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

Enhance students' higher-level thinking skills, engage their brains, and build their self-esteem and achievement! Expert teacher and trainer Susan J. Jones presents a no-nonsense, reality-based approach to classroom instruction that will help learners at all levels achieve lifelong success. Her expert knowledge covers a generous collection of teaching strategies, activities, and applications that add up to a blueprint for sound instructional delivery and student success. Innovative topics Jones discusses include: Laying the groundwork for learning and organizing experiences for understanding Illustrating the framework for secure change in the classroom and identifying the big picture for learning Demonstrating how to engage the brain's capacity for making connections in order to enhance the learning process Transferring learning to real life and facilitating the recall process Feedback, assessment, evaluation, and determining mastery learning Blueprint for Student Success is a dynamic book that stresses the importance of learning through discovery, creativity, application, adaptation, and high-level thinking. Jones reiterates the need for a positive atmosphere, rituals, and procedures, enabling educators in turn to strengthen students' knowledge and achievement, resulting in lifelong success. is a dynamic book that stresses the importance of learning through discovery, creativity, application, adaptation, and high-level thinking. Jones reiterates the need for a positive atmosphere, rituals, and procedures, enabling educators in turn to strengthen students' knowledge and achievement, resulting in lifelong success.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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 instruction and leadership separates critical new research from speculation and skillfully presents the elements that positively impact achievement. She has served as past president of Florida ASCD, a member of the Board of Directors of ASCD, a trainer for the Bureau of Education and Research and has taught adjunct through four universities. Susan′s experience includes more than two decades of K-12 classroom teaching experience, as well as service as Director of Program Development for Illinois Regional Offices of Education. In addition to Blueprint for Student Success and Backstage Pass, Susan is a contributing author to two brain-research based books. She has authored numerous articles and columns dealing with strategies to improve achievement.