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MORE Best Practices for High School Classrooms
What Award-Winning Secondary Teachers Do
Edited by:
- Randi Stone - Educational Consultant, Keene, NH
August 2010 | 224 pages | Corwin
Ideal for aspiring or practicing teachers, this inspirational one-stop guide to teaching practices from award-winning high school educators nationwide details first-hand accounts of successful instructional strategies, divided by topic and subject area.
A sequel to the best-selling Best Practices for High School Classrooms, this resource covers:
- Lesson plans and units of study across content areas
- Teaching methods
- Ideas for integrating curriculum
- Innovative projects
- General tips, insights, and much more.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Contributors
Part I. Classroom Practices Across the Curriculum
1. Classroom Management - Ideas I've Picked Up Along the Way
2. Teenagers and Rules and Learning . . . Oh My!
3. Nine Co-Teaching Tips From Two Co-Teaching Gurus!
4. Every Student Has a Story: Students With Special Needs and English Language Laerners in the Secondary Classrooms
5. Buffet-Style Teaching: Reviewing and Re-Teaching
6. Using Technology Doesn't Have To Be Expensive
7. Using Computer-Assisted Instruction in High School Mathematics Classes
8. Video Analysis Unlocks the Physics World
Part II. Teaching Science and Math
9. Fertilizers: Testing Different Options
10. My Life on a Podcast
11. Getting the Dirt on Soil
12. Water Purification
13. Atom-Building Bingo
14. Modele: An Electron Configuration Experience
15. Remote Sensing
16. Mathematical Trends and Baby Names
17. Box and Whisker Plot Extravaganza
18. Maze Madness
19. Parabolic Solar Cooker
20. Pascal's Triangle With Sequences and Series
21. Water Rocket Lesson
Part III. Teaching Language Arts and Social Studies
22. Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Building Sentence Sense Without Teaching Grammar
23. Descriptive Diner
24. Deconstructing the Writer's Craft
25. Story Stew
26. Catering to Student Needs: Menu-style Study Guides
27. Navigating Spoon River While Putting Your Students in the Spotlight
28. "Let's Argue!" A Research-Oriented Approach to Classroom Debates
29. Discoveries in Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"
30. Piecing Together the Past: An Introduction to the Study of History
31. African Lunch Sack and Picnic
32. Presidential Caucus Simulation
33. Electoral College Review Game
34. Economics in My Hometown
35. Do What You Do Best and Trade for the Rest
PART IV: Teaching Music, Art, and Phsyical Education
36. Creating Correct Vowels for Singing
37. Wayne Thiebaud Style Plasticine Painting
38. Art Integration: Enrolling in the Hudson River School to Study American Romanticism
39. Interactive Muscle Assignment
40. Aerobic/Anaerobic Fitness Stations
"The variety of activities sparks ideas for different subjects. The book presents content in an easy-to-follow framework, provides very doable lessons, and clearly identifies the necessary materials."
Convening Conversations
The stories in this text are helpful for preservice teachers to make connections between research and practice.
School of Education, Louisiana State University
May 19, 2015
