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Little has been written about the problems student-athletes encounter in attempting to balance their sports with the grueling demand for academic success in classrooms. As a resource guide for professionals, Champions in the Classroom offers a model and...

Exemplary schools have at their core outstanding principals and teachers. This book enables school leaders to enhance teacher performance to move from problematic to good or better yet, from good to great. Serving as a reference tool, the authors...

Why Tutoring?: A Way to Achieve Success in School offers educators, school administrators, policymakers, parents, caregivers, and community members a practical and research-driven perspective on tutoring that links theories, research, and practice. The...

Creating Positive Classroom Climate: 30 Practical Teaching Strategies for All School Contexts is designed for all K-12 educators, pre-service teachers, and teacher preparation faculty. We wrote this book to provide readers with accessible tools that can...

This is an educational psychology book that focuses on human development, the human being, teaching, and learning. It is appropriate for preservice teachers who are seeking to comprehend essential theories and concepts in educational psychology. It is...

The Classroom Go-To Guide for the Common Core is the first in a series of comprehensive tools to tap into the vast flow of recently published books for children and teens, offering recommendations of exemplary titles for use in the classroom. Currency...

Tell Me about the Presidents is for young people in the elementary grades. The author includes an interesting story about each president. The material is usually not in textbooks or taught in classes. At the conclusion of each story are three questions...

Transformation of public education requires the reawakening of the sleeping giant in the room: the learners. Students, teachers, and principals develop a system of personalized mastery that challenges the current system. Re-Awakening the Learner, Second...

The Conscience of a Teacher encourages readers to think deeply about what actions are right for teachers to take in their work with students. Babbage asks teachers to concentrate on doing what is right and on being conscientious. Conscience, ethics,...

Expertise in every classroom should be the norm, not the exception. We have all had that magical teacher, who we remember years later. We remember how this teacher made us believe we could do anything. The mythical experts exist and have much to teach us...

iPads are powerful tools for engaging students, encouraging creativity, stimulating critical thinking, and making significant strides in learning. This book is part of a two-book set that allows educators to realize the full potential of the iPad. Over...

Transparent Teaching of Adolescents is a philosophy, method, and timely application of strategies that span the school year. A collaborative effort from all over the globe, the dialogue between this teacher and her former students presents both the...

Look no further if you are new to a teaching career in higher education regardless whether you are doing it full or part time. Your passion to share your wealth of knowledge and skills is a good beginning. However, you need to know the higher education...

Play, academics, and standards can work together with the right strategies and support from educators. Take an active role in child-directed play to guide learning. Become a strong advocate for saving play in early childhood education by learning how it...

Introduction to Teaching: Helping Students Learn provides students and instructors with the tools with which they can achieve the many goals of today's Introduction to Education course or its equivalent. The book introduces prospective teachers to the...

This book is the peer teacher everyone wishes they had been assigned when they entered the profession and the refresher veteran teachers might be searching for later in their career. But, teachers are busy. Really busy. Exhaustingly busy- we don't want...

With education reform in the forefront of societal issues, virtually everyone is seeking methods to augment students' academic performance. Yet, real reform begins in individual classrooms, where the difference between the ordinary teacher and the...

From the first-year teacher to the most experienced veteran, this book will provide an inspiring message that yes, indeed...teaching is the most noble profession. It serves as an acknowledgement of the importance of teachers and recognizes that 'teaching...

The literature on preparing and sustaining quality teachers has suggested that to be successful, teacher preparation and development require a mutual collaboration and a synergy of effort among partners, most typically a school district and a university...

Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Communication contains research, strategies, and lesson plans that will help increase students' skill level in the 3 Cs: creativity, critical thinking, and communication. The strategies of the 3 Cs renew stale curricula...

Why do some students thumb their nose at a good education, disrupt everyone's day at every turn, and pretty much subject themselves to a lifetime of compromise and want? This unique book is based on a decade of hands on experience and research dealing...

The Challenge of Greatness: The Legacy of Great Teachers reveals the characteristics and teaching strategies of Great Teachers. Simultaneously the book describes a Pantheon of thirty-two great teachers, and challenges the reader to continue their legacy...

Sloan explores the varied contours of the educational accountability movement that has swept the United States. He describes the historical origins and underlying assumptions of present day accountability measures, current issues surrounding...

Teachers Learn While Students Teach: Inspiring Hearts And Minds is designed to be a practical guide for student teachers, new teachers, veteran teachers, and retired teachers in order to use their exceedingly important gifts to help junior high through...

Would you like to encourage greater academic passion in your students, interact with them more influentially, and be extraordinarily effective in inspiring them on a daily basis? Then this is the book for you! This book is a collection of unconventional...

This book is primarily for teachers of student learners with special needs, different abilities or who require a methodology for retention of curriculum and are at any grade, age level. A preference for the teaching of thinking and memory acquisition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781516967339Author Rhea FarbmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

This book is a collection of essays that reflect the desire and determination guiding many practitioners and researchers as they work together in more meaningful and relevant ways for literacy. The essays are organized as three series of dialogues in...

Mastery Teaching Skills is a professional development book that will help teachers and principals implement the Common Core State Standards. This book reviews the main features of the Common Core as well as providing implementation examples. Marie...

The Hidden Principalship is a straightforward, practical handbook for principals in the job or for professors to use as a guide for principal instructional programming. Becoming a principal is similar to purchasing a house. It is an investment. A HUGE...

Successful Teaching: Practical Ideas to Make It Happen is written for all pre and inservice teachers, whether they are the 20 year veteran who needs a renewed sense of purpose, new to the profession, or planning to become a teacher. It will also serve as...

Education works better when teachers can concentrate on teaching and on students instead of concentrating on meticulous implementation of ever-changing political reforms of education or on laborious implementation of increasingly bureaucratic, mechanical...

Mastery Teaching Skills is a professional development book that will help teachers and principals implement the Common Core State Standards. This book reviews the main features of the Common Core as well as providing implementation examples. Marie...

Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Research systematically outlines specific strategies to guide the student in designing and conducting empirical research. As with any undertaking that is based on skill development, the more you use the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814102732Author Charlene Klassen EndrizziFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780325160757Author Shamari ReidFormat PaperbackImprint Heinemann Educational BooksPublisher Heinemann Educational BooksWeight(grams) 231g

Teach social-emotional competence - the foundation of school and social success - with the NEW editions of the Strong Kids (TM) - Grades 6 - 8 curriculum! Strong Kids is the fun and easy way to help your students develop the social-emotional skills they...

Science learning has not always kept pace with demands for improvement in reading and math test scores, but adaptable thinking and learning in science are essential competencies for learners who will need to keep up with accelerating demands in high...

Crash Politics and Antiracism argues that race and racism continue to script the social fabric in Euro-North America. While dominant discourses claim that we have made significant progress away from racial bigotry, there is no shortage of evidence that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820470511Author John Sylvester LoftyFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 370g