Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, Grades 6-12: 15 Must-Have Skills Every Student Needs to Achieve (Corwin Literacy)
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (683 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1483379809 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jim has received several awards, including the 2000 NCTE Exemplary English Leadership Award. A longtime English teacher, Jim Burke is the author of more than 20 books and senior consultant for the Holt McDougal Literature program. In 2009, he created the English Companion Ningthe largest online community of English
It’s that simple. Or is it? To arrive at these fifteen critical reading, writing, and thinking processes, Jim and Barry combed through the standards, research, and secondary curriculum—and that’s for starters. Use the book and you’ll know for yourself what a revolution they’ve created. Analyze, argue, compare/contrast, describe, determine, develop, evaluate, explain, imagine, integrate, interpret, organize, summarize, support, and transform . Can a mere fifteen words turn today’s youth into the innovative, ambitious thinkers we need? Yes, contend Jim Burke and Barry Gilmore, coauthors of Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, because these are the moves that make the mind work and students must learn if they’re to achieve academically. In Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, Jim and Barry translate these processes into remarkable instructional protocols. . Then, for each of these powerhouse processes, they developed a lesson structure, assignments, and activities so you can teach with potency, right away, and immediately cultivate in students discipline-specific habits of mind. Here’s the best part yet: Jim and Barry distill each intellectual process into a potent concision that nevertheless spans subject areas: Before, during, and after sections offer essential questions, lesson ideas
Its economy of expression makes complex ideas accessible, while annotated student work provides a window into learner application. “Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness provides clarity and structure for teachers who seek to help their students become more competent and confident thinkers, and does so without compromising the critical role of a teacher's content knowledge and creativity in a dynamic classroom. Fifteen stars!” (JEFF ZWIERS, Senior Researcher at Stanford University 2015-01-02)“Jim Burke’s books need to be on the ‘must-read’ list of—at the very least—all English teachers! Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness is a worthy addition to that list with the ‘academic and thinking’ moves he and his coauthor, Barry Gilmore, describe critical for any of us who want to ‘up our game’ in the classroom.” (LARRY FERLAZZO, Teacher, Educatio
A Book I Will Use Forever Let me say up front that I'm a big Jim Burke fan. I've followed his work for more than a decade and had the distinct pleasure of getting to know him personally in the last few years. That being said, this may be his best book ever. Not that his others weren't great. But they were great in a differe. Amanda Beth said An excellent guide for high school teachers on preparing students to. An excellent guide for high school teachers on preparing students to make critical analysis, formulate arguments, and cultivate strong writing skills. The book is clearly laid out and posits concrete step by step support for teachers in pedagogy skills with myriad classroom examples and informative. Barry Gilmore and Jim Burke are spot on with those Barry Gilmore and Jim Burke are spot on with those specific criteria for assessment for any level. Absolutely plan to use the rubrics and rework some of my strategies for presenting essays to eighth graders!