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Teachers show up in different forms and in many chapters of a child's life. Teaching is literacy and numeracy but, most importantly, it's showing up with your whole heart. It's walking kids-and yourself-through the hardest conversations about trauma, loss, grief, racism, or violence. As we work to piece together our education system in the fallout from global pandemic, the focus must be on the teachers. If the people in charge-those teachers-aren't...
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In this essential guide, Starr Sackstein-a National Board Certified Teacher-explains how teachers can use reflection to help students decipher their own learning needs and engage in deep, thought-provoking discourse about progress. She explains how to help students set actionable learning goals, teach students to reflect on and chart their learning progress, and use student reflections and self-assessment to develop targeted learning plans and determine...
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In today's classrooms, the instructional needs and developmental levels of our students are highly varied, and the conventional math whole-group model has its downsides. In contrast to the rigid, one-size-fits-all approach of conventional whole-group instruction, guided math allows us to structure our math block to support student learning in risk-free, small-group instruction. Guided math goes beyond just reorganizing your math block; it also gives...
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Algebra for the Urban Student offers an algebra textbook for the typical math student. In many cases, such textbooks are written for people who love mathematics and understand the jargon. Teacher Canaa Lee has incorporated her personal experiences as a high school mathematics teacher into a textbook that is specially geared toward students' needs. Most students dislike mathematics because the subject has always been difficult for them to master. With...
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"We always have time for the things we put first." "Most people get ahead during the time that others waste." "Successful people try, practice, and wander down blind alleys. They pay their dues but don't give up." These are just a few of the thousands of quotes I have collected and used to inspire and challenge hundreds of students and educators during my thirty-year, teaching, career. I have compiled these quotes along with historical quotes and...
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Depuis plusieurs années, les milieux politique et éducatif ont mis en œuvre différentes avenues pour valoriser la formation professionnelle au Québec. À l'automne 2003, le baccalauréat en enseignement professionnel devient un programme de 120 crédits et la seule voie d'accès au brevet d'enseignement. Contrairement aux autres secteurs de formation à l'enseignement, les étudiants de ce secteur occupent déjà, à 81 %, un poste d'enseignant...
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Si au cours des 40 dernières années le champ de l'éducation relative à l'environnement s'est largement déployé, la nature des enjeux socioécologiques actuels appelle à un nouvel examen des assises de ce champ et à l'explicitation des courants qui émergent.
Le présent ouvrage offre donc une mise à jour de plusieurs fondements de l'action éducative en matière d'environnement. Au fil des chapitres, les auteurs proposent un «patrimoine»...
10) What Today's Parent Must Know About Today's Classroom!: Meeting the Challenge of New Age Learners
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Author Kendrick Sterling describes six practical, innovative, and powerful methods to enliven and ignite a passion for learning in each-and-every child. It is time to stand on our desks and make every school in America the best it can be. It has been his mission to make a difference in the lives of our children and parents. Over his many years in education, Mr. Sterling, has seen remarkable teachers who inspire kids to greatness and sadly, he has...
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This book was written for anyone who is considering a career as a secondary teacher. It gives the reader many tips on becoming an effective secondary educator in a very modest amount of time. The goal is to make the transition to secondary teaching as painless as possible for the new teacher. The author does not want the reader to go through the difficult pitfalls he went through during his early years as secondary educator in a public school. Hopefully,...
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Soaring: From Literature to Leadership is the result of research in developmental psychology, socialization theory, years of teaching children's and adolescent literature and the awareness that moral judgment development takes place in the classroom as well as in the home. Dr. Yeager has devised five research-based activities which can be applied to any piece of literature, Merging the literature with the five activities provides the opportunity for...
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Motivating Students Who Don't Care is a comprehensive and practical guide for reconnecting with discouraged students and reawakening their excitement and enthusiasm for learning. With proven strategies from the classroom, this resource identifies five effective processes the reader can use to reawaken motivation in students who aren t prepared, don t care, and won t work. These processes include emphasizing effort, creating hope, respecting power,...
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Cake Baking and the Creative Process is a fun and quick resource for the performing arts middle school or high school teacher. It also could be a resource that substitute teachers might use. Cake Baking and the Creative Process not only delves into a discussion of an analogy comparing the process of baking a cake from scratch to the creative process in arts education, but also includes classroom exercises for dance, theatre, and vocal music students....
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The Gifts and Challenges program creates a new classroom culture which helps students celebrate their own gifts and acknowledge the gifts of others. They learn how to think and act with confidence and compassion as they face their own or others challenges. This material provides innovative tools to dramatically improve the emotional safety of the classroom as children begin to look at their learning progress in reference to their peers. Teachers and...
16) Teacher Quality
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In this book some of the brightest minds in education research have studied pressing questions about teacher quality and practices, reviewed thousands of education studies, examined state test scores, explored education theories, and then affirmed that we know what works. We must now ensure that the system provides the best possible education for kids.
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A pesar de presentar relatos, este libro se puede leer también como novela. Es una tira a la burocracia que estudiantes y profesores se tienen que enfrentar estando en la universidad. El autor comparte experiencias propias y ajenas mediante el doctor Tirzo, un profesor que encarna lo absurdo que pueden ser los mites y procedimientos.
18) Science Strategies to Increase Student Learning and Motivation in Biology and Life Science Grades 7
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On the first day of school, have you ever thought of your classrooms as newly opened boxes of crayons? I do. Like pencil-sticks of colored wax, the students each have different names, individual characteristics, and various levels of brightness. I set a goal each year to promote not only creativity but to draw out of my students' reasons about why science is so important. As science educators, we not only need to illustrate the importance of knowing...
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This is a practical common sense book for teachers. The advice written in a child-like perspective is practical and could be adapted for anyone in the profession of teaching. This is from the mind of a parent who was once a child, a student, a teacher, a supervisor of teachers and who continues to be an advocate for children. Read it, meditate on it, speak it, learn from it, and apply it and you will be surprised how the common sense sayings in this...
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Janice L. Blake, Thoroughbred race horse jockey and author, describes how to take a horse to the race track and back safely. This guide is great for beginners, owners, and other rail birds who want to know more about what goes on behind the scenes of a Thoroughbred race track as the horses are being exercised in the morning. Follow along with Janice as she gets a leg-up on the race horse, rides to the track, exercises the horse, and brings it back...
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