Teacher Resources

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Tips for Teachers: Helping Students Improve Academic and Social Skills is a collection of tips, strategies, and activities designed to boost student success in many learning-related skills. It covers such topics as student engagement, increased retention of concepts, emotional coping skills, differentiated instruction, authentic assessment, classroom management informed by brain-based learning principles, research and study skills, life skills for success, and teaching to gender differences....

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English Language Arts: Tips for Teachers is an idea-packed handbook for teachers of all content areas looking to integrate language arts and literacy instruction into the classroom and is ideal for assessing every strand of language arts and literacy. It pulls together a wealth of assistance for instruction in reading, writing, researching, speaking, listening, thinking, arguing, podcasting, and project planning. An excellent tool for strengthening any college- and career-readiness curriculum,...

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Brimming with ideas that engage students in active learning, Teaching the Scientific Method is focused on building foundations in the principles of scientific inquiry. In addition to classroom ideas for each step of the scientific method, the book also contains hands-on activities, demonstrations, assessments and evaluations, reproducible activities, and planning resources for teachers. From creative demonstrations to sample experiments, this complete and easily adaptable resource will be a...

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Warm up your classes with inspiring, humorous, and insightful quotes! A fascinating quote can ignite the mind, and this handy collection provides 55 such quotes. The quotes have been specifically chosen to wake up the brain and grab students with an important idea to carry through the day. Every quote is accompanied by short activities that engage students with the idea in the quote, and they are also great for warm-ups, advisory lessons, or character education classes.

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The Dr. Birdley series developed by Nevin Katz, a talented middle and high school science teacher and cartoonist, makes science content accessible and interesting to a wide range of students. Mr. Katz has created a cartoon personality, Dr. Birdley, who introduces students to key science concepts and vocabulary. In addition to the cartoons, the book includes reproducible student activity pages, background information, study questions, graphic organizers, and quizzes.

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This 10-page planner is a quick-reference resource to help teachers encourage students to find their own ways, their own rhythms, and their own strengths. The easy-to-read charts and tables include a summary of Howard Gardner's Eight Intelligences and Gregorc's four basic learning styles, a personal inventory for students, and learning cycle checklists and lesson templates.

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Motivate learning in your classroom with excitement about crime scene investigation. CSI in the Classroom is a step-by-step handbook that shows you how to plan a smashing CSI unit for any subject area. The forms, guides, schedules, and planning tools you will need are included in the handbook. Use real forensics to do a real investigation and address a host of cross-curricular academic skills. Your students will gather evidence, analyze it, and follow it to solve a crime.

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This is a must-have book for anyone who works with young adolescents. "If You Can't Manage Them, You Can't Teach Them" dispenses straight-talking advice and can-do strategies that help every educator succeed at building the relationships, mutual respect, routines, and expectations for running a classroom without stress or chaos. Told in the manner of one teacher having a personal conversation with another, this is an ideal guide to building the behaviors that are the foundation of an effective...

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Fifteen comprehensive units provide valuable practice of basic language instruction for English Language Learners. Each unit requires students to listen, speak, read, and write as they move through four levels of activities. Follow the clues in the cafeteria, manage money, master measurement, track transportation, understand the human body, and more with this helpful resource.

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The revised edition of Drumming to the Beat of Different Marchers features Dr. Debbie Silver's poetry, wisdom, and humor with the art of award-winning illustrator Peter H. Reynolds. Teachers and administrators will be inspired by Debbie’s poignant stories and thrilled with the practical advice as they learn about relevant research findings. A valuable discussion guide is included to help interested teams find the rhythm of the differentiated learners in their classrooms. Don't miss your...

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Packed with words of wisdom and inspiration, this is one book no administrator or teacher should be without. Dr. Neila Connors presents practical tips to improve school climate, communicate with parents and students, teach to the standards, and make a difference in students’ lives. All this in an enjoyable, easy-to-read format--If You Don't Feed the Teachers They Eat the Students will leave you laughing your way to a more successful school year.