Angela B. Peery – författare

Professional development for teachers is at a crucial period. In order to help students meet demanding new standards, teachers must teach differently and have greater success than ever before. In order to teach better, teachers must experience powerful professional development. Inservice, as educators now know it, must change.The concept of "teacher as learner" must be explored more deeply by educators. At the core of this concept is the idea that many reforms undertaken in the name of greater student learning also apply to the ongoing learning of teachers. In Deep Change, Peery examines both theory and practice and recommends five key processes for increasing teacher learning which will improve staff development at a minimal cost. Peery also includes numerous examples of teacher growth taken from diverse contexts.Whether you are a principal, staff development administrator, or teacher-leader coaching other educators—and regardless of the unique complexities of your school—you will find ideas to liven and intensify the learning of teachers in this book.

Elementary educators face crucial questions when shaping their vocabulary teaching methods—what vocabulary words to target and how to foster self-directed learning. SNAP (Seeing/Saying, Naming, Acting, and Producing) can help increase student confidence and interest in reading and improve 21st century skills.

This innovative book provides more than 100 research-based mini-lessons with vocabulary exercises to help teachers efficiently shape instruction, each taking no more than 20 minutes of instructional time. Teachers can modify these flexible, effective templates to fit their curriculum and their students’ needs.

Learn how to refine your teaching methods to increase students’ vocabularies:

Explore more than 100 short vocabulary lessons that can be adapted to fit diverse curricula.Obtain scaffolding and acceleration suggestions to meet students’ individual needs.Target the most crucial root words, prefixes, and suffixes in English vocabulary to best employ instructional time.Find helpful technology resources for vocabulary instruction, such as websites and applications.Peruse an alphabetized vocabulary list of all the words featured in the lessons.

“What students do during the entire SNAP mini

-lesson is formative practice designed not only to enhance vocabulary but to increase student enjoyment of learning about words.”

Access 100+ effective, practical, and fun vocabulary exercises that take 20 minutes or less. Designed specifically for middle school and high school teachers of grades 6-12, each minilesson can be easily modified to fit your curriculum and your students'' needs. Rely on this resource to help refine your instruction and strengthen students'' vocabulary, their interest in reading, and their likelihood of success in the 21st century.

Learn how to increase vocabulary for high school and middle school students:

Explore more than 100 short, memorable minilessons for teaching vocabulary that can be adapted to fit diverse curricula.Obtain suggestions for scaffolding and accelerating each short vocabulary activity to meet students'' individual needs.Target vocabulary words with the most crucial root words, prefixes, and suffixes in the English language to best employ instructional time.Find helpful resources on how to teach vocabulary, such as websites and applications.Gain research-based vocabulary learning strategies used in the minilessons.

Contents:IntroductionChapter 1: Minilesson ManagementChapter 2: Supportive Strategies and Technology ToolsChapter 3: Robust RootsChapter 4: Powerful PrefixesChapter 5: Super SuffixesChapter 6: Testing TermsChapter 7: Varied VoiceAppendix: Index of All Vocabulary Words Appearing in the BookReferences and ResourcesIndex

Also see Vocabulary in a SNAP: 100+ Lessons for Elementary Instruction.