teachers

Offers practical tips where teachers and administrators can work together to provide a positive learning environment for students and includes sample standards-based curriculum units for different content areas and grade levels, discussion questions, and assessment design tools.

Presents over two hundred model letters educators may use or adapt for a variety of purposes, covering the topics of recommendations and references, sympathy and understanding, student behavior, evaluations, community addresses, complaints, media announcements and responses, appreciation and thanks, and other events.

A French professor escapes from a humiliating clerkship in a Yorkshire mill to find work as a teacher in Belgium, where he falls in love with an impoverished student-teacher.

Offers school and district-level administrators practical strategies to help them set priorities and support practices that will help teachers become expert teachers by identifying five conditions that help teachers improve their skills.

Contains twenty-six articles in which men and women from within the teaching profession explore the questions of what attracts good teachers and keeps them in the profession, and what makes schools better places for students to learn and for teachers to work.

Explains how to change a school into a true "community of learners" in which teachers work together to keep themselves constantly learning and, thereby, help students learn; provides guidance, case studies, activities, and group-work tools.

Provides guidance for teachers on eliminating stress, discussing stress symptoms and such topics as clutter, activities, finances, and relationships, focusing on prioritizing and recognizing that simplicity is the key to calm and joy.

Contains a concise guide to skill building for educators and offers developmental strategies on mentoring, journal writing, peer-to-peer coaching, and seminars.

At first, Trisha loves school, but her difficulty learning to read makes her feel dumb, until, in the fifth grade, a new teacher helps her understand and overcome her problem.