Reference Book List
I. Teaching Strategies
1. “Developing More Curious Minds”
- describes practical strategies such as using questioning
frames and models when reading text, engaging in critical thinking and problem-based learning, to spur students’ ability and willingness to pose and answer their own questions.
2. “Inspiring Active Learning”
- gathers practical strategies to help students become active and responsible learners.
3. “Essential Ingredients – Recipes for Teaching Writing”
- offers suggestions for writing that are appropriate across the curriculum and for students in secondary schools.
4. “The Brain – Compatible Classroom”
- suggests simple ways to keep the attention of the students for the whole class period and make lesson content relevant to motivate students, and keys to involving students in decision making to increase their engagement and achievement.
5. “Visual Literacy”
- offers a wealth of practical tips and strategies for powerful and effective presentations by both teachers and students.
II. Classroom Management
1. “Winning Strategies for Classroom Management”
- provides strategies for helping the teachers to motivate students, encourages self-discipline and perseverance and enable students to take responsibility for learning.
2.“Connecting with Students”
- outlines dozens of positive strategies such as “H & H Greeting”, “2 x 10 Method”, “Think-aloud”, for bridging the gap between teacher and student through personal, academic and social connections.
III. School Management and Others
1. “Teacher Evaluation – To Enhance Professional Practice”
-provides a clear roadmap to effective teacher evaluation systems that combine quality assurance with professional development for all teachers through concrete examples, useful forms and assessment tools.
2. “Schooling for Life – Reclaiming the Essence of Learning”
- about how we might blur the distinctions between “school life” and “real life”, between teaching and learning.
3. “Capturing the Wisdom of Practice”
-offers practical strategies for building and using portfolios for learning, curriculum development and assessment , research and staff development.
4. “Enhancing Student Achievement – A Framework for School Improvement”
- the author provides her own framework for improving schools and offers readers guidelines on how best to implement the framework using action planning.
5. “Literacy Leadership for Grades 5-12”
- suggests effective ways to help the students become better readers, writers, communicators, and learners of standards-based content curriculum.