high school teachers

Award-winning high school teachers discuss their best classroom practices and share techniques for classroom management and co-teaching, differentiated instruction, using technology, and teaching math, science, language arts, social studies, music, art, and physical education.

Provides advice for first-time high school teachers, covering such aspects as physical environment, mutual trust with students, classroom management, lesson plans, assessment, technology, parent communication, and being a professional.

Shares the teaching strategies of some of the country's best high school educators, providing real-life examples and tactics for teaching reading and writing, math, science and technology, social studies and geography, and visual arts and physical education, and including tips on incorporating technology throughout the curriculum, and handling special needs.

A biography of influential drama director Lou Volpe, chronicling his last school years working at Harry S. Truman High School in Levittown, Pennsylvania, and following a group of student actors as they work through dramas both on and off the stage.

New Jersey high school teacher Mr. McAllister faces a personal and professional crisis when he decides to fix the student body election, while at the same time dealing with an unexpected attraction to his wife's best friend.

A young high school teacher relates the frustrations and challenges of teaching through fictitious memos, letters, papers, and student comments.

Guthrie, a high school teacher left alone to raise his two young sons, becomes involved in the lives of Victoria, a homeless, pregnant teenager, and two elderly bachelors.

The author presents a discussion of school reform movements that have been pushing for better schools and curriculum, smaller class sizes, and a stronger emphasis on the education of students.

Jaime Escalante, an immigrant from Bolivia, became a high school teacher to inner school Hispanic students with extraordinary results.