Excited students happy to be in class and learning from fulfilled and rewarded teachers. Sounds like a dream you say? Not if you apply the methodology described in Extreme Teaching. More than two decades in the classroom and careful research and reflection are the impetus behind author Keen Babbage's inspiring story. It is a call to action for all teachers to employ the recommended extreme solutions to make lessons real, worthwhile, meaningful, applicable, fascinating, and enjoyable. By connecting what students already know, already are interested in, and already are good at, with what...

Watch many students in schools today and you see a range from total boredom to genuine fascination. Where does the apathy come from and could teachers make it disappear from their classrooms? Apathy and/or boredom should not come as a surprise when students are only given the responsibility to follow rules and complete assignments. This can all change in the blink of an eye if teachers exercise their rights and responsibilities to make the learning process fascinating and stimulating. This volume will help do just that, with real, practical examples and helpful hints for engaging your...

Keen Babbage shows educators how to cause extreme learning in the classroom while also creating a classroom learning community in which the teacher and the student team up in a vibrant, symbiotic, fulfilling partnership.

Here, author Keen Babbage uses the term extreme students to describe successful, conscientious, dedicated, cooperative, scholarly, and exemplary learners and presents research-based insights into these characteristics. Being an extreme student is an opportunity available to every individual. The quality and quantity of academic success associated with extreme students is not limited to a select few. By establishing classroom conditions and experiences that create, encourage, nurture, challenge and develop the characteristics of an extreme student, more students can reach this level. This book...

Results-Driven Teaching explores the reality that individual teachers have different perspectives on teaching. Some teachers perceive teaching as distributing textbooks, handing out worksheets, and giving tests on Fridays. While others might vary the activities in classrooms, they still have a predictable pattern of what is done and accomplished -- some students learn and some do not. A results-driven teacher, however, leads every student to true learning. This standard is far above the written job description and requirements for a satisfactory performance evaluation, but the results-driven...

Many people_political leaders, school administrators, school board members, interest group leaders, community leaders, parents/guardians_seek to impact education, but efforts to improve education will be enhanced if they are based on reality and the experts on the classroom reality are current teachers. Anyone who seeks to improve education must listen to teachers. This book explains why and shows how.

Have you ever left a meeting feeling that nothing had actually been accomplished? This book provides you with the keys to running a successful and efficient meeting. Babbage begins with a section on how to prepare effectively for a meeting, methods for running a concise meeting, and finishes with how to implement the key decisions made during the meeting. He also includes a section on how to maintain everyone's involvement, cooperation, and interest throughout the meeting.

This book identifies, through current research, what children and teenagers need to know about managing funds. It shows educators how to design instructional activities that enable students to learn about money management in fascinating and meaningful ways.

This book identifies, through current research, what children and teenagers need to know about managing funds. It shows educators how to design instructional activities that enable students to learn about money management in fascinating and meaningful ways.

This book gives the reader a critique of the typical, bureaucratic, mandated education reform efforts which often fail and which often lead to another education reform effort which also is likely to fail. This book shows a better way to improve what is done in classrooms, throughout a school, in an entire school district, and at the state or national levels of education policy development. The better way is guided by application of The Extreme Principle.