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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...

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...

"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...

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»...

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,...

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,...

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...

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.

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...