teaching

The teacher is a person in my neighborhood. Did you know that most teachers work more than 10 hours each day? Learn more about teachers in The Teacher.

Did you know that more than 50 million children attend public schools in the United States? A teacher helps children explore new things. Learn more about teachers in this title.

Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl whom Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other African-Americans and lived a full life until age ninety-four.

How do you teach the cognitive and personal skills students need for success in school and the world beyond? Anchored in standards shared by a range of national literacy documents, these lessons focus on the core academic skills- reading, writing, speaking and listening, taking notes, taking tests, and managing oneself - required to succeed on class, on state tests and college entrance exams, and in future endeavors.

Presents a guide for teachers that discusses research-supported strategies for improving students' productivity, capacity to learn, and engagement with material, including graphic organizers, use of music to assist recall, note-taking techniques, review activities, and more.

Offers concise overviews of the relevant learning moality, tools, and strategies used in middle grades education today.

Presents a classroom management guide for middle and high school teachers, describing over sixty-five strategies for room organization, lesson planning, creating a positive classroom atmosphere, working with non-English speaking students, taking attendance, dealing with challenges, and addressing other issues.

Presents instructions, acetate overlays, and punch-out letters for twelve whole-class reading games played with the use of an overhead projector, covering letter-sound recognition, phonemic awareness, sight words, comprehension, vocabulary, and other subjects.

Provides mini-lessons and strategies aimed at teaching students in first through third grade to elaborate while writing.

An instructional guide for "The Watsons Go to Birmingham-- 1963" by Christopher Paul Curtis that provides close reading tasks, text-based vocabulary practice, cross-curricular activities, text-dependent questions, reader response writing prompts, and more.