Corwin Press.

Corwin Press

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www.corwinpress.com

Edie L. Holcomb's STUDENTS ARE STAKEHOLDERS, TOO! (0761929703, $32.95) discusses high school reform and student empowerment, and is based on real events which have improved one high school. A responsive principal involved all students in decision-making processes and helped them collaborate with staff using existing resources: here eight levels of student participation are detailed, drawn from research on high school reform. Andrew Rothstein, Evelyn Rothstein and Gerald Lauber's WRITING AS LEARNING: A CONTENT-BASED APPROACH (1412949610, $40.00) appears in its second updated edition to cover subject area learning, offering teachers strategies for engaging students in writing. Writing here is viewed as a learning tool, with chapters offering 12 strategies that can be used across subject areas and grade levels. Over 200 examples help teachers develop approaches geared to any subject area. Cheryl M. Rose, Leslie Minton and Carolyn Arline's UNCOVERING STUDENT THINKING IN MATHEMATICS (1412940370, $32.95) offers teaches over twenty assessment strategies for identifying fallacies in students' preconceived ideas. These are mathematical probes which help teachers at all levels probe for conceptual understanding and common problems: chapters offer activities designed to identify and correct such discrepancies. Kerry C. Williams and George E. Veomett's LAUNCHING LEARNERS IN SCIENCE, PREK-5 (1412937035, $33.00) tells how to design standards-based projects in the classroom, and is linked to research on cognitive understanding. Chapters discuss six key elements to build into a science curriculum, tell how to blend in workshops and collaborative projects at the primary and elementary classrooms, and provides a 4-step system for planning and reviewing science projects. Adina Bloom Lewkowicz's TEACHING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (1412940583, $34.95) offers up strategies and activities for helping students make effective choices and appears in its second updated edition for elementary to middle school teachers. This revised edition expands research coverage, offers up new lessons on bullying and violence prevention, and modifies lessons for middle school students, pairing lesson plans with reproducibles and activities at all levels. It's a teacher's guide that shouldn't be left out of any teaching college's library. Donna Walker Tileston's TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR ACTIVE LEARNING (0761938559, $24.95) supplements teachers' planning strategies offering up five foundation strategies for learning. Brain research is used to form the foundation for instructional strategies geared to powerful lessons, while sample lesson forms and strategies cement principles. All are powerful picks for both practicing teachers and for college-level teacher's collections.