100 Ideas for Teaching Citizenship (Continuum One Hundreds)
by Ian Davies
The '100 Tips' series gives 100 invaluable and practical ideas for teachers of all levels. Citizenship has recently become a compulsory subject within secondary education. Ian Davies gives teachers 100 practical ideas on how to incorporate citizenship into all aspects of teaching.
Planning for Learning
Planning is a key element in enriching and enlarging teachers' repertoires and ensuring effective instruction that supports students' academic achievement. Drawing on practices from many different areas of education in the United States and throughout the world, Planning for Learning presents an approach to lesson planning and evaluation that will work in today's diverse school settings. A rich resource for professional development, this book demonstrates collaborative lesson planning for teache...
Eric Jensen-a leading expert in the translation of brain research into education, argues in Enriching the Brain that we greatly underestimate students' achievement capacity. Drawing from a wide range of neuroscience research as well as related studies, Jensen reveals that the human brain is far more dynamic and malleable than we earlier believed. He offers us a powerful new understanding of how the brain can be "enriched," across the board to maximize learning, memory, behavior and overall funct...
Crowd Control is a nuts-and-bolts manual for teachers of middle and high school performance-based classes such as band, orchestra, and chorus. This practical "how-to" guide shows teachers—pre-serviced or experienced—efficient ways to manage large performance-based classrooms. With wit and sage tried-and-true advice, Haugland provides a complete behavior plan as well as concrete ideas for addressing the National Standards, assessment, advocacy, and ensemble teambuilding. Accessible and indispensa...
Creating a Learner-centred Primary Classroom
by Kath Murdoch and Jeni Wilson
Creating a Learner-centred Primary Classroom is an essential resource to improve teaching practice, examining the key elements that contribute to a learner-centred classroom and offering strategies to encourage children to take a shared role in their learning. Including case studies describing teachers' methods for linking theory to practice, this user-friendly, photocopiable resource demonstrates how to: construct a learning communityencourage collaborative learningshare strategies for enga...
Teaching Kids to Pause, Cope, and Connect
by Mark Purcell and Kellen Glinder
Yo-yos, roller skates, and rubber bands may be found in every school kid's closet, but they are also part of this ingenious book that shows how to use toys to teach science. Inertia, kinetic energy, the laws of motion, and other basic physics principles are introduced in more than 30 fun and easy-to-perform activities. Each activity contains cross-curricular ideas and lesson extensions, so you can easily extend your physics lessons to other parts of the curriculum. Appropriate for grades K -- 9.
Fantastic mazes, crossnumber puzzles, riddle searches, and mini-mysteries provide surefire, fun ways to teach and reinforce basic math skills.
One sunny afternoon in 1982, a young businessman experienced a terrifying mugging in New York City that shook him to his core. Tortured by nightmares about the teens who roughed him up, Steve Mariotti sought counseling. When his therapist suggested that he face his fears, Mariotti closed his small import-export business and became a teacher at the city's most notorious public school--Boys and Girls High in Bed-Stuy. Although his nightmares promptly ceased, Mariotti's out-of-control studen...
Science Instruction in the Middle and Secondary Schools
by Eugene L. Chiappetta and Thomas R. Koballa
For courses in Secondary Science Methods. Science Instruction in the Middle and Secondary Schools: Developing Fundamental Knowledge and Skills for Teaching has been thoroughly revised to provide the initial scaffolding needed by beginning teachers to understand and enact the basics of science teaching and learning. This new edition includes six new introductory chapters focusing on the basic functions of science teaching-purpose, planning, teaching, managing, and assessing.
Teacher Record Book Teachers Plant The Seeds Of Knowledge That Last A Lifetime (Teaching Resources, #1)
by Lovely Teacher
Eliciting Children's Full Potential is an excellent resource for the recreation of high-quality programs for young children ages three to eight that helps readers to develop a deeper understanding of the cognitive-developmental model, including how it is like and unlike other child-centered models and how it links theory with classroom practice; design and implement programs from a cross-cultural, inclusionary perspective, providing intellectual challenge, stimulating creative thinking, and stre...