teaching

"This book offers simple, ready-to-use, and evidence-proven mindfulness techniques to help educators manage the stresses of the classroom, cultivate an exceptional learning environment, and revitalize both their teaching and their student's knowledge acquisition"--Back cover.

A guide to using portfolios in the classroom, providing a framework educators may use to help them make decisions about the various issues they face when using portfolios in an educational setting. Includes activities and worksheets.

A practical guide that encourages students to critically research, analyze, and comprehend the material that they read and use that information in a variety of ways without copying.

Learning That Lasts presents a new vision for classroom instruction that sharpens and deepens the quality of lessons in all subject areas. It is the opposite of a 'teacher-proof' solution. Instead, it is predicated on a model of instruction that honors teachers as creative and expert planners of learning experiences for their students and who wish to continuously grow in their instructional and content knowledge. It is not a theoretical vision. It is a model of instruction refined in some of the nation's most successful public schools?schools that are beating the odds to create remarkable achievement?sited primarily in urban and rural low-income communities. Using case studies and examples of powerful learning at all grade levels and in all disciplines, Learning That Lasts is a guide to creating classrooms that promote deeper understanding, higher order thinking, and student independence. Through text and companion videos, readers will enter inspiring classrooms where students go beyond basics to become innovators, collaborators, and creators. Learning That Lasts embraces a three-dimensional view of student achievement that includes mastery of knowledge and skills, character, and high-quality work. It is a guide for teachers who wish to make learning more meaningful, memorable, and connected to life, and inspire students to do more than they think possible. Includes a DVD.

In Kids Deserve It!, Todd and Adam encourage you to think big and make learning fun and meaningful for students. While you're at it, you just might rediscover why you became an educator in the first place. Learn why you should be calling parents to praise your students (and employees). Discover ways to promote family interaction and improve relationships for kids at school and at home. Be inspired to take risks, shake up the status quo, and be a champion for your students. Offers strategies for making learning fun and meaningful through promotion of family interaction, taking risks, being a champion for students, and more.

"Teaching and learning cannot happen without questions. Inquiry is the offspring of curiosity and creativity. Questions are incredibly powerful tools that open the world up. In the age of Google, the way we teach needs to change and students need to be reconnected with their early childhood curiosity. Let's put that control back into kids' hands by teaching them to question better. The Power of Questioning will help you to make students partners in their own learning."--Provided by publisher.

Offers teachers three hundred strategies, supporting thirteen crucial goals, for meeting the individual instructional needs of every reader.

Presents a collection of reproducible activity pages for the kindergarten and first-grade classroom to help children learn to follow directions.

"Encourages readers to shift from traditional principles of teaching to the modern pillars of curation, design, and feedback to fully engage students in their learning ... Helps educators empower and engage all digital learners."--Provided by publisher.