How do we truly help students achieve their fullest potential? What are the roles of motivation, deliberate practice, and coaching in developing talent and abilities in students? This hands-on guide examines each of these elements in detail providing definitions, relevant research, discussions, examples, and practical steps to take with students in elementary, middle, and high school. The authors examine cutting-edge research on world-class performance and distill information specifically for educators. Offering guidelines to help teachers spot and encourage students’ exceptional aptitudes, passionate interests, and special strengths, they show concretely how to promote greater motivation for learning and success. This foundational book infuses new ideas into established teaching. User-friendly chapters include thought-provoking insights, vignettes of how notable talents were developed, teaching and learning tips, grade-level examples, and discussion questions.

"Brain Pete and Robin Fogarty′s From Staff Room to Classroom II shows again their obvious expertise and familiarity with what works for campus planning and training. It truly gives new meaning to the words ′staff development′ and provides a clear, concise manner to make it happen. The multiple strategies and methods accommodate ALL styles of presentation, regardless of content area or years of experience. This will revamp how we do training in our district."—Amber Teamann, Title I Technology FacilitatorGarland ISD, TXThe easy way to engaging professional presentations!Through their extensive experience conducting professional development sessions with educators nationally and internationally, Brian M. Pete and Robin J. Fogarty have acquired a vast compendium of effective presentation and facilitation strategies. Now, in their companion to From Staff Room to Classroom, the authors present 144 strategies for leading staff development workshops, professional learning communities, and staff meetings.These proven, easy-to-use activities are organized into four "morphological grids," with columns corresponding to the three principles for successful presentationsOpeners: Capture the audience′s attention—Tell them what you are going to do!Meat of the Matter: Captivate with the information—Do it!Closers: Close with keepers—Tell them what you did!Using different strategies from each column of a morphological grid, presenters can create a different presentation format every time. Ideas can be arranged or rearranged according to personal preference, group needs, or as a random creative act. Designed for staff developers, school leaders, and professional learning community facilitators, From Staff Room to Classroom II makes planning creative and winning presentations effortless!

Through a meta-analysis of studies on instructional strategies, Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock (2001) have identified nine families of strategies that significantly increase student achievement.

Twelve Brain Principles That Make the Difference by Brian Pete and Robin Fogarty, is about how the brain learns best and all the things teachers can do to facilitate the learning part of the teaching scene. This book presents a unique organization of Renate and Geoffrey Caine''s twelve brain principles. The twelve principles are arranged in four specific quadrants. Each quadrant speaks to a particular aspect of the high-achieving classroom and highlights how instructional decisions are governed by the twelve principles.

This invaluable research-based guidebook illustrates how quality teaching can overcome the impact of low socioeconomic conditions and improve student performance dramatically. The authors present instructional techniques that require students to speak with skill, write with clarity and purpose, read with a critical eye, and listen with active engagement. Using six practical strategies, educators can overcome the odds and guide learners to success by:Setting high expectations for all studentsMaking differentiation part of everything they doChallenging students to think criticallyInsisting on results-oriented goals

Examine how PLCs provide the decision-making platform for the rigorous work of differentiated classroom instruction. A practical guide to implementing differentiation in the classroom, this book offers a road map to effective teaching that responds to diverse learning needs. Takeaway objectives at the beginning of each chapter guide discussion, and each chapter ends with action options of highly interactive strategies.

Ensure your students develop the complex, higher-order thinking skills they need to not just survive but thrive in a 21st century world. The latest edition of this best-selling guide by James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, and Brian M. Pete details a three-phase teaching model and dives deep into how to teach seven key student proficiencies: critical thinking, creative thinking, complex thinking, comprehensive thinking, collaborative thinking, communicative thinking, and cognitive transfer.

How to teach higher-order thinking skills for student engagement and achievement:

Receive guidance on teaching higher-order thinking skills according to any given standard, including state standards and content-area standards.Learn how to weave thinking skills and technology into your existing teaching strategies and lesson plans.Understand how to adapt lessons for various grade levels and subjects.Gain questions to reflect on after lessons, to ensure that students learn at the highest levels and grow their problem solving and innovative thinking.Attain tools and reproducibles to facilitate learning and understanding of teaching critical thinking and other 21st century skills.

Contents:AcknowledgmentsTable of ContentsAbout the AuthorsIntroduction

Student Proficiency 1: Critical Thinking Chapter 1: Analyze Chapter 2: Evaluate Chapter 3: Problem Solve

Student Proficiency 2: Creative Thinking Chapter 4: Generate Chapter 5: Associate Chapter 6: Hypothesize

Student Proficiency 3: Complex Thinking Chapter 7: Clarify Chapter 8: Interpret Chapter 9: Determine

Student Proficiency 4: Comprehensive Thinking Chapter 10: Understand Chapter 11: Infer Chapter 12: Compare and Contrast

Student Proficiency 5: Collaborative Thinking Chapter 13: Explain Chapter 14: Develop Chapter 15: Decide

Student Proficiency 6: Communicative Thinking Chapter 16: Reason Chapter 17: Connect Chapter 18: Represent

Student Proficiency 7: Cognitive Transfer Chapter 19: Synthesize Chapter 20: Generalize Chapter 21: Apply

Appendix AAppendix BAppendix CAppendix DGlossaryReferences & ResourcesIndex

How do we truly help students achieve their fullest potential? What are the roles of motivation, deliberate practice, and coaching in developing talent and abilities in students? This hands-on guide examines each of these elements in detail providing definitions, relevant research, discussions, examples, and practical steps to take with students in elementary, middle, and high school. The authors examine cutting-edge research on world-class performance and distill information specifically for educators. Offering guidelines to help teachers spot and encourage students’ exceptional aptitudes, passionate interests, and special strengths, they show concretely how to promote greater motivation for learning and success. This foundational book infuses new ideas into established teaching. User-friendly chapters include thought-provoking insights, vignettes of how notable talents were developed, teaching and learning tips, grade-level examples, and discussion questions.

"Brain Pete and Robin Fogarty′s From Staff Room to Classroom II shows again their obvious expertise and familiarity with what works for campus planning and training. It truly gives new meaning to the words ′staff development′ and provides a clear, concise manner to make it happen. The multiple strategies and methods accommodate ALL styles of presentation, regardless of content area or years of experience. This will revamp how we do training in our district."—Amber Teamann, Title I Technology FacilitatorGarland ISD, TXThe easy way to engaging professional presentations!Through their extensive experience conducting professional development sessions with educators nationally and internationally, Brian M. Pete and Robin J. Fogarty have acquired a vast compendium of effective presentation and facilitation strategies. Now, in their companion to From Staff Room to Classroom, the authors present 144 strategies for leading staff development workshops, professional learning communities, and staff meetings.These proven, easy-to-use activities are organized into four "morphological grids," with columns corresponding to the three principles for successful presentationsOpeners: Capture the audience′s attention—Tell them what you are going to do!Meat of the Matter: Captivate with the information—Do it!Closers: Close with keepers—Tell them what you did!Using different strategies from each column of a morphological grid, presenters can create a different presentation format every time. Ideas can be arranged or rearranged according to personal preference, group needs, or as a random creative act. Designed for staff developers, school leaders, and professional learning community facilitators, From Staff Room to Classroom II makes planning creative and winning presentations effortless!

Through a meta-analysis of studies on instructional strategies, Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock (2001) have identified nine families of strategies that significantly increase student achievement.

Twelve Brain Principles That Make the Difference by Brian Pete and Robin Fogarty, is about how the brain learns best and all the things teachers can do to facilitate the learning part of the teaching scene. This book presents a unique organization of Renate and Geoffrey Caine''s twelve brain principles. The twelve principles are arranged in four specific quadrants. Each quadrant speaks to a particular aspect of the high-achieving classroom and highlights how instructional decisions are governed by the twelve principles.

This invaluable research-based guidebook illustrates how quality teaching can overcome the impact of low socioeconomic conditions and improve student performance dramatically. The authors present instructional techniques that require students to speak with skill, write with clarity and purpose, read with a critical eye, and listen with active engagement. Using six practical strategies, educators can overcome the odds and guide learners to success by:Setting high expectations for all studentsMaking differentiation part of everything they doChallenging students to think criticallyInsisting on results-oriented goals

Examine how PLCs provide the decision-making platform for the rigorous work of differentiated classroom instruction. A practical guide to implementing differentiation in the classroom, this book offers a road map to effective teaching that responds to diverse learning needs. Takeaway objectives at the beginning of each chapter guide discussion, and each chapter ends with action options of highly interactive strategies.

Ensure your students develop the complex, higher-order thinking skills they need to not just survive but thrive in a 21st century world. The latest edition of this best-selling guide by James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, and Brian M. Pete details a three-phase teaching model and dives deep into how to teach seven key student proficiencies: critical thinking, creative thinking, complex thinking, comprehensive thinking, collaborative thinking, communicative thinking, and cognitive transfer.

How to teach higher-order thinking skills for student engagement and achievement:

Receive guidance on teaching higher-order thinking skills according to any given standard, including state standards and content-area standards.Learn how to weave thinking skills and technology into your existing teaching strategies and lesson plans.Understand how to adapt lessons for various grade levels and subjects.Gain questions to reflect on after lessons, to ensure that students learn at the highest levels and grow their problem solving and innovative thinking.Attain tools and reproducibles to facilitate learning and understanding of teaching critical thinking and other 21st century skills.

Contents:AcknowledgmentsTable of ContentsAbout the AuthorsIntroduction

Student Proficiency 1: Critical Thinking Chapter 1: Analyze Chapter 2: Evaluate Chapter 3: Problem Solve

Student Proficiency 2: Creative Thinking Chapter 4: Generate Chapter 5: Associate Chapter 6: Hypothesize

Student Proficiency 3: Complex Thinking Chapter 7: Clarify Chapter 8: Interpret Chapter 9: Determine

Student Proficiency 4: Comprehensive Thinking Chapter 10: Understand Chapter 11: Infer Chapter 12: Compare and Contrast

Student Proficiency 5: Collaborative Thinking Chapter 13: Explain Chapter 14: Develop Chapter 15: Decide

Student Proficiency 6: Communicative Thinking Chapter 16: Reason Chapter 17: Connect Chapter 18: Represent

Student Proficiency 7: Cognitive Transfer Chapter 19: Synthesize Chapter 20: Generalize Chapter 21: Apply

Appendix AAppendix BAppendix CAppendix DGlossaryReferences & ResourcesIndex