Smile as early and as often as you can in your learning classroom! Explore the realities behind eight well-known teaching myths with veteran teacher educator Peggy Deal Redman. With insightful classroom stories, reflective questions, how-to tips and strategies, and inspirational quotes to encourage, inspire, and motivate every teacher in today’s professional learning community, this creative resource offers: Tools for building a positive classroom environment Sound advice for developing respectful relationships with students Tips for collaborating with colleagues, administrators, and parents Ideas for rekindling professional idealism
Don't Smile Until Christmas: Accounts of the First Year of Teaching
Don't Smile Until Christmas: Accounts of the First Year of Teaching
... Don't Smile Until December , and Other Myths About Classroom Teaching . Thousand Oaks , CA : Corwin Press / Sage ... teaching : Foundations of the new reform . Harvard Educational Review 57 : 1–22 . Shulman , L.S. ( 1986 ) . Those who ...
She's in the second grade, the first year testing begins in earnest in her district and she was talking about her ... I'm not dumb. I just wasn't turned on, so I tuned out and dropped out. In a gang I'm somebody, not somebody that ...
This is the perfect book for teachers, parents, and anyone else who is looking for a lighthearted, nostalgic read.
Planning. Implementing. Assessing. The act of teaching is founded on these three principles. It is the process of doing these three things well that makes for good teaching. The goal...
This booklet discusses what teachers may encounter in their first year of teaching, presenting information from teachers themselves. Information comes mainly from a series of discussions held among winners of...
Teacher Mike Kersjes got the outlandish idea one autumn that his special education students would benefit from going to Space Camp.
Dynamite in the Classroom: A How-to Handbook for Teachers
This book provides strategies for teachers, whether this is your first year or if you are a veteran teacher. This book will inspire you to open your mind and expand your creativity.