Teaching skills and techniques

Successful Teaching: Practical Ideas to Make It Happen is written for all pre- and in-service teachers, whether they are the 20 year veteran who needs a renewed sense of purpose, new to the profession, or planning to become a teacher.

A small set of important practices should be considered non-negotiable elements of daily reading instruction.

Recent national achievement data reveal significant outcome disparities between African American boys and other student groups by grade 4.

Traditional, teacher-centered classrooms are not serving the needs of our students.

Reaching an Understanding: Innovations in How We View Reading Assessment builds upon the editors previous book Measuring Up: Advances in How We Assess Reading Ability by representing some early attempts to apply theory to help guide the development of new assessments and measurement models.

Education for the Human Brain: A Road Map for Natural Learning in Schools is an all inclusive book on understanding and implementing a natural and brain-compatible instructional strategy from early childhood to adult learners.

Mastery Teaching Skills is a professional development book that will help teachers and principals implement the Common Core State Standards.

Effective Classroom Turnaround: Practice Makes Permanent, the third book in the Practices Makes Permanent series, contends that because students learn and behave differently, educators must thoughtfully approach them in the classroom in order to affect change.

Some students are more "e;challenging"e; than most.

This detailed, informed and critical account of contemporary education in Scotland examines each of the main sectors in depth: early years, primary, secondary, further and higher education.

Real problems exist in society and these problems manifest themselves in the classroom.

Today's educators-pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators serve increasing percentages of adolescents who have limited relationships to school.

Moving beyond alignment and national boilerplate standards, this book takes the position that curriculum and instruction are inseparable concepts from the institutional point of view, and presents strategies to ensure their congruency.

Follow three very different teachers through the process of creating a reflective teacher portfolio.

How can teachers ensure that every student who graduates is competent in subject matter and responsible in citizenship?

Librarians, teachers, and others who work with toddlers will find a treasure trove of useful material in Toddler Storytime Programs.

This book is designed for the career teacher interested in designing positive learning environments.

The third millennium is approaching-are your students ready?

With so many discussions and theories on reading and how children learn to read, it can be very confusing for parents to know the best way to get their kids to read.

Expertise in every classroom should be the norm, not the exception.

Action Research: An Educational Leader's Guide to School Improvement, Third Edition, is a clear and practical guide to conducting action research in schools.

This book provides six different strategies for teaching the fundamentals of reading with social-emotional learning in mind.

We hear all the time how American children are falling behind their global peers in various basic subjects, but particularly in math.

Schools and libraries can make a difference by teaching kids how to identify and cope with emotions, how to communicate with confidence and empathy, and how to persevere even when things are difficult.

Build confidence in delivering primary source-based instruction with easily adaptable, skill-based lessons that can be used in a variety of learning environments.

This newly updated and expanded second edition of Collaborating for Inquiry-Based Learning explains effective IBL scaffolding and the school librarian's role as the lead in the collaborative process of inquiry-based teaching.

Teaching Mindfulness to Teens as a Path of Empowerment is a teacher-level perspective on mindfulness instruction that has systems-level implications.

Based on proven theory and real-life experience, this guidebook provides a one-stop resource for educators, librarians, and storytellers looking to introduce storytelling programs for young adults.

This book connects teaching practical strategies and ideas with educational theories to give you techniques to use in the classroom to capture students' attention and engage them with instruction.

This book is Montessori''s own exposition of the theory behind her innovative educational techniques.

Learn how to teach visual literacy through photography-an easy way for you to combine student interest with resources at hand to enhance a key learning skill.

Learn how to use rotating multimedia learning stations, employing databases, websites, education apps, videos, audio podcasts, online games, books, and more to build a strong, collaborative library program that helps you strengthen student understanding of the research process.

This dynamic approach to an exciting form of teaching and learning will inspire students to gain insights and complex thinking skills from the school library, their community, and the wider world.

Montessori: A Modern Approach has been called the single best book for anyone -- educator, childcare professional, and especially parent -- seeking answers to the questions: What is the Montessori method?

Case Method and the Arabic Teacher: A Practical Guide compiles original case studies that address the unique challenges of teaching Arabic at the high school level.

Every teacher knows that the foundation of a good learning environment is effective behaviour management.

Staff turnover is the most pressing issue facing school leaders today.

This first book in a three volume series celebrates and examines the work of four African American authors of young adult literature.

This book exhibits a collection of proposals for how school curriculum may be conceived, designed, and realized.

Education's Ecosystems offers a new perspective on learning that is integrated and connected to lived experience.

Empowering Methods for Effective Childcare
As a professional childcare provider, you want to create an environment that is inviting and nurturing for children as well as encouraging for your adult staff.

The Rules of the Game is an examination of Standard Written American English (SWAE), which is the dialect of educated people, and an analysis of the characteristics of that dialect.

Teachers evaluate students' work constantly.

United States' students continue to have difficulties with the subject of mathematics.

Today's public schools represent a demographic of students that are more diverse than ever before.

Help your students learn math and get results by working smarter, not harder!

Reading provides the foundation allowing students to access and analyze information.

Suspicious aims at providing teachers and students of history and related social sciences with ideas for critical thinking about past and present applied to documentation, images, and historical writing.

Finding the Teacher Self offers a foundation to begin and sustain a discussion with preservice and in-service teachers about the role of teacher identities in the classrooms, what their teacher identity is, and how they can continue to develop it.

Do you teach math to Spanish-Speaking ELLs (especially K-8)?