Thứ Sáu, 29 tháng 9, 2017

The Creative Teaching and Learning Resource Book by Brin Best and Will Thomas

Using their pioneering Creative Teaching Framework as a scaffold for the book, award-winning authors Brin Best and Will Thomas guide you through strategies that deal with each component of effective teaching.
 
 
As well as dealing comprehensively with actual teaching techniques you can use, the authors also tackle the key areas of vision, climate and reflection, showing you how a range of practical approaches can also benefit your learners. A special section deals with things you can do on a personal and professional level to improve your teaching skills too.
 
 
All the strategies included in the book are highly practical and represent tried and tested approaches from successful classrooms. Each is presented concisely, showing how you can embed the learning activities into your day to day lessons. Special emphasis is placed on creative ways of producing successful learning outcomes for students of all abilities.

The Big Book of Classroom Poems Grades K-3 by Kathleen M Hollenbeck

Step into this big collection of kid-pleasing classroom poems and discover connections to hundreds of  topics! You'll find poems about the alphabet, word families, math skills and concepts, science themes, friendship, holidays and special times, neighborhood and community, character education, and more.
 
 
The poems will entertain and inspire students while offering endless opportunities to expand their experience with language, foster a love of words, and build reading fluency and confidence. 
 
 
The Big Book of Classroom Poems includes ideas and activities for using the poems in the classroom.

The American Republic since 1877

1-The American Republic since 1877 - Active Reading Note-Taking Guide Student Workbook
The American Republic since 1877 immerses high school students in the rich history of their country.
The program includes the finest scholarship and the most up-to-date maps from the world-renowned National Geographic Society.




Teaching The Best Practice Way Methods That Matter K-12

As a natural consequence of good teaching, Best Practice kids become powerful learners, proficient readers, writers, and thinkers. The authors also advise focused coaching when standardized test time comes around. 
 
 
Most Useful Topics: 
The seven methods or structures include: 1) Reading as thinking; 2) Representing to learn; 3) Small-group activities; 4) Classroom workshop; 5) Authentic experiences; 6) Reflective assessment; and 7) Integrative units.
 
 
They encourage more of the following in the classroom: Experiential, inductive, hands-on learning; time devoted to reading whole, real books; choice for students; attention to varying cognitive and affective styles of individual students; delivery of special help to students in regular classrooms; and reliance on teachers' descriptive evaluation of student growth, including anecdotal observations. 

Teaching Reading Strategies in the Primary Grades K-3

Put students on the road to reading with this clear and concise guide to teaching reading strategies to young learners. The irresistible lessons and activities introduce and model key strategies—including questioning, reading on, summarizing, visualizing, and rereading—that will help students become independent, strategic readers.


Packed with reproducibles, checklists, and a great booklist that matches favorite books to the strategies they’re perfect for teaching, this resource has everything teachers need to teach reading successfully. For use with Grades K-3.


Skills Booster 1 For Young Learners

1-Skills Booster 1 For Young Learners Students Book
The task types presented are closely linked to the Cambridge ESOL examinations from Young Learners English Tests (Starters, Movers, Flyers) at beginner and elementary level to KET and PET at pre-intermediate and intermediate level.
 
 
 - A wide variety of tasks which reflect the Cambridge ESOL examinations.
 - Writing tasks and models.
 - Listening tasks which introduce the theme of the unit and new lexical items.
 - Speaking tasks with guided dialogues, personal questions, practice in functional language and vocabulary expansion.
 - A pronunciation task to practise sounds which learners often find difficult.
 - Listening tapescripts and answer key



See Me After Class Advice for Teachers by Teachers by Roxanna Elden

Teaching, a profession with one of the highest attrition rates in the nation, is often stressful and relentlessly demanding—but it doesn’t have to be. In See Me After Class, veteran teacher Roxanna Elden inspires with no-nonsense advice, hang-in-there encouragement, and a healthy dose of humor, while directly addressing the challenges teachers face. 
 
 
Elden shares anecdotes and horror stories from more than 100 long-time educators from across the country that will have teachers laughing and crying.
  
 
Teachers at all stages of their career will be grateful for Elden’s abundant tips on dealing with impossible workloads, demanding parents, and many other frustrations. Complete with FAQs, classroom shopping lists, organization and time management tips and traps, and practical advice on what to do when everything seems to be going wrong, See Me After Class is the one book no teacher should be without.