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Tried and true teaching strategies to boost student engagement.

Students need to be actively engaged to learn—intellectually curious, physically active, and emotionally involved in collaborative work that builds their capacity for empathy. What can teachers do to instill these elements in the classroom?

Active Learning: 40 Teaching Methods To Engage Students In Every Class and Every Subject is the actionable tool every new and veteran teacher needs to construct dynamic learning experiences for students. This hands-on, easy-to-use guide features 40 carefully curated, high-impact teaching strategies that target learning tools, collaboration structures, reading and writing routines, assessment opportunities and more. It includes:

Step-by-step teaching strategies that can be mastered quickly and implemented in any orderTools to help teachers identify the most pressing classroom needs and determine which methods to try firstNine instructional structures including essential questions, strategy groups, stations, and simulationsReal-world examples, tips, templates, and other supportive resources that offer guidance for each method, identify common challenges, and detail next steps

Whether tweaking your existing strategies or finding new moves that will quickly become your own, this is your go-to guide for designing active, engaging learning experiences for students.

What if you could have an owner’s manual on reading ownership? What if there really were a framework for building students’ agency and independence?  There’s no "what if?" about it. When it comes to teaching reading, Gravity Goldberg declares there is a structure, one that works with your current curriculum, to help readers take charge. The way forward Gravity says lies in admiring, studying, and really getting to know your students. Consider Mindsets & Moves your guide. Here, Gravity describes how to let go of our default roles of assigner, monitor, and manager and instead shift to a growth mindset. Easily replicable in any setting, any time, her 4 Ms framework ultimately lightens your load because they allow students to monitor and direct their reading lives.  Miner: Uncovering Students’ Reading Processes (Focus: Assessment)Mirror: Giving Feedback That Reinforces a Growth Mindset (Focus: Feedback)Model: Showing Readers What We Do (Focus: Demonstration]Mentor: Guiding Students to Try New Ways of Reading (Focus: Guided Practice and Coaching)Get started on the 4Ms tomorrow! Gravity has loaded the book with practical examples, lessons, reading process and strategy lists, and a 35-page photo tour of exemplary reading classrooms with captions that distill best practices. All figures, student work and photographs are provided in vibrant, full color.  We are in the midst of an ownership crisis, and readers of every ability and in every grade are more often compliant than fully engaged. Use Mindsets & Moves as that rare resource that makes something highly complex suddenly clear and inspiring for you.  GRAVITY GOLDBERG is coauthor of Conferring with Readers: Supporting Each Students’ Growth and Independence (Heinemann, 2007) and author of many articles about reading, writing, and professional development. She holds a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a former staff developer at Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and an assistant professor at Iona College’s graduate education program. She leads a team of literacy consultants in the New York/New Jersey region. "Mindsets and Moves addresses, in a very engaging way, the most important aspects of classroom literacy instruction. It shows how to think about and interact with children around literacy. Thoroughly grounded in current theories, which are clearly explained and illustrated with stories and examples, the book is absolutely practical with excellent examples of lessons, anchor charts and all of the necessary details." — Peter Johnston, Author of Choice Words and Opening Minds

What your students need is you. Your fullest most authentic self. Gravity Goldberg’s Teach Like Yourself helps you be the biggest, boldest, and most powerful version of your teacher self. It reminds you why you became a teacher and coaches you to bring your unique gifts and talents into the classroom. The difference between a so-so lesson and one that leaves a lasting impact on students has everything to do with how confident and connected you feel to yourself and your students.

Read this book when you need an extra shot of bravery. It’s a perfect resource if

You want to coach yourself into fulfilling your teacher potential You are looking for more balance in your teaching and personal life You want a pep talk for saying no to what doesn’t help students and yes to what you know does You want to grow and deepen your practice without losing yourself in the process

In this, her fifth and most personal book, Gravity uses her gifts for developing teacher agency as she invites you to take on five powerful practices:

Naming your core beliefs Viewing teaching as a practice Building balanced relationships Driving professional growth Taking care of your whole self

To support you as you make these five practices lifelong habits, Gravity includes illuminating stories, reflection questions, short videos of advice from her and other educators, a full-color Teach Like Yourself Manifesto poster, and a Teach Like Yourself Facebook group moderated by the author.

Creating strong, independent readers with conferring requires thoughtful planning, active listening, accurate tracking, and personalized follow-up. Many teachers don’t know where to start; planning effective conferring conversations and selecting the right tools can seem daunting. Teachers Gravity Goldberg and Renée Houser understand how overwhelming conferring can be, so they developed the Teacher’s Toolkit for Independent Reading, Grade 3.Designed especially for Grade 3 students, the Teacher’s Toolkit provides an all-in-one conferring system to help teachers: Access ready-to-use teaching texts, a curriculum guide with grade-level specifics for teaching with focus, and tools to engage students in their individual reading process and progressLearn and model essential independent reading skills for their studentsBuild the confidence to focus on responsive, personalized discussions with studentsOrganize and easily access teaching materials and student progress notes in one placeGain ready access to expert conferring advice provided in the professional book, online videos, and Facebook communityEach Toolkit includes:Grade-Level Specific Teaching MaterialsSupporting Independent Readers: 25 Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Questions About Conferring professional book, Grades 3-5Grade-level specific Your Everyday Guide to Conferring, Grade 3 Teacher's Reading Notebook, Grades 3-5Teaching Texts booklet, Grade 3Conferring Organizer and Management System3-ring binder with 32 rewriteable tabs and 5-pocket accordion storage area Teacher and student-specific sticky notesConvenient zippered binder pouch for storageFree content on product page (see Support Material link), as well as Companion Website accessat https://resourcecentre.routledge.com/books/978162531400020-30 videos for sustained professional development and learningVideo viewing guideDownloadable tools from Your Everyday Guide to Conferring, Grade 3 With Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading, Grade 3, teachers will have everything they need to prepare, model, track, and manage effective, student-centered conferring sessions with confidence. Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading, Grade 4 and Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading, Grade 5 are also available.

Creating strong, independent readers with conferring requires thoughtful planning, active listening, accurate tracking, and personalized follow-up. Many teachers don’t know where to start; planning effective conferring conversations and selecting the right tools can seem daunting. Teachers Gravity Goldberg and Renée Houser understand how overwhelming conferring can be, so they developed the Teacher’s Toolkit for Independent Reading, Grade 4.Designed especially for Grade 4 students, the Teacher’s Toolkit provides an all-in-one conferring system to help teachers: Access ready-to-use teaching texts, a curriculum guide with grade-level specifics for teaching with focus, and tools to engage students in their individual reading process and progressLearn and model essential independent reading skills for their studentsBuild the confidence to focus on responsive, personalized discussions with studentsOrganize and easily access teaching materials and student progress notes in one placeGain ready access to expert conferring advice provided in the professional book, online videos, and Facebook communityEach Toolkit includes:Grade-Level Specific Teaching MaterialsSupporting Independent Readers: 25 Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Questions About Conferring professional book, Grades 3-5Grade-level specific Your Everyday Guide to Conferring, Grade 4 Teacher's Reading Notebook, Grades 3-5Teaching Texts booklet, Grade 4Conferring Organizer and Management System3-ring binder with 32 rewriteable tabs and 5-pocket accordion storage area Teacher and student-specific sticky notesConvenient zippered binder pouch for storageFree content on product page (see Support Material link) as well as Companion Website access at https://resourcecentre.routledge.com/books/978162531401720-30 videos for sustained professional development and learningVideo viewing guideDownloadable tools from Your Everyday Guide to Conferring, Grade 4 With Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading, Grade 4, teachers will have everything they need to prepare, model, track, and manage effective, student-centered conferring sessions with confidence.Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading, Grade 3 and Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading, Grade 5 are also available.

Creating strong, independent readers with conferring requires thoughtful planning, active listening, accurate tracking, and personalized follow-up. Many teachers don’t know where to start; planning effective conferring conversations and selecting the right tools can seem daunting. Teachers Gravity Goldberg and Renée Houser understand how overwhelming conferring can be, so they developed the Teacher’s Toolkit for Independent Reading, Grade 5.Designed especially for Grade 5 students, the Teacher’s Toolkit provides an all-in-one conferring system to help teachers: Access ready-to-use teaching texts, a curriculum guide with grade-level specifics for teaching with focus, and tools to engage students in their individual reading process and progressLearn and model essential independent reading skills for their studentsBuild the confidence to focus on responsive, personalized discussions with studentsOrganize and easily access teaching materials and student progress notes in one placeGain ready access to expert conferring advice provided in the professional book, online videos, and Facebook communityEach Toolkit includes:Grade-Level Specific Teaching MaterialsSupporting Independent Readers: 25 Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Questions About Conferring professional book, Grades 3-5Grade-level specific Your Everyday Guide to Conferring, Grade 5 Teacher's Reading Notebook, Grades 3-5Teaching Texts booklet, Grade 5Conferring Organizer and Management System3-ring binder with 32 rewriteable tabs and 5-pocket accordion storage area Teacher and student-specific sticky notesConvenient zippered binder pouch for storageFree content (see Support Material link on product page) as well as Companion Website Access at https://resourcecentre.routledge.com/books/978162531402420-30 videos for sustained professional development and learningVideo viewing guideDownloadable tools from Your Everyday Guide to Conferring, Grade 5 With Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading, Grade 5, teachers will have everything they need to prepare, model, track, and manage effective, student-centered conferring sessions with confidence.Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading, Grade 3 and Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading, Grade 4 are also available.