ISBN: 9781889852256
by Spence Rogers with Becky Graf and the Peak Team

Essential concepts, strategies, techniques and processes for ensuring performance excellence for all kids.

Teaching for Excellence is an approach based on the following premises:

• All students can learn well
• Students must learn essential content to maximize their choices and opportunities
• All students must be taught to their maximum potential, and potential can never be used as an excuse to limit learning and expectations
• Students must learn to meet standards and, as such, they must be coached until they do
• Most adults and adolescents are effective teachers when teaching loved ones content they value outside of school
• Teaching practices and approaches typically found in school were never effective for all students and often lead to inadequate learning, failure of students to reach standards, and a general lack of preparation for the world beyond school
• Typical teaching practices and approaches throughout school are highly dependent upon support from the home
• The most effective teachers can, and typically do teach students to excellent levels regardless of the support from the home

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Teaching for Excellence. Concepts, strategies and techniques to support individual content areas.

Teaching for Excellence. Concepts, strategies and techniques to support individual content areas.

Teaching for Excellence. Concepts, strategies and techniques to support individual content areas.

Teaching for Excellence. Concepts, strategies and techniques to support individual content areas.

Teaching for Excellence. Concepts, strategies and techniques to support individual content areas.

Teaching for Excellence. Concepts, strategies and techniques to support individual content areas.

Teaching for Excellence. Concepts, strategies and techniques to support individual content areas.

Teaching for Excellence. Concepts, strategies and techniques to support individual content areas.

ISBN-13: 9781889852331
ISBN-10: 1889852333
by Spence Rogers and Becky Graf
122 pages
There have always been great teachers who love teaching and whose students find learning to be a pleasant and highly successful experience. Great teachers are like Olympic athletes and other award winning performers. They have an abundance of effective strategies and a magical way of making everything work smoothly. That magic is called technique.
Effective technique in almost any endeavor is what separates the stars from the rest. The purpose of this resource is to provide insight into the powerful techniques of star teachers and trainers and the magical way they use those techniques to succeed every time.

Learn the Secrets of Highly Effective Teachers and Trainers
Part 1: Introduction

• The three essential design domains: context, content, and process.
• The six keys for unlocking intrinsic motivation and reaching performance excellence.

Part 2: How to Plan for Success with Your Learners
Part 3: Starting Successful Lessons
Part 4: Techniques for Giving Directions that Work
Part 5: Techniques for Building Positive Attitudes
Part 6: Questioning Techniques that Work
Part 7: Techniques for Improving the Effectiveness of Teaching Strategies
Part 8: General Techniques for Improving Teaching Effectiveness
Part 9: Survival Techniques

ISBN-13: 9781889852324
ISBN: 1-88985-232-5
by Spence Rogers and the Peak Learning Systems' Team
246 pages
This book is a great gift and a perfect way to say "Thanks" to your staff.
Teaching Treasures is a "must have" set of classroom tips that are simple, yet powerful for teachers in all discipline areas and grade levels. These tips support the six motivational standards for a learning environment in the areas of: Fostering emotional and physical safety; providing evidence of success; increasing value to students; promoting meaningful involvement; ensuring feelings of belonging and caring; enabling success.
These cards can be used by teachers and staff developers to make a difference in student motivation and learning.

ISBN-13: 9781889852218
ISBN-10: 188985221X
by Spence Rogers and the Peak Team
61 pages

A Commitment to Excellence
Join the thousands of teachers, administrators and parents who already own this book. It is powerful and an important resource for everyone involved in education to have!

This book provides a brief overview of 21 research-supported attributes of classroom teaching situations in which performance excellence is the norm. Spence Rogers and the Peak Learning Systems team have invested a combined total of over one hundred years studying the research, integrating best practices and successfully using and teaching these 21 Building Blocks resulting in profound increases in student achievement. The content of this book is based on the belief that educators should be committed to all students reaching standards.

ISBN-13: 9781889852133
ISBN-10: 1889852139
by Spence Rogers and the Peak Learning Systems' Team
183 pages
Practical, immediately usable, and teacher-tested tips from leaders in effective instructional practices for increasing student motivation and learning.
Learn how to increase student motivation and learning by:

• Effectively using visuals, seating lighting, colors, space, walls, and more
• Using do-able strategies for assessment, evaluation, rubrics, and grading that promote learning and commitment
• Building the three critical relationships for top achievement
• Meeting students' five basic needs for top performance in classrooms.

Spence Rogers and the Peak Learning Systems Team have collected on-target, "how-to" tips and techniques that translate into classroom results!
This title supported by ASCD!

ISBN-13: 9781889852072
ISBN-10: 1889852074
by Spence Rogers and Shari Graham
389 pages
Use this practical, school-tested book to develop performance tasks and assessments that are worthwhile and challenging. Maximize student assessment results and reach the highest standards with the most complete "how to" resource of its kind. Achieve success with performance tasks and assessments across disciplines and grade levels. This easy-to-use guidebook provides the tools you need to successfully design, adapt, evaluate, refine or implement performance tasks and assessments. Rubrics are the focus of Chapter 7 from the basics through the advanced. This book is filled with step-by-step guides, easy-to-use designers and organizers, and extensive resource lists that are helping educators around the world.