Download or read book Real Teachers Real Challenges Real Solutions written by Elizabeth Breaux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps new and experienced teachers find solutions to common classroom challenges. It presents 25 real scenarios along with “What’s Effective”, “What’s NOT Effective,” and “Bottom Line” strategies for handling the most common teacher challenges. Ideal for high-interest staff development workshops or new teacher induction programs, this book shows teachers how to get students to do what you want them to do; deal with disrespectful student behaviors and handle “I don’t care” attitudes; deal with parents and difficult co-workers; and solve other common teaching challenges.REAL Teachers, REAL Challenges, REAL Solutions: 25 Ways to Handle the Challenges of the Classroom Effectively is for teachers who need common-sense answers to common teaching challenges, experienced teachers who seek to become even more effective, and teachers who believe in treating their students with professionalism and dignity.
Download or read book Real Classrooms Real Teachers written by Kristy A. Brugar and published by IAP. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As social studies standards shift to place a higher emphasis on critical thinking, inquiry, interaction, and expression, many teachers are scrambling to figure out how to appropriately shift their instruction accordingly. This book provides examples and ideas for working with elementary and middle school students to build social studies skills and knowledge in order to become independent learners and thinkers. Teaching these skills helps to support students in ways which are important to them, and to society at large. Real Classrooms, Real Teachers: The C3 Inquiry in Practice is aimed at in-service and pre-service teachers, grades 3-8. This text includes six sections: an introduction, one section for each of the four dimensions of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (National Council for the Social Studies, 2013), and a conclusion. Each chapter begins with a vignette based on a real-life social studies lesson authored by a practicing teacher or researcher. This is followed by a sample lesson plan associated with the vignette and suggestions for appropriate texts and supporting materials, as well as suggestions for modifications.
Download or read book Teaching Science in Diverse Classrooms written by Douglas B. Larkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a distinctive voice in science education writing, Douglas Larkin provides a fresh perspective for science teachers who work to make real science accessible to all K-12 students. Through compelling anecdotes and vignettes, this book draws deeply on research to present a vision of successful and inspiring science teaching that builds upon the prior knowledge, experiences, and interests of students. With empathy for the challenges faced by contemporary science teachers, Teaching Science in Diverse Classrooms encourages teachers to embrace the intellectual task of engaging their students in learning science, and offers an abundance of examples of what high-quality science teaching for all students looks like. Divided into three sections, this book is a connected set of chapters around the central idea that the decisions made by good science teachers help light the way for their students along both familiar and unfamiliar pathways to understanding. The book addresses topics and issues that occur in the daily lives and career arcs of science teachers such as: • Aiming for culturally relevant science teaching • Eliciting and working with students’ ideas • Introducing discussion and debate • Reshaping school science with scientific practices • Viewing science teachers as science learners Grounded in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), this is a perfect supplementary resource for both preservice and inservice teachers and teacher educators that addresses the intellectual challenges of teaching science in contemporary classrooms and models how to enact effective, reform
Download or read book Differentiation for Real Classrooms written by Kathleen Kryza and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In my extensive experience with differentiated education, I have not seen a work on lesson planning that is as compact, concise, and creative as this one." —Joseph Staub, Resource Specialist Teacher Thomas Starr King Middle School, Los Angeles, CA "Full of good ideas and strategies for differentiation. I like the way the authors emphasize the idea of teaching to a specific benchmark or objective rather than letting the text determine what students do and learn." —Kathie F. Nunley, Educational Psychologist Brains.org Use these easy techniques to deliver high-quality lessons that target all learners! In today′s increasingly diverse classrooms, teachers are expected to address a whirlwind of initiatives. With their characteristically joyful and conversational tone that celebrates learning and diverse students, Kathleen Kryza, Alicia Duncan, and S. Joy Stephens offer teachers dozens of practical strategies for designing and delivering differentiated lessons to reach all learners. Based on the authors′ popular, memorable, and doable C U KAN and the Chunk, Chew, and Check frameworks, this book makes it easy for teachers to implement effective, differentiated instruction. This ready-to-go resource helps educators identify a clear learning target, get to know their students as people and as learners, and understand how to vary the learning pathways to the same target for different learners. Rooted in real practice and real classrooms, this how-to guide: Includes abundant illustrations, vignettes, and examples across grade levels Offers adaptations for ESL students and students with special needs Presents samples of standalone lessons, weeklong lessons, and lesson units Provides differentiated techniques for individual or whole-group instruction This book is an easy-to-read, application-oriented text for novice and preservice teachers on differentiating lessons to target all learners.
Download or read book Successful Classroom Management written by Richard H. Eyster and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to address head-on the most in-demand and troubling issue for teachers: how to control their classroom.
Download or read book Guerrilla Teaching written by Jonathan Lear and published by Crown House Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guerrilla Teaching is a revolution. Not a flag-waving, drum-beating revolution, but an underground revolution, a classroom revolution. It's not about changing policy or influencing government; it's about doing what you know to be right, regardless of what you're told. It's sound advice for people on the ground: people in real classrooms, working with real children, trying to make a real difference. Jonathan Lear's new book, Guerrilla Teaching, is packed with ideas to refresh teaching practice - combining direct teaching with creative child-led learning - and forge cross-curricular links to create engaging, motivating and fun learning experiences. Ultimately, Guerrilla Teaching is about making a difference. It's a book Jonathan Lear never meant to write, but it was just too important not to. Guerrilla: to be a member of an unofficial group of combatants using the element of surprise to harass a larger less mobile target. Guerrilla teaching: To put children, and their learning, at the heart of lessons. To embrace problem-solving and risk-taking in the classroom. To be adaptable and creative. To think about the skills and knowledge children will need in the future. To stand up and make sure children get the education they deserve (even if it means subverting the system!). Filled with thoughts, ideas and strategies that will help to develop creativity and creative thinking in the primary classroom, Guerrilla Teaching is for trainee teachers, new teachers, teaching assistants, experienced teachers and head teachers - there's something for everyone!
Download or read book Making Learning Real written by Carol Miller Lieber and published by Educators for Social responsibility. This book was released on 2009 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Real Classroom written by Jim Sack and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Classroom is practical and realistic. It offers the reader a clear picture of what a school classroom is really like using stories and lessons from teachers, parents, and students.
Download or read book The New Teacher Book written by Terry Burant and published by Rethinking Schools. This book was released on 2010 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching is a lifelong challenge, but the first few years in the classroom are typically a teacher's hardest. This expanded collection of writings and reflections offers practical guidance on how to navigate the school system, form rewarding relationships with colleagues, and connect in meaningful ways with students and families from all cultures and backgrounds.
Download or read book Real Talk in Elementary Classrooms written by Maureen P. Boyd and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing effective, creative strategies for talking with students in ways that enhance literacy learning, this book offers a window into the classrooms of four exemplary teachers. Principles of productive classroom discussions are illustrated with detailed case examples. The book shows how—and explains why—"real talk" can enhance student engagement, foster critical thinking, promote mastery of literacy concepts, and instill a lasting love of reading. It offers ideas for selecting children's literature and fitting a range of interactive literacy activities into the school day. The authors draw on current knowledge about the connections between oral language and literacy development across the elementary grades.
Download or read book The Relevant Classroom written by Eric Hardie and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students need to connect to the real world, be engaged, and learn deeply. But how are teachers supposed to ensure that students meet these objectives in the current school system? In The Relevant Classroom, Eric Hardie presents six strategies derived from his two decades of experience as an elementary and secondary teacher and principal to show teachers ways to foster real-world connections, genuine engagement, and deeper learning: 1. Make meaning central to student work. 2. Contextualize the curriculum. 3. Create space to learn. 4. Connect student work to the community. 5. Follow the (student) leaders. 6. Reenvision feedback and evaluation. This practical volume includes advice on how to get started, vivid examples, reflection questions, and tips on how to overcome common obstacles. The Relevant Classroom is about recognizing that teachers who tap into students' capacities for creativity, collaboration, and innovation can create learning experiences that are truly meaningful for students.
Download or read book Building Culturally Responsive Classrooms written by Concha Delgado Gaitan and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2006-04-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Concha Delgado Gaitan has provided a wonderful resource to all educators. The topics used to structure the chapters provide the reader with an orderly consideration of the school as a cultural entity itself. Most important, each chapter provides the reader with clear theoretical applications in a hands-on manner that is meaningful and easy to use." --Randall B. Lindsey, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Los Angeles Principal Associate, The Robins Group "Concha Delgado Gaitan brings a wealth of personal experience and years of research to Building Culturally Responsive Classrooms. It is thought provoking and challenges us to get to know and understand how culture affects students in order to foster the best working and learning environment." --Judy M. Alva, Elementary Vice Principal Lodi Unified School District, CA Allow your classroom setting and instruction to reflect the rich diversity and values of your students! Teachers today are faced with the enormous responsibility of respecting students′ various cultures while creating learning settings that challenge them academically. Concha Delgado Gaitan shows how teachers honoring real culture can transform the context and content within their classroom and become culturally responsive to all their students. This invaluable resource covers the topics of classroom discipline, classroom arrangement, and parent and community involvement in order to create a culturally inclusive learning setting. In addition, Gaitan explains how teachers can use instructional strategies that are culturally responsive to teach literacy, mathematics, science, and more. Each accessible, user-friendly chapter contains: A personal reflection from a teacher The latest research and best practices A rich case example Guiding questions, reflective questions, and classroom applications Based on the author′s firsthand research, this handbook is ideal for individual teachers, mentoring pairs, and study groups.
Download or read book White Teachers Diverse Classrooms written by Julie Landsman and published by Stylus Publishing, LLC.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encourages reflection and self-examination, calls for understanding of how students can achieve and be expected to perform at their best. It demonstrates what is involved in terms of recognizing often-unconscious biases, confronting institutional racism where it occurs, surmounting stereotyping, adopting culturally relevant teaching, connecting with parents and the community, and integrating diversity in all activities. Gives examples of practice and insights that will engage teachers in practice or in service. From publisher description.
Download or read book Interpreting Policy in Real Classrooms written by Nancy E. Jennings and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Jennings examines the impact of policy decision-making in the classroom, and details how classroom teachers implement state-level policy directives in reading. The book looks at policy implementation through a teaching and learning frame exploring how and what teachers learn from state policy and how policymakers "teach" their messages.
Download or read book Boost Emotional Intelligence in Students written by Maurice J. Elias and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develop emotional intelligence and strengthen social emotional skills in adolescents with this practical, hands-on resource. Helping students develop emotional intelligence (EQ) and social emotional skills is essential to preparing them for success in college, careers, and adult life. This practical resource for educators explains what emotional intelligence is and why it’s important for all students. Boost Emotional Intelligence in Students lays out detailed yet flexible guidelines for teaching fundamental EQ and social emotional skills in an intentional and focused way. The book is split into three modules, which correspond to three main skill areas: Self-awareness and self-management Social awareness and relationship skills Responsible decision-making and problem-solving Each module features ten hands-on, research-based lessons, which are focused on a critical EQ concept and centered around productive and respectful discussion. All lessons are designed to take approximately 35 minutes each but can easily be adapted to meet the specific needs of a school or group as they work to develop emotional intelligence and social emotional skills in their students. Digital content includes reproducible forms to use with students.
Download or read book The Unstoppable Writing Teacher written by Maria Colleen Cruz and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran teacher and author Colleen Cruz has seen it all and done it all in the writing classroom-and she's got something to admit: this is hard work. Real hard. In The Unstoppable Writing Teacher she takes on the common concerns, struggles, and roadblocks that we all face in writing instruction and helps us engage in the process of problem solving each one. From dealing with writing workshop skeptics to working with students both gifted and challenged, and of course combating that eternal barrier-lack of time-Colleen offers tried-and-true strategies to address and overcome obstacles. For the struggles unique to you, she includes a "Name Your Monster" section that helps you identify your own individual roadblocks and even offers sustainable support through her blog, colleencruz.com. "We can't solve all the problems we're faced with in writing instruction," Colleen promises, "but we can choose how to respond to them. And our responses will make all the difference." What makes you unstoppable, or what's stopping you? Connect with Colleen on her blog at www.colleencruz.com/blog.htm or on Twitter, #unstoppablewritingteacher.
Download or read book Kingdom Tools for Teaching written by Janine Mason and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you've been looking for how to create a godly revolution around you in the classroom, then you've found what you've been looking for. This book isn't a way to subversively have devotions or church in the classroom. In these pages you will find a template to show students freedom, love, joy, righteousness, hope and power." Danny Silk - best-selling author of Keep Your Love On and Culture of Honor DESCRIPTION The Creator of the universe has His eye on the education systems of the world and, in particular, YOUR classroom. He longs to have His Presence expressed in every school, influencing faculty and students alike. Kingdom Tools for Teaching brings both inspiration and practical tools to empower and activate you in bringing the Kingdom of God to ANY classroom. This is not a manual. This is the testimony of our breakthroughs and the tools that came from them. It is our heart to share these tools to inspire you to find your own and to adapt ours for your own classroom and school. We invite you to join us on a journey of stepping out of the mundane and into an adventure with Him that will shape students lives, the course of education and maybe even history itself.
