secondary education

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.

[Presents ideas for teachers on how to create] a passionate reading environment ... Pernille opens up about her own trials and errors as a teacher and what she's learned along the way. She also shares a wide variety of practical tools ... [for teachers] including a reader profile sheet, conferring sheet, classroom library letter to parents [and more]"--Provided by publisher.

Outlines effective strategies for high school reform and explains how those strategies can be applied to every aspect of secondary education.

A study guide for physics that covers waves and sound, thermodynamics, light and optics, and more.

"Offers a step-by-step guide for implementing a student-centered literature program that promotes critical thinking and literary understanding through the study of novels and other texts"--Back cover.

"High school counselor Kevin Kuczynski, "Mr. K," has helped students deal with all kinds of issues behind the closed doors of his office. From hardships at home, to struggles with schoolwork; from the consequences of having sex, to the dangers of drug and alcohol use; from the joy of college and career planning, to the anguish of suicide and violence, he has encountered students from all walks of life in any number of situations. Now, he offers you the same insight, direction, and purpose he has shared with countless students"--OCLC.

Reveals the importance of innovation in American global competitiveness, profiling some of today's most compelling young innovators while explaining how they have succeeded through the unconventional methods of parents, teachers, and mentors.

A guide for nurturing higher-order thinking in students through constructivist, experiential teaching methods, with easy-to-follow graphics, sample lessons, and tools from practicing teachers.

Contains more than two hundred reproducible activities teachers can use to increase reading proficiency in students in grades seven through twelve.

Explores the various issues surrounding secondary schools, discussing their history, curriculum, standardization, and commercialization; includes a list of selected print and nonprint resources.