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How to Keep Good Teachers and Principals
Practical Solutions to Today's Classroom Problems
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Between the current 'Me' generation, the over abundance of discipline problems and violence, the stress of the accountability measures of NCLB, and the current state of the economy, many of education professionals are retiring, changing jobs, or leaving the profession. This book serves as a helpful,...
Listening and Reading for English Language Learners
Collaborative Teaching for Greater Success with K-6
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
provides an overview designed to help educators collaborate more effectively in the areas of content area literacy for the sake of their K-6 ELL students. The book weaves the practical and theoretical aspects of collaboration and suggests ways for teachers to form long term partnerships. Each chapter...
Speaking and Writing for English Language Learners
Collaborative Teaching for Greater Success with K-6
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
provides an overview designed to help educators collaborate more effectively in the areas of content area literacy for the sake of their K-6 ELL students. The book weaves the practical and theoretical aspects of collaboration and suggests ways for teachers to form long term partnerships. Each chapter...
Using Inquiry in the Classroom
Developing Creative Thinkers and Information Literate Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Using Inquiry in the Classroom: Developing Creative Thinkers and Information Literate Students provides an overview of inquiry learning and the importance of developing creative thinkers and information literate students in twenty-first-century education. The text explores how learning can be directly...
Updraft Downdraft
Secondary Schools In the Crosswinds of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2003
Ever wonder why there is such a big gap in the number of students who succeed in comparison to those who do not? The duality of educational experiences that permeate our secondary schools leads to one group of students heading into post-secondary education, while others either receive terminal degrees...
Change the World with Service Learning
How to Create, Lead, and Assess Service Learning Projects
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Change the World with Service Learning is clear, direct and easy to use, and was designed for busy teachers integrating Service Learning into their existing curriculum. This book guides teachers from all content areas and grade levels to create outstanding Service Learning projects with students like...
Igniting Your Genius
The Startling Fusion of Creativity, Curiosity, Intellect, Passion, and Awe
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2002
Would you like to ignite the inquisitive nature of your students? Igniting Your Genius is designed to help the learner—of any age—explore their creativity and imagination through original questions. By examining unconsciously held worldviews, students, teachers, and administrators will break out...
Using the Brain to Spell
Effective Strategies for All Levels
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
This book offers practical advice to teachers unsure of how to teach spelling. Filled with student-centered wisdom, Burkhardt grounds her methods in both theory and practice, providing logical rules and hands-on exercises to keep students actively engaged.
Sketches in Democracy
Notes from an Urban Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Sketches of Democracy is a captivating book that chronicles the first year in the life of a new urban high school. Based on journal entries and educational literature, this booktraces the author’s challenging journey toward creating a democratic community of learners within a tangle of socio-economic...
From Family Collapse to America's Decline
The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Very high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of students are learning in school and forever holding them back in many other ways. This in turn is damaging the country economically by making us less primed for innovation while also making...
The Classroom Facilitator
Special Issue Questions
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
This book is designed for teachers, administrators, and staff development coordinators who are interested in a resource that provides an overview of current issues and the answers to some difficult educational questions. Through the use of case studies, current information, and reader exercises, this...
by Rosemary S. Callard-Szulgit, EdD, University at Buffalo; author
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Parents of gifted students have often experienced the frustration of trying to get an appropriate education for their children in public and private schools. Teachers have equally experienced the frustration of trying to educate these students due to classroom demands. Over the past two decades, Callard-Szulgit...
Educational Change
From Traditional Education to Learning Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Educational Change: From Traditional Education to Learning Communities outlines the transition of curriculum and instruction as well as classroom discipline historically. Various discipline approaches are described that vary in their applications in terms of the degree of teacher control and student...
Cultivating Teacher Renewal
Guarding Against Stress and Burnout
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Teachers today are more stressed than ever. It is crucial that teachers develop the tools necessary to keep from falling prey to the potentially destructive effects of stress and burnout. Cultivating Teacher Renewal: Guarding Against Stress and Burnout offers the antidote by providing the knowledge,...