academic achievement

Presents strategies for teaching boys who struggle in school, covering attitudes about learning, self-confidence, learning skills, and distracting behaviors as a means of self-protection; and provides lesson plans and anecdotes from numerous teachers.

Provides strategies for improving student learning, covering curriculum, planning for instruction, varied assessments, and criterion-based feedback and includes comments from teachers who have successfully used the strategies discussed.

Provides an overview of career opportunities in the twenty-first century in teaching, and discusses education and training.

Expert teacher and trainer Susan Jones offers a reality-based approach to classroom instruction designed to help students in kindergarten through twelfth grade achieve life long success.

Cris Tovani describes how to monitor, assess, and grade students' thinking and performance. Includes lessons from Cris' classroom, assessment templates, and ideas on how to give feedback.

Examines the achievement gap between students of different races and explains the need for candid, courageous conversations about race to help educators understand performance inequality and develop a curriculum that promotes true academic parity.

Offers an assortment of instructional strategies that are designed to help educators address the needs of students from diverse cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Discusses research on the role library programs can play in test scores and provides practical guidance for improving the effectiveness of one's school library for that purpose, explaining what administrators, teachers, and parents should know and expect.

This book explores ten ways kids can be a good student, including developing good study habits, asking for help when you don't understand, and helping other students.