communication in education

Offers tips and strategies to help teachers and administrators deal with workplace conflicts and confrontations, including how to develop skills and confidence in handling conflict and how to avoid becoming either a victim or a villain.

Shows how to teach children to summarize information and provides fifty techniques for using summarization as a teaching tool in any school subject.

A guide for kindergarten through eighth grade teachers on how to help students comprehend what they read and hear.

Examines the value of classroom dialogue in teaching young students and provides strategies, also discussing assessment of student language growth.

Offers educators advice on how to deal with volatile or confrontational parents, with information on parental aggression and confrontation and an overview of various approaches in academic settings.

Demonstrates how to use feedback as a learning strategy in the classroom, and provides examples of how to incorporate feedback into daily lessons to motivate students, set goals, and track progress.

Offers guidance to educators on conferring with readers and provides instructions and prompts for teachers to set up and conduct conferences with first- through eight-grade students in order to create more independent readers.