elementary education

Presents advice for planning and engaging students in interdisciplinary STEM lessons in multiple content areas, including English and language arts, focusing on engaging students in the "4Cs" of communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity, as well as requiring students to take risks to solve problems.

Contains 404 movement activities aimed at helping students aged three through nine release energy and promoting a positive learning environment.

Offers strategies, advice, and encouragement to first year middle school teachers, discussing classroom procedures and routines, the classroom environment, the first day of school, planning and lesson design, how to motivate students, assessment, and how to connect with parents.

Presents activities for teaching positive life habits and building community in the classroom, featuring over a dozen activities for each of the eight multiple intelligences, including verbal/linguistic, mathematical/logical, visual/spatial, musical/rhythmical, bodily/kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and naturalist.

Presents teaching strategies, reproducible worksheets, and activities designed to help students ages nine through sixteen master the basic math skills they might be struggling with. Includes a CD-ROM with additional games, activities, and resources.

Provides strategies for effective reading instruction in the content areas, discussing the reading process, teaching strategic reading, using background knowledge, making connections, asking questions, visualizing texts, and enhancing and extending comprehension.

The author describes his experiences and processes designing curriculum for the elementary classroom, based on his thirteen years at a Waldorf school in Massachusetts where the same teacher follows a group of children from kindergarten through eighth grade.

Provides an assessment system for districts, schools, and classrooms that uses continuous assessment, timely feedback, and clear goals to follow the progression of learning and includes learning progressions, on-demand writing prompts, student checklists and writing samples, rubrics, and exemplar pieces of writing.

Provides an introduction to narrative therapy practices and perspectives to educators as a method for establishing a school culture that discourages bullying and disrespect by teaching students compassion, responsibility, and how to work together.

A guide to teaching phonics and word study in grades three through eight that provides lessons, games, activities, assessments, strategies, and word lists.