A Baker's Dozen of Lessons Learned from the Teaching Trenches


Book Description

"Learn from Danny Brassell's real-life teaching experiences ranging from preschool to college in urban school settings as he provides insights on 13 valuable lessons for teachers."--Page 4 of cover




Teacher's Guide


Book Description

Create a common language for the school, teachers, and parents with the help of this Teacher's Guide. With ideas and supporting materials for easy and effective family-night activities centered around specific content areas, teachers can easily encourage parent involvement. These activities help acquaint parents and students with the eighth-grade classroom, creating a more cohesive learning environment for students.




Teacher's Guide


Book Description

This helpful guide creates a common language for the school, teachers, and parents to give students a more cohesive learning environment. With ideas and supporting materials for fun and easy-to-implement family-night activities centered around a content area, teachers can easily encourage parent involvement and help students succeed and achieve in kindergarten.




Teacher's Guide


Book Description

This Teacher's Guide creates a common language for the school, teachers, and parents to use. With ideas and supporting materials for simple and effective, family-night activities centered around a content area, teachers can easily get everyone involved in increasing student achievement. These easy-to-implement activities help acquaint parents and students with the third-grade classroom, giving students a more cohesive learning environment.




Bringing Joy Back into the Classroom


Book Description

Aimed at motivating teachers to create a welcoming and challenging environment for their students, this professional book is told through a series of anecdotes and stories. It will remind teachers of the intrinsic rewards of teaching (to teach children to love learning) and the powerful role they play as models in this endeavor.










Dare to Differentiate


Book Description

This highly practical resource for K–6 teachers is packed with 25 classroom-tested, step-by-step strategies for developing word knowledge. The emphasis throughout is not only on teaching new words, but also on strengthening students’ comprehension and long-term vocabulary acquisition. Especially valuable are guidelines for how to differentiate each strategy so it can be used successfully with English language learners and students at varying proficiency levels. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book features helpful print and Web resources for each strategy, along with 20 reproducible worksheets.







Am I Teaching Yet? : Stories from the Teacher-training Trenches


Book Description

Being a good academic, when Hoekstra heard horror stories about student teaching, she went looking for a book about it. There were none, but she highly suspected that at least a few had survived to tell the tale. She found 29 who were willing to talk. There is neither index nor bibliography.