Teaching With the Instructional Cha-Chas

ebook Four Steps to Make Learning Stick (Neuroscience, Formative Assessment, and Differentiated Instruction Strategies for Student Success)

By LeAnn Nickelsen

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With foreword by Rick Wormeli

Merging educational neuroscience with a formative assessment process and differentiated instruction, LeAnn Nickelsen and Melissa Dickson developed a four-step cycle of instruction — (1) chunk, (2) chew, (3) check, and (4) change — that has the power to double the speed of student learning. Compatible with any subject area, the book's brain-friendly teaching strategies and plentiful tools are designed to help transform students into active learners and independent thinkers.

Educational neuroscience- and research-based teaching strategies to improve student achievement:

  • Combine brain science with a formative assessment process and differentiated instruction to maximize student learning.
  • Examine effective teaching strategies and differentiation practices so you can bump it up or break it down according to student needs.
  • Consider the four-step instructional cycle and understand the components of chunk, chew, check, and change.
  • Explore how the formative assessment process can double the speed of learning.
  • Learn how to plan instruction and preassess efficiently so that daily learning targets and formative assessments enable each student to meet standards.
  • Receive templates and teaching strategies that can be easily differentiated and implemented in daily lesson plans.
  • Contents:
    Introduction: Maneuver Your Footwork With Four Steps

    Part I: Setting Up Your Classroom Dance Floor
    Chapter 1: Choreograph Your Instruction With the Cha-Cha Steps
    Chapter 2: Move Smoothly From Broad Ideas to Smaller Ideas
    Chapter 3: Get to Know Your Dance Partners

    Part II: Putting the Steps Together
    Chapter 4: Take Step One: Chunk (Instruct)
    Chapter 5: Take Step Two: Chew (Learn)
    Chapter 6: Take Step Three: Check (Evaluate)
    Chapter 7: Take Step Four: Change (Differentiate)
    Chapter 8: Finesse the Chunk, Chew, Check, and Change Cycle

    Epilogue: Swing Into Action With the Four Steps

    Teaching With the Instructional Cha-Chas