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1. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
   In this Strategy Guide, you'll learn about a number of specific methods that can help you to gain a fuller picture of the interests of your students as well as what your students understand, know, and can demonstrate by doing.
2. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
   This strategy guide introduces Carousel Brainstorming, also known as Rotating Review, and offers suggestions to implement this technique in your classroom for brainstorming about new topics or reviewing learned information.
3. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Conducting Inner-Outer Circle Discussions
   This guide shares the steps to take to get more students talking by dividing the group into speaking and non-speaking circles.
4. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Facilitating Participation with Silent Conversations
   This guide introduces silent conversations, a collaborative learning technique that has students
   thinking, sharing, and reflecting about important questions—but through writing rather than talk.
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Promoting Student Self-Assessment
   In this Strategy Guide, you'll learn about a number of specific methods that will promote self-assessment and contribute to a richer understanding of student learning.
6. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Socratic Seminars
   This strategy guide explains Socratic seminars and offers practical methods for applying the approach in your classroom to help students investigate multiple perspectives in a text.
7. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
   Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
8. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   The Art of the Doodle: Writing with Imagination
   Use independent, imaginative artwork and varied writing prompts to assess understanding of a given topic for a student body with differentiated needs.
9. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Strategy Guide
   Using Partner Talk to Strengthen Student Collaboration and Understanding
   In this strategy guide, you'll learn about Partner Talk—a way to provide students with another learning opportunity to make learning their own through collaboration and discussion.
10. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Strategy Guide
    Using the Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Technique
    In this strategy guide, you will learn how to organize students and texts to allow for learning that meets the diverse needs of students but keeps student groups flexible.

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