Annotated Bibliography

MAT 670 Assignment 4.B

Book choice: Gregory, G. Kaufeldt, M. Mattos, M.  (2016). Best Practices at Tier 1 Daily  Differentiation for Effective Instruction. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.

After reviewing my classmates book, I noticed that I was the only one who chose this book, as a course book choice. There are many books out on the market that cover best practice strategies, but I chose this book for the variety of strategies. There are three authors that contribute to this book, with education backgrounds. There are 7 points that are covered in this book; collaborative core instruction, creating brain friendly environments, finding each student’s learning sweet spot, developing a powerful core curriculum, differentiating instruction, using data to inform instruction and the last is building cognitive rigor, depth & complexity. Each of these topics is thoroughly covered and emphasize on good teaching practices. Each topics offers tools and strategies that teachers can use to help in their teaching and to help students be successful in learning.

I enjoyed reading the information in this book and using it as a course book throughout this class, I would highly recommend reading this book for the useful information that it contains and how it pertains to education and teaching practices.