Based on a proven instructional model distilled over years of research, this book focuses on five essential pedagogy standards for guiding teaching practice in classrooms with diverse students, including English learners. Providing key indicators for each standard along with the theoretical rationale and "best practice" strategies, the book offers teachers invaluable guidance for enhancing language, literacy, thinking, and content learning across the curricula. It also provides advice on creating classroom groupings for differentiating lessons and activities and includes extensive examples of practices from real-life classrooms. Following a preface and a section about the author, this book is divided into two parts. Part I, Understanding the Standards, presents: (1) Effective Teaching and Pedagogy; and (2) Evidence: Scientific Support for Five Standards. Part II, Implementing the Standards, concludes with: (3) Teacher and Students Producing Together (Standard I); (4) Developing Language and Literacy (Standard II); (5) Connecting Learning to Students' Worlds (Standard III); (6) Challenging Students' Thinking (Standard IV); (7) Using Instructional Conversation (Standard V); and (8) The Five Standards Integrated: How to Teach Effectively. Appended are: (1) Five Standards of Pedagogy with Classroom Indicators; (2) Timing Instructional Frames; (3) Guidelines for Organizing Classroom Activity Settings; (4) Classroom Graphic; (5) Directed Thinking Activity Cycles; (6) Web Sites; (7) Stock Market Math Activity; (8) Stock Market Instructional Frame; (9) Footprint Puzzle; (10) Activity Settings Worksheet; (11)Scheduling and Routing Form; and (12) Instructional Frame: Student Contract and Choice Model. References, name index, and subject index are also included.