Bøger af Peg Grafwallner

"All learning is based on the building of foundational literacy skills. But students often lack these necessary, transferable proficiencies. As a result, educators must each implement foundational skill building, no matter their content area or grade level. In Removing Educational Barriers: How to Apply Explicit Interventions for All Students in All Grades, certified English teacher and reading specialist Peg Grafwallner covers six foundational skills that students require in order to succeed. These skills are (1) locate and identify the main idea and supporting details and write a summary; (2) interpret and apply academic vocabulary; (3) identify and apply inference; (4) identify and understand cause-effect relationships; (5) identify and understand relationships using compare-contrast; and (6) delineate and evaluate arguments. Using the response to intervention (RTI) process and this book's skill-building tools, educators can effectively teach the foundational skills and support developing students as they learn to read, write, and think critically"--

"In Not Yet . . . And That's OK: How Productive Struggle Fosters Student Learning, author Peg Grafwallner turns failure on its head by supporting educators to design classrooms that encourage setbacks and obstacles in the learning process. Although students traditionally fear failure, the not-yet approach explains how grades 3-12 teachers can make struggle productive by providing a classroom culture and targeted scaffolds to better support students in overcoming academic fear and embracing trial-and-error opportunities. Full of research-based strategies and firsthand teacher accounts, this book explains how to design supportive, student-centered classrooms"--

Lessons Learned from the Special Education Classroom offers practical techniques and research-based suggestions where all students, regardless of their abilities, are actively engaged in a vigorous, scaffolded, differentiated classroom taught by a compassionate, equitable teacher.