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In a no-holds-barred, candid delivery, Straight Talk to Teachers: Twenty Insane Ideas for a Better Classroom drives directly to the core of what makes an extraordinary teacher, and presents an honest appraisal of why some teachers fail. Bruce J...

The No Child Left Behind legislation, by legitimizing a stark, one-size-fits-all, industrial model of education, has denied the inherent complexity and richness of what teachers do. Discussing teaching in terms of Chaos Theory, Chapin explains that while...

While all teenage behavior and character traits can be challenging, the issues facing the at-risk teenager are particularly thorny and deserve special attention. Anger, aggression, and a total lack of good decision-making happen on a minute-to-minute...

Untenured, Uncensored is a tell-all guide to the euphoric highs and unimaginable lows of teaching. Mahoney and Purr present the naked truth of their own blunder-laden first few years in order to help new teachers, those who think they might want to...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620320143Author Ken BadleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615001491Author Tony SandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dragoneye BooksPublisher Dragoneye BooksWeight(grams) 245g

Creating the Joyful Writer: Introducing the Holistic Approach in the Classroom is aimed at educators who want to go beyond traditional approaches but don't know how. Schiller emphasizes physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and environmental elements...

Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It: Practice Makes Permanent points out a single, fundamental, and easily-corrected flaw that has held back American education for nearly a century-the design of instruction to achieve familiarization instead of...

A Creative Approach to the Common Core Standards: The Da Vinci Curriculum challenges educators to design programs that boldly embrace the Common Core State Standards by imaginatively drawing from the genius of great men and women such as Leonardo da...

School-based Mental Health: A Framework for Intervention provides essential steps for integrating community-based personnel and programs into school systems for the provision of mental health services. Based on the current school mental health research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsI found Exemplary Classroom Questioning quite compelling as I have been visiting classrooms of late where the issues of questioning students, structuring questioning ,...

Read Creative Teaching for All as an antidote to rapidly growing pressures for quick and easy teacher results, and constant evaluations. Employ creative ideas to resist teaching to the (usually factual) test, and to the many choking rules, standards,...

In Forces of Influence, Fred Ende and Meghan Everette contend that schoolwide success starts with relationships-not only between students and adults, but also among all adults up and down the education hierarchy. It's by leveraging these relationships...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615001477Author Tony SandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Dragoneye BooksPublisher Dragoneye BooksWeight(grams) 218g

Successful Teaching: Practical Ideas to Make It Happen is written for all pre- and in-service 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497800502Author Maria MontessoriFormat HardbackPage Count 386Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 685g

Thinking in English represents Dr. Muciaccia's unique method of teaching English to non-native English speakers. Unlike any other English as a Second Language (ESL) book, Muciaccia's book features the "cultural immersion" approach that he has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634459839Author David MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Chalkboard PublishingPublisher Chalkboard PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634459822Author David MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Chalkboard PublishingPublisher Chalkboard PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Making a Difference in the Classroom: The Reality and Truth of Teaching in Schools Today makes the case that our schools will continue to struggle until we take an honest approach to what we know works in the classroom. This book is a frank discussion...

Making a Difference in the Classroom: The Reality and Truth of Teaching in Schools Today makes the case that our schools will continue to struggle until we take an honest approach to what we know works in the classroom. This book is a frank discussion...

A Practical Guide to Teaching and Learning contains a compilation of fifteen main ideas or concepts that will help teachers to become better at what they do to help learners reach their potential. Each concept is a common sense approach that is backed by...

While all teenage behavior and character traits can be challenging, the issues facing the at-risk teenager are particularly thorny and deserve special attention. Anger, aggression, and a total lack of good decision-making happen on a minute-to-minute...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421891392Author Jeff McMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint 1st World PublishingPublisher 1st World PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504360616Author Michael M HoferFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa PressWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498184755Author John M GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 213g

Invested Stayers: How Teachers Thrive in Challenging Times features chapters co-authored by PK-12 teachers and postsecondary teacher educators from across the U.S. that reflect how they persist, remain, and thrive in the teaching profession. Premised on...

This book serves as a practical guide, for teachers of middle-school students as well as higher grade levels, that provides clear and fully-developed lesson plans and activities that use the teaching of poetry reading and writing as a vehicle for...

Wiki Works in the History and Humanities Classroom shows how teachers and students-working together as learning partners-can use interactive wiki technologies to transform the teaching of history and humanities topics through web-based research and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512718591Author Ellen J WindhamFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint WestBow PressPublisher WestBow PressWeight(grams) 494g

Would you rather people saw you as open or closed minded? The answer should be obvious. Why is it then that we tend to allow our legacy systems in education to be closed, when they clearly don't enable the same level of performance as open ones. This...

It has been well established that schools and families must work together to ensure academic and literacy success for all children. Educators understand the importance of creating a learning connection between families and schools. Families provide...

Learning to Teach: Curricular and Pedagogical Considerations for Teacher Preparation introduces the reader to a collection of thoughtful research-based works by the authors. The chapters reflect the personal and professional experiences, based on...

Many authors have researched the connection between humor and education but as E .B. White said: "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. However, Dr. Peter Jonas takes a broad and practical...

Storytelling is the easiest way to become a more effective teacher. Tying a concept to a memorable story is the best method of ensuring that your students will never forget the importance and relevance of the concept. But this book isn't just for...

Educators are natural pioneers; they have always been the transmitters and transformers of history. Courageous educators have changed the very course of our culture by taking risks and challenging prevailing systems. Somewhere along the way, however,...

Captivating Classrooms explores the specific role that student engagement plays in education, it argues that there are myriad factors that undergird meaningful student learning and participation-such as motivation, exciting teaching strategies,...

Teachers who read A Dozen Things will be engaged with the personal stories of teaching, while also gaining strategies for success in their classrooms. A quick glance at the table of contents provides insight into the issues teachers face and how to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781475853674Author Michael FlanaganFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield...