teaching

Presents fifty classroom activities for grades four through eight that link math with U.S. history; covers such topics and concepts as the voyage of Columbus, the Constitution, the Statue of Liberty, fractions, graphing, and the Rule of Three.

A step-by-step guide to motivating reluctant learners, offering advice to educators on how to motivate students to invest in the classroom, create a classroom worth investing in, address the internal reasons why students resist investment, ask students to commit to the investment, and launch the new approach.

A guide to teaching students to use punctuation correctly and effectively through a program of extensive reading and writing.

Provides guidance for building collaborations between library media specialists and teachers in teaching and curriculum planning, and includes models of inquiry-based learning projects for elementary, middle, and high school.

A collection of more than twenty inspirational essays, poems, and stories for teachers.

Draws on fifteen years of research and more than eight hundred meta-analyses to examine the factors that influence achievement in school-aged students.

The popular television star recounts the year he spent teaching at Philadelphia's largest high school, the challenges he encountered in keeping students engaged, and his memories of posing disciplinary challenges to his own instructors as a teenager.

Essays that challenge accepted viewpoints on major issues in education.