New from About Learning!

 

This is the ultimate handbook for designing 4MAT units. The 4MAT Quadrant Handbook is a compilation of strategies, best practices, rubrics, scaling criteria and tricks for all four quadrants.

 

It can be used as a coaching tool and as a refresher workshop for those already practicing and using this instructional design model. It was developed for a special 4-day workshop for Ysleta School District in El Paso, Texas.

 

Order code: 4QHB  Price: $14.95

 

About Learning is pleased to introduce a new CD compilation of its turnkey 4MAT Unit Plan collection for Middle School and High School teachers. This collection includes seventeen complete unit plans, with twelve History units, three English Literature units and one Science unit. These unit plans include everything a teacher needs to deliver these instructional units over a 1-3 week timeframe, including full resource lists, worksheets, and step-by-step guidance in how to orchestrate these in the classroom.

 

Unit plans include: Night by Eli Wiesel, The Cold War, Defining Life, World War II, Absolute Monarchs, Eastern Religions,  

 

Order code: LBCD   Price: $15.95

 

Order code: 4TPB   Price: $21.00

 

 

A Note from the Author:

“I created this plan book after being 4MAT trained and as I began to implement this process in my classroom. The 4MAT Method was working great but my materials were all over the place.  I needed a tool for organizing my daily lessons in a way that meshed well with the 4MAT Instructional Cycle. I found myself drawing small wheels on my plan book and stuffing handouts and lesson plans into an already bulging spiral binder.  So, I decided to create a 4MAT Plan Book to help organize my work.”

 

This plan book is the ideal replacement for multi subject lesson plan books that many teachers use.  With it,  teachers can create and track daily lessons and 4MAT units, helping teachers to help monitor how well lessons are addressing the key elements of instruction.

 

The 4MAT Lesson Planner includes a weekly planner with the 4MAT cycle displayed  on the corner of each class period. The teacher can mark where the lesson falls on the wheel for that day. For instance on Monday, a teacher may teach the CONNECT (1R) ATTEND, (1L) and IMAGE (2R)  steps of lesson then work on the INFORM (2L) section on Tuesday through Thursday. The 4MAT Planner lets teachers know exactly where they are on the cycle on every day of the week.

 

The 4MAT Planner also includes a number of other resources for helping teachers master the art of instruction, including:

• Laminated 4MAT Wheels
• Extensive Tutorials and Guidance in 4MAT Unit Development
• Suggested Activites for Helping Reach Out to More Students

 

The "How to create a lesson" section includes sample ENGAGE activities to  help teachers better understand how to create a 4MAT unit.

 

This resource is not only good for teachers, but administrators  as well.

 

Administrators are always seeking to get more time in the classroom to help provide suggestions for teachers on how to improve instructiom. The 4MAT Planner helps teachers understand where teachers are in the insrtructional process and improves their abilty to do effective classroom observations.  Teachers and administrators will instantly know on what part of the cycle the teacher is working on any given day.

 

I sincerely hope you and your colleagues find this instrument as useful as I have. It has made my life a lot easier, and I hope it will help you too!

 

Sincerely,

Tiffany Lynanne Insalaco

About Learning offers a booklet of twenty new 4MAT units for teaching Children's Literature. These units cover a variety of childhood themes, including coping, memory, understanding differences, belonging, courage and identity. These themes were drawn from twenty award-winning books on which these unit plans are based. All twenty units were authored by Bernice McCarthy, developer of the 4MAT Method of Instruction.

 

The Children's Literature Series may be purchased as a complete bundle of 20 units or individually below.

 

Order code for Complete Children's Literature Bundle: KLCB  Price: $72.00

The Visual Explorer: Educator's Edition is a collection of over 300 high-quality images that help teachers connect learning to students in new and innovative ways. The Visual Explorer is the ideal tool for helping teachers of all levels increase the quality of instruction with visual images and metaphors. All images were carefully chosen to deal with a wide range of topics and to support prominent concepts in education. The images are categorized into a number of groups, including: Courage, Communication, Celebration, Diversity, Earth and Sky, Patterns, Relationships, Signs and Symbols, Solitude, Symmetry and Technology. These concepts were drawn from curriculum standards in Art, Literature, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies.

 

To support teaching of these key concepts, images are grouped into fifteen different sets. Each set includes between twelve to eighteen images along with 10 suggested classroom activities. These activities are appropriate for students of all ages and support a variety of classroom activities including: high level discussions, research tasks, independent project work and more! Set includes images and Teacher's Reference Guide.

 

8.5"x11" size Order code: VISEXP   Price: $395.00

 

 

NEW SIZE! Due to requests from the field, we are pleased to offer a smaller size version of 

The Visual Explorer: Educator's Edition. The new images are 5.5"x4.25" making them more portable and easier to work with at training tables. The quantity and quality of the images remain the same and the very useful Teacher's Reference Guide is included. If this smaller set would fit your needs and your budget, please order this version.

 

5.5"x4.25" size Order code: VISEXP-SM   Price: $265.00

 

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Experience the latest advancements in 4MAT lesson planning with 4MAT in Action. Brilliant, ready-made 4MAT lessons at your disposal. In one, easy-to-use volume. 4MAT in Action contains sixty-seven exemplary 4MAT units from all subjects and grade levels; including Primary, Intermediate, Middle School, High School, Community College and Post-Secondary. An invaluable resource for any 4MAT practitioner. Specific unit plan examples include: A Man for All Seasons, Action Verbs, Adaptation, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Descriptive Language, Elasticity in Economics, Gender Stereotypes, Graphing Functions, Maximum/Minimum Value.

 

Order code: ACT/CD   Price: $10.50