jensen's public programs, follow @EricJensenBrain on Twitter.
LeAnn Nickelsen, EdM, educator for over twenty years, delivers presentations in the United States and internationally on brain research topics, differentiation, literacy strategies, Common Core State Standards, and engagement strategies. She was a classroom teacher in three states and won a Teacher of the Year award in Texas. Nickelsen is known as "the teacher's teacher" because of her practical, research-based examples that teachers can easily implement in their classrooms. She has a passion for instilling a love for learning in teachers and their students and helping learners reach their educational goals daily.
This is the second book she's coauthored with Eric Jensen; Deeper Learning was the first. She has also coauthored books on vocabulary and differentiation. She is the author of eight books, including Memorizing Strategies & Other Brain-Based Activities and the four-series set Comprehension Mini-Lessons. To learn more about Nickelsen's work, follow @lnickelsen1 on Twitter.
