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by Bob Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2004
It's Your First Year Teaching, But You Don't Have to Act Like It is for anyone who is either studying to be a teacher or who has recently entered the teaching profession. This book includes sections on: How to find a job, How to prepare for the job, What to do and say on your first day, How to handle...
Online Learning
A User-Friendly Approach for High School and College Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
In every online class, some students are wildly successful, some earn average or slightly below-average grades, some barely pass, some fail, and some drop out. Whatever a student's age, situation, or lifestyle, everything needed for successfully completing an online class is right here in this book....
Straight Talk to Teachers
Twenty Insane Ideas for a Better Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
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. Gevirtzman speaks to teachers, about teachers, and for...
Enhancing the Professional Practice of Music Teachers
101 Tips that Principals Want Music Teachers to Know and Do
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
If you want to improve your professional performance and set yourself apart from your colleagues-in any discipline-these tips are for you. If you desire anything less than achieving the very best, you won't want this book. Rather than addressing research and theory about music education or the 'how-tos'...
A Creative Approach to the Common Core Standards
The Da Vinci Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
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 Vinci. A central figure in the High Renaissance,...
by Mike Henry
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
For the average person, most of the American history that he or she knows comes from facts taught to them in school to prepare them for their state mandated tests. That's not the fault of their teachers who were just carrying out the directives of their employers. But it's also a fact that a great...
by Doug Eadie
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
This book draws on author Doug Eadie's work with hundreds of boards to provide detailed, hands-on guidance for building and managing a board-superintendent partnership that is close, positive, productive, and enduring. Eadie describes how the superintendent can wear the "chief partnership officer"...
Using Humor to Maximize Living
Connecting With Humor
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Humor gets very little respect! While references to the importance of having a sense of humor are liberally sprinkled throughout the popular media, and it is usually mentioned as one of the qualities of effective employees, it is rare to find purposeful humor practice. Humor is without a doubt the...
Banishing Bullying Behavior
Transforming the Culture of Pain, Rage, and Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Fried and Sosland bring their combined experiences together to present a blueprint to reduce the pain, rage and revenge cycle of bullying. Their strategies have been captured from hands-on interaction with educators, parents and students. Their premise comes from the apocryphal village that is being...
Making a Difference in the Classroom
The Reality and Truth of Teaching in Schools Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
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 about what teachers face and what teacher candidates...
Supervising Student Teachers The Professional Way
Instructor's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Instructors using the textbook, Supervising Student Teachers: The Professional Way, 7th Edition, will find its companion instructor's guide a helpful resource. Chapter-by-chapter, the instructor is provided with core ideas for guiding cooperating teachers' understanding and skill development needed...
Free to Be Musical
Group Improvisation in Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Free to Be Musical: Group Improvisation in Music is for those who lead musical experiences in the lives of children, youth, and adults. Offering a set of experiences to inspire creative musical expression, this book will prove useful for music education majors, practicing music teachers, community...
Middle School General Music
The Best Part of Your Day
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Middle School General Music is a guidebook for music teachers trying to navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of teaching middle school general music. Written by an in-service teacher, this publication contains strategies and lessons that have been tested and refined in the 'real world' of a public...
TIPS
The Child Voice
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
This second edition of TIPS: The Child Voice was prepared in response to demand for an updated and expanded version of the highly successful 1997 edition. This edition takes into account the broadening base of information regarding the nature of the singing voice. Now with strategies for the voice...