Teaching Essentials: Expecting the Most and Getting the Best from Every Learner, K-8 - Softcover

Routman, Regie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0325010811 ISBN 13: 9780325010816

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books,U.S., 2007

Synopsis

What makes a teacher outstanding? More than anything, its a way of being with kids in the classroom that lets them know theyre smart and capable of high achievement. When you combine this mind-set with effective instruction, teaching and learning are transformed. In Teaching Essentials, Regie Routman gives us as much of a blueprint for achieving this powerful, responsive teaching as were ever going to get. Drawing on her extensive work with students who have excelled against great odds, Regie shares the principles and practices that help all students and teachers reach their full potential. Teaching Essentials shows teachers and principals how to build an efficient and joyful practice by:

• setting lessons and activities in a meaningful context
• using an Optimal Learning Model to organize teaching and gradually release responsibility to students
• demonstrating reading, writing, and thinking for students so they have explicit models to follow
• articulating high expectations for every student, including ELLs and struggling learners, and ensuring that they meet them
• embedding assessment into all aspects of instruction and planning
• employing the reading-writing connection to improve comprehension
• motivating writers by always writing for real audiences and purposes
• implementing a schoolwide coaching model for higher achievement and a more fulfilling collaboration with colleagues.

A companion website, www.regieroutman.com, provides additional information, including a downloadable, easy-to-use study guide to promote professional conversations and video clips of Regie teaching so you can view and review the language and routines behind engaging, responsive instruction and learning. The Teaching Essentials book and website are ideal for individual, whole school, and districtwideprofessional development.

About this title

About the Author

Regie Routman has more than forty-five years of experience working in diverse, underperforming schools across the U.S. and Canada as an educational leader, mentor teacher, literacy coach, classroom teacher, and teacher of students with learning differences. Her current work involves on-site demonstrations of highly effective literacy and leadership practices and side-by-side mentoring and coaching of principals and lead teachers in order to improve reading and writing engagement, achievement, and enjoyment for all learners. Her many research-based books and resources have supported hundreds of thousands of teachers, principals, and educators at all levels to create and sustain trusting, intellectual school cultures where hearing all the voices and ongoing, professional learning are priorities.

Regie's books include her Essentials series--Reading Essentials, Writing Essentials, and Teaching Essentials, published by Heinemann, and Literacy Essentials.

Regie expertly developed and delivers online professional learning through her Transforming Our Teaching video-based literacy series. Regie also presents two popular Heinemann on-demand courses: Transforming Our Teaching Through Reading to Understand, Grades K-6; and, Transforming Our Teaching Through Reading-Writing Connections, Grades K-1.

Browse all of Regie's Heinemann Online PD offerings alongside her correlating Professional Development Notebooks on Heinemann's Regie Routman Series page.

For full information on Regie's publications including her Transforming Our Teaching video-based, literacy series and on-demand courses, PD offerings, and blogs, see www.regieroutman.org.

You can also follow her on Twitter and Facebook @regieroutman.

Edition details

• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0325010811
• ISBN 13: 9780325010816
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160