Turn today's youth into innovative, ambitious thinkers with fifteen critical reading, writing, and thinking processes. Jim and Barry distill each process into a potent concision that spans subject areas.
A longtime English teacher, Jim Burke is the author of more than 20 books and senior consultant for the Holt McDougal Literature program. Jim has received several awards, including the 2000 NCTE Exemplary English Leadership Award. In 2009, he created the English Companion Ning-the largest online community of English teachers in the world. More recently, Jim has served on the AP English Course and Exam Review Commission and the PARCC Consortium. Learn more about Barry Gilmore's PD offerings Barry Gilmore is the Middle School Head at Hutchison School in Memphis, Tennessee. A National Board Certified Teacher, he taught English and social studies for nearly twenty years. Barry is the author of six literacy books and former president of the Tennessee Council of Teachers of English. Awards for his teaching have come from NCTE, TCTE, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Tennessee Holocaust Commission.
Title: Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, Grades 6-12: 15 Must-Have Skills Every Student Needs to Achieve (Corwin Literacy)
Author: Burke, Jim,Gilmore, Barry
ISBN: 9781483379807
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Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
Publication Date: 2015-06-04
Number of Pages: 256
Weight: 0.7033 kg
Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness provides clarity and structure for teachers who seek to help their students become more competent and confident thinkers, and does so without compromising the critical role of a teacher's content knowledge and creativity in a dynamic classroom. Its economy of expression makes complex ideas accessible, while annotated student work provides a window into learner application. Most significantly, the book is written in the voice of teachers, who live what they recommend.
-- CAROL ANN TOMLINSON, Jr. Professor and Author of The Differentiated Classroom, Second Edition
Burke and Gilmore present a powerful and practical synthesis of the highest-leverage thinking moves that students-especially linguistically diverse students-need to develop for school, work, and life. They provide what teachers want: clear and concise descriptions of each thinking move, analyses of student work samples, and innovative classroom practices and scaffolds that can be used to develop the moves in a variety of contexts. Fifteen stars!
-- JEFF ZWIERS, Senior Researcher at Stanford University
Jim Burke's books need to be on the 'must-read' list of-at the very least-all English teachers! Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness is a worthy addition to that list with the 'academic and thinking' moves he and his coauthor, Barry Gilmore, describe critical for any of us who want to 'up our game' in the classroom.
-- LARRY FERLAZZO, Teacher, Education Week advice columnist, and author of Helping Students Motivate Themselves
What sets Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness apart are its emphasis on student practice and practical application of exemplary instruction. This book speaks to teachers in their language across curriculum areas. Burke and Gilmore have hit the mark on what our students need for college and career readiness.
-- JAYNE ELLSPERMANN, National Principal of the Year (2014)
