Included are strategies to help teachers:
• avoid being overwhelmed by paperwork and other types of "administrivia";
• mark "smart";
• anticipate, prevent, respond to, and manage a host of discipline problems;
• develop and administer evaluation instruments for projects, research, essays, and...

Whether or not to teach formal grammar in the classroom is a hot topic. Teachers need help in making sense of the issues. Grammarama offers a powerful classroom context and practical strategies for helping students cope with all aspects of grammar and language usage. It provides:

• discussion of the pros and cons of teaching grammar;
• exercises that involve students using grammar in fun ways;
• sentence-combining challenges that strengthen student language usage;
• examples and activities based on professional writing;
• creative expressions of grammar usage and how...

Students aren't the only ones bullying in schools. Teachers, principals, and parents bully too. Together they create a bullying culture that strikes at the heart of effective learning and teaching. A bullying culture harms everyone it touches--targets, student bystanders, teachers, parents, and even society at large.

To eradicate bullying, the school community must first acknowledge its existence in all forms. This timely book explores the background and issues related not just to student-on-student bullying but to all forms of bullying found in schools. It then goes on to illustrate...

Based on the most up-to-date research, Back to Learning presents straightforward analysis and practical guidance on confronting bullying, taming the digital universe, and changing the troublesome trend in students' entitled attitudes toward learning and grades. Back to Learning gives teachers the background they need to:

• understand how the brain learns and incorporate that knowledge into teaching methods,
• individualize instruction in any learning/teaching situation,
• acknowledge the bullying crisis in schools and learn how to solve the bullying...