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Explores multiple intelligences in a way which puts the full range of your abilities to work.  Through practical exercises and colorful anecdotes, this book shows many different ways to be smart, and how they can be applied to your personal and work life.

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Fran Haraway and Barbara Geldersman

A collection of motivating and skill building units on topics with “kid appeal.”  Each unit contains activities for math, science, language arts, and history.

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A collection of sixty creative, innovative, and user-friendly Active Learning lesson plans which will influence student behavior and attitudes for a lifetime.  This teaching strategy is part of the educational trend which promotes cooperation, collaboration, problem solving, critical thinking, and experiential learning.  The Active Learning approach has worked with urban as well as suburban, elementary as well as secondary, and at-risk as well as gifted students.

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This book will help caregivers of children learn how to enhance their powers of observation, know each  child as a unique individual, discover ways to build trust between children and adults and between non-parent caregivers and parents, design aesthetically pleasing, intellectually stimulating, safe, and comfortable learning environments, understand and respect the importance of children’s play, explore the role of communication between caregiver and child and its significance to the learning process, and evaluate childcare facilities and staff.

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David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson, Edythe Johnson Holubec, Patricia Roy

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Looks at why cooperative learning is important, the relevance of research on cooperative learning, implementing cooperative learning, teaching students cooperative skills, supervising teachers’ use of cooperative learning, and myths about cooperative learning.

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A one of a kind resource book filled with imaginative content activities designed for elementary ESL students.  Using the Natural Approach stages of preproduction, early production, speech emergence and intermediate fluency, each self-contained lesson develops critical thinking skills along with language.  All students, regardless of language ability, are able to participate and to demonstrate their creativity.

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This collection is intended as a ready reference for educators – both for understanding and incorporating environmental education into classrooms, curricula, and programs and as a handbook for finding valuable resources for environmental education “across the curriculum.” Many of these resources are referenced to the ERIC and ENC collections.  The extensive ERIC and ENC collections, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, often are overlooked by classroom teachers; but they literally are treasure troves for instruction.  This book helps to highlight them.

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Inspiring Active Learning: A Handbook for Teachers

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

In this book, Merrill Harmin has gathered practical, commonsense strategies many teachers have successfully used to help students become active, responsible learners.  In general, these strategies are centered on mutual respect, not bossiness; collaboration, not isolation; commitment to learning, not fear of failure; and the dignity of all, not praise or rewards for a few.

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Multiple Intelligences: The Complete MI Book

Kagan Cooperative Learning

Includes 160 MI strategies, 12 ready-to-do MI activities, step by step planning for MI lessons, assessment forms and reproducibles, and more resources

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Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Describes how educators can bring Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences into the classroom every day.

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Seven Ways of Teaching

IRI/Skylight Publishing

Shows you how to create lessons the draw upon the many ways of knowing you and your students possess – and how to transform your classroom into a place where fun and learning take place at the same time.

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Seven Ways of Knowing

IRI/Skylight Publishing

Develop seven ways of knowing – not just one!  This book surveys research on the theory of multiple intelligences and its relevance for today’s teachers.  It gives you practical strategies for awakening the full spectrum of intelligences, techniques for developing and nurturing them, and tools to structure lessons that incorporate multiple intelligences.

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Question Manipulatives

Kagan Cooperative Learning

A collection of game cards for cooperative learning.  Includes 527 colorful pieces.

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Portfolios in the Classroom: A Teacher’s Sourcebook

Scholastic

Portfolio assessment is a process of collecting useful and meaningful examples of students’ ongoing work in school.  These can be used to better assess a student’s growth and development over time.  Everyone can benefit from portfolio assessment – parents, teachers, administrators, and students.  In addition, portfolio assessment supports the ultimate goal of helping students become independent, lifelong learners.

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Strategies That Work

Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis

Stenhouse Publishers

A child may be a great decoder, but that’s only one step toward becoming a fluent reader.  Reading implies thinking and understanding, and teachers can help children develop strategies for comprehension.  Children need to know how to make connections and ask questions, how to visualize and infer, how to extract important ideas and to synthesize information. 

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Take Part Art

Collaborative Art Projects

For Teachers, Group Leaders, Parents, and Kids.  Imaginations and spirits will soar when your group gets going on any of these 74 collaborative art projects.  No matter which artworks your group creates, you can be sure that they’ll lead to new discoveries about art and about working together – and to a whole lot of fun!

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The Case for Constructivist Classrooms

Jacqueline Grennon Brooks, Martin G. Brooks

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

The activities that transpire within the classroom either help or hinder students’ learning.  Any meaningful discussion of educational reform, therefore, must focus explicitly and directly on the classroom and on the teaching and learning that occurs within it.  This book presents a case for the development of classrooms in which students are encouraged to construct deep understandings of important concepts.

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The Giant Encyclopedia of Theme Activities For Children 2 to 5

Kathy Charner

Gryphon House

The result of a nationwide competition, The Giant Encyclopedia gives you 600 activities developed and tested by classroom teachers.  The activities are full of zestful learning – and all are developmentally appropriate.

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The Kid’s Guide to Social Action

Barbara A. Lewis

Free Spirit Publishing

Includes real stories about real kids and teens who are making a difference at home and around the world, step-by-step guides to social action Power Skills, ideas for working with government, real social action tools, and an up-to-date resource guide with addresses, phone numbers, and web sites for other social action groups, designed for kids to use on their own and at their own pace.

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The Learner-Centered Classroom and School

Barbara L. McCombs, Jo Sue Whisler

Jossey-Bass Publishers

Shows educators and administrators how they can create classrooms and schools that foster student motivation, learning, and achievement.  The learner-centered approach provides a dual focus on both learner and learning.  It focuses on learners by respecting them, trusting them to be responsible for their own learning, and designing practices that are sensitive to individual needs.

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The Learning Gap

Harold W. Stevenson and James W. Stigler

Simon & Schuster

Explains why our schools are failing and what we can learn from Japanese and Chinese education.

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The Multiple Intelligences Handbook

Bruce Campbell

Campbell & Associates, Inc.

Lesson plans and description on preparing the MI classroom, preparing students and parents, preparing for MI teaching, assessment in an MI classroom, teaching MI lessons, preparing students for self-directed learning, and teaching MI curriculum units.

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The New Circles of Learning: Cooperation in the Classroom and School

David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson, Edythe Johnson Holubec

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Reinforces the cooperative learning theories found in Circles of Learning: Cooperation in the Classroom and expands those theories to include the school and school district. 

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Integrating Differentiated Instruction + Understanding by Design

Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe

ASCD

In this book, Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design converge providing readers fresh perspectives on two of the greatest contemporary challenges for educators:  crafting powerful curriculum in a standards-dominated era and ensuring academic success for the full spectrum of learners.  Each model strengthens the other.  Understand by Design is predominately a curriculum design model that focuses on what we teach, and how we teach.  Differentiated Instruction focuses on whom we teach, where we teach, and how we teach.  The authors show you how to use the principles of backward design and differentiation together to craft lesson plans that will teach essential knowledge and skills for the full spectrum of learners.

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The Understanding by Design Handbook

Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

This handbook is the companion book to Understanding by Design, which provides the conceptual foundation for a theory of understanding that is based on six facets of understanding.  The handbook offers the practical side: a unit planning template, worksheets, exercises, design tools, design standards and tests, and a peer review process for learning and applying the ideas in Understanding by Design

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Understanding by Design

Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

This book opens by analyzing the logic of backward design as an alternative to coverage and activity-oriented plans.  Though backward from habit, this approach brings more focus and coherence to instruction.

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Understanding by Design: Professional Development Workbook

Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Extends the ideas presented in Understanding by Design by focusing on professional development and the practical matters of curriculum design.

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Understanding by Design Study Guide

Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

A tool that can be used by groups of people interested in exploring the ideas in the book Understanding by Design.  The guide follows the chapters of the book and provides practical ideas for group study such as a chapter summary, review questions, essential questions to stimulate inquiry and discussion, provocations for further exploration, and tools such as graphic organizers and flip chart exercises.

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Write! Mathematics

Virginia DeBolt

Kagan Cooperative Learning

Writing activities for multiple intelligences and cooperative learning.

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Questions are fundamental to teaching because they encompass the three central components of effective teaching: The provide information; they help students transfer that knowledge to subsequent learning; and they take students to the highest levels of learning, in which they apply knowledge in various situations in their lives.  The attention teachers give to planning questions will determine their education outcomes.

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Filled with children's work and classroom scenarios, Read Any Good Math Lately? demonstrates the rich potential literature holds for engaging learners in a variety of mathematical investigations.  It is an invitation to teachers, parents, and librarians to make the reading and sharing of good literature a natural part of mathematics teaching and learning.

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Flying With Both Wings is the inspiring story of Neil Brewer's creation and the effect the Harmon Bidwell project has had on students.

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The three characteristics of effective teachers:  1. Have classroom management skills.  2. Teach for lesson mastery.  3. Practice positive expectations.

Part 1 - Basic Understandings-The Teacher - sample topics covered:  - What is an effective teachers?   - How to be a happy first-year teacher   - The need to use research-based practices   - The need to succeed on the first day of school

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The three characteristics of effective teachers:  1. Practice positive expectations.  2. Have classroom management skills.  3. Teach for lesson mastery.

Part 2 - First Characteristic - Positive Expectations - sample topics covered:   - How to help students succeed   - How to dress for success   - How to invite students to learn.

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The three characteristics of effective teachers:  1. Practice positive expectations.  2. Have classroom management skills.  3. Teach for lesson mastery.

Part 3 - Second Characteristic-Classroom Management - sample topics covered:   - How to have a well-managed classroom   - How to post assignments   - When and how to take roll   - How to have an effective discipline plan-rules   - How to have an effective discipline plan-consequences and rewards.

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The three characteristics of effective teachers:  1. Practice positive expectations.  2. Have classroom management skills.  3. Teach for lesson mastery.

Part 4 - Second Characteristic-Classroom Management - sample topic covered:   - How to have students follow classroom procedures.

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The three characteristics of effective teachers:  1. Practice positive expectations.  2. Have classroom management skills.  3. Teach for lesson mastery.

Part 5 - Third Characteristic-Lesson Mastery - sample topic covered:   - How to get your students to work cooperatively.

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The three characteristics of effective teachers:  1. Practice positive expectations.  2. Have classroom management skills.  3. Teach for lesson mastery.

Part 6 - Third Characteristic-Lesson Mastery - sample topics covered:   - How to get your students to do their assignments   - How to get your students to pass their tests   - How to increase student learning and achievement.

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The three characteristics of effective teachers:  1. Practice positive expectations.  2. Have classroom management skills.  3. Teach for lesson mastery.

Part 7 - Future Understandings-The Professional - sample topics covered:   - How to achieve happiness and success as a teacher   - How to become a professional educator.

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The three characteristics of effective teachers:  1. Practice positive expectations.  2. Have classroom management skills.  3. Teach for lesson mastery.

Part 8 - First Characteristic - Positive Expectations - sample topic covered:   - How to increase positive student behavior.

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