Whether you're a beginning teacher trying to sustain your idealism, or an experienced professional courting burnout, take a deep breath and read this book.
Burke examines academic success initiatives around the country, identifying their key components, then detailing how their practices apply to ACCESS, a program for struggling students he began five y
In What's After Assessment?, Kathleen Strickland provides a comprehensive instructional resource that will help you select the strategies that best match your students' needs.
Whether you are a preservice, inservice or veteran teacher, through the inquiry and reflection of teacher research you can learn about your practice and your students and gain a deeper understanding
In When Reading Begins the author offers the most detailed, precise, and inspiring explanation of the exact moments when children cross the bridge into reading and the profoundly sensitive ways in wh
Differentiated instruction is based upon the recognition that students vary in their needs, interests, abilities, and prior knowledge. This guide for middle and high school educators presents a practi
Drawing on 30-plus years of experience as educators, Davis and Hill present a guide for teachers of grades three to eight to the organization of a successful yearlong writing workshop. Coverage inclu
Selwyn (education, Antioch U.) and Maher's (education, Heritage College) guide offers educators a new approach to teaching history, starting in the present and using contemporary issues as a springboa
The authors provide the practical wherewithal to implement reading aloud as an instructional strategy for both the language arts and the content area disciplines.
Our students spend a large part of each day studying content that seems unconnected to the stories in their lives. J. Lea Smith and J. Daniel Herring have discovered that drama is the perfect medium f
Beauty, Brains, and Brawn offers diverse perspectives on what it means to be a male or female child in children's literature, presenting stimulating views from the field's best-known authors, illustr
There are plenty of books on spelling instruction for teachers, but what about parents who want to play a more active role in their children's education? In this book Richard Gentry offers timely and
Recognizing the process-oriented nature of alternative assessment, the authors contend that the more we do alternative assessment, the more we learn about it.
Leila Christenbury's Making the Journey has long been a beloved classic in English methods courses as well as with in-service English teachers whose dog-eared copies occupy a permanent place on their
"In her inspirational, well-researched book, Renee describes the kinds of learning opportunities that all parents want for their own children. Her accessible writing style makes it easy to envision th
This book is about bringing the education we want for our own children to all. It is focused on a set of strongly held beliefs that drive the actions of educators every day. Each of the 13 essays, cen
For all things In The Middle-including chapter-by-chapter sneak previews, blog posts from Nancie, videos of Nancie, and more-visit Heinemann.com/InTheMiddle "The third edition of In the Middle is my
STEM Lesson Essentials" moves beyond the rhetoric and provides knowledge, tools, models, and examples that make STEM a reality of teaching and learning in classrooms." " "-Rodger Bybee, Executive Dire
Wilhelm et al., who help students use literacy to become active citizens, show educators how to teach the composition and reading of various types of informational texts (one of the three major types
Focusing on addition and subtraction in this volume of the series, Battista (mathematics education, Ohio State U.) details the cognition-based assessment (CBA) framework, which can be used with any cu
Battista (mathematics education, Ohio State U.) outlines cognition-based assessment (CBA), an approach for teaching elementary math (specifically multiplication and division in this volume) that can b
Fletcher, author of many books for adults and children, works with student writers and writing teachers in schools. Here, he collects 24 short readings (stories, poems, memoir, picture books, and exce
"These articles lend themselves to active reading, giving kids a great place to annotate and work out their thinking as they read." --Stephanie Harvey and Anne GoudvisIn response to the overwhelming d
"Open Katherine Bomer's staggeringly beautiful, generous book-you may realize that you have never before see your students' writing at all." -Lucy Calkins, Author of Units of Study for Teaching Writin
"The value of assessment is in its usefulness to the teacher and the student, not as an isolated mental activity. If we don't use the information we generate about our students to inform our instructi
From the age of 25, when she first travelled beyond New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship to the United States, Marie Clay worked to establish international connections, while keeping her base in her
A book of cool problems for middle school mathematics classrooms-does it get any better? Yes, it does. Art Hyde and his colleagues go far beyond providing a collection of problems. They address big id
"Dan has made it his business to delve into punctuation, and we are all the wiser for the impressive and exciting writing about the subject that he has done in this book." - Carl Anderson Author of "H
Today there is no such thing as a general education classroom - virtually every class contains learners with special needs. Accommodating these children with stop-gap measures takes great effort and o
The announcement that "It's social studies time" often elicits dread from students who mistakenly view the subject as a near-death experience. And who can blame them when this fascinating subject has
Breakthrough to Meaning's smart, specific, and easy-to-implement subtext-based reading, writing, and thinking lessons address the major needs of the contemporary classroom. It includes practical inst
Integration occurs when separate parts or elements are combined into a unified whole. "A Dramatic Approach to Reading Comprehension" focuses on classroom arts integration- equally incorporating skills
Inspired by the 5E model of instruction (engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate), Abell and Vollmann (both science education, U. of Missouri-Columbia) provide vignettes for life science, physic
If only we could understand that seemingly inexplicable moment when children suddenly "get" reading. Then our instruction could be directed toward creating those specific circumstances which help ever
The author challenges the notion of "tolerance" for cultural differences and offers instead another challenge--to understand the building blocks of all cultures.
Developed as a tool to help you integrate various forms of media, Seeing & Believing offers a practical approach to basic theory in media literacy and the analysis of both still and moving images.
Acknowledging the criticism that ethnographers make the obvious or the familiar strange, Bishop (English, Florida State U.) clarifies theoretical and methodological issues related to classroom-based r
