Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Classroom Management

• How does classroom management affect student achievement?
• What techniques do teachers find most effective?
• How important are schoolwide policies and practices in setting the tone for individual classroom management?

Based on nine years of design, research, and open-inquiry lab teaching experience with over 600 children annually, "Nine Thousand Straws" presents an inquiry instructional approach that engages the inquisitive energy children naturally bring to the learning table. It offers practical methods and concrete guidance that will enable you to open, employ, and guide this energy towards developing productive and globally applicable thinking skills and dispositions.

From Debbie Diller, author of numerous best-selling books and videos on literacy work stations and small group reading instruction, comes another practical resource filled with ideas you can use immediately to better manage your classroom and support student learning and independence.

In Spaces & Places you'll find a wealth of full-color photos from all sorts of classroom spaces in PreK-5th grade, including well-organized areas for whole group and small group reading instruction, classroom libraries, literacy work stations, teacher desks, and storage areas. You'll love the...

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...

Informal Assessment Strategies explores the power of informed assessment practices on teachers, on instruction and, most of all, on the literacy success of students. Beth Charlton shows teachers how to use the results of assessment and how to find time to assess in an increasingly-crowded school day. She challenges teachers to reflect on their own practice, encourages them to explore the why, what, and how of assessment, and presents techniques to help busy teachers listen, question, and observe students, and focus on student strengths and abilities. These observations form the...

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

The notes are comprehensive and explicit to promote the development of:

- Confidence and responsibility

- Roles and responsibilities as citizens

- A healthy lifestyle

- Good relationships

As well as 25 lessons there are:

- Themes...

Many children with emotional and behavioral difficulties behave well in a one-to-one situation with an adult. It is when they are in a group with their peers that their behavior deteriorates dramatically. The more teachers understand about group dynamics, the better equipped they will be to support children who find such skills as turn-taking and sharing difficult. This book looks at:

• group skills
• managing difficult groups
• the group leader.