This book features 68 performance tasks and rubrics, all designed to motivate and engage your students. Also included are samples of student work to help you apply the rubrics and develop your grading
This book shows administrators and teachers what they can do to make their students' ninth grade experience a successful one. Practical and research-based, this book showcases strategies to help you r
Educator's spend so much time taking care of others that we sometimes forget to take care of ourselves! This book will help teachers, principals, professors, and all educators find time in our busy sc
Ferlazzo, a high school English and social studies teacher, explains how to get students to motivate themselves. He argues that students need to learn content knowledge and higher-order thinking skill
Arneson (principal, Edge Elementary School) presents a guide to effective communication between school leaders and teachers. Intended for principals and administrators who are experiencing difficulty
Benjamin, a former English teacher who is a literacy education specialist and consultant, explains 10 strategies that connect English literacy skills to math in the third through ninth grades. The str
Vocabulary at the Core, the expanded and updated edition of Vocabulary at the Center (c 2009), is the definitive guide for every teacher engaged in helping students learn essential academic vocabulary
Provides detailed instructional strategies, sample lesson plans, and sample assessments which can be adapted in your classroom to help create better readers and more effective writers.
Harry Tuttle, who has been a foreign language and English as a second language teacher at the secondary and college levels, and Alan Tuttle, who taught at the high school and college levels, demonstra
Stathakis, a foreign language teacher, provides 147 engaging warmup activities to begin Spanish classes for beginning to advanced students from middle school to adult levels. The exercises are meant t
This book showcases programs and practices which demonstrate exemplary school leadership. Sponsored by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium, the ISLLC Standards offer benchmarks for prof
Provides detailed instructional strategies, sample lesson plans, and sample assessments so that foreign language teachers can make the best use of the additional time.
This bestseller describes alternatives to lecturing, traditional questioning, and individual pencil and paper tasks. It offers practical advice on how teachers can harness the potential of the extende
Provides detailed instructional strategies, sample lesson plans, and sample assessments so that mathematics teachers can make the best use of the additional time.
This book demonstrates how to make your classroom more responsive to the needs of individual students with a wide variety of learning styles, interests, goals, cultural backgrounds, and prior knowledg
What does a student-centered social studies classroom really look like? Renowned educator Bil Johnson reveals how to teach social studies so that your students become engaged, active, and responsible
Both Fiore and Whitaker have had experience in public education in multiple capacities--as teachers, principals, and university professors--which they draw upon in this practical text for educational
