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posted by: Jill
| November 01, 2011, 10:17 PM
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Here are four servings of BPW to help you improve your craft in the classroom. And here is a great recipe to help you improve your craft in the kitchen this Thanksgiving month.
- Volume 1, Edition 35 – Using Number Talks to Build Students' Math Reasoning. "While teachers want to build their students' math reasoning skills, it can be difficult to find simple and efficient structures within the day to do so. In an article for Teaching Children Mathematics, University of Alabama – Birmingham professor Sherry Parrish offers the strategy of "number talks" as a useful tool to address this problem."
- Volume 1, Edition 36 – Best Practices in Teaching Socio-Emotional Learning. "Decades of research have shown that teaching social & emotional learning skills to students produces a decrease in behavioral issues and an increase in academic achievement. In an article for Better: Evidence-Based Education, a pair of professors summarize the overall conclusions research has drawn about what works best in this arena.
- Volume 1, Edition 37 – Teaching Vocabulary Through Word Walks.
"Teaching vocabulary in the context of storybooks is an effective strategy, but doing so can often be too complicated, especially for younger students. In an article for The Reading Teacher, two professors discuss "Word Walks" as a way to provide impactful vocabulary instruction (ways to use this strategy for older students are also discussed)."
- Volume 1, Edition 38 – Teaching Students to Evaluate Websites.
"The Internet is now a permanent part of education, with students being increasingly asked to find information from websites. In an article for The Reading Teacher, several university professors discuss a framework for teaching elementary students how to evaluate which websites are good and trustworthy sources of information versus those that are more questionable sources."
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BPW is a free non-profit professional development service for teachers that summarizes education research into bite-size chunks for busy educators. Contact Elliot Haspel for more information.
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