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Self-Driven Learning 1st Edition

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In this lively, research-based book, award-winning educator Larry Ferlazzo tackles everyday classroom challenges with creative instructional techniques to help middle- and high-school teachers develop self-motivated and high-achieving students.

The practical tips, online resources, and mini-lessons in this book encourage students to take charge of their own learning, boosting their success in and outside of the classroom.

Detailed lesson plans in every chapter align with the Common Core English Language Arts Standards and cover a variety of valuable skills, including:

  • Personal responsibility and perseverance
  • Social and emotional learning
  • Standardized test-taking strategies
  • And much more!
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    978-1596672390
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    March 1, 2013
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    8 x 0.51 x 11 inches
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    224 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (March 1, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1596672390
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1596672390
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.51 x 11 inches
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Larry Ferlazzo

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I teach English, Social Studies and International Baccalaureate classes to English Language Learners and English-proficient students at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California.

I've written or edited thirteen books on education: The ELL Teacher's Toolbox (with co-author Katie Hull Sypnieski); Navigating The Common Core With English Language Learners (with co-author Katie Hull Sypnieski); Building A Community Of Self-Motivated Learners: Strategies To Help Students Thrive In School and Beyond; Classroom Management Q&As: Expert Strategies for Teaching; Self-Driven Learning: Teaching Strategies For Student Motivation; The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide (with co-author Katie Hull Sypnieski); Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers To Classroom Challenges; English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies That Work; and Building Parent Engagement In Schools (with co-author Lorie Hammond). Katie Hull and I also edited a series of books on Math, Science and Social Studies that are modeled on our ELL Teacher's Toolbox. A second edition of the ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide was recently published. The Student Motivation Handbook is my newest book.

My other writing includes a popular education blog at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ , a weekly teacher advice column for Education Week Teacher and a series of posts for The New York Times. My articles on education policy regularly appear in the Washington Post. In addition, my articles have appeared in publications such as ASCD Educational Leadership, Social Policy, and Language Magazine.

I've won several awards, including the Leadership For A Changing World Award from the Ford Foundation, and was the Grand Prize Winner of the International Reading Association Award for Technology and Reading.

You can check out three hundred radio show segments I've done on BAM! Education Radio.

I was a community organizer for nineteen years prior to becoming a public school teacher.

In the personal area, I'm married and have three children and four grandchildren.

A basketball team I play for has come in last place every year since 2014, so I should not give up my day job for a career in sports.

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  • Margaret Ennis
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great research based strategies
    Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2013
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    This book outlines very practical lessons that will help develop self motivated learners? after reading this book I have changed my mindset and will work towards changing the mindsets of my students.
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  • BobD
    5.0 out of 5 stars Motivate Your Students
    Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2013
    I have some of the same questions all educators do, including: how to motivate my students, how to help my students feel more positive about school, and how to help my students develop higher-order thinking questions. Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo's latest book, I now have answers to these questions and several others. Although Larry Ferlazzo teaches high school, as an elementary teacher, I can still use (and easily modify) his many ideas and lesson plans. I highly recommend this book. It will make you a more effective teacher because you will be better equipped to deal with the daily challenges of motivating students.
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  • Gene T. McCracken
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Keeper!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2013
    Written in a similar style to his "Helping Students Motivate Themselves", this book is a great combination. It focuses on issues that matter; it is relevant. It is research based and gives you a sense of the underlying theory. It is practical and actionable; it gives you tested materials you can easily adapt to your class.

    It is very readable and too the point. It is written by a practicing teacher for teachers. I can go to his blog and read about the evolution of most of these materials. I can view artifacts his students have created using some of these materials.
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  • Todd Schadler
    2.0 out of 5 stars Nice thoughts, but not applicable.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2014
    I'm not convinced that the lessons in this book can be universally applied. Sure, there are some interesting ideas in here about teaching optimism versus pessimism, different types of text that people read, goal-setting, and the like, but I'm almost positive that this wouldn't fly in an EFL situation outside of America. I'm almost definitely sure it wouldn't fly in a for-profit academy. And I'm not certain, but it's possible that some of these lessons couldn't even be applied on the East Coast of the United States either, say in New York City or Chicago. There are some recommended manufactured scripts for teachers in this book, for example, that sound absolutely awkward coming out of my mouth--almost robotic and superficial. Also, nearly every activity seems to involve some kind of drawing of something, which I'm sure would make my current supervisors absolutely infuriated with me (I teach high school and middle school, by the way). Even with the research that has been done on how students most effectively learn, the truth is that science is inseparable from culture... and this truth becomes blatantly clear within the pages of this book.

    If I ever go back to the United States and find work in San Diego or Sacramento, maybe I'll have some use for this book. However, given my personal teaching circumstances that presently forbid the use of said activities contained in this book, coupled with the money that I spent on this book, I have become a very disappointed buyer. I guess a sucker is born every day.

    Also, be forewarned that Mr. Ferlazzo does a lot of cross-promoting in this book and almost every other sentence makes reference to the crucial activities that can be found in his other books that you need to buy, etc. etc. You get the idea.

    Caveat emptor.
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