How the Best Teachers Avoid the 20 Most Common Teaching Mistakes

How the Best Teachers Avoid the 20 Most Common Teaching Mistakes
Author: Elizabeth Breaux
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317930401

For new teachers and veterans, mentors, instructional coaches, and staff developers, this book shows you how the best teachers avoid and correct the 20 most common teaching mistakes. Clear, direct, and passionate, this book provides tools to help you take charge of your classroom, yourself, your students' educations, and to become the best teacher you can possibly be!

How the Best Teachers Differentiate Instruction

How the Best Teachers Differentiate Instruction
Author: Monique Magee
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2013-10-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317927133

This accessible and practical guide shows teachers how to provide their students with a variety of ways to strengthen their understanding of new material. A selection of assessments is also available to ensure that students have mastered classroom content, regardless of their individual learning styles, abilities, and needs. Contents include: What is differentiated instruction and why do we differentiate? Know your students Management for differentiated instruction 12 ways to differentiate And more!

Teaching Matters

Teaching Matters
Author: Todd Whitaker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2014-01-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317927052

Recharge your batteries and rekindle your excitement about teaching! This new, updated edition of the best-selling book, Teaching Matters: Motivating and Inspiring Yourself, offers practical advice on working with colleagues for inspiration, using social media to connect to other professionals, and adding fresh new appeal to your lessons. The practical ideas and inspirational examples in this book will help you keep your passion for education alive and thriving in your classroom. Get use-now tips on everything from creating a positive atmosphere in the classroom to dealing with difficult peers. This is truly a must-have motivational resource for all educators!

75 Quick and Easy Solutions to Common Classroom Disruptions

75 Quick and Easy Solutions to Common Classroom Disruptions
Author: Bryan Harris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2013-07-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317924770

This very well organized book is packed with practical solutions to the most common classroom problems – side talk, rude behavior, calling out, students losing focus, and students refusing even to try. Every solution is classroom-tested, highly effective, and quick and easy to implement! Use this book to help make your classroom a happier, more productive learning environment – one in which your students thrive and everyone benefits!

101 Answers for New Teachers and Their Mentors

101 Answers for New Teachers and Their Mentors
Author: Annette Breaux
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2015-04-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317517261

Now in its third edition, this bestseller has remained popular, relevant, and a must-read for new teachers, mentors, administrators, and staff development professionals. Appropriate for individual or collaborative study, this book provides simple, practical solutions to the challenges experienced by both new and veteran teachers, including: • managing the classroom; • handling discipline problems; • dealing with challenging students, coworkers, and parents; • planning lessons effectively and managing time wisely; • accommodating individual differences in students; • getting students excited about learning; • and much, much more. In this new edition, you’ll find advice on incorporating technology into your lessons and using social media to connect with others. You’ll also find new Ask Yourself questions (following each of the 101 Answers) and Chapter Highlights to help you apply the ideas in your own classroom. These resources are available in the book and on our website for easy download. Though written for new teachers, the book's practical, easy-to-implement strategies will appeal to teachers of any grade level, subject area, or level of expertise, as well as to mentors, induction coordinators, or anyone seeking to find answers to classroom challenges and improve teaching skills.

Teaching, Learning & Assessment Together

Teaching, Learning & Assessment Together
Author: Arthur K. Ellis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317860063

First published in 2013. This book will help you align teaching, learning, and assessment through reflective practice. Each chapter begins with a reflective teaching strategy. This is followed with related theory and professional learning community discussion questions. There are research insights relating to the topic at hand. Guiding icons will help you coordinate and implement the strategies with your students.

Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Together

Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Together
Author: Arthur K. Ellis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2017-07-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317924460

This book goes back to the basic purpose of assessment to show teachers what your students know and are able to do. The 22 activities in this book will help your students become active, engaged, responsible, and caring learners. This "how to" book is filled with activities which will enable you to keep your students active and engaged, facilitate cooperative group projects without losing control, raise academic achievement, apply multiple intelligences in your classroom, and teach your students how to think.

The Passion-Driven Classroom

The Passion-Driven Classroom
Author: Angela Maiers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014-01-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317930657

Discover ways to cultivate a thriving and passionate community of learners - in your classroom! In this book, educators and consultants Angela Maiers and Amy Sandvold show you how to spark and sustain your students' energy, excitement, and love of learning. This book presents ideas for planning and implementing a Clubhouse Classroom, where passion meets practice every day. In the Clubhouse Classroom, students learn new skills and explore their talents with the help of educators who are invigorated by the subjects they teach.

Battling Boredom

Battling Boredom
Author: Bryan Harris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2013-10-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317926420

Drive boredom out of your classroom - and keep it out - with the student-engagement strategies in this book. You'll learn how to gain and sustain the attention of your students from the moment the bell rings. Perfect for teachers of all subjects and grade levels, these activities go head-to-head with student boredom and disengagement, resulting in class time that's more efficient, more educational, and loads more fun!Author Bryan Harris, an expert in student engagement and classroom management, has extensive experience in K-12 motivation and brain-based learning. In this book, he brings togeth.