Teacher Resources

Item #: IP3502 -

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.

Item #: IP1213 -

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.

Item #: IP6311 -

With humor, practical action steps for the teacher, and a few wacky stories, Jim Sturtevant shows educators how to operate a classroom in ways that breed mutual respec, handle and reduce conflict, build self esteem, support students in trouble, and promote peace and enjoyment.

Item #: IP4573 -

Using current research on learning styles and methods, this top-seller will help teachers choose and use thinking and reading strategies that enable students to comprehend content as well as read individual words. Learn how to model your own thinking processes as you read for content and process information after you read to help your students do the same.

Item #: IP4575 -

A teaching team is a group of teachers assigned to a common group of students for a designated period of time. This book examines 12 essential components of productive middle school teams. Each chapter demonstrates a high-impact team strategy and provides an activity for helping teams to implement the strategy.

Item #: IP3486 -

This amazing resource for planning instruction and assessment has been revised and includes three major curriculum and instructional models (Gardner's Intelligences and Bloom's and Williams' Taxonomies) and how the three interface with one another. As you plan, you will have at your fingertips an exhaustive list of action verbs, student behaviors, suggested student products and performances, optional assessment formats, and sample learning tasks. The compact ten-page resource also includes a...

Item #: IP4704 -

This book is filled with worksheets and activity pages to reinforce curriculum subjects. Students strengthen basic skills while having fun. Skills Practice books were developed by a team of experienced educators. Skills Practice includes carefully researched skill sequences; age-appropriate, high-interest exercises; and skill tests for practice assessment.