This timely book will show teachers how to create a learning environment that meets the needs of students, parents and teachers.
Presented as simple lists of classroom-tested ideas, teachers will find instant solutions for specific challenges that are part of the "real" classroom. Novel ways to make learning more fun for students are featured along with tips to help teachers keep up with their planning, marking, and record-keeping.
This comprehensive book looks at all aspects of running effective classrooms:

• Promoting efficient classroom practices that range from seating...

To teach with excellence demands more than strategies and techniques. The most successful teachers draw on their personal power--their confidence, compassion, and empathy, and their professional power--their ability to lead, instruct, and inspire their students to do their best. With practice, most teachers can develop the skills they need to conquer almost any classroom challenge. This book offers specific, practical ideas to help teachers:

• manage their classroom time efficiently;
• educate with passion and enthusiasm;
• support students who are...

This timely book offers teachers practical tools that promote student learning and personal growth in our fast-paced information age. Building on students' love of text messaging, this book offers 100 "crisp and snappy" strategies that are easily taught, reviewed, and reinforced by teachers. The name of each strategy reflects its function, which makes the strategy easy to recall, easy to apply, and fun to use. The strategies are organized around seven themes -- Remembering, Communicating, Organizing, Discovering, Understanding, Creating, and Living Well -- that represent general teaching...

How do we specifically help kids become good problem-solvers in school as well as in their everyday lives? Desperately Seeking Solutions discusses the specific skills and the critical and creative thinking that go into confronting problems. Organized for easy classroom use, the book introduces a five-step plan for handling almost any situation--defining the problem, considering possibilities, choosing the best option, taking action, and evaluating decisions. Concrete examples teacher-specific tips, and educational games complement this important resource.

3 Minute Motivators helps teachers recognize and respond to the daily needs of their students and distract, refocus, and provide a "hit of fun" in the school day to help students become more focused, motivated, and self-aware. New material in this practical book explores novel ways to inspire students as well as to build and practice important life skills and includes more than 200 activities (150 brand new ), new "Tech Too Motivators," new "Stress Attack Motivators," and more. Teachers and students alike can use the strategies in the revised and expanded edition of 3 Minute...