Teaching skills and techniques

Whether you are a new or an experienced math teacher, The Math Teachers' Tool Box provides guidance and serves as a reference book of topics, ideas, and resources.

In a world on fire with unprecedented possibility as well as peril, what kind of mind is needed in order to thrive and survive?

Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts is the first practical teacher resource to provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of developing strong spirits and caring young people.

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

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.

Nearly forty percent of all fourth graders in this country cannot read at grade level, and this number rises to sixty percent for children coming from poor families.

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

Using William Glasser's ideas as a foundation, this text explores the five basic needs and their implication for classroom management.

Giving students opportunities to read like historians has the potential to move their thinking and understanding of history in monumental ways.

Sustaining the Writing Spirit: Holistic Tools for School and Home, second edition is aimed at all educators, at school or home, seeking non-traditional ways to enliven the growth potential of the whole learner.

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

Not every teacher loves history and the same can be said about students.

Resistant Learners: Reach Me Before You Teach Me focuses on those students whose behavior limits their learning and challenges their teachers while perhaps interrupting the learning cycle of their peers.

We often hear about the need to make demands on all students, especially those of color, of different cultural backgrounds, and from low income families.

With so much emphasis these days on making students globally competitive and prepared to beat students of other nations on international assessments, and with so much talk about academic rigor and emphasis on rigid accountability measures, we are in danger of losing sight of the most fundamental element of successful teaching and learning - love.

In response to a quagmire of jargon based and convoluted curriculum textbooks, Instructional Alignment offers a concise and basic approach to instructional design.

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.

Transparent Teaching of Adolescents is a philosophy, method, and timely application of strategies that span the school year.

The literature on preparing and sustaining quality teachers has suggested that to be successful, teacher preparation and development require a mutual collaboration and a synergy of effort among partners, most typically a school district and a university teacher preparation program.

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.

What does it mean to 'teach' a poem, novel or play?

This book describes how to change the way in which educators conduct business in the classroom.

A glance at successful people reveals a simple truth: successful people employ successful habits.

This book will take you into the classrooms of great literacy teachers from around the United States who have designed successful vocabulary instruction for their grades K-6 classrooms.

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

The purpose of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 was to "e;drive broad gains in student achievement and to hold states and schools more accountable.

Transforming Early Learners into Superb Readers: Promoting Literacy at School, at Home, and within the Community aids elementary educators, reading specialists, school administrators, private and public educators, parents, and caregivers who want to help early learners become proficient readers.

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.

Be a Better TeacherBe a Better Teacher You want the best for your students.

Create a more inspiring classroom with amazing anchor charts.

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.

Foreword by Dr Andy Daly-Smith.

When tiny voices talk, three amazing things happen: they share surprising ideas and insights; they realise they are not so tiny; and they empower other tiny voices to talk too.

Foreword by Jaz Ampaw-Farr.

Foreword by Ian Gilbert.

Since 2007, a Catholic LGBTQ+ organization called New Ways Ministry has documented over 60 cases of LGBTQ+ educators and allies who have been fired from Catholic schools throughout the US.

Much of what we do in classrooms is intuitive, steered by what 'feels right', but all too often intuition proves a poor, sometimes treacherous guide.

Research informed teaching is big news!

researchED is an educator-led organisation with the goal of bridging the gap between research and practice.

Effective teaching methods need to be supported by psychology solidly based in cognitive concepts.

Klassenmanagement ist in letzter Zeit wieder ins Zentrum der deutschsprachigen Didaktik und Lehrerbildung gerückt.

Das Buch befasst sich mit Hintergründen, Risikofaktoren und Auswirkungen (Opfer-Tätersituation) des digitalen Gewaltphänomens.

Does the theoretician only solve problems that he himself invents and seek answers to questions nobody asks?

Das Buch befasst sich mit Hintergründen, Risikofaktoren und Auswirkungen (Opfer-Tätersituation) des digitalen Gewaltphänomens.

Die Kooperative Beratung empfiehlt sich durch eine schlüssige Verbindung von Theorie und Praxis.

Kinder und Jugendliche in Schulen und Kitas sind vielfältigen Risiken ausgesetzt.

Der Stand des wissenschaftlichen Wissens über das Feld des Lehrens und Lernens Erwachsener wird in diesem Band anhand zentraler Begriffe systematisch zugänglich.

›Schwierige‹ Schüler führen Lehrkräfte schnell an ihre Grenzen, können den gesamten Unterricht blockieren.