Teaching skills and techniques

One-on-one conferences have become a cornerstone in many language arts teachers' elementary classrooms as an effective method to foster individualized student growth.

The Language of Mathematics: How the Teacher's Knowledge of Mathematics Affects Instruction introduces the reader to a collection of thoughtful works by authors that represent current thinking about mathematics teacher preparation.

Integrating Literacy Naturally is a guide for nurturing a love of literacy in both teachers and young children.

Teachers stand at the intersection of educational goals, directing students down the road to success or to the byways of diminished opportunities.

All the Classroom's a Stage reveals how teachers can apply theater skills to the craft of teaching and enhance their ability to engage and motivate students, cultivate collaborative learning, and become stronger and more dynamic 'performers' in the classroom.

Society today is fragmented.

Who says learning can't be fun?

The Cognitive Rigor Matrix superposes two of the most common tools used in K-12 education: Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and Depth of Knowledge.

How do we begin to understand diversity in early childhood in order to combat biases?

The results are in: observations are not improving teaching and learning.

Training, placing, and retaining highly qualified teachers in our nation's schools has become a very serious challenge in the 21st century.

Invested Stayers: How Teachers Thrive in Challenging Times features chapters co-authored by PK-12 teachers and postsecondary teacher educators from across the U.

The book draws from literary, psychological, and sociological perspectives to discuss and to illustrate how these perspectives contribute to instructional practices in Young Adult Literature.

Often we think of fairy tales as written for little children as entertainment.

Planning for Success demonstrates the power of applied listening through focus, meaning, and understanding context.

Ensuring Learning: Supporting Faculty to Improve Student Success is the second book in a two-book series.

Inspire and involve your adolescent students in active music-making with this second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music.

This book exposes the truths regarding education and economics so that every individual can understand the negative ramifications of implementing policies and practices based on educational and economic falsehoods.

Young people today know trouble from a host of sources: poverty, sexism and racism; the storms of a climate in turmoil; the loss of loved-ones to incarceration, addiction and suicide.

This book is a social-emotional education manual for middle and high school educators.

The Whole Person: Embodying Teaching and Learning through Lectio and Visio Divina offers readers a rich collection of voices from diverse settings that illustrates the ways in which lectio divina as a contemplative practice can transform teaching and learning.

Responsive Mentoring: Supporting the Teachers All Students Deserve advocates for a collaborative approach to mentoring that is teacher-centered, scaffolded, and contextualized to teachers' work.

The Burden of Being a Boy: Bolstering Educational Achievement and Emotional Well-Being in Young Males is written for everyone who has a stake in the health and well-being of contemporary American boys and adolescents-parents, educators, counselors, educational administrators, student services personnel, higher education faculty, and students studying education and psychology.

To address Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for reading and language, today's educators strive to help their students develop higher-level understanding with challenging materials.

Ten Days that Shook the World of Education: A Close Look at the People who Facilitated Educational Change focuses on the critical moments that changed the course of our unique educational experiment.

Storytelling is the easiest way to become a more effective teacher.

Given the constantly changing student demographics in our public schools, teacher educators are tasked with preparing teacher candidates with reflective and critical teaching insights for reaching the needs and identities of all of our students.

Recipient of the 2021 Divergent Book Award for Excellence in 21st Century Literacies Research given by the Initiative for 21st Century Literacies ResearchToday's secondary virtual teachers are tasked with designing and implementing effective literacy instructional approaches for adolescent online learners.

With chapters from experienced teachers and school and district leaders, this text provides a wealth of practical strategies and inspirational guidance on incorporating social-emotional and ethical learning across a district and educational community.

Creating Calm Classrooms presents easy-to-follow and guaranteed to succeed strategies, teacher behaviors and class management practices that the author successfully deployed to create oases of peace and tranquility in his classrooms in more than twenty years of teaching in urban schools.

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Inquiry Units for English Language Arts is an engaging and relevant collection of instructional units that delve into contemporary problems related to equity, justice, identity, freedom, and social reform.

Inquiry Paths to Literacy Learning, a collection of chapters from secondary teachers and university researchers, offers English language arts teachers several models and considerations for how to design and implement inquiry-based teaching and learning.

Much like Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, Maulding-Green and Leonard have, in Leadership Intelligence: The Journey to Your True North, postulated a theory regarding the age old question, 'are leaders born or are leaders made?

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

This book outlines how administrators in our school system can move from managerial efforts to leadership functions.

Reimagining the Educated Mind presents Student Choice Curriculum, a descriptive argument for a major change in high school education.

All teens today, born after 2000, were thrust into a world with challenges and opportunities non-existent for previous generations.

Teacher retention is of utmost importance at a time when so many young teachers choose not to remain in the profession.

This book is intended to introduce concepts about music composition to band and orchestra students of all ages and engage them in actual creative composing projects.

Clinical experiences, supported by well-prepared mentor teachers and university-based teacher educators, are essential for developing successful teacher candidates.

Drawing on the extensive knowledge of experts from nations around the world, the authors provide comprehensive assessments of the challenges and opportunities when dealing with educational change initiatives at the national and local levels.

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

This book provides strategies teachers and principals can use to improve the culture of their classroom or school.

To generate opportunities for transformative learning, educators must create learning environments that help students feel safe and encourage them to grapple with potentially difficult material.

"e;This book will prove a valuable resource for parents, teachers, and librarians on the vital topic of reading aloud.

The goal of this edited volume is to share ideas and examples of impactful practices useful for teacher educators in Early Childhood Education degree programs (associate, bachelor, and graduate level) as well as teacher educators in other settings.

Charles Sullivan, one of the winningest coaches in the history of the sport of volleyball, is a physical education teacher and sports psychology professor at Springfield College by trade.

Team Being is a book about creative collaboration-what it is, how it works and how to maximize chances of doing it well.

Why does racism, conscious and unconscious, remain a persistent issue in American society?