teaching

Offers both new teachers and experienced educators twenty techniques to help them reduce learning problems and increase academic achievement by cultivating a physical classroom environment conducive to learning, develop a proactive classroom management plan, deliver brain-compatible lessons, and deal with chronic behavior problems.

Presents a wide array of career pathways within the field of education, showcasing specific possibilities, such as early childhood education, special education, and technical college instruction.

An instructional guide for Cynthia Rylant's book "Henry and Mudge, the First Book" that provides close reading tasks, text-based vocabulary practice, cross-curricular activities, text-dependent questions, reader response writing prompts, and more.

"Provide teachers, coaches, and administrators with a roadmap that will inspire innovation, authentic learning experiences, and practical ways to empower students to pursue their passions while in school"--Amazon.

"Provides readers with a strong understanding of the types of student inquiry and proposes a framework that best prepares both educators and learners for sharing the unpacking of curriculum in the classroom as they work together towards co-constructing a strong free inquiry unit. [Includes] ... illustrations for in-class use, examples of essential questions from a variety of disciplines, practical goals for making progress in adopting inquiry into your practice, and [more]"--Provided by publisher.

"Kagan Structures create a cooperative and caring class tone by putting students on the same side as they interact in pairs, small teams, and with classmates. Structures ensure every student is individually accountable so no one can hide and take a free ride. Structures create equal participation which means all students are engaged a much greater percent of the time"--Amazon.com.

Life with a 20 letter name can be difficult. Hardly anyone ever says it correctly. It rarely fits into spaces made for other names. Everyone else's names seem so much easier. Will a plan to teach a name work?.

"[This book] is a . . . resource for cultivating resilience in educators that is based on the author's research in emotional resilience, psychology, systems thinking, and change management and on ten years of testing in schools and offices. [This book] outlines a conceptual framework with four parts: who we are, where we are, what we do, and how we are. The book identifies 12 habits and dispositions that can be cultivated in order to build resilience"--Back cover.

"'Happy Teachers Change the World' is the first official, authoritative manual of the Thich Nhat Hanh/Plum Village approach to mindfulness in education. Spanning the whole range of schools and grade levels, from preschool through higher education, these techniques are grounded in the everyday world of schools, colleges, and universities. Beginning firmly with teachers and all those working with students, including administrators, counselors, and other personnel, the Plum Village approach stresses that educators must first establish their own mindfulness practice since everything they do in the classroom will be based on that foundation."--Provided by publisher.

Provides twenty-six different kinds of activities and resources--one for each letter of the alphabet--for teaching grades five through nine about invertebrates, such as science projects, games and puzzles, and a bibliography.