Teaching skills and techniques

The current educational culture of standards, accountability, and creeping educational capitalism finds teachers increasingly teaching laundry lists of facts and skills.

Special education across education programs nationwide is an incredibly high-need teacher shortage area, and mentoring can make a profound difference in teacher retention and effectiveness.

This book capitalizes on the authors' longitudinal perspective in program development in approaching a K-12 reading strategy, The school administrator and classroom teacher will find the book's guidelines right to the point.

What does the term 'school choice' mean to you?

Teaching and Learning in the Intermediate Multiage Classroom describes in practical detail a creative and effective teaching practice in multiage elementary classrooms, one that integrates challenging academics with personalized teaching and learning.

Would you like to ignite the inquisitive nature of your students?

With the upcoming implementation of CCSS in E/LA and mathematics in 2014, and the expected implementation in science, history/social studies, and technical subjects, educators need a grounded, specific text on how to scaffold students from where they are to where they need to be according to the Common Core State Standards.

Popular music has long been a subject of academic inquiry, with college courses taught on Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles, along with more contemporary artists like Beyonce and Outkast.

Dilemmas and Decision Making in Social Work is a collection of stories to help social workers work with dilemmas, weigh up options and make good decisions.

Education works better when teachers can concentrate on teaching and on students instead of concentrating on meticulous implementation of ever-changing political reforms of education or on laborious implementation of increasingly bureaucratic, mechanical procedures which are mandated by the education hierarchy.

Nearly all of the Gadsden County's student body is black and considered economically disadvantaged, the highest percentage of any school district in Florida.

What do David Foster Wallace's essay on wars over usage and Pico Iyer's comma personification have to do with improving students' academic writing?

The Harry Potter phenomenon created a surge in reading with a lasting effect on all areas of culture, especially education.

Research-based theories provide the basis for good decision-making in education.

Holding thought loops, metaphoric maneuvers, startling juxtaposition, and clever catachresis, a guided journal allows students of the art of discourse a place to test the waters before leaving safe harbor.

You can abandon rote learning with this middle and high school teaching guide.

Teaching controversial issues in the classroom is now more urgent and fraught than ever as we face up to rising authoritarianism, racial and economic injustice, and looming environmental disaster.

This book outlines cooperative small-group discovery (CSGD) theory and practical learning strategies for implementing it in secondary and collegiate classrooms.

The second edition of the bestseller Taking Action delves deeper into how educators can leverage the PLC at Work(R) process to create a highly effective multitiered system of supports.

This book outlines cooperative small-group discovery (CSGD) theory and practical learning strategies for implementing it in secondary and collegiate classrooms.

199 Mistakes New College Instructors Make and How to Prevent Them Insiders Secrets to Avoid Classroom Blunders

Let us challenge your babies and toddlers with this size and shape book that involves a cat all throughout the end.

Teaching students how to write more effectively is a goal that English teachers of all levels share.

Learning opposites has never been more fun and easy with this book in place.

According to the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, nearly half of teachers leave the profession after five years.

Everyone is talking about signing with young children.

This book deals with the specific joys and pitfalls you will encounter when teaching adolescents.

There's a way to influence your child's love for learning through effective educational resources.

The Extreme Principle is to do what matters most and to do what works best.

Learning opposites is very important in teaching a child to describe things or emotions.

Most work in the field of Christian leadership has focused on the leader and techniques of management and control.

You don't have to look too far or employ complex strategies to encourage reading.

This book provides a valuable balance between what one must know and what one must do to turn around low-performing schools.

There has been much attention given to the achievement gap between white and minority students, especially African American children.

Increasingly, people working in teams face complex issues that need resolving in an efficient, participatory manner that honors the group's diverse perspectives and individual creativity.

All children deserve the tools to fight off whatever dragons they encounter and move happily through life.

Raising African American Males is comprised of strategies and interventions that can assist and improve African American males' achievement in all areas of academics as well as in their everyday lives.

No author has gone as far as Doerfler in covering methods of mental calculation beyond simple arithmetic.

A child's brain is way more impressive in processing and storing new knowledge than the adults'.

With the current emphasis on assessment and data-driven instruction, pre-service teachers rarely get a chance to consider how they will deal with the dilemmas that may surface in their future classrooms.

A teacher's guide to empowering students with modern thinking skills that will help them throughout life.

100 ready-to-use projects to challenge and inspire your third-, fourth- and fifth-graders!

A huge collection of ready-to-use number talks that make math concepts easier for students to learn.

Understanding Rhetoric: A Guide to Critical Reading and Argumentation is a composition textbook that outlines three essential skills - rhetoric, argument, and source-based writing - geared towards newcomers and advanced students alike.

Imagine waking up one morning at age fifty.

By 4th grade, math lessons will be focused on developing a fluency of the multi-digit equations, fractions and geometric figures.

So what is Punk Learning?

Foreword by Colonel Dame Kelly Holmes.

The Advances in Research on Teaching series was established to provide state-of-the-art conceptualization and analysis of the processes involved in functioning as a classroom teacher.

Whose stories do we tell in primary history?