Methods category: 10193 books
Creating Cultures of Thinking
The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Discover why and how schools must become places where thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted
As educators, parents, and citizens, we must settle for nothing less than environments that bring out the best in people, take learning to the next level, allow for great discoveries, and...
by Max Frasier, Doug Hearrington
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
The technology coordinator can be seen as the orchestrator in the school or district, able to balance technology policies and procedures with device-specific requirements, locate funding and support, and facilitate ongoing training and support. In a time when technology is constantly changing, the...
Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls -- Secondary Level
A Workbook for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
In his best-selling classic Boys and Girls Learn Differently, Michael Gurian explained the origin and nature of gender differences in the classroom. His important book explored the behavior teachers observed and the challenges they faced with both boys and girls in their classrooms. Taking the next...
Creating the Anywhere, Anytime Classroom
A Blueprint for Learning Online in Grades K--12
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
As technology continues to shift the educational landscape, most K–12 teachers’ instructional strategies remain mostly unchanged. Discover how to enhance student learning in online and blended classrooms. This user-friendly resource offers direct guidance on the steps K–12 educators must take...
Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards
A Critical Inquiry Approach for 6-12 Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive, this text directly supports pre-service and in-service teachers in developing curriculum and instruction that both addresses and exceeds the requirements of the Common Core State Standards. Adopting a critical inquiry approach, it demonstrates how the Standards’...
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
An Easy-to-Use Guide with Clear Rules, Real-World Examples, and Reproducible Quizzes
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
A revised and updated new edition of the bestselling workbook and grammar guide
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is a concise, entertaining workbook and guide to English grammar, punctuation, and usage. This user-friendly resource includes simple explanations of grammar, punctuation,...
by Katya Seberson
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2016
Think of this book as a guide to memory. The author will walk you through the process of memorization and explain how you can improve it. Learning is easy and remembering is hard. This short and concise book will help you change your view on memory and increase your ability to remember facts, names, formulas and concepts.
Mathematics Minus Fear
How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Forget your classroom nightmares and discover how numbers can enhance and illuminate your world!
How can math help you bet on horses or win in Vegas? What’s the foolproof way to solve Sudoku? How can probability teach you to calculate your chances of survival in Russian roulette?
In...
by William Strunk, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
'The Elements of Style' (1918), by William Strunk, Jr., is an American English writing style guide. It is the best-known, most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading and usage in U.S. high school and university composition classes. This edition...
by Dylan Wiliam
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Formative assessment plays an important role in increasing teacher quality and student learning when it’s viewed as a process rather than a tool. Emphasizing the instructional side of formative assessment, this book explores in depth the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success...
Teacher Effectiveness Training
The Program Proven to Help Teachers Bring Out the Best in Students of All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
For nearly thirty years, Teacher Effectiveness Training, or the T.E.T. book, based on Dr. Thomas Gordon’s groundbreaking program, has taught hundreds of thousands of teachers around the world the skills they need to deal with the inevitable student discipline problems effectively and humanely.
Now...
by André Klein
Language: German
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Newly arrived in Berlin, a young man from Sicily is thrown headlong into an unfamilar urban lifestyle of unkempt bachelor pads, evanescent romances and cosmopolitan encounters of the strangest kind. How does he manage the new language? Will he find work?
Experience daily life in the German...
by Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Designed for educators by the teacher who nurtured and created the Freedom Writers, this standards-based teachers’ guide includes innovative teaching techniques that will engage, empower, and enlighten.
In response to thousands of letters and e-mails from teachers across the country who learned...
21st Century Skills
Learning for Life in Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
The new building blocks for learning in a complex world
This important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. 21st Century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing,...