Blueprint for Student Success: A Guide to Research-Based Teaching Practices K-12

Enhance students′ higher-level thinking skills, engage their brains, and build their self-esteem and achievement!

Expert teacher and trainer Susan J. Jones presents a no-nonsense, reality-based approach to classroom instruction that will help learners at all levels achieve lifelong success. Her expert knowledge covers a generous collection of teaching strategies, activities, and applications that add up to a blueprint for sound instructional delivery and student success.

Innovative topics Jones discusses include:

• Laying the groundwork for learning and organizing experiences for understanding
• Illustrating the framework for secure change in the classroom and identifying the big picture for learning
• Demonstrating how to engage the brain′s capacity for making connections in order to enhance the learning process
• Transferring learning to real life and facilitating the recall process
• Feedback, assessment, evaluation, and determining mastery learning

Blueprint for Student Success is a dynamic book that stresses the importance of learning through discovery, creativity, application, adaptation, and high-level thinking. Jones reiterates the need for a positive atmosphere, rituals, and procedures, enabling educators in turn to strengthen students′ knowledge and achievement, resulting in lifelong success.