Paula Rutherford

Need a bluffer’s bible? A one-page summary of several hundred major educational ideas and strategies? Well, here is your source. The author summarizes the central ideas and provides one or more publications to pursue the idea further. Is the coverage sufficient to understand and immediately practice? No. But it does offer a central kernel of an idea. The ideas are grouped in sections: In the news and influencing our thinking, Lesson & unit design, Presentation Modes, Active learning, Assignments, Assessment, Differentiation, Thinking skills, The learning environment, and, Collaboration. The one-page ideas include 21st Century Skills, Self-Assessment, Graphic Organizers, Task Analysis, Job-Embedded Learning, Technology Integration and a host of other ideas. So, why acquire this book? Simply to define a topic in educational jargon and pursue it. One can’t become well acquainted here, but it is a start. So, if you want to cram for a professional learning community discussion, here is a brief summary. Of course, to use the one page as “all I know about a concept” is not very wise, but at least it provides a beginning for further investigation. And, that is why we think you will find some interesting quick reading here. The book comes with a CD of the pages that can be used as handouts. Recommended.… (altro)