Educators Teacher Resources
Feb 20, 2012
check grammar, please….?
I am a second language learner, can anyone help me check grammar?? thanks a lot…
As we know, to be an educator, one should be professional, patient, and have a sense of humor, especially in the teaching environment. From my point of view, to be a good teacher in teaching literacy, one should convey strategies or skills to the students, keep asking questions during the class and have your own classroom with all students’ work.
Convey strategies and skills are important elements that all teachers need to do. Some students have little literacy skills with them before they get into the school. If the teacher teaches his/her students some skill for reading and writing, it would be useful for the students. For example: when looking for the resources from books, you should scan the paragraph, instead of reading the whole book. In addition, by acquiring those strategies/skills, students enhance their capabilities when doing reading and writing.
It seems to me that your problem is not keeping with first person dialog. You go from first to second and back.
Also, beginning any diatribe with “As we know” seems foolish because no one ever knows what their audience knows or believes.
Comments to Jack: “Do you have preferred teaching resources for new ESL educators?”
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Educator’s Choice Middle School Excelerator $13.99 This software is BRAND NEW. Packaging may differ slightly from the stock photo above. Please click on our logo above to see over 15,000 titles in stock…. |
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School Smart Overhead Calculator $24.34 This general four-function overhead calculator includes a large 8-digital display, 4-key memory functions that include memory added, memory subtracted, memory recall and clear, percentage calculations, battery power and manual and auto shut off. 4-1/4″W x 6″H…. |
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Universals AP Art History Set of 785 Images $4,381.00 New for 2009! Universals own AP Art History Prep set. Containing over 750 images from Gardners Art Through the Ages 12e, Gardners Art Through the Ages Non-Western Perspectives 12e and History of Art: The Western Tradition 7e…. |
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Classroom Cart and Organizer Set $213.26 Classroom Cart and Organizer Set This handy cart is made of durable, lightweight plastic with telescoping lid and built-in handles. The removable canvas organizer cover features 46 pockets/sections, a built-in 12 section file accordion and a roll up fabric cover. Pockets have zippers and loop-lock closures for securing and protecting supplies and files during travel. Tools and accessories are no… |
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Grab & Go Teacher’s Caddy $19.95 Our easy-tote teacher’s caddy has pockets for everything from markers and pencils to scissors and glue—plus an extra-roomy interior that’s large enough for books, folders, planners and more! Our rugged, carry-all organizer features eight big pockets and a go-anywhere design—so essential teaching supplies stay orderly and easily accessible. Plus, it has a rugged canvas construction with a… |
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Response to Intervention: A Practical Guide for Every Teacher $31.95 This practical resource provides clear guidance for implementing RTI in every classroom. Filled with forms, examples and vignettes, this user-friendly guide details how educators can use research-based interventions effectively to individualize instruction, monitor individual student progress and implement strategies to meet the specific needs of all learners. Features helpful charts and reproduci… |
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NEW Double Duel – Word Game (Toys) $25.86 Grades 2 & up. A fast-paced word game that focuses on homophones. Answer the questions and the first to buzz in gets a point. Includes 200 cards and 4 buzzers that each make a different sound…. |
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Texas TExES Generalist EC-6 (191) (TExES Teacher Certification Test Prep) $17.25 It?s time to make your way to the head of the class. REA?s New TExES Generalist EC-6 Test Prep Helps Texas Teachers Get Certified! REA?s new TExES Generalist Early Childhood to Grade 6 test prep is designed to help teacher candidates pass the TExES Generalist EC-6 (191) exam and start teaching! Our test prep is perfect for teacher candidates, students, out-of-state teachers, and caree… |
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The Reading Teacher’s Book Of Lists: Grades K-12, Fifth Edition $16.40 Written by Edward Bernard Fry, Ph.D., and Jacqueline E. Kress, Ed. D. By John Wiley. This comprehensive fifth edition of a bestselling classic offers an unparalleled source of timely, practical information on all aspects of reading instruction. It offers over 190 up to date lists for developing instructional materials and lesson planning. The book is organized into 15 convenient sections full of p… |
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Teaching Reading Sourcebook 2nd Edition $52.99 For educators who are working to improve the reading achievement of both beginning and older struggling readers, this updated and revised edition of the Teaching Reading Sourcebook is an indispensable resource. It is an essential addition to any educator’s professional literacy library-elementary, secondary, university.NEW TO THIS EDITION:All new sample lesson modelsMore reproducible activity mast… |
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Learning, Teaching, and Community $40.95 This volume brings together established and new scholarly voices to explore how participatory and situated approaches to learning can contribute to educational innovation. The contributors’ critical examinations of educational programming and engagements provide insights into how educators, youth, families, and community members understand and enact their commitments to diversity and equitable access. Collectively, these essays complicate notions of community, alerting readers to ways in which community can be constructed other than in geographical and ethnoracial terms–as alliances and collaborations of individuals joining together to accomplish or negotiate shared agendas. The focus on agency combined with social context, a dialectic to which all of the authors speak, enlarges and invigorates our sense of what is pedagogically possible in societies characterized by diversity and flux. *Part I, “Linking Pedagogy to Communities,” focuses on dynamic initiatives where practitioners collaborate with community members and other professionals as they acknowledge and build on the cultural, linguistic, and intellectual resources of ethnic-minority students and their communities. *Part II, “Professional Learning for Diversity,” centers on the authors’ experiences in facilitating opportunities for working with prospective and practicing teachers to develop situated pedagogies, highlighting both the challenges that emerge and the transformations that occur. *Part III, “Learning in Community (and Community in Learning), illustrates how educational innovation can extend beyond the realm of schools and classrooms by elucidating ways in which individuals construct learning venues inout-of-school settings. Learning, Teaching, and Community: Contributions of Situated and Participatory Approaches to Educational Innovation is a compelling and timely text ideally suited for courses focused on teacher education and development, informal learning, equity and |
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”There’s some good karma up in here”: A case study of white school leadership in an urban context. $49.99 As educators work to improve achievement within the current policy environment of accountability and “subgroups,” their attention has been drawn to considerations of race, culture, and learning in schools. Yet few school leaders have the preparation or knowledge to assist teacher learning about these issues.;Theories of culturally relevant pedagogy focus on how teachers can teach subject matter in a culturally appropriate manner, and previous scholarship has considered culturally relevant pedagogy in relation to teaching and learning. This inquiry examines it in relation to leadership content knowledge. Critical race theory offers a lens through which to examine the relationship of beliefs and knowledge when considering race and racism in the American educational system and for further situating an examination of school leadership and cultural competency.;The research questions I address are: (1) What kind of perspective toward students is held by educators in the school? How do these perspectives connect with teaching, learning, and leadership? (2) How is culturally relevant pedagogy represented in the schools? How do school leaders foster or hinder CRP in their schools? (3) In which contexts and events in the practice of school leadership do issues of race, culture, and learning surface? How are the issues mediated by the principal and other school leaders?;This case study of three White principals reveals that they faced many issues of race, culture, and learning, yet tended to be colorblind and colormute. Even when they identified issues, they were reluctant to address them or without resources, thus ignoring situations that could have served as sites of teacher learning. Several White teachers held dynamic and nuanced asset perspectives toward children of color. New teachers in particular learn a “repertoire of racialized and ‘cultural’ comparisons” (Pollock, 2001) as a key component of belonging to their community, a repertoire that knowledgeable school |
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”There’s some good karma up in here”: A case study of white school leadership in an urban context. $49.99 As educators work to improve achievement within the current policy environment of accountability and “subgroups,” their attention has been drawn to considerations of race, culture, and learning in schools. Yet few school leaders have the preparation or knowledge to assist teacher learning about these issues.;Theories of culturally relevant pedagogy focus on how teachers can teach subject matter in a culturally appropriate manner, and previous scholarship has considered culturally relevant pedagogy in relation to teaching and learning. This inquiry examines it in relation to leadership content knowledge. Critical race theory offers a lens through which to examine the relationship of beliefs and knowledge when considering race and racism in the American educational system and for further situating an examination of school leadership and cultural competency.;The research questions I address are: (1) What kind of perspective toward students is held by educators in the school? How do these perspectives connect with teaching, learning, and leadership? (2) How is culturally relevant pedagogy represented in the schools? How do school leaders foster or hinder CRP in their schools? (3) In which contexts and events in the practice of school leadership do issues of race, culture, and learning surface? How are the issues mediated by the principal and other school leaders?;This case study of three White principals reveals that they faced many issues of race, culture, and learning, yet tended to be colorblind and colormute. Even when they identified issues, they were reluctant to address them or without resources, thus ignoring situations that could have served as sites of teacher learning. Several White teachers held dynamic and nuanced asset perspectives toward children of color. New teachers in particular learn a “repertoire of racialized and ‘cultural’ comparisons” (Pollock, 2001) as a key component of belonging to their community, a repertoire that knowledgeable school |
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1000 Best New Teacher Survival Secrets $18.99 Tips for the first year and beyond Today’s teachers are equipped with little more than a four-year degree and a semester of student teaching when they face their own classroom for the first time. Standing in front of an overcrowded classroom-of any grade level-can be a daunting and terrifying experience. 1000 Best New Teacher Survival Secrets is a must-have resource for new teachers, covering important issues across all grade levels. Authors and experienced educators Kathy Brenny and Kandace Martin show readers how to: – Set goals- Manage the classroom- Discipline students- Maximize lesson time- Address prejudice, controversy and school violence- Utilize available resources- Manage their time and health Whether readers are recent graduates facing the classroom for the first or second year, or experienced teachers making a significant grade level move, 1000 Best New Teacher Survival Secrets helps them face the classroom with confidence. |
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180 Creative Ideas for Getting Students Involved, Engaged, and Excited $9.9 New – From the editors of “The Teacher’s Calendar “and “Chase’s Calendar of Events “comes an indispensable classroom resource for educators of grades K-8. Here are 180 lesson plan supplements–one for each day of the school year–that will give teachers ready access to an abundance of practical, do-able activities and listings of very helpful resources to enrich lessons and encourage student participation.Ideas are presented chronologically by month, but are also keyed by subject area (math, sci |
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180 Creative Ideas for Getting Students Involved, Engaged, and Excited $19.95 From the editors of The Teacher’s Calendar and Chase’s Calendar of Events comes an indispensable classroom resource for educators of grades K-8. Here are 180 lesson plan supplements–one for each day of the school year–that will give teachers ready access to an abundance of practical, do-able activities and listings of very helpful resources to enrich lessons and encourage student participation.Ideas are presented chronologically by month, but are also keyed by subject area (math, science, language arts, etc.) for maximum ease of use. |
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A Celebration of Literature and Response: Children, Books and Teachers in K-8 Classrooms $2.75 This is the ONLY book you need to bring quality literature and response-based activities into your classroom. It includes listings of the newest books for children and links them to reader response across grade levels. The appendix has outstanding links to professional resources, award books, and Internet sites. It is written by a college professor who used to be a classroom teacher and knows what teachers want and need for their classrooms. For those focused on accountability, it is the only text that addresses authentic assessment of response-based learning. Integrates examples of children’s, current teachers’, and future teachers’ authentic responses to literature. Provides step-by-step procedures for response activities. References current literature and classic examples. Educators and School Administrators. |
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A Complete Guide to Rubrics: Assessment Made Easy for Teachers, K-College $79.66 Citing developmental characteristics of each grade level, A Complete Guide to Rubrics presents examples and adaptations of assessment rubrics on a variety of subjects. It features examples of teacher-created rubrics, Internet resources, and additional chapters devoted to assessing technological topics, including blogging. This book will be of interest to all educators who are required to assess student performance. |
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A Complete Guide to Rubrics: Assessment Made Easy for Teachers, K-College $70.23 Used – Citing developmental characteristics of each grade level, A Complete Guide to Rubrics presents examples and adaptations of assessment rubrics on a variety of subjects. It features examples of teacher-created rubrics, Internet resources, and additional chapters devoted to assessing technological topics, including blogging. This book will be of interest to all educators who are required to assess student performance. |
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A Complete Guide to Rubrics: Assessment Made Easy for Teachers, K-College $2.79 Used – Citing developmental characteristics of each grade level, A Complete Guide to Rubrics presents examples and adaptations of assessment rubrics on a variety of subjects. It features examples of teacher-created rubrics, Internet resources, and additional chapters devoted to assessing technological topics, including blogging. This book will be of interest to all educators who are required to assess student performance. |
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A Complete Guide to Rubrics: Assessment Made Easy for Teachers, K-College $31.21 New – Citing developmental characteristics of each grade level, A Complete Guide to Rubrics presents examples and adaptations of assessment rubrics on a variety of subjects. It features examples of teacher-created rubrics, Internet resources, and additional chapters devoted to assessing technological topics, including blogging. This book will be of interest to all educators who are required to assess student performance. |
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A Complete Guide to Rubrics: Assessment Made Easy for Teachers, K-College $70.23 New – Citing developmental characteristics of each grade level, A Complete Guide to Rubrics presents examples and adaptations of assessment rubrics on a variety of subjects. It features examples of teacher-created rubrics, Internet resources, and additional chapters devoted to assessing technological topics, including blogging. This book will be of interest to all educators who are required to assess student performance. |
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A Faithful Future: Teaching and Learning for Discipleship $240.99 Written by a team of gifted Christian educators, A Faithful Future is grounded in Scripture and designed to be used for teacher/leader support and training. Each section of the book includes: — A focus on one of the five processes outlined in Keeping in Touch– A background article for leaders– A suggested training model– Supporting resources for implementing the training model– A Faithful Future helps congregations that want to improve on the five processes identified in Keeping in Touch, by Carol F. Krau. |
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A Guide to Developing the ICT Curriculum for Early Childhood Education $32.5 This is a book about ICT (Information and Computer Technology) in its broadest sense. The authors show how ICT can contribute to children’s learning; how it can be integrated into a play based curriculum and how it relates to key areas of learning such as collaboration, communication, exploration and socio-dramatic play. The text provides an introduction to the ICT requirements in the UK Foundation Stage Curriculum Guidance, and it also discusses in detail the international relevance and implications of ICT for young children.The book provides a critical account of the ‘digital divide’ and suggests practical strategies for all the individuals and institutions who are working towards the achievement of social justice. It offers concrete guidance for the development of center based practice, and on curriculum integration and the selection of developmentally appropriate educational software. It also explores ergonomic issues, as revealed by research: how should children sit at the computer, for how long and what are the risks? Emphasis is placed on the processes of policy development and the realization of change and there is guidance on the use of development plans and evaluation tools. Using the example of the practice and policy development of one model Early Excellence Centre, the authors map the development of good practice in staff development, children’s learning and their use of ICT, and in working with parents. A wealth of information and resources are provided. The book draws on two major European research projects that generated rich examples of good practice: curriculum guidance materials developed as part of the EU funded Developmentally Appropriate Technology in Early Childhood (DATEC) project and the authors’ evaluation of the IBM KidSmart initiative. The book will be essential to all those working in elementary education and to teacher educators and policy and curriculum developers in primary schools. |
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A Guide to High School Success for Students with Disabilities $22 Written for young people with disabilities and the people who care for and educate them, this unique resource offers both inspiration and advice to help disabled teenagers successfully meet the special social and academic challenges of high school and to find their paths into the future. Compiling a wealth of expertise on a range of issues in high school and all the accompanying major life events, this edited volume offers guidance, support, experience, and encouragement, providing everything from explanation of legal rights to guidance on effective study habits. Through the voices of disabled students and their teachers and family members, the book provides insights into the internal dilemmas that students face as well as problems they may encounter in the classroom, at home, and in society. This book is written to offer tools that empower students with disabilities face their challenges while providing educators, family members and friends insights into issues these students may encounter during their high school years. Every high school teacher, administrator, counselor, and librarian should familiarize themselves with the issues explored on these pages.The book is divided into five topical sections that each addresses a set of related issues. Section I provides a history of disabilitities across different times and cultures and a discussion of the legal rights of students with disabilities. Section II discusses the cultural and social issues disabled teens face in modern society and looks at representations in film and literature. Section III is devoted to the many interactions and relationships faced in high school, including dating, socialization, andextracurricular activities. Section IV addresses issues related to academic success and the concluding chapter offers tools for advocacy and empowerful. Appendicies complete this multi-facted volume with lists of additional readings and on-line resources for students with disabi |
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A Hybrid Web-Based Learning Model $61.99 The use of web based learning in primary schools, especially in South Africa, has been neglected to a large degree. There are various reasons for this including lack of resources and qualified personnel. The aim of this book was the design of a hybrid web based learning model for primary school mathematics especially in the teaching and learning of perimeter and area. Mathematics was chosen as a focus area because of the poor results attained by learners and university students in this subject. The introduction of networked computer laboratories to previously disadvantaged South African primary schools enables the use of computers as powerful tools to analyze the thought processes of learners during their early encounters with mathematics. This book shows that a blended learning approach using a networked computing environment to facilitate the teaching and learning of perimeter and area produces a significantly enhanced learning experience for learners as compared to learners utilizing conventional teaching and learning methods only. The findings and methods illustrated in this book would be of use to educators as well as teacher training institutions. |
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A Teacher’s Guide to Communicating with Parents: Practical Strategies for Developing Successful Relationships $14.88 Communicating with Parents: A Guide to Effective Practice is an essential guidebook for the K-12 education professional. This book takes an in-depth look at communicating with families of students in elementary and secondary schools and is founded on the most current research and practice. Divided into five main sections, this guide presents evidence-based content and strategies related to: Developing Caring Relationships in Schools, Communicating with Families for Student Success, Communicating with Families throughout the School Year, Communicating with Families in Meetings, and Addressing Difficult Topics with Families. Additionally, a broad-based school population is covered with pertinent information for working with families of: general education students, students with disabilities, culturally/linguistically diverse students, students from low socioeconomic status, and students with unique gifts and talents. The evidence-based material is enhanced and illustrated with examples, graphics, and professional reproducible materials, and on every page, educators will be given the most research-based content, sound examples, practical applications, and ready-to-use resources. An indispensible guide for all K-12 general education teachers, special educators, related services personnel, and administrators for both pre-service and in-service training. |
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A Teacher’s Guide to Communicating with Parents: Practical Strategies for Developing Successful Relationships $22.99 Communicating with Parents: A Guide to Effective Practice is an essential guidebook for the K-12 education professional. This book takes an in-depth look at communicating with families of students in elementary and secondary schools and is founded on the most current research and practice. Divided into five main sections, this guide presents evidence-based content and strategies related to: Developing Caring Relationships in Schools, Communicating with Families for Student Success, Communicating with Families throughout the School Year, Communicating with Families in Meetings, and Addressing Difficult Topics with Families. Additionally, a broad-based school population is covered with pertinent information for working with families of: general education students, students with disabilities, culturally/linguistically diverse students, students from low socioeconomic status, and students with unique gifts and talents. The evidence-based material is enhanced and illustrated with examples, graphics, and professional reproducible materials, and on every page, educators will be given the most research-based content, sound examples, practical applications, and ready-to-use resources. An indispensible guide for all K-12 general education teachers, special educators, related services personnel, and administrators for both pre-service and in-service training. |
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Action Research: A Guide for the Teacher Researcher $55.46 New – Known for its practical, step-by-step guidance for teachers on how to do research in classrooms. Born of the author’s own experience working with teachers and principals, this book provides a step-by-step outline of how to “do” action research–backed by the most extensive theory and research coverage on the market today. The author guides future educators through the action research process via numerous concrete illustrations and a wealth of on-line resources; positioning it as a fundame |
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Action Research: A Guide for the Teacher Researcher $41.33 Used – Known for its practical, step-by-step guidance for teachers on how to do research in classrooms. Born of the author’s own experience working with teachers and principals, this book provides a step-by-step outline of how to “do” action research–backed by the most extensive theory and research coverage on the market today. The author guides future educators through the action research process via numerous concrete illustrations and a wealth of on-line resources; positioning it as a fundam |
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Action Research: A Guide for the Teacher Researcher $41.33 New – Known for its practical, step-by-step guidance for teachers on how to do research in classrooms. Born of the author’s own experience working with teachers and principals, this book provides a step-by-step outline of how to “do” action research–backed by the most extensive theory and research coverage on the market today. The author guides future educators through the action research process via numerous concrete illustrations and a wealth of on-line resources; positioning it as a fundame |
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Action Research: A Guide for the Teacher Researcher $5.07 New – Born of the author’s own experience working with teachers and principals, this book provides a step-by-step outline of how to “ do” action research–backed by the most extensive theory and research coverage on the market today. The author guides future educators through the action research process via numerous concrete illustrations and a wealth of on-line resources; positioning it as a fundamental component of teaching, alongside curriculum development, assessment, and classroom |
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Action Research: A Guide for the Teacher Researcher $20 New – Born of the author’s own experience working with teachers and principals, this book provides a step-by-step outline of how to “ do” action research–backed by the most extensive theory and research coverage on the market today. The author guides future educators through the action research process via numerous concrete illustrations and a wealth of on-line resources; positioning it as a fundamental component of teaching, alongside curriculum development, assessment, and classroom |
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Affirming Students’ Right to Their Own Language: Bridging Language Policies and Pedagogical Practices $41.53 A Co-publication of the National Council of Teachers of English and Routledge.How can teachers make sound pedagogical decisions and advocate for educational policies that best serve the needs of students in today’s diverse classrooms? What is the pedagogical value of providing culturally and linguistically diverse students greater access to their own language and cultural orientations?This landmark volume responds to the call to attend to the unfinished pedagogical business of the NCTE Conference on College Composition and Communication 1974 Students’ Right to Their Own Language resolution. Chronicling the interplay between legislated/litigated education policies and language and literacy teaching in diverse classrooms, it presents exemplary research-based practices that maximize students’ learning by utilizing their home-based cultural, language, and literacy practices to help them meet school expectations. Pre-service teachers, practicing teachers, and teacher educators need both resources and knowledge, including global perspectives, about language variation in PreK-12 classrooms and hands-on strategies that enable teachers to promote students’ use of their own language in the classroom while also addressing mandated content and performance standards. This book meets that need. Visit http://www.ncte.org for more information about NCTE books, membership, and other services. |
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Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice $29.95 The phrase “teaching for social justice” is often used, but not always explained. What does it really mean to teach for social justice? What are the implications for anti-oppressive teaching across different areas of the curriculum? Drawing on his own experiences teaching diverse grades and subjects, Kevin Kumashiro examines various aspects of anti-oppressive teaching and learning in six different subject areas. Connecting practice to theory through new pedagogical elements, the revised edition of this bestselling text features:A new and timely preface that considers the possibilities of anti-oppressive teaching and teaching for social justice in the face of increasing pressure from both the Right and the Left to accept neoliberal school reform policies. End of chapter questions that enhance comprehension of arguments, help concretize abstract ideas into classroom practice, and encourage critique.A sampling of print and online resources that will inspire students to further their social justice educationThe new pedagogical components of the revised edition will offer K-12 teachers and teacher educators the tools they need to teach against their common sense assumptions and continue the evolution of social justice in education. |
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An ADHD Primer $44.95 Filled with current, practical, and useful information for professionals and individuals, this second edition of An ADHD Primer summarizes the literature concerning ADHD across the lifespan. It offers a better understanding of the disorder by addressing the potential causes of ADHD, the developmental course, and numerous treatment approaches. Author Lisa L. Weyandt delivers research-based, cutting-edge knowledge in a concise and user-friendly fashion. The book skillfully explains the scientific literature, often complex, concerning this disorder.Commonly asked questions are addressed, including: What causes ADHD? What does ADHD look like, and how can it be accurately assessed? How can ADHD be treated with and without medication? Weyandt thoroughly tackles these question and more. The text contains helpful tables and appendices, as well as numerous up-to-date resources for readers who desire additional information about the disorder.An ADHD Primer is intended for students enrolled in teacher-certification programs, graduate students enrolled in research and applied training programs, educators, counselors, nurses, psychologists, parents, and individuals with ADHD. |
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Becoming a Literacy Leader: Supporting Learning and Change $14.4 Becoming a Literacy Leader chronicles the work of Jennifer Allen, an elementary teacher who moved to a new school and a new job as a literacy specialist, and found herself tackling everything from teacher study groups to state-mandated assessment plans. The book is rooted in Jennifer’s belief that teachers know what they need when it comes to professional development in literacy, and the best literacy leaders are those who listen to and respect the educators in their midst. Grounded in research but thoroughly practical, Jennifer shares advice on:organizing a literacy room with resources for classroom teachers, including book lists, bins of children’s books tied to craft and strategy lessons, bulletin board ideas, and files with instructional materials;developing intervention classrooms for struggling readers and writers built on collaboration between teachers and literacy specialists;setting up assessment notebooks for teachers, and preparing new and veteran teachers for student assessments across grades;creating model programs for dealing with schoolwide problems like reading fluency, and then moving from the pilot to implementation in many classrooms;coaching new and veteran teachers in the latest literacy practices, without taking on the role of expert;analyzing and using books, videos and journals in professional development programs;infusing routine staff meetings with discussions of new literacy curricula;leading teacher study groups using a variety of formats;finding and budgeting money for professional development programs in literacy;protecting time and scheduling priorities, to ensure the literacy specialist position doesn’t become a “catch-all” for the random needs of teachers or administrators.At a time when all administrators are urged to be literacy leaders, this insider’s view helps to define what leadership looks like and |
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Becoming a Literacy Leader: Supporting Learning and Change $20 Becoming a Literacy Leader chronicles the work of Jennifer Allen, an elementary teacher who moved to a new school and a new job as a literacy specialist, and found herself tackling everything from teacher study groups to state-mandated assessment plans. The book is rooted in Jennifer’s belief that teachers know what they need when it comes to professional development in literacy, and the best literacy leaders are those who listen to and respect the educators in their midst. Grounded in research but thoroughly practical, Jennifer shares advice on:organizing a literacy room with resources for classroom teachers, including book lists, bins of children’s books tied to craft and strategy lessons, bulletin board ideas, and files with instructional materials;developing intervention classrooms for struggling readers and writers built on collaboration between teachers and literacy specialists;setting up assessment notebooks for teachers, and preparing new and veteran teachers for student assessments across grades;creating model programs for dealing with schoolwide problems like reading fluency, and then moving from the pilot to implementation in many classrooms;coaching new and veteran teachers in the latest literacy practices, without taking on the role of expert;analyzing and using books, videos and journals in professional development programs;infusing routine staff meetings with discussions of new literacy curricula;leading teacher study groups using a variety of formats;finding and budgeting money for professional development programs in literacy;protecting time and scheduling priorities, to ensure the literacy specialist position doesn’t become a “catch-all” for the random needs of teachers or administrators.At a time when all administrators are urged to be literacy leaders, this insider’s view helps to define what leadership looks like and |
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Best Lesson Plan Websites for Educators $26.99 Spencer, Stephan Spencer, Manufactured by Teacher Created Materials Inc,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Teacher Created Resources, Incorporated |
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Breakthroughs in Literacy: Teacher Success Stories and Strategies, Grades K-8 $22.95 Breakthroughs in LiteracyBreakthroughs in Literacy is filled with lively and inspirational stories from teachers who show how they overcame challenges with struggling learners—including special needs students—to make significant breakthroughs in reading and writing achievement. The teachers reveal trials, errors, and triumphs in how they discovered strategies that worked with their students and opened a path to success. Many of the approaches described are unusual and creative. One teacher explains how drawing a story in pictures can be the first step to learning narrative. Another teacher shows how comic book superheroes can be the springboard for learning important lessons about plot and character. The stories capture the “aha” moments when students finally connect with the material to gain confidence and delight in the learning process. The twenty-nine stories in Breakthroughs in Literacy are grouped into four sections:Connection: Knowing the LearnerMotivation: The Right Book Can Make a DifferenceEngagement: Multisensory ExperiencesTransformation: Learning TogetherThe four story sections are summarized with lessons learned, reflection questions, action tips, and recommended resources, making this an ideal book for teacher study and learning.”This compendium of illustrative stories is an excellent sourcebook for new and prospective teachers, indeed, anyone who wants a better picture of what it is that effective teachers do, and what effective teaching entails. And teacher educators will appreciate the well-organized way the reality of daily classroom challenges are illuminated and resolved.”—George G. Hruby, Ph.D., assistant professor of literacy education, School of Teacher Education and Leadership, Utah State University |
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Bridging Cultures $47.95 Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module is a professional development resource for teacher educators and staff developers to help preservice and in-service teachers become knowledgeable about cultural differences and understand ways of bridging the expectations of school settings with those of the home. In a nonthreatening, cognitively meaningful way, the Module is based on teacher-constructed and tested strategies to improve home-school communication and parent involvement. These innovations were developed as part of the Bridging Cultures Project, which explores the cultural value differences between the individualistic orientation of mainstream U.S. schools and the collectivistic orientation of many immigrant families. The goal of the Bridging Cultures Project is to support and help teachers in their work with students and families from immigrant cultures. The centerpiece of the Module is training resources, including an outline, an agenda, and a well-tested three-hour script designed as a lecture-discussion with structured opportunities for guided dialogue and small-group discussion. Throughout the script, Facilitators Notes annotate presentation suggestions and oversized margins encourage integration of the facilitator’s personal experiences in presenting and adapting the Module. Ideas for using the Readings for Bridging Cultures are provided. A section of overhead transparencies and handout masters is included. The Module also provides a discussion of the role of culture in education and the constructs of individualism and collectivism, an overview of the effects of the Bridging Cultures Project, and evaluation results ofthe author’s use of the Module in two sections of a preservice teacher education course. Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module brings the successful processes and practices of the Bridging Cultures Project to a larger audience in college courses and |
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Classroom Confidential: The 12 Secrets of Great Teachers $11.15 Laurel Schmidt’s gone on assignment, interviewing master educators, observing their classrooms, and uncovering the twelve secrets that all stand-out teachers share. The result, Classroom Confidential, is the ultimate paperback mentor for novices and veterans alike, an across-the-curriculum guidebook with the scoop on how best practices can make you a great teacher. Brimming with practical instructional strategies, tips on classroom management, and hundreds of leads on teaching resources, all in a read-it-today-do-it-tomorrow format, Classroom Confidential dishes the goods on every aspect of successful teaching, including: using multiple intelligences to master content standards authentic reading and writing activities inquiry-based instruction teaching for social justice reaching special-needs students community as classroom hands-on social studies projects integrating the arts into academics. Schmidt gives you everything you need to double or triple your instructional capabilities, including a step-by-step plan to improve parent-teacher communication, guidelines for avoiding burnout, and a do-it-yourself kit for creating a culture of success in your classroom. Go behind closed doors and into the minds of outstanding educators to discover why the inside story about their success is so important to yours. Read Classroom Confidential and be in the know about what makes a great teacher. |
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College: Rethinking Literacies Across the Curriculum $122.4 What’s the problem with literacy at college? How might everyday literacy be harnessed for educational ends?Based on the first major study of literacy practices in colleges in the UK, this book explores the reading and writing associated with learning subjects across the college curriculum. It investigates literacy practices in which students engage outside of college, and teaching and learning strategies through which these can help support the curriculum. With insightful analyses of innovative practices, it considers ways of changing teaching practices to enable students to draw upon their full potential.Recent research work has challenged the myth of individual student deficit, arguing cogently that people have ‘funds of knowledge’ from diverse and vibrant cultural roots, and that these have been misguidedly disqualified by the education system. It has claimed that different ‘ways with words’ can provide valuable resources for learning. However, the empirical exploration of this claim has lagged far behind the theoretical debate. Improving Learning in College resolves this by showing the integrity and richness of the literacy practices of a significant population, not previously the focus of such research: those who take vocational and academic college courses in colleges. It addresses an issue which has not until now been developed within this research tradition: that of how these practices can not only be valued and validated, but mobilised and harnessed to enhance learning in educational settings.This book will interest all teachers, teacher-educators and researchers concerned with post-compulsory education and vocational education in compulsory schooling. |
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Communication in Action: Teaching Literature-Based Language Arts $17.15 Communication in Action integrates the language arts speaking, listening, viewing, reading, and writing into a total curriculum that centers around children’s literature. The text conveys the author’s creativity and enthusiasm with ideas for using literature to teach language skills across the curriculum.A professional development resource, Access Pages: The Teacher’s Planning Resource Handbook, appears in a tabbed section at the end of the text. The handbook helps teachers create lesson plans, select children’s books, and evaluate software options. It also provides information on e-mail and the Internet.Issue Sites features explore current concerns about language arts instruction. The features include notes and suggestions by authorities in the field and offer questions for discussion.The Distinguished Educators feature provides commentary from experts in the field of language arts on issues including approaches to teaching and theoretical bases of language arts processes. Scholars showcased in the feature include Donald Graves, Kathryn Au, Regie Routman, Nancie Atwell, Louise Rosenblatt, Anthony Manzo, and Gloria Ladson-Billings.A Teacher’s Message Board appears in chapters on listening, reading, spelling, language conventions, and grammar to provide specific suggestions for contextually based skills instruction.Technology Notes boxes list web sites and resources of interest to language arts instructors. |
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Complete Guide to Rubrics $34.2 Citing developmental characteristics of each grade level, A Complete Guide to Rubrics presents examples and adaptations of assessment rubrics on a variety of subjects. It features examples of teacher-created rubrics, Internet resources, and additional chapters devoted to assessing technological topics, including blogging. This book will be of interest to all educators who are required to assess student performance. |
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Complete Learning Disabilities Handbook: Ready-To-Use Strategies & Activities for Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities $13.36 This New Second Edition of a practical resource already being used by over 55,000 special educators gives you a wealth of new and proven suggestions and ready-to-use materials for helping students of all ages overcome learning disabilities, including dozens of full-page devices you can photocopy and use at once! Written by a master teacher with over 30 years of experience in both mainstreamed and special classes, the Handbook covers virtually every aspect of working with students with learning disabilities, from causes and assessment to classroom management and lesson planning. You’ll find diagnostic tools and remediation techniques for all types of learning disabilities specific interventions for specific problems strategies for building academic skills in all basic content areas and ways to improve motivation, participation, and self-esteem in even the most reluctant learner. For quick access and easy use, materials are organized into 16 chapters and printed in a big 8-1/4 x 11 format that folds flat for photocopying of any page as many times as needed. Here’s just a brief look at some of the specific helps in this resource: Overview of Learning Disabilities provides background on the LD field and answers the questions of What is it? What causes it? What is the prognosis of the person who has the condition? and What resources are available to help deal with the condition? Tools for Diagnosis and Assessment includes guidelines for identifying learning disabilities and make requests for testing… advice on talking with parents…descriptions of diagnostic tests… suggestions for developing an IEP… and lists of accommodations. Early Childhood Education forAt-Risk Students covers advice on special education services from birth to age five… the components of an effective early childhood education program… tips for parents of young at-risk children… and parent-child activities. Strategies for Classroom Management presents tips on |
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Creating Emotionally Safe Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents $14.95 Something is terribly wrong with our schools. How did a place that should be a sanctuary for kids becomes a source of fear and intimidation? What has happened? In Creating Emotionally Safe Schools, Jane Bluestein offers a plan to return schools to havens of nurturing and learning. She examines environmental, historical, developmental, psychological, sociological,interpersonal, instructional and administrative factors that contribute to the emotional climate of an educational institution. This is a comprehensive view of what makes a school feel the way it feels, and what we can do to make it feel safe for every child-and every adult-who walks through its doors. Emotional safety has many dimensions, such as: the impact of the family and early development, childhood stress and coping, the changing role of the school, acceptance and emotional support, respect and belonging, temperament and labels, gangs and violence,instructional strategies, learning styles and multiple intelligences, teacher training and support, and the inherent need for a sense of community.The message Jane Bluestein brings is positive: information, programs and solutions are available that can ultimately make our schools inviting, inspiring, and, yes-safe.Includes: Comprehensive list of references and resources Complete index |
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Creating Emotionally Safe Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents $1.99 Something is terribly wrong with our schools. How did a place that should be a sanctuary for kids becomes a source of fear and intimidation? What has happened? In Creating Emotionally Safe Schools, Jane Bluestein offers a plan to return schools to havens of nurturing and learning. She examines environmental, historical, developmental, psychological, sociological,interpersonal, instructional and administrative factors that contribute to the emotional climate of an educational institution. This is a comprehensive view of what makes a school feel the way it feels, and what we can do to make it feel safe for every child-and every adult-who walks through its doors. Emotional safety has many dimensions, such as: the impact of the family and early development, childhood stress and coping, the changing role of the school, acceptance and emotional support, respect and belonging, temperament and labels, gangs and violence,instructional strategies, learning styles and multiple intelligences, teacher training and support, and the inherent need for a sense of community.The message Jane Bluestein brings is positive: information, programs and solutions are available that can ultimately make our schools inviting, inspiring, and, yes-safe.Includes: Comprehensive list of references and resources Complete index |
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Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children’s Literature: Mirrors, Windows, and Doors $51.95 “Children’s literature is a contested terrain, as is multicultural education. Taken together, they pose a formidable challenge to both classroom teachers and academics…. Rather than deny the inherent conflicts and tensions in the field, in Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children’s Literature: Mirrors, Windows, and Doors, Maria José Botelho and Masha Kabakow Rudman confront, deconstruct, and reconstruct these terrains by proposing a reframing of the field…. Surely all of us – children, teachers, and academics – can benefit from this more expansive understanding of what it means to read books.” Sonia Nieto, From the ForewordCritical multicultural analysis provides a philosophical shift for teaching literature, constructing curriculum, and taking up issues of diversity and social justice. It problematizes children’s literature, offers a way of reading power, explores the complex web of sociopolitical relations, and deconstructs taken-for-granted assumptions about language, meaning, reading, and literature: it is literary study as sociopolitical change.Bringing a critical lens to the study of multiculturalism in children’s literature, this book prepares teachers, teacher educators, and researchers of children’s literature to analyze the ideological dimensions of reading and studying literature. Each chapter includes recommendations for classroom application, classroom research, and further reading. Helpful end-of-book appendixes include a list of children’s book awards, lists of publishers, diagrams of the power continuum and the theoretical framework of critical multicultural analysis, and lists of selected children’s literature journals and online resources. |
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Crossing the Tracks $3.87 One of the most crucial controversies in educational circles today involves the practice of tracking , or grouping students by ability from the early grades onward. Because the tests that are used to measure ability turn out to be a better measure of privilege or deprivation than of innate intelligence, underprivileged children are consistently relegated to the slow track . Forced into a self-fulfilling and racist prophecy, they must contend with inferior instruction, inequitable resources, and lowered expectations – which all but guarantee their future failure. Crossing the Tracks is a groundbreaking survey of schools throughout the country that have successfully crossed the tracks by reintegrating their classrooms. With all the excitement attendant on any effort at monumental reform, schools from Hawaii to Maine, Minnesota to Louisiana, are changing not only the makeup of their classes but their fundamental approach to education. Wheelock documents the actual experiences of schools as they reduce or eliminate ability grouping and strive to offer superior learning environments to all students. With chapters on parental involvement, teacher training, curriculum reform, student aspirations, and examples of programs and practices that have been implemented across the nation, Crossing the Tracks is the first book to outline a specific course of action for parents, teachers, administrators, and others ready to join the untracking movement. With its clear writing and many practical features, including a list of successfully-untracked schools and key contact people at each school, Wheelock’s text is strongly endorsed by both educators and policy makers. Crossing the Tracks should havea significant impact on our thinking about approaches to elementary and middle-school education and should play a major role in the movement to enrich the learning process for all of our students. |
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Dialogic Approaches to TESOL Where the Ginkgo Tree Grows $39.95 This book locates dialogic pedagogy within the history of TESOL approaches and methods in which the communicative approach has been the dominant paradigm. Dialogic inquiry in the form of story telling, oral histories, and knowledge from the ground up and from the margins has much to offer the field. In dialogic approaches, the teacher and students learn in community and the students’ home languages and cultures, their families and communities, are seen as resources.Dialogic Approaches to TESOL: Where the Ginkgo Tree Grows explores teacher research, feminist contributions to voice, social identity and dialogic pedagogy, and the role of teachers, students, families, and communities as advocates and change agents. After a brief history of TESOL methods and an introduction to dialogic pedagogy, four features of dialogic approaches to TESOL are identified and discussed: learning in community, problem-posing, learning by doing, and who does knowledge serve? The main text in each chapter considers a single topic related to the concept of dialogic pedagogy. Branching text leads to related discussions without losing the main point of the chapter. This structure allows readers to become well-rooted in each component of dialogic pedagogy and to “branch out” into deeper philosophic understandings as well as actual practices across a range of contexts.Dialogic Approaches to TESOL offers a place for dialogue and reflection on the prospects for transforming educational institutions to serve those who have historically been excluded and marginalized. It provides questions, frameworks, and resources for those who are just beginning in the field and for U.S.-based educators who want to bring critical multicultural and multilingual perspectives into language arts, reading and literacy education. |
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Digital Storytelling Guide for Educators $9.95 Storytelling is an age-old art form. With Web 2.0 and the tools already available on most computers, students can use text, music, sound effects, videos, and more to create a multimedia presentation that links them to the world beyond the classroom. Storytelling has the potential to unleash creativity, engage, and motivate. Applicable across the curriculum, digital storytelling teaches students to work collaboratively and use new technologies, skills they will be required to have in the workforce of the future.This book offers an overview of digital storytelling as well as its variations, including e-portfolios, digital photo essays, and scrapblogs. The many recommendations, overviews, and explanations of digital storytelling tools, along with lists of additional digital storytelling resources, will help educators to apply this exciting technology in their classrooms. Educators will also discover the ways digital storytelling can be used for their own professional development. Digital Storytelling Guide for Educators provides detailed directions to preparation, production, and presentation, and rounds out with a discussion on creating rubrics and evaluating student work. Readers will come away with an understanding of digital stories and the tools needed to create them.Features: * Assessment rubrics for each stage of digital storytelling * Aligns digital storytelling to the NETS for Students * Each chapter includes a list of resources and linksThe International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is the trusted source for professional development, knowledge generation, advocacy and leadership for innovation. ISTE is the premier membershipassociation for educators and education leaders engaged in improving teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education. Home of the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), the Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology |
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Digital Storytelling Guide for Educators $31.95 Storytelling is an age-old art form. With Web 2.0 and the tools already available on most computers, students can use text, music, sound effects, videos, and more to create a multimedia presentation that links them to the world beyond the classroom. Storytelling has the potential to unleash creativity, engage, and motivate. Applicable across the curriculum, digital storytelling teaches students to work collaboratively and use new technologies, skills they will be required to have in the workforce of the future.This book offers an overview of digital storytelling as well as its variations, including e-portfolios, digital photo essays, and scrapblogs. The many recommendations, overviews, and explanations of digital storytelling tools, along with lists of additional digital storytelling resources, will help educators to apply this exciting technology in their classrooms. Educators will also discover the ways digital storytelling can be used for their own professional development. Digital Storytelling Guide for Educators provides detailed directions to preparation, production, and presentation, and rounds out with a discussion on creating rubrics and evaluating student work. Readers will come away with an understanding of digital stories and the tools needed to create them.Features: * Assessment rubrics for each stage of digital storytelling * Aligns digital storytelling to the NETS for Students * Each chapter includes a list of resources and linksThe International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is the trusted source for professional development, knowledge generation, advocacy and leadership for innovation. ISTE is the premier membershipassociation for educators and education leaders engaged in improving teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education. Home of the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), the Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology |
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EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities $44.95 “Authentic hope is the gift Rebecca Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci offer readers of EcoJustice Education…. We learn what it means to recover the ancient arts and skills of cultivating commons, common sense, and community collaborations in our hard times.” Madhu Suri Prakash, Pennsylvania State University”EcoJustice Education should become a core part of teacher education programs across the country as it provides both the theory and examples of classroom practices essential for making the transition to a sustainable future.” C. A. Bowers, author, international speaker, and retired professorDesigned for introductory social foundations or multicultural education courses, this text offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and pedagogy of responsibility, providing teachers and teacher educators with the information and classroom practices they need to help develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and sustainable societies in an increasingly globalized world. The Companion Website for this book (www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415872515) offers a wealth of resources linked to each chapter. |
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Education For Peace Curriculum Manual $26.35 Currently being used in more than 2000 schools across Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada and the United States, the EDUCATION FOR PEACE CURRICULUM MANUAL is designed as a conceptual and practical guide for educators and policy makers at primary, secondary, and higher education levels.The Manual presents 10 units on concepts that are integral to a comprehensive approach to creating a culture of peace, a culture of healing, and a culture of excellence in our school communities.The text covers, among other themes, the concepts of oneness of humanity, unity in diversity, and human rights and responsibilities, as well as the skills of peace-based conflict resolution, leadership for peace, and creating environments conducive to psychosocial recovery from the destructive impacts of conflict and violence.Each unit includes educational tools for teachers, including:- Core concept summaries- Key questions for understanding- Interdisciplinary lesson samples and activity ideas- Tips for effective classroom instruction- Reflection and assessment guides- Links to online sources for further exploration of key themesAvailable companion resources include the EDUCATION FOR PEACE STUDENT MANUAL (vols. 1 & 2), and the interactive e-learning CD-Rom for students, EFP-WORLD.”As a result of participating in the Education For Peace Program, my way of teaching has changed, my relationships with students has changed, and my relationship with my family has changed…all for the better.” – High School Teacher”Education for Peace has helped us look at our syllabus in a different way, from a different perspective, giving us a chance to enrich it with issues not dealt with sothoroughly before. It hasn’t always been easy…but we have become more confident in applying the principles of peace.” – Primary School Teacher |
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Educational Psychology (with Mylabschool) $101.53 From the Publisher:This best-selling, classic text provides beginning teachers with the tools and inspiration to become masters of their chosen profession.The Tenth Edition maintains the lucid writing style for which the author is renowned, combined with a clear emphasis on Educational Psychology’s practical relevance. This edition provides an especially helpful new chapter on Engaged Learning: Cooperation and Community, recognizing the challenges educators face in the next decade to keep all students connected to learning and all schools safe and compassionate.The most applied text on the market, this text is replete with examples, lesson segments, case studies, and practical ideas from experienced teachers. In addition, at the end of the text is a new Handbook for Successful Teaching and Lifelong Learning, which has four sections: Creating a Praxis II/Licensure Examination Study Guide Standards and Licensure Appendix: Praxis II and INTASC Getting a Job: Interview Questions that Educational Psychology will help you answer Enhancing Your Expertise: Continuing your Learning The four sections of this Handbook for Successful Teaching and Lifelong Learning will give you even more tools for passing your licensing test, getting a job, and teaching well, no matter what surprises come your way.For the first time, this text will appear in a MyLabSchool Edition, so every copy will include an access code to a special version of Allyn and Bacon’s hugely popular MyLabSchool, a collection of web-based resources for teacher candidates. This special site will contain the following:A rich collection of video clips showing theoretical concepts and teaching methods in practice in real classrooms.An electronic version of the text (an ‘ebook’) which contains chapter review quizzes after each section, and the capacity to generate and individualized study plan, whereby students quiz answers are graded, and they are direc |
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Educators Resource Directory $41.51 Educators Resource Directory is a comprehensive resource that provides the educational professional with thousands of resources and statistical data for professional development. This directory saves hours of research time by providing immediate access to Associations & Organizations, Conferences & Trade Shows, Educational Research Centers, Employment Opportunities & Teaching Abroad, School Library Services, Scholarships, Financial Resources and much more. New features to this Fourth Edition include chapters on Professional Consultants and Computer Software & Testing Resources. Plus, this edition includes a brand new section on Statistics and Rankings with over 100 tables, including statistics on Average Teacher Salaries, SAT/ACT scores, Revenues & Expenditures and much more. These important statistics will allow the user to see how their school rates among others, make relocation decisions and so much more. Educators Resource Directory will be a well-used addition to the reference collection of any school district, education department or public library. |
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Embracing Autism in Preschool: Successful Strategies for General Education Teachers $9.83 Embracing Autism in Preschool is a valuable book for preschool teachers, special educators, speech/language clinicians and parents. It is about inclusion in the classroom. It has the potential to change for the better the way community preschools everywhere approach young children on the autism spectrum. This wonderful book supports and informs preschool teachers in their quest to meet the needs of the children in their care. Research-based strategies in this book include teacher-tested ideas that support every young child’s learning. Strategies and sample activities in the text and appendices are easy to read and provide a much needed resource for early childhood educators. It underscores social interaction as the foundation for the development and use of language in natural settings.These interactions are crucial for further development of socialization, which is such a challenge for children on the autism spectrum. This book’s practicality and resources make it possible to truly feel, in Karen’s words, that “it is a privilege to have a child with autism in your class. |
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English Teacher’s Companion, Third Edition: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession $49.38 For a decade and over two editions, the specific, practical, and experience-honed advice of The English Teacher’s Companion has supported great teaching and cemented Jim Burke’s reputation as a teacher’s teacher. Now the third edition brings the book fully up to date, making it not only a useful resource, but an essential part of any English teacher’s library.The third edition of The English Teacher’s Companion again delivers vital information on the teaching of English, including foundational advice for teaching literature; nurturing reading, writing, and thinking skills; and organizing for success. But it also responds to needs that Jim has heard in speaking engagements and professional development workshops across the country. Teachers and teacher educators asked for: the latest research on literacy more information about national standards ways to consider gender in instruction advice for teaching Advanced Placement classes ideas for teaching media literacy and incorporating technology effectively into instruction even more resources for mentoring new teachers analysis of how trends in society, culture, and politics impact teachers and their classrooms. And Jim delivers. He has revamped his introductory chapters on literacy learning to include up-to-the-minute thinking from the field, and he has incorporated lists of key standards and helpful suggestions for reaching them. His practical strategies turn recent findings on literacy and gender into well-designed, research-based instruction, and his ideas help you meet the very different needs of AP students by understanding their goals and providing them with appropriate challenges. Best of all, new teachers will find a wealth of the latest information for getting a teaching job, using the Internet to locate helpful resources, negotiating the impact of politics and culture in the workplace, and |
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English Teacher’s Companion, Third Edition: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession $49.38 For a decade and over two editions, the specific, practical, and experience-honed advice of The English Teacher’s Companion has supported great teaching and cemented Jim Burke’s reputation as a teacher’s teacher. Now the third edition brings the book fully up to date, making it not only a useful resource, but an essential part of any English teacher’s library.The third edition of The English Teacher’s Companion again delivers vital information on the teaching of English, including foundational advice for teaching literature; nurturing reading, writing, and thinking skills; and organizing for success. But it also responds to needs that Jim has heard in speaking engagements and professional development workshops across the country. Teachers and teacher educators asked for: the latest research on literacy more information about national standards ways to consider gender in instruction advice for teaching Advanced Placement classes ideas for teaching media literacy and incorporating technology effectively into instruction even more resources for mentoring new teachers analysis of how trends in society, culture, and politics impact teachers and their classrooms. And Jim delivers. He has revamped his introductory chapters on literacy learning to include up-to-the-minute thinking from the field, and he has incorporated lists of key standards and helpful suggestions for reaching them. His practical strategies turn recent findings on literacy and gender into well-designed, research-based instruction, and his ideas help you meet the very different needs of AP students by understanding their goals and providing them with appropriate challenges. Best of all, new teachers will find a wealth of the latest information for getting a teaching job, using the Internet to locate helpful resources, negotiating the impact of politics and culture in the workplace, and |
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Essentials of World Languages, Grades K-12: Effective Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment $23.95 We live in a global community, and to be a full member of this community often requires speaking more than one language. Educators and policymakers must ask themselves: What does it mean to view language learning not as an elective but as a necessity for communicating and interacting with people around the world? The Essentials of World Languages, Grades K-12 answers this question and many more as it shows us *Why world languages must be positioned as an essential part of a balanced curriculum and why the time is right for implementing change. *When language instruction should begin and how language instruction should be delivered and assessed. *How to redefine the role of the teacher and curriculum coordinator in language learning. *How to set realistic expectations for students’ second-language proficiency. *How to design curriculum using assessment targets. Packed with information about major trends and issues in world language education, this book offers valuable curriculum resources to help educators design and implement flexible language programs that prepare children to live and work in an interconnected, global culture. |
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Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education & Teacher Preparation Access Card $279.32 Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education Third Edition Mary Renck Jalongo & Joan Packer Isenberg Exploring Your Role offers an integrated and innovative introduction to early childhood education, organized around NAEYC’s twelve essential teaching roles. Its content and pedagogy help students to make connections among teacher roles, theory, research, and practice. Exploring Your Role is an interactive text that encourages students to function as reflective practitioners in response to case study material. Features such as Did You Know? Meet the Teachers, Ask the Experts, and One Child, Three Perspectives, lead students in building personal connections with practice as they develop professional knowledge in working with families and educators. To underscore students’ growing understanding of diverse learners, diversity icons alert readers to relevant sections. Key changes to this edition: New Teacher Prep Website margin notes integrate high-quality video clips, artifacts, and strategies throughout the text (an access code card is included, providing full access to the site) A new Chapter 3 on diversity and equity issues, written by Beatrice S. Fennimore Each chapter’s learning outcomes are now linked to professional standards, including those from NAEYC, INTASC, and ACEI New and updated Collaborating with Families feature in each chapter Expanded content on ECE program types New standards-based lesson and unit plans Companion Website for students features practice assessments written in PRAXIS-like format to prepare students for their licensure exams and professionalpractica. Resources include an online Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank, an electronic test management system, WebCT and Blackboard, Power Point slides for instructors and note-taking slides for students, and a Companion Website. |
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Facilitator’s Guide to Failure Is Not an Option $16.63 New – This Facilitator’s Guide helps educators, trainers, and workshop leaders plan book study events, seminars, and professional development events using the award-winning book “Failure Is Not an Option”. The Guide includes workshop activities, discussion questions, resources for further reading, tips to facilitate workshops, and evaluation forms. It is an ideal resource for school principals, school district administrators, teachers, teacher leaders, and educational policy makers. |
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Feisty Females: Inspiring Girls to Think Mathematically $31.25 Although girls enter school more “math ready” than boys, statistics show that by the time they graduate from high school they will have been outdistanced by males both in critical test scores and in level of interest. What has happened in the intervening years and what can we do to stop it? In Feisty Females, the authors offer some insight and propose a solution. Feisty Females is based upon a two-year action research project undertaken by a university professor and three classroom teachers who set out to change the status quo. They developed an innovative approach to literature-based mathematics instruction that focuses on books with strong female role models. The authors discovered that these “feisty females” not only help change the way boys and girls think about females, they also encourage all students to face problem-solving situations with confidence. Feisty Females offers ideas for using this kind of literature to lead elementary students in explorations of four key mathematical areas: number and computation; geometry and measurement; probability and statistics; and algebraic ideas. Organized around learning strategies proven successful with girls, it provides guidance in selecting books with hardy female characters, in-depth descriptions of lessons in real classrooms, a list of children’s literature resources, and an extensive annotated bibliography. Readers will discover how to help students see the connections among the stories, the math, and their own lives and come to appreciate how integral mathematical literacy will be in our increasingly technological society. Any teacher looking to create equitable classrooms in which all students become mathematically literate will benefit from the experience of these four feisty educators. |
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Finders and Keepers: Helping New Teachers Survive and Thrive in Our Schools $17.95 This important and much-needed book is based on a longitudinal study of fifty new teachers during their first years in the classroom. It highlights the cases of ten, whose stories vividly illustrate the joys and disappointments of new teachers in todays schools. The book documents why they entered teaching, what they encountered in their schools, and how they decided whether to stay or move on to other schools or other lines of work. By tracking these teachers eventual career decisions, Finders and Keepers reveals what really matters to new teachers as they set out to educate their students. The book uncovers the importance of the school site and the crucial role that principals and experienced teachers play in the effective hiring and induction of the next generation of teachers. Staffing the nations schools presents both challenges and opportunities. For teacher educators, district administrators, educational policymakers, teachers, principals, and staff development professionals, Finders and Keepers provides valuable insights about how to better serve new teachers and the students they teach. At a time when expectations of teachers have never been higher or the challenges of teaching more daunting, Johnson and her project team show how the choice to stay or leave is forged in the early months of becoming a teacherthrough hiring practices, pay and other resources, relationships with students, colleagues or administrators, and opportunities for learning and leadership. This book should compel attention from anyone concerned with the future of teaching. Judith Warren Little, Carol Liu Professor in Education Policy Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley Finders and Keepers is a must read for superintendents, district administrators, principals and anyone who cares about the retention and recruitment of high-quality teachers to public schools. The book is both informative and insightful, and above all, it inspires the r |
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From Tutor Scripts to Talking Sticks: 100 Ways to Differentiate Instruction in K-12 Inclusive Classrooms $22.29 Differentiated instruction engages students of all abilities as active learners, decision-makers, and problem solvers—making educational experiences more meaningful for all. This one-of-a-kind book proves that designing differentiated instruction can be simple and fun! Packed with creative adaptation ideas like fidget bags, doodle notes, and choice boards, this book gives K–12 educators 100 teacher-designed, kid-tested strategies they can use to meet the needs of all students in inclusive classrooms. Ideal for helping students who need extra support, scaffolding, reminders, organization, or enrichment, this book gives general and special educators Easy adaptations in 10 key areas (see box) A user-friendly layout with a description, materials list, directions, an example, references, and vendors for every entry Full-color illustrations of each strategy Practical advice from expert educators Lists of resources and references to back up every entry These ready-to-use, research-based adaptations enhance motivation and improve achievement for all children—including English-language learners and students with autism, emotional disabilities, cognitive disabilities, learning disabilities and other special needs. Everyone in the classroom will benefit from this timely, ultra-practical guidebook—the go-to resource for any teacher who has ever had a doubt that differentiated instruction can be simple and fun! Adaptations in 10 key areas of student need: Organization Environment and sensory Technology Communication and participation Behavior and motivation Teaching and learning Literacy Math Study and review |
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Geographic Literacy Through Children’s Literature $27 Combining practical, student-centered activities with an annotated bibliography of more than 160 children’s books, this guide models ways for classroom teachers to teach geography through children’s literature. Chapters based on the five themes of the Geographic Standards present a variety of activities that teach students important geographic concepts. The extensive bibliography provides summaries of books, suggested teaching activities, and cross-references to other books; a list of teacher resources is also included. Attractive line drawings accompany the conversational text. Anyone looking for an effective way to teach geography at the elementary level will want this book and middle and high school educators will find useful extensions for older students. The work offers a great way to integrate geography into the curriculum. |
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Geography for Educators: Standards, Themes, and Concepts $1.99 We recognize that most classroom teachers at the elementary and secondary school levels base their geography programs on school district guidelines or on available student textbooks. This book supplements those resources by suggesting which concepts are appropriate for the teacher’s chosen regions and chapter topics. |
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Getting the Most out of IEPs: An Educator’s Guide to the Student-Directed Approach $29.95 Student-directed IEPs are quickly gaining momentum in schools across the country—the proven benefits include higher academic achievement, enhanced student motivation, and increased communication and self-advocacy skills for students with disabilities. Now for the first time, there’s a book that gives elementary and high school educators in-depth how-to guidance on making student-directed IEPs work for students with a range of special needs. Packed with practical advice, helpful examples, and IEP resources for students themselves, this cutting-edge guidebook finally puts into print the best ideas for developing meaningful student-directed IEPs while adhering to legal requirements and evidence-based practices. Teachers will learn how to support students—regardless of their current skills and abilities—as they increase their own level of direction across every facet of the IEP process:articulating strengths, needs, and legal rightssetting clear goals and evaluating progressadvocating effectively for themselves in formal settingsdetermining and securing appropriate accommodationscommunicating preferences and interestsaccepting responsibility for areas where improvement is neededparticipating fully in discussions about post-school plans and needs Destined to elevate future standards for the IEP process, this compelling and accessible book will help teachers ensure customized, highly effective educational plans for students of all ages. Teachers will empower students to take a lead role in directing their education, advocating for support, and shaping a bright, self-determined future. Bring students into the IEP process withMore than 100 quick tips and practical strategies from teacher focus groupsStep-by-step guidance for increasing student involvement at any levelA wide range of case |
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Gospels to Go: Guidance and Inspiration for Teachers $18 This book is intended for everyone who believes in or has a stake in Catholic education, especially teachers and catechists. Based on the readings of St. Mark, it focuses on Jesus as teacher, making him come alive before us. Our titles help all catholic educators and administrators have the professional resources to meet the highest standards of excellence in Catholic education. We provide resources for school, parish, diocesan offices, professional organizations and higher education institutions. Some of the areas we publish in include:Administration and PlanningClassroom MaterialsLegal IssuesStaff DevelopmentGovernance BoardsReligious EducationResearch and HistoryRecruitmentCurriculumDevelopmentSeminary EducationMulticultural IssuesTechnology |
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Great Ideas: Using Service-Learning and Differentiated Instruction to Help your Students Succeed $34.95 Classrooms across the country are discovering the power of service–learning—the ideal way to help students develop social and academic skills while giving back to their community. Now for the first time, there’s a practical how-to guide on using serving–learning to promote inclusion and differentiate instruction for students with and without disabilities.Much more than "community service," service–learning activities help improve outcomes for all students because they’re carefully linked to the curriculum and IEP goals. This book shows K-12 educators and administrators exactly how the service–learning approachhelps students with and without disabilities meet academic standards facilitates generalization as students transfer what they learn from the classroom to the real world works with both student-directed and teacher-mediated instructional approaches fosters strong classroom communities where all students help and learn from each other builds students’ functional life skills and encourages the development of special talents enhances job skills and work experience so students are better prepared for their future careers helps students develop a positive self-image as they provide valuable services to their communityReaders will get a complete guide to every step of service–learning, from planning and funding service activities to monitoring the results and sustaining a schoolwide service-learning program. And the 30+ practical forms help educators assign student roles, determine necessary resources, differentiate instruction, evaluatewhat students are learning, and more. A fresh, hands-on guide to inclusion that goes beyond coteaching, collaboration, or accommodations, this highly practical book will help educators make the most of every student’s unique abilities—and build better communities inside and |
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Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children $49.38 Among the many changes to sweep American literacy education has been a move toward whole class instruction. Nonetheless, children still bring to literacy a wide range of experiences and competencies. How, then, might teachers best support a literate community yet still meet the needs of individual readers? For Fountas and Pinnell, the answer lies in guided reading, which allows children to develop as individual readers within the context of a small group. Their new book is the richest, most comprehensive guided reading resource available today and the first systematic offering of instructional support for guided reading adherents. Guided Reading was written for K-3 classroom teachers, reading resource teachers, teacher educators, preservice teachers, researchers, administrators, and staff developers. Based on the authors’ nine years of research and development, it explains how to create a balanced literacy program based on guided reading and supported by read aloud, shared reading, interactive writing, and other approaches. While there is an entire chapter devoted solely to the process by which children become literate, every chapter clearly presents the theoretical underpinnings of the practices it suggests. Also included are guidelines for: observation and assessment dynamic grouping of readers creating sets of leveled books selecting and introducing books teaching for strategies classroom management. Best of all, there are well over 2,500 leveled books in the Appendixes, along with many other reproducible resources that teachers will use for years to come. “Good first teaching is the foundation of education and the right of every child,” assert the authors. With the publication of this book, educators themselves will find the foundation in reading skills instruction they so rightly deserve. |
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Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children $5.82 Among the many changes to sweep American literacy education has been a move toward whole class instruction. Nonetheless, children still bring to literacy a wide range of experiences and competencies. How, then, might teachers best support a literate community yet still meet the needs of individual readers? For Fountas and Pinnell, the answer lies in guided reading, which allows children to develop as individual readers within the context of a small group. Their new book is the richest, most comprehensive guided reading resource available today and the first systematic offering of instructional support for guided reading adherents. Guided Reading was written for K-3 classroom teachers, reading resource teachers, teacher educators, preservice teachers, researchers, administrators, and staff developers. Based on the authors’ nine years of research and development, it explains how to create a balanced literacy program based on guided reading and supported by read aloud, shared reading, interactive writing, and other approaches. While there is an entire chapter devoted solely to the process by which children become literate, every chapter clearly presents the theoretical underpinnings of the practices it suggests. Also included are guidelines for: observation and assessment dynamic grouping of readers creating sets of leveled books selecting and introducing books teaching for strategies classroom management. Best of all, there are well over 2,500 leveled books in the Appendixes, along with many other reproducible resources that teachers will use for years to come. “Good first teaching is the foundation of education and the right of every child,” assert the authors. With the publication of this book, educators themselves will find the foundation in reading skills instruction they so rightly deserve. |
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Handbook For Arabic Language Teaching Professionals In The 21st Century $78.65 This landmark volume offers an introduction to the field of teaching Arabic as a foreign or second language. Recent growth in student numbers and the demand for new and more diverse Arabic language programs of instruction have created a need that has outpaced the ability of teacher preparation programs to provide sufficient numbers of well-qualified professional teachers at the level of skill required. Arabic language program administrators anticipate that the increases in enrollment will continue into the next decades. More resources and more varied materials are seriously needed in Arabic teacher education and training. The goal of this Handbook is to address that need.The most significant feature of this volume is its pioneer role in approaching the field of Arabic language teaching from many different perspectives. It offers readers the opportunity to consider the role, status, and content of Arabic language teaching in the world today. The Handbook is intended as a resource to be used in building Arabic language and teacher education programs and in guiding future academic research. Thirty-four chapters authored by leaders in the field are organized around nine themes:Background of Arabic Language Teaching;Contexts of Arabic Language Teaching;Communicative Competence in Arabic;The Learners;Assessment;Technology Applications;Curriculum Development, Design, and Models;Arabic Language Program Administration and Management; andPlanning for the Future of Arabic Language Learning and Teaching.The Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century will benefit and be welcomed by Arabic language teacher educators and trainers, administrators, graduate students, and scholars around the world. It is intended to create dialogue among scholars and professionals in the field and in related fields—dialogue |
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How to Reach and Teach Children with Challenging Behavior (K-8): Practical, Ready-To-Use Interventions That Work $352.82 New – “Interventions for students who exhibit challenging behavior Written by behavior specialists Kaye Otten and Jodie Tuttle–who together have 40 years of experience working with students with challenging behavior in classroom settings–this book offers educators a practical approach to managing problem behavior in schools. It is filled with down-to-earth advice, ready-to-use forms, troubleshooting tips, recommended resources, and teacher-tested strategies. Using this book, teachers are bette |
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How to Reach and Teach Children with Challenging Behavior (K-8): Practical, Ready-To-Use Interventions That Work $352.82 New – “Interventions for students who exhibit challenging behavior Written by behavior specialists Kaye Otten and Jodie Tuttle–who together have 40 years of experience working with students with challenging behavior in classroom settings–this book offers educators a practical approach to managing problem behavior in schools. It is filled with down-to-earth advice, ready-to-use forms, troubleshooting tips, recommended resources, and teacher-tested strategies. Using this book, teachers are bette |
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How to Reach and Teach Children with Challenging Behavior (K-8): Practical, Ready-To-Use Interventions That Work $17.06 New – Interventions for students who exhibit challenging behavior Written by behavior specialists Kaye Otten and Jodie Tuttle–who together have 40 years of experience working with students with challenging behavior in classroom settings–this book offers educators a practical approach to managing problem behavior in schools. It is filled with down-to-earth advice, ready-to-use forms, troubleshooting tips, recommended resources, and teacher-tested strategies. Using this book, teachers are bette |
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How to Reach and Teach Children with Challenging Behavior (K-8): Practical, Ready-To-Use Interventions That Work $352.82 New – “Interventions for students who exhibit challenging behavior Written by behavior specialists Kaye Otten and Jodie Tuttle–who together have 40 years of experience working with students with challenging behavior in classroom settings–this book offers educators a practical approach to managing problem behavior in schools. It is filled with down-to-earth advice, ready-to-use forms, troubleshooting tips, recommended resources, and teacher-tested strategies. Using this book, teachers are bette |
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How to Reach and Teach Children with Challenging Behavior (K-8): Practical, Ready-To-Use Interventions That Work $17.21 Used – Interventions for students who exhibit challenging behavior Written by behavior specialists Kaye Otten and Jodie Tuttle–who together have 40 years of experience working with students with challenging behavior in classroom settings–this book offers educators a practical approach to managing problem behavior in schools. It is filled with down-to-earth advice, ready-to-use forms, troubleshooting tips, recommended resources, and teacher-tested strategies. Using this book, teachers are bett |
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Improving Learning in College: Rethinking Literacies Across the Curriculum $41.95 What’s the problem with literacy at college? How might everyday literacy be harnessed for educational ends?Based on the first major study of literacy practices in colleges in the UK, this book explores the reading and writing associated with learning subjects across the college curriculum. It investigates literacy practices in which students engage outside of college, and teaching and learning strategies through which these can help support the curriculum. With insightful analyses of innovative practices, it considers ways of changing teaching practices to enable students to draw upon their full potential.Recent research work has challenged the myth of individual student deficit, arguing cogently that people have ‘funds of knowledge’ from diverse and vibrant cultural roots, and that these have been misguidedly disqualified by the education system. It has claimed that different ‘ways with words’ can provide valuable resources for learning. However, the empirical exploration of this claim has lagged far behind the theoretical debate. Improving Learning in College resolves this by showing the integrity and richness of the literacy practices of a significant population, not previously the focus of such research: those who take vocational and academic college courses in colleges. It addresses an issue which has not until now been developed within this research tradition: that of how these practices can not only be valued and validated, but mobilised and harnessed to enhance learning in educational settings.This book will interest all teachers, teacher-educators and researchers concerned with post-compulsory education and vocational education in compulsory schooling. |
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Inspiring Elementary Learners: Nurturing the Whole Child in a Differentiated Classroom $52 Used – “”One of the very few professional resources that I could not put down. I recommend this book to every teacher I work with, and I use it every day in my work with teachers and students.”"-Diane Fleming, Advanced Placement CoordinatorSioux City Community Schools, IA”"This is differentiation at its best! This valuable resource provides the tools necessary to meet the wide range of student needs and abilities within a classroom. It will be a timeless resource that all educators will want on |
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Inspiring Elementary Learners: Nurturing the Whole Child in a Differentiated Classroom $52 New – “”One of the very few professional resources that I could not put down. I recommend this book to every teacher I work with, and I use it every day in my work with teachers and students.”"-Diane Fleming, Advanced Placement CoordinatorSioux City Community Schools, IA”"This is differentiation at its best! This valuable resource provides the tools necessary to meet the wide range of student needs and abilities within a classroom. It will be a timeless resource that all educators will want on t |
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Inspiring Elementary Learners: Nurturing the Whole Child in a Differentiated Classroom $93.68 New – “”One of the very few professional resources that I could not put down. I recommend this book to every teacher I work with, and I use it every day in my work with teachers and students.”"-Diane Fleming, Advanced Placement CoordinatorSioux City Community Schools, IA”"This is differentiation at its best! This valuable resource provides the tools necessary to meet the wide range of student needs and abilities within a classroom. It will be a timeless resource that all educators will want on t |
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Inspiring Elementary Learners: Nurturing the Whole Child in a Differentiated Classroom $93.68 Used – “”One of the very few professional resources that I could not put down. I recommend this book to every teacher I work with, and I use it every day in my work with teachers and students.”"-Diane Fleming, Advanced Placement CoordinatorSioux City Community Schools, IA”"This is differentiation at its best! This valuable resource provides the tools necessary to meet the wide range of student needs and abilities within a classroom. It will be a timeless resource that all educators will want on |
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It’s Never Too Late: Leading Adolescents to Lifelong Literacy $35 It’s Never Too Late is a research chronicle that offers not only proven methods but also inspiration. Anyone working with “at risk” students – those for whom school has not been a place of success – will find here a reflection of their own experiences, plus thoughtful and creative strategies for making those experiences positive ones. When Janet Allen, a respected lecturer, researcher, and award-winning teacher, began teaching in 1972, she was wholly unprepared for the challenges she encountered: motivating the unmotivated, developing a curriculum with no models to draw from, building an environment that supported strategic learning, finding creative resources with limited means, and dealing with reluctant, even rebellious students. More daunting, perhaps, was the challenge of constantly rekindling her own fervor for teaching. But she persevered and found ways to break through those obstacles. It’s Never Too Late is at once a story and a “how to” book. Readers will find absorbing case studies, photographs, quotes from educators, surveys, activities, and step by-step strategies for teaching reading and writing to the most reluctant middle and secondary school students. Most important, they will find affirmation for the powerful role they play as teachers. |
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Kindling the Spark: Recognizing and Developing Musical Talent $12.26 Gathering perspectives of musical talent from the psychological, musical, and educational fields, Kindling the Spark is the only single sourcebook that defines musical talent and provides practical strategies for identifying and nurturing it. Joanne Haroutounian uses her experience as teacher, researcher, and parent to clarify central issues concerning talent recognition and development in a way that will easily appeal to a wide audience. The book describes the different stages of development in musical training, including guidelines for finding a suitable teacher at different levels, social and psychological aspects that impact musical training, and research on talent development by ages and stages from infancy and preschool years through the teen years. An important feature of the book are “sparkler exercises” designed to provoke observable talent behavior in home, school, and studio settings. The book also includes an Appendix of Resources which lists books, media, organizations, and specialized schools that offer additional information on musical talent, identification, and development. For music educators in both public school and private studio settings–as well as for parents and their musically inclined children–Kindling the Spark provides an invaluable summary of the research on talent and a wealth of resources for developing it. |
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Leading, Teaching, And Making Disciples $32.32 “Whether parent, volunteer teacher, or experienced religious educator, a believing leader is in the vanguard of those commissioned with the exciting challenge of nurturing spiritual growth in others. Effectively accomplishing their mission, however, is dependent upon acquisition of the essential equipment and necessary training. Leading, Teaching, and Making Disciples makes a significant contribution to that preparation. It provides critical resources for both the novice and veteran Christian worker by offering a crucial collection of scholarly insights, personal experiences, and practical applications designed specifically for disciple-makers in the church, school, and home.Leading, Teaching, and Making Disciples chronicles author Michael Mitchell’s educational pilgrimage and asserts his conviction that God has provided a design for making disciple-followers. Reflecting upon biblical wisdom affirmed by nearly four decades of frontline experience, he produces unique and practical models for teaching and leading. His work identifies and integrates the strategic ideas that promote excellence in discipleship and produce service that is truly great and global.Living out the principles and procedures laid out in Leading, Teaching, and Making Disciples will enable both emerging and seasoned Christian educators to become world-class servants. Here, readers will encounter the keys to effective missional ministry. They will also come to a better understanding of the content and context of education and how to separate the chaff from the wheat in the vast field of available information.” |
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Leading, Teaching, And Making Disciples $43.95 “Whether parent, volunteer teacher, or experienced religious educator, a believing leader is in the vanguard of those commissioned with the exciting challenge of nurturing spiritual growth in others. Effectively accomplishing their mission, however, is dependent upon acquisition of the essential equipment and necessary training. Leading, Teaching, and Making Disciples makes a significant contribution to that preparation. It provides critical resources for both the novice and veteran Christian worker by offering a crucial collection of scholarly insights, personal experiences, and practical applications designed specifically for disciple-makers in the church, school, and home.Leading, Teaching, and Making Disciples chronicles author Michael Mitchell’s educational pilgrimage and asserts his conviction that God has provided a design for making disciple-followers. Reflecting upon biblical wisdom affirmed by nearly four decades of frontline experience, he produces unique and practical models for teaching and leading. His work identifies and integrates the strategic ideas that promote excellence in discipleship and produce service that is truly great and global.Living out the principles and procedures laid out in Leading, Teaching, and Making Disciples will enable both emerging and seasoned Christian educators to become world-class servants. Here, readers will encounter the keys to effective missional ministry. They will also come to a better understanding of the content and context of education and how to separate the chaff from the wheat in the vast field of available information.” |
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Learning To Teach Everyone’s Children $131.95 Become a more effective teacher with LEARNING TO TEACH EVERYONE”S CHILDREN! Educators in the United States face unique challenges posed by this era’’s great technological, geopolitical, economic, demographic and educational change. The authors recognize these challenges and equip you with the information and understanding you need to rise to the challenge. Tools such as Getting Connected provide you with valuable information on an array of professional and other organizations that can be called upon to help with difficult professional issues, to locate special materials, and resources to increase professional knowledge. With features such as Finding a Voice, What Parents Want, and chapter-opening vignettes, the authors challenge you to strive to make education better for all students. |
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Learning from Cases: Unraveling the Complexities of Elementary Science Teaching $54.74 B> A helpful resource for pre-service and in-service teachers to use as a problem-solving vehicle for science teaching and learning at the elementary school level. This book contextualizes the dilemmas and challenges of elementary science teaching through the narrative cases of prospective and practicing teachers, science teacher educators, informal science educators, and scientists. Eachchapter contains three or four cases that are organized around such topics as: assessment, language, inquiry-based instruction, diversity, conceptual understanding, and professional development. These case abstracts summarize the challenges that are featured in each scenario, and give the readers appropriate responses, as well as differing perspectives on the dilemma central to each case. Questions for reflection immediately follow each case, and provide questions to facilitate and engage groups of teachers in case discussions. Resources to consider at the end of each chapter lists and briefly describe helpful resources related to the chapter topic. The book is an excellent resource for pre-service and in-service teachers interested in improving their understanding of science teaching and learning. |
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Learning to Teach Everyone’s Children: Equity, Empowerment, and Education that is Multicultural $131.95 Become a more effective teacher with LEARNING TO TEACH EVERYONE’S CHILDREN! Educators in the United States face unique challenges posed by this era’s great technological, geopolitical, economic, demographic and educational change. The authors recognize these challenges and equip you with the information and understanding you need to rise to the challenge. Tools such as Getting Connected provide you with valuable information on an array of professional and other organizations that can be called upon to help with difficult professional issues, to locate special materials, and resources to increase professional knowledge. With features such as Finding a Voice, What Parents Want, and chapter-opening vignettes, the authors challenge you to strive to make education better for all students. |
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Learning to Teach Everyone’s Children: Equity, Empowerment, and Education that is Multicultural $4.1 Become a more effective teacher with LEARNING TO TEACH EVERYONE’S CHILDREN! Educators in the United States face unique challenges posed by this era’s great technological, geopolitical, economic, demographic and educational change. The authors recognize these challenges and equip you with the information and understanding you need to rise to the challenge. Tools such as Getting Connected provide you with valuable information on an array of professional and other organizations that can be called upon to help with difficult professional issues, to locate special materials, and resources to increase professional knowledge. With features such as Finding a Voice, What Parents Want, and chapter-opening vignettes, the authors challenge you to strive to make education better for all students. |
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Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach $38.93 Literacy for the 21st Century is the number #1 reading book preferred by teacher educators, future teachers, and in-service teachers. The book continues to offer the most balanced approach to literacy instruction on the market today, while providing the clearest look into successful literacy teaching. The new 4th Edition has been thoroughly revised to address the realities of today’s classroom and to provide invaluable practical resources your students will want to keep for use in their own classroom. For Literacy Teachers, In-service & Pre-service Teachers, and Reading Specialists. |
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Living the Questions: A Guide for Teacher-Researchers $28.5 Most of all, teacher research is a gift: to the profession, in helping us change the way we see old problems and bringing us new solutions; to research communities, in showing us new research strategies and how to take risks in writing up research; to ourselves, in reminding us of the energy and passion in learning that made us teachers in the first place. It is a gift that we’re all working hard for…from Living the QuestionsTeachers know that the research they undertake in their own classrooms is a powerful tool for many purposes—from finding the best way to teach a subject, to organizing student work and activities, to assessing children’s learning. And like traditional approaches to inquiry, teacher research is more than a way of thinking: it involves specific procedures and practices that lead to positive changes in teaching and learning.Living the Questions is the definitive resource for the methods of teacher research. With a consistent tone that is eloquent and passionate, this guide for novice and veteran teacher-researchers will challenge and inspire educators at all levels to see the potential for inquiry in their lives.Part research text, part contributed collection, Living the Questions includes:research strategies illustrated in hands-on workshops;sample projects from twenty-eight contributing teachers in grades K-college;guidelines for setting up schoolwide inquiry groups;practical strategies for managing time and resources in research projects;innovative ideas for enlisting students and colleagues as co-researchers;ethical considerations in teacher research projects;advice from veteran teacher-researchers on building regional and national support networks;suggestions for getting research published;internet resources for teacher-researchers;the role of administrators in fostering teacher |
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Motivating and Inspiring Teachers: The Educational Leaders’ Guide for Building Staff Morale $41.86 This title is available as an eBook (PDF) on Scribd. You will be prompted to sign up for a free Scribd account. You can read the eBook on the Scribd website or on your computer using the free reader Adobe Digital Editions.Like the best-selling first edition, this book is filled with strategies to motivate your staff and maintain a high level of energy at your school. This guide will help all educators approach work every day in an enthusiastic, focused, and positive state of mind. This book will help you—• Motivate your faculty with the Friday Focus – a staff memo that works!• Understand the power of praise and how to best utilize it every day• Make sure staff meetings, teacher evaluation, and daily activities raise the energy level in your school.• Maximize the holidays, open house nights, and other special events the make your staff feel specialThe second edition includes even more tools and resources for improving and sustaining morale. The four new chapters include—• Teacher Leaders• Sharpening your Focus• Showing Off Your School• Feeling Better through Fitness and Wellness |
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Multicultural and Multilingual Literacy and Language: Contexts and Practices $35 Within a clear conceptual framework, this book explores ways that teachers, reading specialists, administrators, and teacher educators can provide more effective literacy instruction to K–9 students from diverse ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds. Cutting-edge theory and research is interwoven with detailed case studies that bring to life the complexities of teaching in today’s multicultural and multilingual classroom. Topics covered include:*How and why culture matters in literacy instruction*Drawing on students’ multiple literacies in the classroom*Motivating and engaging English-language learners*Steps that teachers can take to heighten their cultural awareness and skills*Tapping into family and community resources for literacy learning |
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Myths and Realities: Best Practices for English Language Learners (Second Edition) $14 A lot has changed since the first edition of Myths and Realities, yet the trends in education are as undeniable as they were then: English language learners (ELLs) constitute the fastest growing population in U.S. schools and their teachers face an increasingly challenging educational context. For teachers and other educators, acquiring the understanding and skills to help ELLs succeed academically is more urgent than ever.That’s why Katharine Davies Samway and Denise McKeon have returned to update the myths they challenged in the first edition of Myths and Realities, address new ones that have arisen since, and discuss how teachers of ELLs can ensure that their students will fare well in the era of No Child Left Behind. Written for any teacher or education professional, Myths and Realities, Second Edition, is an invaluable resource for clarifying persistent misunderstandings about what second language learners can do, what they need, and what methods work best for them. In an easy-to-read format Samway and McKeon state often-heard myths about ELLs and then address the reality. They follow up with support for the reality they describe, citing the most recent and most pertinent research, outlining implications for instruction, and illustrating it all with vignettes drawn from real classrooms. Myths and Realites, Second Edition,helps you replace misinformation about ELLs with crucial knowledge important to everyone working with second language learners, including information on: second language acquisition assessment, programming, and placement staffing and staff development involving parents and the community literacy development and teaching. Myths and Realities, Second Edition includes a glossary that defines the field’s changing and often-confusing acronyms and terms as well as an annotated list of helpful resources, featuring the latest and |
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Myths and Realities: Best Practices for English Language Learners (Second Edition) $29.38 A lot has changed since the first edition of Myths and Realities, yet the trends in education are as undeniable as they were then: English language learners (ELLs) constitute the fastest growing population in U.S. schools and their teachers face an increasingly challenging educational context. For teachers and other educators, acquiring the understanding and skills to help ELLs succeed academically is more urgent than ever.That’s why Katharine Davies Samway and Denise McKeon have returned to update the myths they challenged in the first edition of Myths and Realities, address new ones that have arisen since, and discuss how teachers of ELLs can ensure that their students will fare well in the era of No Child Left Behind. Written for any teacher or education professional, Myths and Realities, Second Edition, is an invaluable resource for clarifying persistent misunderstandings about what second language learners can do, what they need, and what methods work best for them. In an easy-to-read format Samway and McKeon state often-heard myths about ELLs and then address the reality. They follow up with support for the reality they describe, citing the most recent and most pertinent research, outlining implications for instruction, and illustrating it all with vignettes drawn from real classrooms. Myths and Realites, Second Edition,helps you replace misinformation about ELLs with crucial knowledge important to everyone working with second language learners, including information on: second language acquisition assessment, programming, and placement staffing and staff development involving parents and the community literacy development and teaching. Myths and Realities, Second Edition includes a glossary that defines the field’s changing and often-confusing acronyms and terms as well as an annotated list of helpful resources, featuring the latest and |
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NETS*S Curriculum Series: Multidisciplinary Units for Grades 6-8 $2.5 Third in a series of grade-specific curricular resources, this useful addition to the NETS library focuses on the critical middle school years. More than 20 experienced educators contributed to this volume, covering the core content areas of language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and cultural arts each with several months worth of lesson plans. Introductory essays address technology integration issues for all types of middle school classrooms and environments. Additional resources include relevant Web and literature citations, assessment strategies, interdisciplinary lesson extenders, and keys to the NETS and content area standards.FEATURESReady-to-use lesson plans supporting technology integration for Grades 6-8Classroom strategies appropriate for multidisciplinary learning and teachingMaterials useful for teacher training and professional developmentAlso available:Multiple Intelligences and Instructional Technology: Second Edition – ISBN 156484188XTeaching with Digital Images: Acquire, Analyze, Create, Communicate – ISBN 1564842193 |
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National Educational Technology Standards for Students $13.95 First introduced in 1998, the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project is an ongoing initiative of the International Society for Technology in Education. In a unique partnership with teachers and teacher educators, curriculum and education associations, government, businesses, and private foundations, ISTE has responded to calls for educational technology standards, curriculum, and tools with its NETS Project. The primary goal of the NETS Project is to enable stakeholders in PK-12 education to develop national standards for educational uses of technology that facilitate school improvement. The NETS Project works to define standards for students, integrating curriculum, technology, and standards for student assessment and evaluation of technology use. Forty-nine of the 50 U.S. states have adopted, adapted, or referenced the NETS in state department of education documents.As technology, resources, practices, and assessments changed over time, it became necessary to review and refresh the standards. This full-color booklet includes the entire revised text of the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS*S). Also included are a discussion of the need for technology standards, a project overview offering historical perspective on the NETS*S and a summary of the refresh process, student profiles and examples, and the results of a scenario survey.Also available:101 Best Web Sites for Teacher Tools and Professional Development – ISBN 1564842274Teachers as Technology Leaders: A Guide to ISTE Technology Facilitation and Technology Leadership Accreditation – ISBN 1564842266 |
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New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Principles of Effective Teaching in the Online Classroom, No. 84 Winter 2000 $7.19 This issue of New Directions for Teaching and Learning presents the theory and practice of creating effective courses in the emerging field of online teaching. Drawing from their practical experience in faculty development, instructional design, and online instruction, the authors present an overview of the pedagogical and logistical issues associated with this rapidly expanding area of distance education. They explore the transition for both teacher and student from traditional professor-centered methods of education to the student-centered learning experience necessary in the online environment. They offer practical guidelines on structuring the online course, utilizing resources from the World Wide Web, and using other electronic tools and technology to enhance classroom efficiency. Chapters also address challenges unique to the online classroom community including successful communication strategies, performance evaluation, academic integrity, and accessibility for disabled students. With insightful information on what it takes to produce substantive learning among students in the online classroom, this issue is designed to familiarize educators with the tools and techniques they will need to realize the potential of this new approach to teaching and learning. |
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Opening the Research Text $90.56 New – An innovative contribution to educational research is to be found in this book. The book addresses the need to generate texts that assist educators and future educators in taking up new research and making sense of it. It offers unique approaches to interpreting research within the mathematics education field and takes its place in a growing set of resources. The book will appeal to teacher educators, student teachers, and mathematics education researchers alike. |
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Opening the Research Text $90.56 Used – An innovative contribution to educational research is to be found in this book. The book addresses the need to generate texts that assist educators and future educators in taking up new research and making sense of it. It offers unique approaches to interpreting research within the mathematics education field and takes its place in a growing set of resources. The book will appeal to teacher educators, student teachers, and mathematics education researchers alike. |
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Paving the Way in Reading and Writing: Strategies and Activities to Support Struggling Students in Grades 6-12 $0.99 Paving the Way in Reading and Writing offers secondary teachers from across the content areas a structured approach for motivating reluctant and disengaged students to tackle difficult reading and writing assignments and thus boost their potential for academic success. Drawing on relevant theory and research and the author’s extensive experience as a teacher and teacher trainer, the book presents an arsenal of practical instructional strategies along with teacher-tested tools, techniques, and activities for helping students improve their comprehension of informational and literary text as well as strengthen their written communications. Activities combining reading and writing tasks are emphasized along with graphic exercises for engaging the more visually oriented students. The book also provides guidance on using the computer as a literacy tool and on improving students’ grammar, spelling, and research skills. In addition, it offers extensive listings of web-based instructional resources. “Lewin’s emphasis on effective instruction that integrates both reading and writing offers me just what I want most from a book: useful classroom strategies based on both research and master teacher’s experience with real kids. . . . a welcome addition to my toolbox of useful books.” — Jim Burke, author, The English Teacher’s Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession and The Reader’s Handbook: A Student Guide for Reading and Learning “Paves the way for secondary teachers to get excited again about teaching reading and writing. Lewin reminds us ‘with fresh ideas’ how important surprise and variety are in sparking the adolescent intellect.” — Shelly Curtsinger, Irving High School Reading Teacher “Friendly and practical . . . . Educators at all levels will find this easy to use.” — Merdith Pike-Baky, teacher and consultant, Bay Area Writing Project and project |
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Piano and Laylee Learn about Acceptable Use Policies $9.29 Used – In school, Piano logs in to a game using Laylees password, which prompts their teacher, Miss Paige, to give a lesson on the schools Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The class learns what an AUP is and why it is so important. ISTE is excited to announce our first books for early readers! The titles in the Piano and Laylee Learning Adventures Series are invaluable resources for educators and parents wanting to introduce digital citizenship concepts to children aged 5-9. Designed to be read to a |
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Piano and Laylee Learn about Acceptable Use Policies $9.29 New – In school, Piano logs in to a game using Laylees password, which prompts their teacher, Miss Paige, to give a lesson on the schools Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The class learns what an AUP is and why it is so important. ISTE is excited to announce our first books for early readers! The titles in the Piano and Laylee Learning Adventures Series are invaluable resources for educators and parents wanting to introduce digital citizenship concepts to children aged 5-9. Designed to be read to an |
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Piano and Laylee Learn about Acceptable Use Policies $7.63 New – In school, Piano logs in to a game using Laylees password, which prompts their teacher, Miss Paige, to give a lesson on the schools Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The class learns what an AUP is and why it is so important. ISTE is excited to announce our first books for early readers! The titles in the Piano and Laylee Learning Adventures Series are invaluable resources for educators and parents wanting to introduce digital citizenship concepts to children aged 5-9. Designed to be read to an |
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Piano and Laylee Learn about Acceptable Use Policies $5.82 Used – In school, Piano logs in to a game using Laylees password, which prompts their teacher, Miss Paige, to give a lesson on the schools Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The class learns what an AUP is and why it is so important. ISTE is excited to announce our first books for early readers! The titles in the Piano and Laylee Learning Adventures Series are invaluable resources for educators and parents wanting to introduce digital citizenship concepts to children aged 5-9. Designed to be read to a |
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Planet Health – 2nd Edition: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Teaching Middle School Nutrition and Physical Activity $13.19 The second edition of Planet Health: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Teaching Middle School Nutrition and Physical Activity offers an innovative approach to teaching health education. You can use this proven, evidence-based curriculum to teach students about nutrition and physical activity while helping them build skills and competencies in language arts, math, science, social studies, and physical education. The curriculum is designed for use by teachers in core academic areas as well as in physical education and health. This new edition includes revised nutrition and physical activity information, ensuring that you’re equipped with the most up-to-date science. The book also includes an all-new CD-ROM with plenty of reproducible worksheets, parent information and newsletters, school health resources, and other teacher resource materials. Like the popular first edition, Planet Health provides-35 complete, ready-to-use lesson plans and 31 microunits that promote healthy nutrition and activity; -materials and instructions to implement Power Down, a two-week campaign to reduce television and other media viewing time, which you can launch in the classroom or school-wide; and -FitCheck, a self-assessment tool to help students track and improve their activity levels. In addition, the book includes access to a Web site, which features a teacher training PowerPoint presentation, a Planet Heath FAQ, and more. Planet Health, Second Edition, encourages students to think holistically about how health behaviors are interrelated, and it offers a constructivist approach to teaching and learning. With this approach, you can build on your students’ knowledge and experiences to create an active, inquiry-based, student-centered learning environment—one in which students learn best as they construct meaning for themselves. Developed by educators and scientists at the Harvard School of Public |
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Playing Games in School: Video Games and Simulations for Primary and Secondary Education $42.95 Millions of people around the world spend billions of dollars and countless hours playing video games. Imagine if teachers could harness this power of engagement to nurture a love of learning among their students. With this robust collection of articles, editor Atsusi ”2c” Hirumi encourages educators to explore the benefits of interactive entertainment in education. The contributors offer information that will help educators make informed decisions about how games can be played to facilitate learning, including how to locate, select, and integrate games in meaningful and effective ways. Playing Games in School focuses this analysis on four topics: why games should be a part of education, the availability of games in four core subjects and physical education, selecting and integrating games in school, and alternate perspectives on game-based learning. Each chapter takes an in-depth look at research or case studies on topics including how today’s students differ from previous generations, integrating games into the classroom with instructional strategies, incorporating gamebased learning without computers, commercial off-the-shelf games, virtual environments, and more. The additional resources throughout the book, such as lists of guidelines and a technology consent form template, assist educators as they integrate this compelling form of instruction into their classrooms.The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is the trusted source for professional development, knowledge generation, advocacy and leadership for innovation. ISTE is the premier membership association for educators and education leaders engaged in improving teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education. Home of the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), the Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (CARET), and ISTE’s annual conference (formerly known as the National Educational Computing |
