Making ALL Kids Smarter: Strategies That Help All Students Reach Their Highest Potential

by John P. DeLandtsheer

Overview

A hands-on guide for challenging ALL kids to think, create, and aspire!

 

John DeLandtsheer brings 40 years of experience to this motivating resource that shows teachers how to raise the bar for all students. Included are strategies for differentiating instruction within the general classroom to challenge all learners with more rigorous content, showing teachers how to:

 

• Optimize learning by applying the six components of a brain-friendly classroom
• Build critical thinking skills with Socratic questioning and moral dilemmas
• Connect content through interdisciplinary themes
• Stimulate creativity with brainstorming activities
• Develop students’ research and study skills

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452237633
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	11/09/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	152
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

John DeLandtsheer has served as the GATE Coordinator in the Redlands Unified School District for sixteen years. He has recently retired from his role as principal of Mariposa Elementary but continues to teach at UC Riverside and serve as the GATE Coordinator in Redlands Unified School District. He is a private consultant and trains GATE teachers and others throughout California and the west in differentiated curriculum through his company, JD Seminars. DeLandtsheer has a master's degree in school administration and has devoted over thirty-five years of his educational career to gifted students at the district, county, and state levels. He has served on the board of directors for the California Association for the Gifted and he currently in their GATE Certificate Program. He is a frequent presenter at state and national conferences.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Who Are the Gifted
2. Brain-Compatible Classrooms
3. The Four Components of Differentiation
4. Interdisciplinary Thematic Instruction
5. The Icons of Depth of Complexity
6. Questioning Strategies
7. Questioning Strategies in Evaluative Thinking Using Moral Dilemmas
8. Socratic Reasoning Techniques
9. The Creativity Connection
10. Teaching Research Skills and Methods
Conclusion
References
Index