ABSTRACT

Learn the most effective ways to promote student learning. This second edition of bestselling author Barbara Blackburn’s Classroom Instruction from A to Z covers a broad range of key instructional strategies to help you create more meaningful, engaging learning experiences for your students. Each chapter from A to Z offers guidance on a specific aspect of classroom instruction, such as planning strong lessons; assessing student learning; creating more successful homework assignments; differentiating instruction; and scaffolding students for success.

Throughout the book, you’ll find practical strategies and tools that you can implement immediately, no matter what subject area or grade level you teach.

Topics new to this updated edition include:

  • Exploring blended learning techniques such as flipped classrooms;
  • Strategies for implementing social emotional learning and mindfulness;
  • Understanding diverse learners and accommodating all students;
  • Teaching academic vocabulary in deeper ways; and
  • Integrating subjects and promoting writing across the curriculum.

With twenty-six chapters each devoted to a different aspect of instruction, this book has something to offer both new and experienced looking to improve student learning. Additionally, classroom-ready tools are available as free eResources from our website, https://www.routledge.com/9781138935952.

chapter |8 pages

Begin Lessons With a Bang

chapter |6 pages

Can You Hear Me?

Teaching Speaking and Listening Skills

chapter |6 pages

Data Informs Instruction

chapter |6 pages

Expect the Best

High Expectations

chapter |6 pages

Focus on Your Purpose

chapter |10 pages

Grading and Assessment

chapter |8 pages

Help Me

Scaffolding for Success

chapter |6 pages

Integrate Subject Areas

chapter |6 pages

Just for Me

Differentiated Instruction Strategies

chapter |8 pages

Keys to Blended Learning

chapter |8 pages

Literacy Is for Everyone

chapter |6 pages

Make It Real

chapter |10 pages

Questioning Strategies

chapter |6 pages

Turn the Tables

Helping Students Take Responsibility for Their Learning

chapter |6 pages

X Factor

Balancing Views of Success

chapter |8 pages

You Are a Model

chapter |8 pages

Zest in the Classroom