teaching

"The authors illuminate how to raise student achievement by upholding high expectations, while teaching with cultural responsiveness. Discover how to: lead all students to deeper learning, grounded in critical thinking, creative problem solving, communication, collaboration--and the '5th C,' [and] cultural awareness"--Provided by publisher.

Contains one hundred reproducible graphic organizers that are designed to help develop the reading, writing, and content areas skills of fifth- through twelfth-grade students and promote active learning.

Ten prominent African-Americans are represented in this book, including Barack Obama. Each is featured in an eight-page mini-book that contains a follow-up and an at-home activity. Promotes Reading First Initiatives.

Presents a plan to transform the future of teaching and public education that demands more of the profession and the systems that support it.

". . . helps provide the tools, ideas, and inspiration for educators to use technology as a treasure map to . . . learning. With a customizable set of principles for ensuring that technology is an asset, and not a barrier . . ."--Provided by publisher.

"IB Skills is an innovative new series of resources for years 4 and 5 of the MYP. These resources aim to: introduce students to key and related concepts that are relevant within and across the subject areas develop interdisciplinary and disciplinary skills that are essential to the understanding of both concepts and subject content help students to understand key features of the MYP-global contexts, approaches to learning (ATL), inquiry and reflection. These practical, subject-specific guides include a wide variety of topics designed to engage and motivate students. Each chapter in the books is designed to deepen conceptual understanding and to allow students to practice the skills that they will need to reach the highest level of the assessment criteria"--Publisher.

Contains activities designed to teach students about ancient civilizations.

Contains instructional strategies and activities to motivate and develop the mathematics skills of kindergarteners through twelfth-graders, and covers number theory, algebra, geometry, probability, and more.

Examines twelve essential components of productive Interdisciplinary Teaching Teams, demonstrating strategies that improve team performance.