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TEACHING RESOURCES CATALOGUE (2007-2008)
All Grades (JrK-12) / 289 pages
This catalogue contains an amazing collection of our current educational resources.
Includes resources for Social Studies, Mathematics, Science, Early Childhood, Language Arts, High-Interest / Low-Readability, Life Skills, Special Resources, Thinking Skills, Gifted & Enrichment, Professional Resources, General Teaching Resources, Software & Technology.
MR #029263 $0.00 (FREE)
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BE AN INVENTOR
CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
Grades 4-9
Be an Inventor encourages bright students to explore some of the stages of the inventing process through finding new uses for existing inventions, establishing a need for a new invention, developing an invention to fill a need, hypothesizing possible inventions that known inventors might have created, and creating and establishing a use for an invention made from a set of specific materials or parts. Included in the package are a teacher’s guide, 26 reproducible sheets, and 60 activity cards.
MR #048766 $36.95
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CRIME SCENE DETECTIVE ARSON
Grades 5-8 / 80 pages
A fire breaks out in the school library, and somebody on campus is to blame, but who? Your students become detectives as they interview suspects, analyze evidence, and participate in real-life forensic labs as part of the mock crime scene investigation in Crime Scene Detective: Arson. Like the best-selling Crime Scene Detective, this book includes everything teachers need to set up a crime scene in their school, including six new suspect and witness storylines, guides to displaying evidence and setting up forensic labs, and lessons for teachers explaining the basics behind forensic science.
MR #048844 $15.95
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DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION WITH MENUS
All Ages / 125 pages
Differentiating Instruction With Menus offers teachers everything they need to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. Addressing the four main subject areas (language arts, math, science, and social studies) and the major concepts taught within these areas, these books provide a number of different types of menus that students can use to select exciting products that they will develop so teachers can assess what has been learned—instead of using a traditional worksheet format. Each book contains attractive reproducible menus, each based on the levels of Bloom’s Revised taxonomy, for students to use to guide them in making decisions as to which products they will develop after studying a major concept or unit. Using creative and challenging choices found in Tic-Tac-Toe Menus, List Menus, 2-5-8 Menus, Baseball Menus, and Game Show Menus, students will look forward to sharing their newfound knowledge throughout the year. Also included are specific guidelines for products, rubrics for assessing student products, and teacher introduction pages for each menu.
MR #048851 Language Arts $23.95
MR #048852 Math $23.95
MR #048853 Science $23.95
MR #048854 Social Studies $23.95
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BIOLOGY
HIGHER-LEVEL THINKING QUESTIONS
Grades 7-12 / 160 pages
Your secondary students will explore biology topics and themes like never before with this giant collection of ready-to-use biology questions. You’ll find questions for sixteen biology topics and themes: Animals, Biochemistry, Bioenergetics, Biotechnology and Ethics, Body Systems, Cells, Classification, Ecology, Evolution, Fungi, Genetics, Methods and Tools, Monera, Plants, Protista, and Viruses and Diseases. Promote thinking and interaction in your biology class..
MR #042328 $22.95
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MATTER & ENERGY SERIES
Grades 5-8 / Readability Level 3-4 (60 pages each)
This is science made easy! You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand matter and energy. We present important concepts in an easy-to-understand way with simple language and vocabulary. Discover what matter is, and isn’t. Learn about solids, liquids and gases, properties and changes in matter, and the difference between a mixture and a solution. Then, explore the invisible world of atoms and molecules. Young scientists will be thrilled to learn why they are mostly empty space! Then on to the periodic table of elements followed by a study of energy. These resources are jam-packed with experiments, reading passages, and activities all for students in grades 5 to 8. Overhead transparencies and answer key included in each book..
MR #048274 Properties of Matter $16.99
MR #048275 Atoms, Molecules & Elements $16.99
MR #048276 Energy $16.99
MR #048277 BIG BOOK (all 3 combined) $33.99
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GENERAL SCIENCE CHALLENGE
A CLASSROOM QUIZ GAME
Grades 5-8 / 92 pages
• Popular “Jeopardy-like” format enlivens lessons on life science, physical science, and earth and space science
• Five levels of difficulty to tailor questions to all students’ needs
• Aligns with your regular science textbook curriculum
• Adheres to National Science Education Standards
• Create in-class reviews or handouts
• Helps students think more positively about science
MR #045807 $23.95
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LIFE SKILL LESSONS
All Grades / 230 pages
Author Ellen McPeek Glisan has created a thoroughly organized, easy-to-implement life skill program for transition students with mild to moderate disabilities. The goal of the 650 lessons is to instill a general awareness of an important life skill and each one can be completed in just five minutes. Five categories of lessons align with the general curriculum: Math, Social Studies, Science/Health, Expressive Literacy and Receptive Literacy. For example, Assembling First Aid Kit and Making an Apology are linked to social studies. You can also select lessons by factors like learning style or life skill category.
MR #047071 $55.95
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VISUALIZATION
HIGH NOON READING STRATEGIES
by Michael Milone, Deb Akers
All Grades / Readability Level 1-4 (144 pages)
High Noon Reading Strategies: Visualization is a unique instructional program designed to help students learn to create mental images from what they read. The ability to visualize is one of the most important reading comprehension strategies. In addition to contributing to the reader’s understanding of text, students who are capable of creating vivid images of what they read are likely to develop a lifelong love of reading.
High Noon Reading Strategies:
Visualization provides:
• 120 reading passages with carefully controlled vocabulary, Grades 1-4 readability
• guidelines for modeling strategic reading
• read-along, paired reading, and independent reading guidelines
• guided fluency practice
MR #044188 $21.95
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FROM GOBBLEDYGOOK TO CLEARLY WRITTEN ANNUAL GOALS
by Barbara D. Bateman,
Writing clear, measurable annual IEP goals is a difficult skill to master. The good news is that goal writing is easy once the steps are revealed. In her latest book, Dr. Barbara Bateman takes actual goals, which were poorly written and turns them into productive ones. You learn to simplify the process by focusing on just four ideas: Observable behavior, measurable criteria, a given or condition for success and a final test.
2006, 104 pages
MR #047044 $28.95
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LOOK 'N COOK PROGRAM
Grades K-12
Look ‘n Cook is great for beginners! It features Look ‘n Cook Cookbook with 62 step-by-step recipes and Look ‘n Cook Lesson Plans. Created by Ellen Sudol Catalano, a special education teacher, it’s newly updated with realistic full-color illustrations and new recipes. Look ‘n Cook Cookbook features recipe illustrations that are are clear, concise and easy to “read.” Each picture step has accompanying text. A color-coding system makes it easy to follow measurement and temperature requirements. Cookbook has laminated pages and a wipe-clean vinyl easel binder.
MR #047075 $55.95
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YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!
From Chaos to Cooperation in the Elementary Classroom
A teacher’s most challenging problem is the student who is frequently defiant and disruptive. These students create problems for themselves and for the classroom as a whole. In this teacher-friendly guide, Sylvia Rockwell uses her considerable experience to show you how to select and implement the most effective behavioral interventions to address the needs of these problem students while maintaining a cooperative classroom environment. This book integrates compelling, real-life teaching anecdotes with descriptions of research-based strategies to help students learn appropriate behavior, both those with emotional/behavior disorders (EBD) or other disabilities as well as those with other behavioral difficulties. Special and general education teachers as well as administrators at the elementary level will find this book a vivid, powerful tool to help intervene effectively when behavior problems occur. Educators will find discussions on how to:
• Identify typical and atypical development
• Understand group development, including stages, roles, and strategies
• Manage class-wide behavior, addressing conditions, consequences, and curriculum
• Understand the behavior-achievement connection, with specifics on unit and lesson planning
• Manage aggression and conflict
• Develop resilience in students, teachers, and parents
This valuable resource also provides classroom-ready materials and other reproducibles, including a unique parent supplement to help parents understand your classroom strategies, work on behavior problems at home, and communicate effectively with school personnel.
2007, 320 pages.
MR #044392 $44.95
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COMMON-SENSE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS GRADES 6-12
If you're a teacher new to special education, this book is for you!
This Common-Sense Classroom Management guide addresses the most critical challenges that arise when teaching adolescent learners with special needs. In this flexible and easy-to-implement resource, educators will find 80 concise and teachertested strategies. Each strategy works in five steps or fewer, helping special educators feel competent and confident about working with coteachers, teacher aides, support staff, administrators, and families. Ideal for teachers new to special education, teacher trainers, and teacher mentors, this resource provides a clear-sighted focus to help you shape the structure of each teaching day and ensure success for all your learners with special needs!
2007, 160 pages.
MR #048916 $33.95
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RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION
A Practical Guide for Every Teacher
As a result of NCLB legislation and the reauthorization of IDEA 2004, Response to Intervention (RTI) is now a mandated process for documenting the existence or nonexistence of a learning disability. For educators new to the RTI approach, Response to Intervention presents an overview of key concepts with guidelines for accountability practices that benefit students in inclusive classrooms. Presenting the three tiers of RTI techniques, the authors demonstrate how general and special education teachers can use research-based interventions effectively to individualize instruction, monitor individual student progress, and implement strategies to meet the specific needs of all students. Response to Intervention assists educators with the basic and necessary steps to provide students with a Fair and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) in the Least
Restrictive Environment (LRE), and includes:
• Vignettes, examples, and forms based on the problem- solving and standards-based approaches to RTI
• A chapter illustrating how RTI techniques benefit students who are economically underprivileged and/or culturally and linguistically diverse
• A chapter devoted to Frequently Asked Questions
Featuring helpful charts and reproducibles, this timely resource is sure to become a valuable guide as educators implement programs to document how individual students respond to specific educational interventions.
2007, 168 pages.
MR #048921 $31.95
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DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION FOR STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
Best Teaching Practices for General and SPecial Educators
Whether teaching inclusive or special education classes, instructors need effective differentiated and brain-compatible methods for learners with learning disabilities, at-risk students, or youngsters who may have learning difficulties. Demonstrating how to differentiate instruction in any classroom, this second edition of the best-selling book Differentiating Instruction for Students With Learning Disabilities shows teachers how to support learners through flexible, practical lessons to help them achieve significant gains in reading comprehension, language arts, and math. You will learn how to use metacognitive and scaffolded learning techniques such as webbing, cubing, and tiering, and discover how to enhance social skills through group projects, role play, and practical peer tutoring systems. With a revised reference section and “Teaching Tips” sidebars throughout, this research-based text also includes updates that:
• Address changes prescribed by IDEIA and federal regulations covering eligibility criteria, assessments, and Response to Intervention (RTI)
• Provide more data on brain research and literacy based on the National Reading Panel’s five tenets of reading instruction
• Offer new information on universal design for learning and classroom organization
• Present a greater focus on graphic organizers
• Include new materials on mathematics
Both general and special education teachers will return to this book again and again as an invaluable guide for differentiating instruction in any classroom.
2007, 216 pages
MR #048925 $39.95
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TEACHING STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
A Practical Guide for Every Teacher
By James E. Ysseldyke • Robert F. Algozzine
What is to be done to help a student who does not have an obvious special education condition, but whose expected achievement on certain academic tasks falls short of his or her actual achievement-despite evidence-based instruction? Let Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities be your guide! This compact resource describes the characteristics associated with learning disabilities, and offers practical teaching strategies proven to increase the success rate of these students both in and outside the classroom.
2006, 120 pages.
MR #043869 $22.95
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BRAINSTORMING II
Grades K - 12 (88 pages)
Brainstorming has been a bestseller for years. Marty Fligor has put her pen to paper once again and come up with a new volume of brainstorming themes. Hundreds of topics divided into eight categories (Level I, Level II, Sentence Completion, Alphabet Lists, Creative & Humorous, Situations, Where in the World, and One-Minute Topics) as well as games to play with the topics get those creative juices flowing. Great for the classroom, waiting room, living room, break room, and nay other room containing a brain or two craving stimulation, Brainstorming II provides springboards for great brainstorming sessions.
MR #044995 $14.95
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STRATEGIES & GAMES FOR IMPROVING CRITICAL THINKING & QUESTIONING SKILLS
Grades 3-5 (80 pages)
Encourage students to utilize critical-thinking and questioning skills to solve a variety of engaging puzzles and games. Activities include The States Game, Analogies, Shapes, Multiplication Grid Game, and many more.
MR #048437 $13.95
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PUZZLE IT!
Middle Grades (64 pages)
Every Puzzle It! book has 50 challenging and entertaining puzzles that require the application of important basic skills. In solving puzzles, students wake up their brains as they sharpen critical thinking and problem solving. Three books are available in this great new series.
MR #048213 Math Computation Puzzles $11.95
MR #048214 Language Puzzles $11.95
MR #048215 Logic Puzzles and Tricks $11.95
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EXAMINED LIFE
Advanced Philosophy for Kids
Grades 6 - 12 / 200 pages
In this, the follow-up to the bestselling Philosophy for Kids, Dr. David White delves deeper into the philosophical questions kids (and adults) care about deeply. Through vibrant discussions and debate, your students will grapple with age-old questions about the nature of Friendship (Aristotle), Time (Augustine), Knowledge (Plato), Existence of God (Aquinas), Perception (Berkeley), Freedom and Society (Rousseau), and many more. The book is divided into three sections. Part 1 presents primary source readings that will encourage discussion and debate; Part 2 offers easy to use activities that focus on the direct application of philosophy to such areas as critical thinking, language, and the arts; and Part 3 offers a unique perspective just for teachers—a philosophical look at how teachers can become more reflective philosophers themselves.
MR #043499 $33.95
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT ME YOU CAN'T TEACH?
An Instructional Guide for the Urban Educator
Research on student achievement asserts that improvement begins with the expectations of the classroom teacher. Combining high expectations and research-based practices enables teachers to deliver high-quality education in any environment. What Is It About Me You Can’t Teach? provides urban educators with the tools they need to help all students achieve successful educational outcomes. This second edition discusses the challenges faced by urban students, examines the research base that supports “high expectations” instruction, and provides countless practical strategies that can be implemented at all grade levels. The authors include:
• Strategies to help students become active, engaged learners
• Ways to help students to take control and responsibility for their own learning
• Methods for developing students’ cognitive skills
• Sample lesson plans that demonstrate using the strategies at all levels
• A new chapter on professional development for urban educators
Sharpen your own knowledge and skills so that you can effectively help your students reach higher levels of knowledge and achievement.
2007, 256 pages.
MR #045656 $44.95
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CONCEPT-BASED CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION FOR THE THINKING CLASSROOM
This indispensable guide combines proven curriculum design with teaching methods that encourage students to learn concepts as well as content and skills for deep understanding across all subject areas. Synthesizing Lynn Erickson’s past 15 years of field work with teachers, curriculum developers, teacher educators, and instructional leaders, this resource offers a complete guide to designing curriculum and instruction that foster the continuous growth and development of a student’s critical, abstract, and creative learning skills. Educators will learn how to:
• Bring coherence and clarity to high-quality curriculum design and instructional planning
• Teach the way that students’ minds learn best
• Encourage students’ creative and abstract thinking, regardless of level or subject area
• Gain the support of principals and district administrators
2007, 208 pages.
MR #044771 $38.95
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WHAT IF YOUR ABCs WERE YOUR 123s?
BUILDING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN LITERACY AND NUMERACY
What If Your ABCs Were Your 123s? illustrates the parallels between literacy and mathematics and helps elementary teachers take what they know about teaching literacy and apply that knowledge to strengthen their math instruction. Designed for the primary and elementary levels, this practical handbook illustrates how teachers can deepen their own mathematical understanding and improve students’ achievement. Gain a detailed, comprehensive understanding of the relationship between literacy and numeracy and significantly increase your effectiveness in mathematics instruction!
2007, 128 pages.
MR #045944 $27.95
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SCHOOL AS A HOME FOR THE MIND
Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue
Compiled to celebrate Arthur L. Costa’s distinguished career, The School As a Home for the Mind, Second Edition assembles under one cover the author’s best thinking about the teaching of thinking. Costa explains why educators need to integrate explicit thinking instruction into daily lessons, how such instruction can take place, and what thinking—and the teaching of thinking—looks like and sounds like. He also discusses the curricular changes that accompany the introduction of teaching for, of, and about thinking. This expanded edition includes Costa’s recent articles incorporating the latest theory, research, and practice about the teaching of thinking.
2007, 264 pages.
MR #048932 $41.95
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NEW TAXONOMY OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
Marzano’s Taxonomy—the most current and comprehensive guide in 50 years to define the new standard for education—is a must-have resource for all directors of curriculum and instruction, directors of staff development, principals, and teachers. Developed by Robert Marzano and John S. Kendall, internationally recognized experts in the development and improvement of standards for education, this field-tested and proven reference contains the most current research on the nature of knowledge and cognition and a reflection of the movement to standards-based education. Based on three domains of knowledge: information, mental procedures, and psychomotor procedures; and six levels of processing: retrieval, comprehension, analysis, knowledge utilization, metacognition, and self-system thinking, this essential guide offers specific applications for:
• Designing and classifying educational objectives
• Creating assessments
• Redesigning state and district-level standards
• Formulating curriculum
• Outlining a thinking-skills curriculum
2007, 208 pages.
MR #044398 $38.95
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CURRICULUM MAPPING
Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Curriculum Year Overviews
Curriculum Mapping: A Step-By-Step Guide for Creating Curriculum Year Overviews offers teachers a customized, personalized process to prepare their curriculum while folding content into a larger curriculum map. Kathy Tuchman Glass leads K–12 educators stepby- step through the process of developing a Curriculum Year Overview—or curriculum map—helping to establish meaningful connections between content areas while ensuring that all standards are met. This excellent resource helps teachers, curriculum directors, staff developers, and principals map out the school year with an articulate game plan to follow as they meticulously educate their students. Discover how to build a strong foundation that promotes clear educational goals and results in a winning curriculum plan for your classroom and school!
2007, 152 pages.
MR #044788 $32.95
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DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN THE CLASSROOM
New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity
Integrating digital storytelling with instruction becomes a creative opportunity for both novice and technologically experienced educators when using Jason Ohler’s Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. Ohler links digital storytelling to improving traditional, digital, and media literacy, and guides teachers on how to empower students to tell stories in their own native language: new media and multimedia. Aligned with NCTE standards and covering important copyright and fair use information, this text provides information on integrating storytelling into curriculum design and using the principles of storytelling as a measurement of learning and literacies. Implementation tips and visual aids abound, giving teachers an exciting new resource.
2007, 256 pages.
MR #048931 $38.95
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DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION
Collaborative Planning and Teaching for Universally Designed Learning
In this follow-up to their highly successful book A Guide to Co-Teaching: Practical Tips for Facilitating Student Learning, noted experts Jacqueline S. Thousand, Richard A. Villa, and Ann I. Nevin, demonstrate how to combine co-planning, co-teaching, and collaboration to differentiate instruction more effectively in today’s classroom. Intended for both novice and seasoned professionals, Differentiating Instruction: Collaborative Planning and Teaching for Universally Designed Learning presents two approaches: universal design for learning (UDL) and a unique retrofit approach for accessing the general education curriculum to meet the learning styles of all diverse learners, including those who are gifted, students with disabilities, and English Language Learners. Filled with easy-touse, teacher-tested, and research-based ideas. Offering guidelines for determining individual learner needs, processes allowing teachers to collaborate efficiently, and sample lesson planning forms, this invaluable resource enables educators to develop and present a high-quality differentiated curriculum for all students.
2007, 256 pages.
MR #044794 $39.95
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CURRICULUM MAPPING FOR DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION, K-8
This lively, easy-to-use resource is a cohesive and accessible guide to curriculum mapping and instructional planning for classrooms that support diverse learning styles and needs. With a “Teacher’s Tool Chest” that offers an abundance of reproducibles, templates, and task cards to accompany sample lessons and units, this rich reference shows educators how to:
• Use standards and rubrics for developing interdisciplinary units and lessons
• Analyze and assess students’ learning styles and needs
• Develop differentiated content, process, and products, including homework
• Create a student-centered classroom
• Successfully integrate curriculum mapping, differentiated instruction, and interdisciplinary units within a manageable framework
This remarkable handbook provides everything teachers need to revitalize the relationship between standards-based curriculum and instruction, using real-life strategies that work!
2007, 136 pages.
MR #044781 $32.95
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DISCOVER SCHOOL AND CLASSROOM HABITATS
Grades 3-6 (85 pages)
At last! A comprehensive resource about the habitat surrounding
every classroom! This resource contains background information, investigations
and challenges dealing with habitat issues that deal with the schoolyard,
school lawn, and paved areas and in the gardens. B.L.M.
MR #041251 $24.95 |
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GEOFINITY
Grades 1-4 (102 pages)
Make math experiences fun! Primary students learn the language
of geometry and then explore shapes, angles, coordinates, polygons,
parallel and perpendicular lines, and perimeter. Includes hands-on activities
with geoboards, a thematic "space" approach, and student contract.
MR #037702 $15.95 |
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MATH FAIR PROJECTS AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
by Barry Doran and Leland Graham
Middle Grades (128 pages)
Everything your students will need to prepare a quality math
fair project can be found in this inclusive resource. Use the exercises
to guide students through research, writing, and constructing their
final projects. Includes tips for parents, evaluation tools, and a list
of related websites.
MR #037146 $17.95 |
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FAMOUS PROBLEMS AND THEIR MATHEMATICIANS
Art Johnson
Grades 5-12 (179 pages)
Why did ordering an omelet cost one mathematician his life? Answers
to this and other questions are found in this exciting new resource
that shows your students how 60 mathematicians discovered mathematical
solutions through everyday situations. These lessons are easily incorporated
into the present curriculum as an introduction to a math concept, a
homework piece, or an extra challenge. Teacher notes and suggestions
for the classroom are followed by extension problems and additional
background material. This is a great way to spark student interest in
math.
MR #021238 $33.95 |
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USE THAT COMPUTER!
by Johnston, Johnston, & Forde
No longer will teachers be reluctant to use a classroom computer.
This book takes readers through the essential components of making a
classroom computer an invaluable tool for teachers and students. Topics
covered include: Managing classroom information, standards-based curriculum
and instruction, traveling safely on the information highway, and professional
development.
MR #023750 $18.95 |
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GO TEAM!
A GUIDE TO TEAM TEACHING SUCCESS
Grades 6-8 (64 pages)
This new teacher resource will help middle school teachers develop
and implement successful team-teaching teams. Content focuses on the
importance of team leadership, goal setting, cooperative planning time,
team size, co-teaching, and much more. Includes reproducible planning
and lesson-planning sheets, grading and recording keeping forms, plus
other useful documents related to team teaching.
MR #035176 $11.95 |
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CENTERS ON THE GO
FUN, CREATIVE ACTIVITY FOLDERS TO TAKE
TO YOUR SEAT
Grades 4-6 (192 pages)
Centers on the Go contains more than 30 standards-based, creative,
and user-friendly learning centers. Each center fits inside a two-pocket
folder that can be conveniently stored in a file box for use at any
time. The activities allow for independent seatwork while the teacher
works with other groups. And—best of all—the activities
target key standards in all subject areas and provide motivating review
and reinforcement of basic skills in reading, math, science, and social
studies.
MR #037479 $23.95 |
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WIN-WIN DISCIPLINE
STRATEGIES FOR ALL DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS
Spencer kagan, Patricia Kyle & Sally Scott
All Grades (620 pages)
Win-Win Discipline is the single most comprehensive
and effective classroom discipline program available. Period. Never
before has there been a more practical and powerful step-by-step approach
to discipline. Win-Win seeks a higher goal than other discipline programs:
The goal is not merely to end disruptions; the goal is to teach students
to meet their unmet needs so they no longer need to be disruptive. Watch
disruptive behavior disappear as Win-Win…
• Turns anger into rational decision-making
• Replaces boredom with active engagement
• Channels excess energy into productive learning
• Ends control-seeking via learned self-efficacy
• Transforms attention seeking into self-validation
• Converts avoidance of failure into self-confidence
If we end a disruption, we improve our classroom for a while. If instead
we foster autonomous responsibility, we prevent future disruptions and
empower our students for a lifetime. Win-Win provides proven step-by-step
strategies and structures to prevent disruptions, for the moment-of-disruption,
and follow-ups. Go beyond manipulative tricks to end disruptions. Use
Win-Win’s proven approach to prevent disruptions by teaching learned
responsibility.
With Win-Win, you create a safe, comfortable learning environment for
you and your students — A place where students are excited to
come and where you don’t feel stressed by the end of the day.
Win the freedom to focus on learning and growing, not on disruptions.
With Win-Win your students win skills for a lifetime and you win the
freedom to do what you do best — teach without distractive disruptions.
MR #034584 $46.95 |
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WHAT’S THIS GOT TO DO WITH ANYTHING?
Jim Craigen & Chris Ward
All Grades (178 pages)
What do fun and energizing activities have to do with learning?
A lot! Bran research inform us that we must eliminate threat and provide
a secure learning environment. This collection of teambuilders and classbuilders
will help you create solidarity and cohesion among classmates. Brain
science also teaches us that students’ brains need oxygen and
glucose. Feed your students’ brains with the energizers in this
book. This eclectic collection of over 30 brain-friendly activities
will help you make your classroom a fun place to be and a great plce
to learn.
MR #035023 $28.95 |
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CHARACTER QUOTATIONS
ACTIVITIES THAT BUILD CHARACTER AND COMMUNITY
Tom Lickona & Matt Davidson
Grades 3-8 (314 pages)
From preeminent character education advocates comes a suprisingly
simple, yet powerful approach to building good character - through quotations.
Exploring quotations about specific virtues and character is a wonderful
way to share with students the wisdom of the ages and the importance
of developing good character. One virtue is highlighted for each of
36 weeks. Each virtue-of-the week includes 5 reproducible
quote-of-day pages ideal for making a transparency of the quote or posting
it on a bulletin board to share with students. Each week also includes
a teacher’s guide for the virtue with a kid-friendly definition
of the virtue, reflection question for each quote, action assignments
for the week, and full-page, reproducible illustration of the virtue
in action. Building character with the ready-made character development
program!
MR #035027 $28.95 |
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TEACHING 101
CLASSROOM STRATEGIES FOR THE BEGINNING
TEACHER
Jeffrey Glanz
Teaching 101, one of the most comprehensive introductions to
teaching available, is a book that provides essential knowledge and
skills for becoming an exceptional teacher at any level. Reader-friendly,
and practical, this is a book from which you’ll learn and continue
to reference throughout your career.
2004, 312 pages, 7" x 10", 2nd printing
MR #038207 $44.95 |
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ON BEING A TEACHER
THE HUMAN DIMENSION
THIRD EDITION
Jeffrey A. Kottler, Stanley J. Zehm, Ellen Kottler
Realize and awaken the passionate, caring, motivated teacher
inside!
On Being a Teacher links teaching to the unique human characteristics
that each of us possesses. Written with the preservice, beginning, and
veteran teacher in mind, the authors help educators discover their own
special traits that make them superlative teachers. This newly revised
third edition includes the addition of:
• Research-based teaching strategies
• Professional development activities
• An in-depth look at parent-teacher conferences
• Ideas for getting involved in your school and district to further
your professional growth
• Information on learning styles and multiple intelligences
• Guides for individual and group reflection
2005, 200 pages, 6" x 9"
MR #038204 $32.95 |
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF PROFESSIONALISM FOR
TEACHERS
WISDOM FROM A VETERAN TEACHER
Vickie Gill
Avoid many of the professional pitfalls that plague beginning
teachers!
Vickie Gill, the best-selling author of The Eleven Commandments of Good
Teaching, explains how to behave with students, other teachers, administrators,
support staff, and parents by revealing the unspoken rules of conduct
that help experienced educators thrive in the classroom. Using humor,
stories, and personal experiences, the author includes insider information
on:
• Finding a suitable mentor
• The use and abuse of power
• Continued professional growth
• After hours job duties and administrative details
• Specific ways to use documentation to protect yourself
2005, 80 pages, 6" x 9"
MR #038229 $22.95 |
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INSPIRED ENGLISH
RAISING TEST SCORES AND WRITING EFFECTIVENESS
THROUGH POETRY AND FICTION
Lorraine LaCroix
Lessons that spark the imagination and fuel academic success!
Teachers of English at the high-school and middle-school level face
greater challenges as the pressures of standardized testing collide
with the realities of declining literacy and unmotivated students. LaCroix
shows teachers how they can use poetry and fiction to generate student
interest and promote
higher-level thinking skills. Features that will aid new and veteran
teachers alike include:
• Twenty proven, ready-to-use lessons complete with rubrics, reproducibles,
and reteach ideas
• Straightforward descriptions of three effective lesson plan
types, including the LaCroix Model
• Concrete examples of how to supercharge students’ vocabulary,
and critical thinking
for higher test scores and lifelong success
2005, 160 pages, 8.5" x 11"
MR #038255 $35.95 |
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FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION™
SIX PRINCIPLES THAT GUIDE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
IN HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOLS
Alan M. Blankstein
Foreword by Michael Fullan
A Copublication with the HOPE Foundation
The powerful new guide to creating successful and sustainable
professional learning communities!
Covering theory into practice, applications that include case studies
and vignettes, and techniques for addressing difficult issues, this
state-of-the-art resource provides practical approaches to perplexing
problems. The author identifies courageous school leadership and the
professional learning community as the center of effective school reform
and offers six guiding principles for creating and sustaining high-performing
schools:
• Common mission, vision, values, and goals
• Systems for prevention and intervention
• Collaborative teaming for teaching and learning
• Data driven decision making and continuous improvement
• Active engagement from family and community
• Building sustainable leadership capacity
2004, 288 pages, 6" x 9", 2nd printing
MR #037810 $38.95 |
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TEACHING ON TARGET
MODELS, STRATEGIES, AND METHODS THAT WORK
Daniel C. Elliott
Hit the target of excellence and empower yourself to be a truly
effective teacher!
Teaching on Target is the guide for today’s creative teachers,
empowering them to achieve maximum excellence from their students. Tied
to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, this easy-to-use
guide targets comprehensive
and trustworthy resources that emphasize the essentials
of good teaching. A four-step framework to each teaching
model and strategy to ease implementation is provided:
• Plan: Outlines the stages and crucial elements of the model
in action
• Structure: Describes student and teacher roles and relationships
• Teacher/Learner Interaction: Demonstrates how the teacher can
effectively work with learners
• Outcomes: Describes how both instructional and nurturing outcomes
are achieved by leading learners in certain directions
March 2005, 248 pages, 8.5" x 11"
MR #038177 $40.95 |
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WHAT SUCCESSFUL TEACHERS DO
91 RESEARCH-BASED CLASSROOM STRATEGIES
FOR NEW AND VETERAN TEACHERS
Neal A. Glasgow, Cathy D. Hicks
This handbook provides tested, proven, research-based strategies
that improve and re-energize classroom practice. It also covers curriculum
and pedagogy, classroom management,
assessment, special-needs students, diversity, technology,
parents, colleagues, professional identity, and more. Each strategy
offers concise coverage of theory, application, and practice to help
avoid pitfalls during implementation.
2003, 232 pages, 7" x 10", 4th printing
MR #038179 $38.95 |
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REACHING AND TEACHING MIDDLE SCHOOL LEARNERS
ASKING STUDENTS TO SHOW US WHAT WORKS
Penny A. Bishop, Susanna W. Pflaum
Enhance classroom practice by promoting an open and shared process
with your students!
Middle school students have much to say about the quality of their schooling
experiences and can provide rich insight into what works for them and
what doesnt. Written for new and veteran teachers of grades 4-8, the
unique framework of this book takes its cue from the students themselves
by using their own words and drawings, combined with the authors’
action research, insightful analysis, and shared experiences. Highlights
of this powerful resource include:
• Content area strategies
• Classroom factors that promote or inhibit learning
• Learner insights
• Student drawings, conversations, and reflective questions for
teachers
• Enhance your repertoire of literacy instructional strategies!
April 2005, 160 pages, 7" x 10"
MR #038180 $32.95 |
