Best of
Teaching

2005

32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny: Life Lessons from Teaching


Phillip Done - 2005
    He has sung "Happy Birthday" 657 times. A witness to the joys of discovery, Done inspires readers with the everyday adventures and milestones of his 32 third graders in this irresistible collection of bite-sized essays. From the nervous first day of school to the hectic Halloween parade to the disastrous spring musical, Done connects what happens in his classroom to the universal truths that touch us all. He reminds us of the delight of learning something for the first time and of the value of making a difference. 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny is for anyone who has ever taught children -- or been to third grade. It is a testament to the kids who uplift us -- and the teachers we will never forget. With just the right mix of humor and wisdom, Done reveals the enduring promise of elementary school as a powerful antidote to the cynicism of our times.

Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew


Ellen Notbohm - 2005
    Framed with both humor and compassion, the book defines the top ten characteristics that illuminate the minds and hearts of children with autism. Ellen's personal experiences as a parent, an autism columnist, and a contributor to numerous parenting magazines coalesce to create a guide for all who come in contact with a child on the autism spectrum. Don't buy just one of this book- buy one for everyone who interacts with your child! Give the gift of understanding. Helpful chapters include:My sensory perceptions are disordered Distinguish between won’t and can’t I am a concrete thinker. I interpret language literally Be patient with my limited vocabulary Because language is so difficult for me, I am very visually oriented Focus and build on what I can do rather than what I can’t do Help me with social interactions Identify what triggers my meltdowns

Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop


Jeff Anderson - 2005
    As a middle school teacher, Jeff Anderson also discovered that his students were not grasping the basics, and that it was preventing them from reaching their potential as writers. Jeff readily admits, “I am not a grammarian, nor am I punctilious about anything,” so he began researching and testing the ideas of scores of grammar experts in his classroom, gradually finding successful ways of integrating grammar instruction into writer's workshop.Mechanically Inclined is the culmination of years of experimentation that merges the best of writer's workshop elements with relevant theory about how and why skills should be taught. It connects theory about using grammar in context with practical instructional strategies, explains why kids often don't understand or apply grammar and mechanics correctly, focuses on attending to the “high payoff,” or most common errors in student writing, and shows how to carefully construct a workshop environment that can best support grammar and mechanics concepts. Jeff emphasizes four key elements in his teaching:short daily instruction in grammar and mechanics within writer's workshop;using high-quality mentor texts to teach grammar and mechanics in context;visual scaffolds, including wall charts, and visual cues that can be pasted into writer's notebooks;regular, short routines, like “express-lane edits,” that help students spot and correct errors automatically.Comprising an overview of the research-based context for grammar instruction, a series of over thirty detailed lessons, and an appendix of helpful forms and instructional tools, Mechanically Inclined is a boon to teachers regardless of their level of grammar-phobia. It shifts the negative, rule-plagued emphasis of much grammar instruction into one which celebrates the power and beauty these tools have in shaping all forms of writing.

Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook


Aimee Buckner - 2005
    It is here that students brainstorm topics, play with leads and endings, tweak a new revision strategy, or test out a genre for the first time.In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner provides the tools teachers need to make writers' notebooks an integral part of their writing programs. She also addresses many of the questions teachers ask when they start using notebooks with their students, including:How do I launch the notebook?What mini-lessons can be used throughout the year to help students become more skilled in keeping notebooks?How do I help students who are stuck in writing ruts with notebooks?How do I help students use their learning from notebooks for other writing?How do I organize notebooks so that the design is flexible, yet still allows students to access information easily?How can writers' notebooks help students become better readers? How do I assess notebooks?This compact guide is packed with lessons, tips, and samples of student writing to help teachers make the most of writers' notebooks, without sacrificing time needed for the rest of the literacy curriculum. In fact, Notebook Know-How shows how smart and focused use of writers' notebooks enhances and deepens literacy learning in both reading and writing for students in grades 3–8.

Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution


Derrick Jensen - 2005
    Why is that? What happens to creativity and individuality as we pass through the educational system?Walking on Water is a startling and provocative look at teaching, writing, creativity, and life by a writer increasingly recognized for his passionate and articulate critique of modern civilization. This time Derrick Jensen brings us into his classroom--whether college or maximum security prison--where he teaches writing. He reveals how schools perpetuate the great illusion that happiness lies outside of ourselves and that learning to please and submit to those in power makes us into lifelong clock-watchers. As a writing teacher Jensen guides his students out of the confines of traditional education to find their own voices, freedom, and creativity.Jensen's great gift as a teacher and writer is to bring us fully alive at the same moment he is making us confront our losses and count our defeats. It is at the center of Walking on Water, a book that is not only a hard-hitting and sometimes scathing critique of our current educational system and not only a hands-on method for learning how to write, but, like Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, a lesson on how to connect to the core of our creative selves, to the miracle of waking up and arriving breathless (but with dry feet) on the far shore.

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America


Jonathan Kozol - 2005
    Board of Education, segregation of black children has reverted to its highest level since 1968. In many inner-city schools, a stick-and-carrot method of behavioral control traditionally used in prisons is now used with students. Meanwhile, as high-stakes testing takes on pathological and punitive dimensions, liberal education has been increasingly replaced by culturally barren and robotic methods of instruction that would be rejected out of hand by schools that serve the mainstream of society.Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.

The Tao of Montessori


Catherine McTamaney - 2005
    Award-winning Montessori teacher Catherine McTamaney revisits the eighty-one verses of Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching and relates them to the life and work of teachers, parents, and children. Originally meant to remind rather than direct and to show the way toward natural harmony in the world around and within us, Lao-tzu's verses find a new meaning through McTamaney's skillful mixture of spirituality and education. Take a moment to read a single stanza, then put it aside and muse upon its meaning. By revisiting one verse each day, you can relate its images to your life as a teacher, parent, or child. Whether you are familiar with the writings of Lao-tzu or are simply ready to explore a refreshingly contemplative perspective on children and teachers, The Tao of Montessori is a profound work of intellectual stimulation.

Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons [With "A Poem a Day" Book]


Nancie Atwell - 2005
    "Naming the World"'s 200+ poems and accompanying five-to-ten-minute lessons are used by Nancie every day to jumpstart her reading and writing workshops. Poetry is the foundation upon which her students build excellences as writers in every genre. This is your chance to make the first few minutes of your Language Arts class really countThe 200+ Poems: are compiled from contemporary poets were nominated by Nancie's students as their favorites speak to adolescent interests and issues include poems by Nancie's kids to teach and inspire yours. The 150 Lessons: are used daily by Nancie to jumpstart her reading-writing workshop apply a range of interactive and independent learning strategies present the language Nancie uses with her students.

If She Only Knew Me


Jeff Gray - 2005
    As tough as it is, we must keep in mind that each student has their own set of special circumstances. The challenge is knowing our students. The book reaffirms the belief that effective teachers and principals are careful not to jump to conclusions when it comes to analyzing student behavior and actions.

Practice with Purpose: Literacy Work Stations for Grades 3-6


Debbie Diller - 2005
    Each chapter includes:how to introduce the station;innovative ways to use materials;what to model to guarantee independence;how to troubleshoot;assessment and accountability ideas;how the station supports student achievement on state tests;reflection questions for professional development.The extensive appendix includes time-saving tools such as management board icons, graphic organizers, task cards, and recommended Web sites and children's literature.

Courageous Conversations about Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools


Glenn E. Singleton - 2005
    Through these courageous conversations, educators will learn how to create a learning community that promotes true academic parity. Practical features of this book include:Implementation exercises Prompts, language, and tools that support profound discussion Activities and checklists for administrators Action steps for creating an equity team

The Greatest Catch: A Life in Teaching


Penny Kittle - 2005
    Then write your own. I plan to.Tom Romano, author of Crafting Authentic VoiceFor twenty years Penny Kittle has woven together artful teaching and a love of language, celebrating the written word with classes from elementary school through graduate school. Now, she shares the stories of students with whom she's celebrated, struggled, and learned. More than a teaching memoir, The Greatest Catch is a close-up look at how to teach powerful lessons and how to learn powerful lessons from teachingespecially from teaching writing.Kittle teaches her students that writing is a tool for developing their intellectual, academic, and emotional selves, and in these essays, she shows how both she and her students' lives have been profoundly influenced by writing. You'll look over her shoulder as she tries to win over a mischievous third grader, works with a fifth-grade alcoholic, and attempts to make sense of her profession as she watches secondary students drop out of school. And in each instance, you'll see how writing can provide an outlet for difficult feelings, build connections and community, or foster resiliency in writers of any age.Best of all, The Greatest Catch is a model for your own professional development. In addition to her inspirational and pragmatic stories, Kittle includes Craft Notes that demonstrate how she composed her essays so that you can use the same strategies for your classroom life. You'll find these tools immediately useful for structuring reflective writing that helps you uncover the many layers of meaning in your work, just as Kittle, herself, has.Join Penny Kittle in the journey of a teaching lifetime and learn from her experience. Begin with any essay in The Greatest Catch or read it cover to cover. You'll find that no matter where you start you'll end up at the same place: inspired to teach, write, and learn.

6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for the Primary Grades


Ruth Culham - 2005
    It allows teachers to pinpoint students’ strengths and weaknesses in ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation, and focus instruction. Now Culham turns her expert eye to our youngest students. Like her groundbreaking guide for grades 3 and up, her new book contains scoring guides, sample papers, and focus lessons for each trait, but framed to address K–2 teachers’ needs. For use with Grades K-2.Book Details: Format: Paperback Publication Date: 6/1/2005 Pages: 304 Reading Level: Age 5 and Up

Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics: Grades K-3


John A. Van de Walle - 2005
    In addition to many of the popular topics and features from John Van de Walle's market-leading textbook, "Elementary and Middle School Mathematics," this volume offers brand-new material specifically written for the early grades. The expanded grade-specific coverage and unique page design allow readers to quickly and easily locate information to implement in the classroom. Nearly 200 grade-appropriate activities are included. The student-centered, problem-based approach will help students develop real understanding and confidence in mathematics, making this series indispensable for teachers Big Ideas provide clear and succinct explanations of the most critical concepts in K--3 mathematics. Problem-based activities in every chapter provide numerous engaging tasks to help students develop understanding. Assessment Notes illustrate how assessment can be an integral part of instruction and suggest practical assessment strategies. Expanded Lessons elaborate on one activity from each chapter, providing examples for creating step-by-step lesson plans for classroom implementation. A Companion Website (http: //www.ablongman.com/vandewalleseries/) provides access to more than 50 reproducible blackline masters to utilize in the classroom. The NCTM Content Standards are provided for teachers' reference in the appendix.Collect all three volumes in the Van de Walle Professional Mathematics Series Each volume provides in-depth coverage at specific grade levels. Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics: Volume One, Grades K-3, ISBN: 0-205-40843-5 Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics: Volume Two, Grades 3-5, ISBN: 0-205-40844-3 Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics: Volume Three, Grades 5-8, ISBN: 0-205-41797-3

Dr. Seuss


Cheryl Carlson - 2005
    Seuss, an award-winning and famous illustrator and author best known for writing The Cat in the Hat.

Making Sense of Phonics: The Hows and Whys


Isabel L. Beck - 2005
    Beck--an experienced educator who knows what works--this concise volume provides a wealth of practical ideas for building children's decoding skills by teaching letter-sound relationships, blending, word building, and multisyllable words. Straightforward and accessible, the strategies presented for explicit, systematic phonics instruction are ideal for use in primary-grade classrooms or with older students who are having difficulties. Many specific examples bring the instructional procedures to life while elucidating their underlying rationale; appendices include reproducible curriculum materials.

Writing a Life: Teaching Memoir to Sharpen Insight, Shape Meaning--And Triumph Over Tests


Katherine Bomer - 2005
    Working with familiar material, students explore their lives, learn new and sophisticated elements of craft, and engage deeply with content to uncover personal and universal meaning. By teaching with memoir, you can help students exceed official standards for writing, both in class work and on tests, while also giving them a tool for making sense of their place in the world.In Writing a Life, Katherine Bomer presents classroom-tested strategies for tapping memoir's power, including ways to help kids generate ideas to write about, elaborate on and make meaning from their memories, and learn craft from published memoirs. She describes dozens of ideas for minilessons, teacherstudent conferences, peer conferences, writing activities, prompts, and revision strategies. She then crosses the literacy spectrum to show how studying mentor memoirs can enrich students' reading by building strong reading-writing connections. In addition, Bomer presents a curricular unit that prepares students for writing tests by systematically and explicitly helping them transfer the content and skills they develop in writing memoir to the demands of standardized assessments.Every student has a story to share. With Writing a Life, you'll have the inspiration, the strategies, and the materials you need to help them write it beautifully.

Math Dictionary for Kids: The Essential Guide to Math Terms, Strategies, and Tables, Grades 4-9


Theresa R. Fitzgerald - 2005
    Covering everything from "addend" to "zero," the fourth edition of the best-selling Math Dictionary for Kids gives students in grades 49 definitions, illustrations, and examples that can help them solve math problems. This handbook includes illustrated, concise explanations of the most common terms used in general math classes, categorized by subjects that include measurement, algebra, geometry, fractions and decimals, statistics and probability, and problem solving. This newly updated edition also discusses how students can use manipulatives and basic math tools to improve their understanding and includes handy measurement conversion tables. Each term has a concise definition and an example or illustration. This is a guide that needs to be in every child's desk.

One to One: The Art of Conferring with Young Writers


Lucy Calkins - 2005
    And after 30 years of studying her students' growth in the writing workshop, Lucy Calkins knows one of the most powerful ways to support good writers: clear, purposeful writing conferences.In One to One Calkins and her colleagues Amanda Hartman and Zoe White show you the practices and principles that create effective conferences. They dispel the myth that master teachers have a magic touch and show you that effective teachers do not reinvent the conference with each student, but rather use predictable, principled interactions that follow a few simple frameworks. In One to One, you will learn:repeatable conferring frameworks that are the foundation of effective conferring specific teaching methods that you can match to your students' needs strategies for tailoring conferences to English language learners ways to use conferring across the content areas on-the-run record-keeping systems that are efficient, powerful teaching tools. Good conferring, like good teaching, relies on your ability to communicate effectively with children, and the skills you develop as you learn to confer will improve your teaching abilities in all areas, including developing curriculum, leading strong minilessons, and untangling the classroom chaos that can derail a smoothly running workshop. Read One to One to improve your conferences and your teaching. But most important, read it to improve your students' writing every day.

Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Derivational Relations Spellers (Words Their Way Series)


Francine Johnston - 2005
     This companion volume focuses on spelling and vocabulary knowledge that grow primarily through processes of derivation. Designed for elementary educators' use as part of a reading curriculum where derivational relations is covered.

Reviving the Essay: How to Teach Structure Without Formula


Gretchen Bernabei - 2005
    Loaded with student examples and reproducible forms, the 30 lessons in Reviving the Essay will "supercharge" your students' minds with patterns and ideas that will transform their esays from lockstep, generic assignments to well-considered opinions offered in authentic, creative voices.

The Power of Grammar: Unconventional Approaches to the Conventions of Language


Mary Ehrenworth - 2005
    In ""The Power of Grammar"," Mary Ehrenworth and Vicki Vinton show you how these two notions of power can help your grammar instruction address the practical and aesthetic needs of your student writers.Ehrenworth and Vinton explore the impact of conventions on writing, and they offer you new and compelling ways to show adolescents how informed and purposeful grammatical choices can transform their writing from competent to original and innovative. Through contextualized lessons embedded within your writing curriculum, you'll guide students to an understanding of conventional written English, then show them how to manipulate conventions to produce artful writing.Grounded in the latest research and tested in the field, "The Power of Grammar" also contains resources that support good teaching, including: a concise, to the point, reproducible primer that highlights and defines the most important and useful grammatical conventions in English a wealth of mentor texts that allow students to examine conventional and unconventional constructions from the work of published authors and practice composing their own sentences based on the example detailed samples of four kinds of grammar minilessons, each of which can be used in their entirety or as a template to teach any grammatical point tips for designing and aligning minilessons to those stages of the writing process where they best reinforce grammatical concepts examples of student work that show you how successful Ehrenworth and Vinton's method can be.Ehrenworth and Vinton also share their passionate belief in the potential of adolescents. By including stories of individual students who discovered and fashioned unique voices and styles by apprenticing themselves to mentor writers, "The Power of Grammar" will renew your faith not only in your students and the English language, but in the power of good teaching to change lives.

In the Spirit of the Studio: Learning from the Atelier of Reggio Emilia


Lella Gandini - 2005
    This beautiful book describes the revolution that the Reggio Emiliaatelier (art studio) brought to the education of young children in Italy, and follows that revolution across the ocean to North America. It explores how the experiences of children interacting with rich materials in the atelier affect an entire school's approach to the construction and expression of thought and learning.

Daily Word Ladders: Grades 2–3: 100 Reproducible Word Study Lessons That Help Kids Boost Reading, Vocabulary, Spelling Phonics Skills—Independently!


Timothy V. Rasinski - 2005
    All the while, they're boosting decoding and spelling skills, broadening vocabulary, and becoming better, more fluent readers.

Shades of Meaning: Comprehension and Interpretation in Middle School


Donna Santman - 2005
    However, many middle school studentsunused to looking between the lines, unused to building or amending their readings of a textneed your guidance as they learn to develop and discuss their own interpretations.In this smart and lively guide, veteran middle-school teacher Donna Santman shows you how to teach readers the skills and strategies of comprehension and interpretation within the framework of a reading workshop. Shades of Meaning takes you through Santman's own rigorous workshop, describing the teaching that allows students to stretch and empower their imaginations. Santman offers guidance in: creating curriculum and lessons that teach habits of mind that support interpretation, like naming the ideas hiding in texts and thinking about perspectives from which to analyze those ideas using reading workshop structures to teach students to practice articulating their thoughts, exploring others' ideas, and interpreting texts assessing students' interpretive skills and moving them toward deeper and more meaningful interpretations using standards-based rubrics and checklists to communicate expectations and track students' progress. With Donna Santman's assistance, you can teach readers the interpretive skills they need to help them find a foothold in their ever-changing world; with Shades of Meaning, you can teach readers ways to understand, interpret, and speak back to the texts in their lives.

How Do I Teach This Kid?: Visual Work Tasks for Beginning Learners on the Autism Spectrum


Kimberly A. Henry - 2005
    Tasks are visually oriented, consistent; expectations are clear. Using easy-to-make "task boxes" children learn:motor matching sorting reading writing and math skills Tasks include:pushing items through a small openings (children love the "resistance" it takes to push them through) matching simple, identical pictures or words sorting objects by color, size, or shape. Ideas are plentiful, materials colorful, and children love the repetitive nature of the tasks, which help them learn to work independently! Sample data sheets are included.

Fueled by Faith: Living Vibrantly in the Power of Prayer


Jennifer Kennedy Dean - 2005
    The Scripture passages and content are organized in such a way that the reader can see how God's promises are fulfilled through one's experiences. The book also includes exercises that will directly connect the material to the reader's immediate circumstances.

Beyond the Sentence


Scott Thornbury - 2005
    As teachers of second language users our priority is to help our learners engage with texts. In this witty and incisive book Scott Thornbury takes discourse apart to show how it is organised.Starting with an examination of genre, he goes on to look at how we structure written and spoken text. Scott shows how these insights affect our work as language teachers and suggests practical activities that can be used in the classroom to help students work with texts.Beyond the Sentence will help you:• find, select and adapt text for language teaching• unpack the hidden message of texts• evaluate and use learners' texts in a more constructive ways

Living the Questions


Sam M. Intrator - 2005
    Palmer--who for forty years has written and spoken about subjects ranging from contemplation to community, the inner life to public life, education to social change--is known as one of the nation's most thoughtful voices, calling us all to ways of being in the world that honor the human heart and promote a humane society. Living the Questions, a celebration of Palmer's long and distinguished career, explores the dynamic interplay between the inner life of spirit and the outer life of work. The equally distinguished contributors, who come from a wide range of professions--university presidents, scientists, physicians, religious leaders, business consultants, public school educators, philanthropists, and community organizers--bear witness to the depth, breadth, and reach of Palmer's work. All of them have been personally touched by his courage and determination to live a life congruent with the ideas and principles he writes about and by his candor in acknowledging his own flaws.

Visual Supports for People with Autism: A Guide for Parents and Professionals


Marlene J. Cohen - 2005
    Visual supports are particularly beneficial to people with autism because they help make abstract concepts concrete and capitalise on the user's inherent visual learning strengths. Visual Supports for People with Autism shows parents and educators how incorporating these aids while teaching can improve academic performance, behaviour, interaction with others, and self-help skills. analysts, describe the deficits typical of autism - language, memory, temporal sequential skills, attention, motivation, and social skills - and present strategies to use visual supports to address those issues at school and home. This guide presents an abundance of examples, illustrated by dozens of black and white and colour photos. Visual Supports also explains considerations such as portability, durability, preferences, age appropriateness, and effectiveness. While visual supports can enhance learning, they should, however, eventually be eliminated to avoid over-dependence on them. book, there's no limit to what can be taught, from fostering social interaction by using a graphic organiser of conversational talking points to learning to put away toys from video modelling. Most of the visual supports presented in this book are low-tech and easy-to-use, making it simple for parents and professionals to create their own, suited to the needs of their students. Inspiring success stories will further motivate parents and professionals to get started.

Use Your Words: How Teacher Talk Helps Children Learn


Carol Garhart Mooney - 2005
    From the author of Theories of Childhood, this humorous and thoughtful guide contains a wealth of classroom examples, as well as clear alternatives for transforming the language teachers use in the classroom.

Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms


Norma Gonzalez - 2005
    The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions. Drawing from both Vygotskian and neo-sociocultural perspectives in designing a methodology that views the everyday practices of language and action as constructing knowledge, the funds of knowledge approach facilitates a systematic and powerful way to represent communities in terms of the resources they possess and how to harness them for classroom teaching. This book accomplishes three objectives: It gives readers the basic methodology and techniques followed in the contributors' funds of knowledge research; it extends the boundaries of what these researchers have done; and it explores the applications to classroom practice that can result from teachers knowing the communities in which they work. In a time when national educational discourses focus on system reform and wholesale replicability across school sites, this book offers a counter-perspective stating that instruction must be linked to students' lives, and that details of effective pedagogy should be linked to local histories and community contexts. This approach should not be confused with parent participation programs, although that is often a fortuitous consequence of the work described. It is also not an attempt to teach parents "how to do school" although that could certainly be an outcome if the parents so desired. Instead, the funds of knowledge approach attempts to accomplish something that may be even more challenging: to alter the perceptions of working-class or poor communities by viewing their households primarily in terms of their strengths and resources, their defining pedagogical characteristics. Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms is a critically important volume for all teachers and teachers-to-be, and for researchers and graduate students of language, culture, and education.

ELT Methodology Principles and Practice


Nesamalar Chitravelu - 2005
    

Comprehension Toolkit


Stephanie Harvey - 2005
    See www.comprehensiontoolkit.com for more details.

Assessing Writers


Carl Anderson - 2005
    And when it comes to advice on best practices for assessment, there's no better source than Carl Anderson's "Assessing Writers." Like he did in the popular and highly acclaimed "How's It Going?," Anderson offers smart, ready-to-use ideas for assessment. "Assessing Writers" offers practical methods for gathering information about every writer in your classroom and shows you how to create writing lessons that address the needs of individual students as well as the whole class.Anderson's straightforward approach helps you imagine an ongoing assessment program that takes you from meeting new students to designing curriculum. In "Assessing Writers" you'll find out: what you need to know about students to assess them as writers how to uncover and make sense of this information how to make an individualized plan for each student how to use these plans when you confer how to structure units of study to meet classroom-wide needs. Let Carl Anderson be your guide as you place assessment at the center of writing instruction. With a wealth of smart suggestions, useful charts, reproducible rubrics, and activities for professional reflection, Assessing Writers gives you powerful tools that make assessment simple and effective.

Worksheets for Teaching Social Thinking and Related Skills: Breaking Down Concepts for Teaching Students with Social Cognitive Deficits


Michelle Garcia Winner - 2005
    Winner's other books: Inside Out: What Makes the Person With Social Cognitive Deficits Tick? Thinking About You Thinking About Me, and the Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School Age Students. These lessons are in addition to most of the information in these other three books. The worksheets help to create a lesson plan, defining how to break down concepts for students to explore and they can used directly with students. The worksheets can be copied and sent to parents and other professionals to give an idea of what the student is learning and how to carry the concept over in their own environments. There are some worksheets for children Kindergarten through 2nd grade, the majority of the worksheets are for students in 3rd grade and higher, many of the worksheets are for middle and high school students; the ideas can be used with adults as well. Each worksheet page is coded for the recommended age group it targets.

Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers


Eric (Rico) Gutstein - 2005
    Rethinking Mathematics offers teaching ideas, lesson plans, and reflections by practitioners and mathematics educators. This is real-world math-math that helps students analyze problems as they gain essential academic skills. This book offers hope and guidance for teachers to enliven and strengthen their math teaching. It will deepen students' understanding of society and help prepare them to be critical, active participants in a democracy. Blending theory and practice, this is the only resource of its kind.

Hooked on Phonics: Learn to Read Kindergarten System


Hooked on Phonics - 2005
    Plus, a CD-ROM with 28 computer activities is designed to reinforce new skills with fun games designed for independent play.

Ways of Learning: Learning Theories and Learning Styles in the Classroom


Alan Pritchard - 2005
    Often, without fully understanding the reasons why, teachers encourage learning in their charges which works very well, and is a very good approach at a particular time with a particular child or group of children. With greater insight into what is currently known about the processes of learning and about individual learning preferences, teachers are able to provide even better learning situations which are even more likely to lead to effective learning. This book seeks to provide the detail which teachers can make use of in their planning and teaching in order to provide even better opportunities for effective and lasting learning.The first edition of this book has been used widely and has now been revised to include updated information in the existing chapters as well as a new chapter which covers the area of learning difficulties and special educational needs.

Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 1: 25 Formative Assessment Probes


Page Keeley - 2005
    Each is presented in the form of a single worksheet that may be photocopied and passed out to students at the beginning of an instructional unit. Teacher notes accompanying each probe review science content, summarize relevant research on learning, and suggest instructional approaches for elementary, middle, and high school students. The authors are affiliated with the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance. Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Key Words for Fluency, Pre-Intermediate Collocation Practice: Learning and Practising the Most Useful Words of English


George Woolard - 2005
    Fluency does not depend on knowing many thousands of difficult words. It depends on being able to do a lot with your basic vocabulary. Fluency in reading, writing and speaking depends on knowing thousands of collocations. Listening also depends on recognizing collocations. KEY WORDS FOR FLUENCY is the first self-study to recognize this.

How to Be a Brilliant English Teacher


Trevor Wright - 2005
    It is accessible and very readable, and may be dipped into for innovative lesson ideas or read from cover to cover as a short, enjoyable course which combines exciting teaching principles in successful practical experience.In-depth chapters focus on:starting with Shakespeare learning to plan living with objectives managing behaviour small texts and big texts drama.Trainee teachers will find support in this cheerful little book and practising English teachers can use it as a self-help guide for improving their skills. Trevor Wright addresses many of the anxieties that English teachers face, offering focused and realistic solutions.

The Underachieving School


John C. Holt - 2005
    Taking into account how children actually learn, this book shows us the difference between learning and schooling.

Lessons for the Writer's Notebook


Ralph Fletcher - 2005
    They provide a high-comfort, "hot-house" environment where students' writing can flourish. "Lessons for the Writer's Notebook" by Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi provides a series of proven lessons that will help you introduce the writer's notebook into your classroom, sustain it in your curriculum, and eventually guide students to transition from the privacy of the notebook to public, finished pieces of writing. Whether used as a stand-alone resource in your literacy block, or as an alternative launch cycle in your "Teaching the Qualities of Writing (TQW)" curriculum, "Lessons for the Writer's Notebook" will inspire your students to pick up a pen and imagine the writing possibilities. "Lessons for the Writer's Notebook" includes: Lesson Cards 20 ready-to-use lessons exemplar text graphic organizers Author Chats CD quick audio clips from Ralph explain how he uses his writer's notebook Teacher's Guide "Notebook's" philosophy planning charts teaching tips"Lessons for the Writer's Notebook" and "Teaching the Qualities of Writing (TQW)" While "Lessons for the Writers Notebook" will support any writing curriculum, it is ideally suited to reinforce and extend Portalupi and Fletcher's "Teaching the Qualities of Writing (TQW)." Mirroring the approach and three-part lesson structure of "TQW"'s ready-to-use lessons, the "Lessons for the Writer's Noteboo"k offers an alternative launch cycle for introducing your "TQW" curriculum. Together, "Notebook" and "TQW" will improve the quality of your students' writing while it develops your ability to read and assess their work.

Inside Writing: How to Teach the Details of Craft


Donald H. Graves - 2005
    Fortunately, there is a solution to the time crunch, a quicker, more effective way to help children understand the complexities of writing, and Don Graves and Penny Kittle are ready to share it with you. In "Inside Writing," Graves and Kittle show you the power behind an apprenticeship approach to writing instruction where you mentor students using your own writing-even if you don't consider yourself a writer. Inside Writing is a practical, flexible three-part program that gives you numerous entryways for learning how to model the central elements of the craft: topic choice rereading details response conventions the writing life. Begin with any aspect of Inside Writing, and you'll discover new insights about high-quality writing instruction.The DVD go inside real classrooms to watch as teachers from grades 2-6 demonstrate their writing process for students, and hear teachers and students share what a difference this teaching technique makes; hear commentary tracks from Graves and Kittle that underscore important instructional moments; listen in as the authors discuss their own writing processes; and print seventy-eight quick-writes prompts form your computer's DVD drive.The book read about the voluminous research that supports the efficacy of the apprenticeship method for teaching children to write; strengthen the link between instructional theory and your own day-to-day classroom-teaching practices; and gain a new understanding of the role of writing in both your students' lives and yours.My Quick Writes notebook: Use Graves' favorite Quick Write topics to practice your own writing and reflect on it; find prompts for in-class quick writes with children that prepare them for timed testing situations without giving over your writing workshop to mere test prep; and make connections between your writing process and your students'.Sharpen your writing instruction by learning to trust your own writing. Then teach your students in a powerful, lasting way that will help them to not only understand the elements of writing, but also to combine them into better finished products. Apprentice yourself to Donald Graves and Penny Kittle and go "Inside Writing."Click here for a brief walkthrough of the book, notebook and DVD.

Approximations/aproximaciones: Poems in English And Spanish


Don Cellini - 2005
    

How to Draw Princesses and Ballerinas (Usborne Activities)


Fiona Watt - 2005
    Publication Date: January 1, 2005 | Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Usborne Activities

It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success


Richard Lavoie - 2005
    The ADD child constantly interrupts and doesn't follow directions. The child with visual-spatial issues loses his belongings. The child with a nonverbal communication disorder fails to gesture when she talks. These children are socially out of step with their peers, and often they are ridiculed or ostracized for their differences. A successful social life is immeasurably important to a child's happiness, health, and development, but until now, no book has provided practical, expert advice on helping learning disabled children achieve social success. For more than thirty years, Richard Lavoie has lived with and taught learning disabled children. His bestselling videos and sellout lectures and workshops have made him one of the most respected experts in the field. Rick's pioneering techniques and practical strategies can help children ages six to seventeen -Overcome shyness and low self-esteem -Use appropriate body language to convey emotion -Focus attention and avoid disruptive behavior -Enjoy playdates and making friends -Employ strategies for counteracting bullying and harassment -Master the Hidden Curriculum and polish the apple with teachers It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend answers the most intense need of parents, teachers, and caregivers of learning disabled children -- or anyone who knows a child who needs a friend.

Concept Questions and Time Lines


Graham Workman - 2005
    The book contains:*ready-made materials for 53 areas of grammar that are taught in English language classes*photocopiable Time Lines to illustrate the meaning of structures*ready-made Concept Questions to check understanding*guidance and exercises on making concept questions*photocopiable grammar reference handouts for learners*related follow-up practice activitiesAn essential book for all English language teachers.

Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice


Eric (Rico) Gutstein - 2005
    And working for fundamental social change and rectifying injustice are rarely included in any mathematics curriculum. Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics argues that mathematics education should prepare students to investigate and critique injustice, and to challenge, in words and actions, oppressive structures and acts. Based on teacher-research, the book provides a theoretical framework and practical examples for how mathematics educators can connect schooling to a larger sociopolitical context and concretely teach mathematics for social justice.

Into the Field: A Guide to Locally Focused Teaching (Nature Literacy Series, Volume 3)


Leslie Clare Walker - 2005
    The book is both theoretical and practical, combining pedagogical background on why field work enhances educational experiences with the nuts and bolts details of how one gets started.

Yeah, but...a salamander is not a fish! Schoolwide Discipline Plan Without the Loopholes


Jim Fay - 2005
    Many schools have responded to the pressure of the modern age by increasing the content of the curricula and the rigidity of the student code. Both educators and students feel the pressure. Some become overwhelmed by this pressure.Jim Fay gives you the skills to help you create the relationships and respectful environments that are at the heart of great learning communities. The bottom line is that the Love and Logic tools in this book make teaching easier and better. The path of Love and Logic helps teachers create conditions that are absolutely essential for great academic and social learning.

Dougal's Deep Sea Diary


Simon Bartram - 2005
    Count the hidden mermaids and mermen guiding Dougal on his search for the lost city of Atlants. Man on the Moon was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award in 2003 Full description

Teaching Writing Through Differentiated Instruction With Leveled Graphic Organizers: 50+ Reproducible, Leveled Organizers That Help You Teach Writing to ALL Students and Manage Their Different Learning Needs Easily and Effectively


Mary C. McMackin - 2005
    Seventeen units cover topics from structuring paragraphs to using elaboration to develop ideas, to persuasive essay writing. Helps ALL students master the writing skills and concepts they need to succeed on standardized tests and beyond.

The Ten-Minute Trainer: 150 Ways to Teach it Quick and Make it Stick! (Pfeiffer Essential Resources for Training and HR Professionals)


Sharon L. Bowman - 2005
    These back-pocket activities are easy, quick, topic-related, and fun, and you can draw on with a minimum of preparation. The Ten-Minute Trainer features a variety of exercises, ranging from one to ten minutes in length, and provides content-specific exercises as well as activities for transitioning between topics and gauging understanding. You'll find a useful answer section that explains the brain research behind the book and a special section on learning styles that ties in with the philosophy of learn it fast and make it last.Order your copy of this effective resource today!

Biscuit's Fourth of July


Alyssa Satin Capucilli - 2005
    There's a parade and fireworks to watch, and lots of treats to share with friends and family. Unfold the flaps to see what surprises are in store this Fourth of July.

Feedback in Second Language Writing: Contexts and Issues


Ken Hyland - 2005
    Feedback in Second Language Writing: Context and Issues provides scholarly articles on the topic by leading researchers, who explore topics such as the socio-cultural assumptions that participants bring to the writing class; feedback delivery and negotiation systems; and the role of student and teacher identity in negotiating feedback and expectations. This text provides empirical data and an up-to-date analysis of the complex issues involved in offering appropriate feedback during the writing process.

Building on Strength: Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities


Ana Celia Zentella - 2005
    Tackling mainstream views of childhood and the role and nature of language socialization, leading researchers and teacher trainers provide a historical, political, and cultural context for the language attitudes and socialization practices that help determine what and how Latino children speak, read, and write. Representing a radical departure from the ways in which most educators have been taught to think about first language acquisition and second language learning, this timely volume:Introduces the theories and methods of language socialization with memorable case studies of children and their families. Highlights the diversity of Latino communities, covering children and caretakers of Mexican, Caribbean, and Central American origin living in Chicago, San Antonio, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami, Tucson, and New York City. Offers important insights into the ways in which children learn to speak and read by negotiating overlapping and/or conflicting cultural models. Suggests universal practices to facilitate language socialization in multilingual communities, including applications for teachers.

Learning Through Academic Choice


Paula Denton - 2005
    In Learning Through Academic Choice, long-time educator and Responsive Classroom consulting teacher Paula Denton guides teachers step-by-step through the process of introducing Academic Choice into their teaching.In this practical and comprehensive book, teachers will:learn how to build a strong foundation for Academic Choice;follow a teacher through each phase of implementing an Academic Choice lesson;learn the details of planning an Academic Choice lesson;find a wide range of specific lesson plans and activity ideas for grades K–6.

A Dozen A Day Preparatory Book, Technical Exercises For Piano


Edna-Mae Burnam - 2005
    WillisThe Dozen a Day books are universally recognized as one of the most remarkable technique series on the market for all ages Each book in this series contains short warm-up exercises to be played at the beginning of each practice session, providing excellent day-to-day training for the student.

The Power of Critical Theory for Adult Learning and Teaching


Stephen Brookfield - 2005
    It also reviews adult educational practices and looks at what it means to teach critically.

Teaching Black Girls; Resiliency in Urban Classrooms


Venus E. Evans-Winters - 2005
    Evans-Winters uses qualitative research methods to interpret and discuss school resilience in the lives of African American female students. The book demonstrates how these girls are simultaneously one of the most vulnerable, and one of the most resilient group of students. Teaching Black Girls implements alternative approaches to the study of the intersection of race, class, and gender on schooling, deliberately highlighting how students growing up and attending schools in urban neighborhoods are educationally resilient in the face of adversity. Through dialogue and self-reflection, the author and participants in the ethnographic study documented here reconstruct and tell stories of resilience to derive practice that is both gender and culturally relevant. Teaching Black Girls has research and practice implications for graduate students, advanced pre-service teachers, and school practitioners.

Language Development and Learning to Read: The Scientific Study of How Language Development Affects Reading Skill


Diane Mcguinness - 2005
    Why do some children learn to read easily and quickly while others, in the same classroom and taught by the same teacher, don't learn to read at all? In Language Development and Learning to Read, Diane McGuinness examines scientific research that might explain these disparities. She focuses on reading predictors, analyzing the effect individual differences in specific perceptual, linguistic, and cognitive skills may have on a child's ability to read. Because of the serious methodological problems she finds in the existing research on reading, many of the studies McGuinness cites come from other fields - developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, and the speech and hearing sciences - and provide a new perspective on which language functions matter most for reading and academic success. that phonological awareness follows a developmental path from words to syllables to phonemes - which has dominated reading research for thirty years, and finds that research evidence from other disciplines does not support the theory. McGuinness then looks at longitudinal studies on the development of general language function, and finds a tantalizing connection between core language functions and reading success. Finally, she analyzes mainstream reading research that links reading ability to specific language skills and the often flawed methodology used in these studies. McGuinness's analysis shows the urgent need for a shift in our thinking about how to achieve reading success.

Reading/Writing Connections in the K-2 Classroom: Find the Clarity and Then Blur the Lines


Leah Mermelstein - 2005
    Reading/Writing Connections in the K-2 Classroom demonstrates how through careful, explicit assessing, planning and teaching every student can understand the relationship between reading and writing. Filled with practical classroom strategies based on both theory and research, this resource demonstrates how to move students between reading and writing to become more skillful readers and writers. The book explores the essential understandings needed to use the reading/writing connection; demonstrates how planning helps to use the reading/writing connection; and outlines teaching strategies to use the connection to strengthen your everyday encounters with students. Charts, minilessons, and curriculum calendars provide ways to organize your ideas. A special feature called "For Further Study" is included for staff developers, literacy leaders, principals and members of study groups to provide a track for continued learning. Assessment is integrated into each chapter, providing a clear image of what it looks like to assess in the service of student learning. Practical ways to integrate phonemic awareness, phonics, word study and spelling into planning and teaching reading and writing are incorporated throughout. Word study is integrated into every chapter to ensure a systematic approach to the topic.

The Jumbled Jigsaw: An Insider's Approach to the Treatment of Autistic Spectrum `Fruit Salads'


Donna Williams - 2005
    Exploring everything from mood, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and tic disorders to information processing and sensory perceptual difficulties, including dependency issues, identity problems and much more, Donna demonstrates how a number of such conditions can combine to form a 'cluster condition' and underpin the label 'autism spectrum disorder'.Donna Williams encourages and empowers families to look at what they can do to change their child's environment to address anxiety, overload and other issues. She also gives carers the necessary information to navigate the booming autism marketplace and demand the right tools for the job. The author also challenges professionals to adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to identifying and treating the cluster conditions that make up an autism spectrum diagnosis, and to improve service delivery to those in need.The Jumbled Jigsaw is a call to modern society to take responsibility and accept diversity. It is written in a very human and user-friendly way for parents and for Auties and Aspies themselves, but it is also aimed at carers, professionals, policy-makers and service providers.

Accessing School: Teaching Struggling Readers to Achieve Academic and Personal Success


Jim Burke - 2005
    While the collective voice gives us community, it is the individual voice that gives us strength. Jim's voice gives us much strength, much strength indeed.-Kylene Beers, author of When Kids Can't Read-What Teachers Can DoHow can we make the tools and habits of academic literacy available to every student? Jim Burke answered this question by creating ACCESS, a program for struggling students he began five years ago at Burlingame High School-a program where seventy percent of incoming ninth graders go on to college. In ACCESSing School, Burke examines academic success initiatives around the country, identifying their key components, then detailing how their practices apply to ACCESS so that you can adapt its principles to meet your school's unique needs.ACCESSing School offers a reading-intensive alternative to ineffective remedial courses. It synthesizes the findings of recent studies with both the insight Jim has gleaned from teaching ACCESS classes and the "Four Cs of Academic Success" he identified in School Smarts. ACCESSing School offers a model for all schools, complete with:specific, practical elements of Jim's ACCESS program the actual documents he and his district use to select students for ACCESS the research that supports its principles and practices the ways in which ACCESS addresses specific challenges such as gender, reading problems, and chronic academic failure inspiring stories of the program's many successes and an honest examination of its challenges. How can you help every student learn to "do school?" By providing an opportunity for them to acquire the habits, motivation, and language they need in a curriculum that is structured and experiential, guided but flexible, personally meaningful but academically effective. How do you take the first step? By reading ACCESSing School, and discovering more about the ideas and practices that can help your students succeed both in school and after graduation. For purchasers of the book, reproducibles can be downloaded at http: //www.heinemann.com/accessingSchool.

Grand Conversations, Thoughtful Responses: A Unique Approach to Literature Circles


Faye Brownlie - 2005
    In the author’s unique approach to Literature Circles, no roles are used and no limits are set on the amount students read. Students choose their books from an appropriate pre-arranged set, engage in meaningful conversations about their books with their peers, keep response journals, and work biweekly on a whole-class comprehension strategy. In this resource, you will find: steps for establishing Literature Circles in your classroom strategies and ideas for building purposeful discussion groups practical techniques that help students select books comprehensive book lists tips and criteria to help students write insightful personal responses suggestions for assessing and evaluating student work in Literature Circles

Mind Benders Beginning Book 2 Grades 1-2


Michael O. Baker - 2005
    This level gets progressively more difficult. 48-52 page book includes Instructions and Detailed Solutions.

Jung and Education: Elements of an Archetypal Pedagogy


Clifford Mayes - 2005
    Here, author Clifford Mayes offers his unique perspective on how Jungian ideas and techniques for psycho-spiritual discovery and growth play out concretely in a wide variety of educational contexts. In this book, he draws together over seven years of research to extensively and systematically outline the educational consequences of Jungian psychology. Jung and Education: -Details the psychology of C.G. Jung -Provides abundant examples and quotes from Jung himself -Explains the central concepts in Jungian psychology -Examines the archetypal nature of the student-teacher relationship -Exams the "eight pillars" of a Jungian theory of education -Provides examples of "archetypal reflectivity" in action in which the teacher reflects upon his/her sense of calling and classroom practices in archetypal terms Teachers and teacher educators at the undergraduate and graduate levels in courses in methodology, social history of education, and educational psychology should use this book.

Dreamality


Bob Coy - 2005
    We stop trusting that anything will be different. We stop hoping that anything could get better. We stop expecting life to be full of excitement, anticipation, joy, fun, and hope. Optimism is replaced by anger, frustration, and bitterness. But it doesn't have to be that way. Bob Coy, senior pastor of the seventeen thousand-member Calvary Chapel of Fort Lauderdale, believes that hope can be revived and we can rekindle in our heart the expectation of something more. Using the biblical story of Joseph as a running analogy, Coy looks to God as our dream-deliverer as well as the source of our dreams. He asserts that, as we come to understand God's heart toward us and the bigger picture of our lives, we can reclaim and live out our dreams.

Genre Relations: Mapping Culture


J.R. Martin - 2005
    Chapter 1 introduces our general orientation to genre from the perspective of system and structure, and places genre within our general model of language and social context. Chapters 2-5 deal with five major families of genres (stories, histories, reports, explanations and procedures), introducing a range of descriptive tools and theoretical developments along the way. Finally in Chapter 6 we deal with a range of issues arising for genre analysis in a model of this kind. The book has been written for a readership of functional linguists, discourse analysts and educational linguists, including their post-graduate and advanced undergraduate students. J R Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. His research interests include systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality and critical discourse analysis, focussing on English and Tagalog - with special reference to the transdisciplinary fields of educational linguistics and social semiotics. David Rose is a Research Fellow with the University of Sydney, currently coordinating a national research program in language and literacy for Indigenous Australians. This project, Learning to Read: Reading to Learn, works with schools across Australia, as well as Indigenous teacher training programs in University of Sydney and University of South Australia. Table of contents: Preface; Getting going with genre; Stories; Histories; Reports and explanations; Procedures and procedural recounts; Keeping going with genre.

Practical English Language Teaching: Young Learners


Caroline T. Linse - 2005
    Bailey, Mary Ann Christison, and David Nunan offer a variety of perspectives on language teaching and the learning process."Reflection" questions invite readers to think about critical issues in language teaching while "Action" tasks outline strategies for putting new techniques into practice.Thoughtful suggestions for books, articles, and Web sites offer resources for additional, up-to-date information.Expansive glossary offers short and straightforward definitions of core language teaching terms. This is the PELT Young Learners text.

How to Teach Business English


Evan Frendo - 2005
    Teaching specific business skills // Guidance on syllabus and course design // A task file of photocopiable training activities.

Assessment and Learning


John R. Gardner - 2005
    Readers will find research-informed insights from a wide variety of international contexts. The new edition includes chapters on e-assessment, the learner's perspective on assessment and learning, and the influence of assessment on how we value learning.

Non-Native Language Teachers: Perceptions, Challenges and Contributions to the Profession


Enric Llurda - 2005
    Contributing -Authors -Acknowledgments -Looking at the perceptions, challenges, and contributions or the importance of being a non-native teacher -PART I: Setting up the stage: Non-native teachers in the twenty-first century -A history of research on non-native speaker English teachers -Cultural studies, foreign language teaching and learning practices, and the NNS practitioner -PART II: NNS teachers in the classroom -Basing teaching on the L2 user -Codeswitching in the L2 classroom: A communication and learning strategy -Constructing social relationships and linguistic knowledge through non-native-speaking teacher talk -Non-native speaker teachers and awareness of lexical difficulty in pedagogical texts -PART III: Perspectives on NNS teachers-in-training -Non-native TESOL students as seen by practicum supervisors -Chinese graduate teaching assistants teaching freshman composition to native English speaking students -Pragmatic perspectives on the preparation of teachers of English as a second language: Putting the NS/NNS debate in context -PART IV: Students' perceptions of NNS teachers -Differences in teaching behaviour between native and non-native speaker teachers: As seen by the learners -What do students think about the pros and cons of having a native speaker teacher? -'Personality not nationality': Foreign students' perceptions of a non-native speaker lecturer of English at a British university -PART V: NNS teachers' self-perceptions -Mind the gap: Self and perceived native speaker identities of EFL teachers -Non-native speaker teachers of English and their anxieties: Ingredients for an experiment in action research -Index.

Wiggle's Squiggles


David Kirk - 2005
    Can Miss Spider step in and help her son in time for the Sunny Patch art show? Featuring dazzling imagery and a surprise pop-up at the end!

Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre


Johnny Salda-a - 2005
    In his introduction to ethnodrama and to the plays themselves, Saldana emphasizes how a credible, vivid, and persuasive rendering of a research participant's story as a theatrical performance creates insights for both researcher and audience not possible through conventional qualitative data analysis. With their focus on the personal, immediate and contextual, these plays about marginalized identities, abortion, street life and oppression manage a unique balance between theoretical research and everyday realism.

Building Literacy Through Classroom Discussion: Research-Based Strategies for Developing Critical Readers and Thoughtful Writers in Middle School


Mary Adler - 2005
    Based on the authors’ extensive research in middle schools, it describes why discussion-based instruction is crucial to achievement, and then shows you how to introduce and sustain discussions. The authors clearly define the teacher’s role and provide lots of successful strategies such as provocative statements and journal jots. Trouble-shooting sections answer common questions teachers have, such as how to correct a wrong interpretation and how to teach students to build on each other’s comments.

The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children


Suzi Tortora - 2005
    The first approach to focus exclusively on the importance of observing nonverbal expression, The Dancing Dialogue shows early childhood professionals how to assess the behavior and movement of children with a wide range of issues — and use what they learn to develop appropriate interventions. Designed for use with children from birth to 7 years of age, and equally effective for those with and without special needs, this book reveals how toskillfully observe children's nonverbal cues and develop a keen awareness of the feelings and messages behind themexpand children's abilities in key developmental areas by engaging them with movement, dance, music, and playuse these nonverbal interactions to strengthen social and emotional bonds with childrenhelp caregivers and educators use the same types of interactions to connect with children and stimulate their development, both at home and in the classroomThis eagerly anticipated volume brings to book format the popular program Dr. Tortora has presented to thousands of professionals. The Dancing Dialogue is a one-of-a-kind resource that combines insights from diverse disciplines, including psychology, neurobiology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, dance movement therapy, and early childhood development. No dance background is needed — the ideas and techniques are accessible for professionals from any field. Strategies are brought to life by the author's vibrant, encouraging voice and the fascinating stories of children and adults engaging in the communicative dance.Whether used in an early intervention program, in a classroom, or with individual caregivers and their children, this is an innovative, effective way to assess and enhance the development of young children.

Funnybone Books: Reading Skills: Mysteries: Reading Skills: Mysteries


Dan Greenberg - 2005
    Each reproducible story comes with a set of 10 comprehension questions, designed to reinforce specific reading skills such as identifying the main idea, analyzing plot, distinguishing fact from opinion, and more.

Effective Islamic Parenting


Muhammad Al'Mahdi Jenkins - 2005
    To you is given the awesome responsibility of shaping that precious jewel into a beautiful form, pleasing to the eye of Allah. It is your sacred duty to ensure your child grows up to be a good and right human being (Muslim).Note: The publication of this book was made possible through generous contributions by supporters of the Khalifah Project.

Mind Workout for Gifted Kids


Robert Allen - 2005
    Is their little boy or girl specially gifted? If so, what should parents do to further the child's development? Volume One is for parents, and Volume Two is for kids. Volume One--Comprehensive Guide for Parents: This book speaks directly to Mom and Dad, offering insights to help them assess and guide their child's intellectual growth. The author, an associate with the Mensa Foundation for Gifted Children, helps parents determine their child's special aptitudes, whether in math, creative thinking, or some other area. He discusses today's changing ideas about giftedness, describing traditional IQ tests as being too narrow in scope. He points out recently discovered and wider-ranging ways to recognize a child's potential talents, and he advises on how parents can best introduce their child to the puzzles in this set's second volume. Finally, he offers general advice to all parents of TAG (Talented and Gifted) kids, suggesting techniques for improving memory, concentration, and visualization skills and presenting details on useful contacts, instructive books, and informative web sites that focus on guiding gifted kids. Volume Two--Games and Puzzles: This fun activity book for kids presents approximately 100 challenging puzzles and games that will stretch budding intellects and imaginations. Boys and girls are challenged to find patterns in sequences of numbers and letters, discover hidden words in cryptograms, solve visual puzzles by connecting dots with straight lines, identify famous people and historic dates in scrambled word and number puzzles, and much more.Books are paperback, and each is approximately 64 pages. The two books are packaged together in a vinyl binder. Both parents and kids will find plenty of food for thought in this challenging two-volume set.

Encyclopedia of Distance Learning


Patricia L. Rogers - 2005
    Over 400 international contributors from over 35 countries have provided extensive coverage.

Poetry to Heal Your Blues


Marilyn Hacker - 2005
    When you're deep into the blues, and your world feels dark, find a quiet place, open the pages of this beautiful book, and let the healing power of poetry pour into your soul. What you will discover in this wonderful collection are 100 poems that will take your blues away. They have been chosen with care and thought from the abundant resources of American and international writing. Favorite poets of the past such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Wallace Stevens stand alongside the newer voices of Robert Bly, Louise Glück, W.S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda, Galway Kinnell, Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall, Marilyn Hacker, Dorianne Laux, James Wright, and others. Though they all speak with different voices, these poets find their own, miraculous words to expose pain and through this exposure, heal it.

That Inferno: Conversations of Five Women Survivors of an Argentine Torture Camp


Munù Actis - 2005
    In 1976. the Armed Forces seized control of Argentina and initiated the National Reorganization Process, which led to the quiet disappearance of 30,000 people, most taken from their homes at night by armed individuals in civilian dress. Between four thousand and forty-five hundred of those who passed through the Mechanics School died in torture or were thrown from an airplane into the sea. A few intellectual workers, like the authors, were spared. But, as Tina Rosenberg puts it in her foreword, The women in this book inhabited a surreal hell in which they were never sure that the knock on the door at midnight meant they were to be taken to the torture table or out for a steak. There were torturers who fell in love with their prey.

Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education


Arthur W. Chickering - 2005
    Written by Arthur W. Chickering, Jon C. Dalton, and Leisa Stamm--experts in the field of educational leadership and policy--Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education shows how to encourage increased authenticity and spiritual growth among students and education professionals by offering alternative ways of knowing, being, and doing. Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education includes a rich array of examples to guide the integration of authenticity and spirituality in curriculum, student affairs, community partnerships, assessment, and policy issues. Many of these illustrative examples represent specific policies and programs that have successfully been put in place at diverse institutions across the country. In addition, the authors cover the theoretical, historical, and social perspectives on religion and higher education and examine the implications for practice. They include the results of recent court cases that deal with church-state issues and offer recommendations that pose no legal barrier to implementation.

Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum Women Rhetors


Lindal Buchanan - 2005
    By detailing the education and oratorical practices of pioneering female public speakers, Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum Women Rhetors theorizes how gender impacted the fifth rhetorical canon of delivery and how cultural constructions of the feminine have shaped public performance.Buchanan argues that restrictive gender norms encouraged antebellum women rhetors to develop unique styles and methods of rhetorical production and performance. She examines how schoolgirls devised ways to learn and practice elocution in academic settings and how women developed inventive delivery strategies to maintain the appearance of femininity even as they participated in conventionally masculine discursive activities from general public speaking to political lobbying. She also identifies collaborative methods that enabled antebellum women to negotiate conflicts between their domestic and rhetorical commitments and thus reach public platformsAssessing the calculable impact of gender on rhetorical performance, Buchanan maintains that delivery holds particular sexual and textual connotations for women rhetors. Regendering Delivery notably contributes to ongoing feminist efforts to incorporate women into the rhetorical tradition by probing such gendered—and largely overlooked—aspects of oratorical delivery as cultural context, gender norms, elocutionary education, sexuality, maternity, feminine ethos, and collaboration.

Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England


Amy M. Froide - 2005
    Amy Froide looks at how singlewomen's lives differed from those of wives and widows, at the social relationships of women without husbands, and at how these women supported themselves. She also examines the economic and civic contributions singlewomen made to urban life and explores the English origins of the spinster and old maid stereotype.

Trade-Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social Issues


Harold Winter - 2005
    But economists also analyze issues that, to others, do not typically fall within the realm of economic reasoning, such as organ transplants, cigarette addiction, smoking in public, and product safety. Trade-Offs is an introduction to the economic approach to analyzing these controversial public policy issues.Harold Winter provides readers with the analytical tools needed to identify and understand the trade-offs associated with these topics. By considering both the costs and benefits of potential policy solutions, Winter stresses that real-world policy decision making is best served by an explicit recognition of as many trade-offs as possible.Intellectually stimulating yet accessible and entertaining, Trade-Offs will be appreciated by students of economics, public policy, health administration, political science, and law, as well as by anyone who follows current social policy debates.

Know and Follow Rules


Cheri J. Meiners - 2005
    This book starts with simple reasons why we have rules: to help us stay safe, learn, be fair, and get along. Then it presents just four basic rules: “Listen,” “Best Work,” “Hands and Body to Myself,” and “Please and Thank You.” The focus throughout is on the positive sense of pride that comes with learning to follow rules. Includes questions and activities adults can use to reinforce the ideas and skills being taught.

Collins Cobuild Active English Grammar


Collins - 2005
    Illustrated by thousands of examples from the Bank of English, it contains easy-to-understand explanations of important points. Warning notes occur throughout the text, giving learners help with potential problems in English. Supplements to the text include irregular verb tables, and a detailed glossary of grammatical terms.

Practical Poetry: A Nonstandard Approach to Meeting Content-Area Standards


Sara Holbrook - 2005
    Whether you teach one or several subjects, Practical Poetry includes chapters specially written to show you how to promote content understanding and meaning-making in language arts, math, science, and social studies by taking poems out of the artsy ether and making them functional. Even if you aren't a poet, you'll be ready to use poetry in your class tomorrow because each of Holbrook's lessons:describes the rationale for how and why the lessons work identifies the specific content standards you'll be addressing in your teaching includes exemplar poems to use right away or to guide you in weaving favorite poems into your lesson planning provides examples of student work from classrooms where poetry has been used successfully as a vehicle for learning. You might think you don't have room in your standards-based curriculum to teach with poems, but with applications to content standards woven throughout, Practical Poetry will prove that you do. Take Sara Holbrook's advice. You'll energize your students, reinforce their topical understanding over a variety of content-area standards, and build their critical-thinking and language skills. Poetry has never been so practical.

The Garden at Night: Burnout and Breakdown in the Teaching Life


Mary Rose O'Reilley - 2005
    Palmer, author of The Courage to TeachIt's no wonder that burnout plagues the teaching profession. Teachers are on the front lines every day, meeting the needs of too many students at once. Meanwhile, they must also address an increasingly complex assortment of third-party expectations and deal with the politics of their schools and their departments. Throw in piles of essays to grade, and it's easy to see why so many teachers simply opt out.Whether you're a beginning teacher trying to sustain your idealism, or an experienced professional courting burnout, take a deep breath and read Mary Rose O'Reilley's The Garden at Night. As she did in Radical Presence, O'Reilley draws on numerous experiences from the classroom and collegial life and identifies strategies that tap your own courage and strength. The Garden at Night will help you find the quiet well of energy within that nourishes your teaching by aligning it to the present moment and revitalizes it during darker, more stressful times.Mary Rose O'Reilley deals frankly with the realities of the profession and suggests ways to transcend the limitations of our culture and indoctrination. Read The Garden at Night and rediscover how satisfying your practice can be.

Creating Classrooms Where Teachers Love to Teach and Students Love to Learn


Bob Sornson - 2005
    This book captures the essence of using Love and Logic to build successful school cultures. It helps learn to set limits in the classroom without anger.

Analysing Learner Language


Rod Ellis - 2005
    This book provides a clear introduction to the main methods of analyzing samples of learner language by examining the theoretical and research bases for each.

Taking the Stress Out of Raising Great Kids: Journal Collection, Years 1995 to 2000


Jim Fay - 2005
    Presents short stories and covers all age ranges for parents and educators.

Kindergarten Literacy: Matching Assessment and Instruction in Kindergarten


Anne McGill-Franzen - 2005
    Learn how teachers have used these assessments to group children as: Readers, Almost Readers, and Letters and Sounds kids for more targeted teaching. Includes lessons and examples of all the effective practices and activities for building literacy, rubrics, and more. For use with Grade K.

Teaching Geography, w/CD


Phil Gersmehl - 2005
    The focus is on planning instruction that helps students develop spatial-thinking skills while learning about the land, climate, economy, and culture of places around the world. Nearly 100 engaging activities are provided in reproducible transparency masters and on the CD-ROM. Grounded in national and state standards, this is an ideal preservice text or professional development resource.

An Introduction to Music in Early Childhood Education


Joanne D Greata - 2005
    After being led to understand the importance of musically nurturing children in this age group, students are taught to nurture children at various stages in early childhood. The unique developmental characteristics of these stages are examined and are the basis upon which activities are planned. Specific activity examples are given that help the student learn to sing, move, play and listen to music with young children. In addition to the main text, a supplement helps the student gain an understanding of basic musical elements and terms. This is meant to help students feel more comfortable with music, so they are not hesitant to lead children in the discovery of this creative expression.

Moving Over the Edge: Artists with Disabilities Take the Leap


Pamela Kay Walker - 2005
    It features many of the artists and groups that emerged in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1980s, including Axis Dance Company, Bruce Curtis, CJ Jones, David Roche, Cheryl Marie Wade and Wry Crips Disabled Women's Theater.