teaching

A collection of true stories about forty-two teachers who go beyond the call of duty to make a difference in the lives of their students.

Presents over ninety strategies for classroom organization and management, time management, interacting with students, curriculum, lesson plans, assessment and feedback, special needs students, technology, and other teaching areas.

Describes twenty strategies teachers may use to engage students' brains in the learning process, based on the findings of learning style theorists and neuroscientists, including the use of humor and stories, the incorporation of games in lessons, singing and dancing, and others.

Guide for teachers and librarians to using graphic inquiry across the curriculum, presenting standards-based activities and projects that incorporate traditional materials with emerging technologies.

Teaching is more than a job--it's a responsibility, one of the greatest responsibilities in civilized society. Teachers lay bare the mysteries of the world; train minds to explore, question, investigate, and discover; and ensure that knowledge is not lost or forgotten but passed on to future generations. Teachers shape lives in limitless ways, both inside and outside of the classroom. But teaching is no easy task. It's an art form that requires craft, sensitivity, creativity, and intelligence. Whether the classroom consists of 3 students or 300, it's important to be as effective and successful a teacher as possible, both for the students and for professional and personal growth. This course is designed to help develop and enhance teaching style; provide methods, tools, and advice for handling all manner of teaching scenarios; and help viewers achieve new levels of success as teachers.

A guide for professional learning communities to creating a data team to evaluate student performance, and instructional strategies.

Contains reproducible pages and instructional strategies for more than forty differentiated activities designed to promote the math skills of students in second and third grade.

Provides instructions and reproducible pages for fifteen games designed to help students in fourth through sixth grade master word lists and expand their vocabulary.

Contains step-by-step lessons and sample student-teacher dialogues teachers may use to help students in kindergarten through second grade develop real-life writing skills, and includes practice activities for each writing form, reproducible templates, ideas for differentiated instruction, and suggested book lists.