All teachers know that a robust vocabulary gives students the communication skills they need to do well on tests and shine in the classroom--and the best way to ensure successful vocabulary instruction is to embrace new and engaging strategies that don't take too much time away from other work.
Classroom management may be the hardest part of being a teacher: fraught with power struggles, it often leaves teachers feeling stressed and drained and students feeling mutinous or powerless.
Classroom management may be the hardest part of being a teacher: fraught with power struggles, it often leaves teachers feeling stressed and drained and students feeling mutinous or powerless.
This book provides 3rd through 12th grade teachers with more than 50 teacher-tested tools and techniques for helping their students read independently and critically.
This book provides 3rd through 12th grade teachers with more than 50 teacher-tested tools and techniques for helping their students read independently and critically.
All the talk of closing the achievement gap in schools obscures a more fundamental issue: do the grades we assign to students truly reflect the extent of their learning?
All the talk of closing the achievement gap in schools obscures a more fundamental issue: do the grades we assign to students truly reflect the extent of their learning?
With the Common Core State Standards emphasizing listening and speaking across the curriculum, these long-neglected language arts are regaining a place in schools.
With the Common Core State Standards emphasizing listening and speaking across the curriculum, these long-neglected language arts are regaining a place in schools.
With new standards emphasizing higher-order thinking skills, students will have to demonstrate their ability to do far more than simply remember facts and procedures.
With new standards emphasizing higher-order thinking skills, students will have to demonstrate their ability to do far more than simply remember facts and procedures.
Students and educators today face obstacles to student achievement, well-being, and success that are above and beyond traditional instructional and assessment concerns.
Students and educators today face obstacles to student achievement, well-being, and success that are above and beyond traditional instructional and assessment concerns.
How can you create an authentic learning environment-one where students ask questions, do research, and explore subjects that fascinate them-in today's standards-driven atmosphere?
How can you create an authentic learning environment-one where students ask questions, do research, and explore subjects that fascinate them-in today's standards-driven atmosphere?
Research confirms that the teacher makes the greatest difference in the learning success of students, so it's important that new teachers get off to a strong start.
How can I make certain that all my students achieve success in mastering learning goals-and play an active role in monitoring and adjusting their own learning process?
How can I make certain that all my students achieve success in mastering learning goals-and play an active role in monitoring and adjusting their own learning process?
With classroom-tested ideas, real-world examples, and easy-to-use activities, Giselle Martin-Kniep and Joanne Picone-Zocchia tap three decades of experience to define and describe critical teaching and learning strategies that engage students and increase achievement.
How to Help Your School Thrive Without Breaking the Bank will help you improve your school without investing in externally developed, expensive, and time-consuming reform programs or initiatives.
