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Blueprint for Student Success
A Guide to Research-Based Teaching Practices K-12



February 2003 | 168 pages | Corwin
Blueprint for Student Success is a dynamic book that stresses the importance of learning through discovery, creativity, application, adaptation, and high-level thinking. Susan J Jones reiterates the need for a positive atmosphere, rituals, and procedures enabling educators, in turn, to strengthen students' knowledge and achievement resulting in life-long success.
 
Preface
 
About the Author
 
1. Laying Groundwork for Learning: Meaning and Memory
 
2. Fertile Fields for Learning: Supple as Cotton, Rigid as Steel
 
3. Get 'Em on the Line, Then You Can "Reel 'Em In"
 
4. Add It Up: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts
 
5. Paint Me a Picture, Show Me the Way: Reconciling the New with the Known
 
6. Get Real!: Transferring Learning to Real Life
 
7. Who Said It Couldn't Be Done?: Blueprints for Student Success
 
8. I've Got It!: Now How Do I Keep It?
 
9. Hey, How Am I Doing?: Feedback in the Learning Process
 
References and Additional Resources
 
Index

Susan J. Jones

Susan Jones is a life-long educator, whose interest in best practice and research in teaching and learning led to a passion for effective communication. Actively facilitating and training education professionals, she also devotes much energy to keynote speaking, training trainers of adult audiences in presentation skills, and facilitating institutional change. She has presented to more than 20,000 people in the past decade alone. A leading expert on research-based classroom instruction and student achievement, she has helped educators translate research into practical strategies for teaching and learning. Her no-nonsense approach to... More About Author

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