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Product Description: Thoroughly revised and updated, Secondary School Teaching: A Guide to Methods and Resources is a comprehensive guide to instructional methods and contains many practical exercises for active learning.   This text provides a sound introduction to the challenges of today's secondary schools, teachers' professional responsibilities, thinking and questioning, classroom environment, curriculum, planning instruction, assessment using inquiry, teacher talk, and games, learning alone and in groups, and professional development...read more

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Presents a collection of methods, guidelines, and resources to teach middle school students.

Product Description: Your First Year of Teaching: Guidelines for Success is a collection of strategies on how to succeed and thrive during your first year of teaching.  This brief, practical text presents guidelines on how to manage your first day, differentiate instruction, cope with high-stakes testing, deal with parents and colleagues, set a homework policy, manage disruptive behavior, and other challenges...read more

Looks at the development of interdisciplinary thematic units, covering such topics as content, diversity, technology, and classroom management.

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Product Description: A Resource Guide for Elementary School Teaching is a practical, comprehensive, and concise methods text designed to engage readers in “hands-on” and “minds-on” learning about effective teaching. Each chapter contains an abundance of application exercises on perforated pages that provide opportunities to practice what is learned and to reflect on the progress teachers are making toward their professional competence...read more

Product Description:  Packed with the science content future teachers must know, and based on the premise that integrated learning by inquiry is the cornerstone of effective science teaching, the eleventh edition of this classic again focuses on the four developmental components of both teaching and learning—the why, what, how, and how well of teaching...read more

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Product Description: A Resource Guide for Elementary School Teaching is a practical, comprehensive, and concise methods text designed to engage readers in "hands-on" and "minds-on" learning about effective teaching. Features new to the fifth edition include: *Sample projects and resources for service learning that reflect national efforts to help children connect academic learning, personal growth, and a sense of civic responsibility *A new chapter on elementary school children, their development and their diversity, and specific strategies for working with them *Instructional scenarios and classroom vignettes that serve as additional springboards for thinking and class discussion *A companion website at www...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This is a revision of one of the most successful SES books, focusing on practical strategies for surviving the 1st year of teaching. Second edition includes: strengthened treatment of diversity, updated treatment of curriculum standards, and technology. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Responding to the diversity that exists in today's classrooms, Kellough attempts to enhance the teaching (and therefore learning) of individual disciplines by connecting them to both the entire curriculum and the real world. The book begins by covering fundamentals important to all teachers of Grades 4-9, then provides examples, methods and activities for integrating the instruction of language arts and social studies...read more

Product Description: Responding to the diversity that exists in today's classrooms, Kellough attempts to enhance the teaching (and therefore learning) of individual disciplines by connecting them to both the entire curriculum and the real world. The book begins by covering fundamentals important to all teachers of Grades 4-9, then provides examples, methods and activities for integrating the instruction of mathematics and science...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Responding to the diversity that exists in today's classrooms, Kellough attempts to enhance the teaching (and therefore learning) of individual disciplines by connecting them to both the entire curriculum and the real world. The book begins by covering fundamentals important to all teachers of Grades K-4, then provides examples, methods and activities for integrating the instruction of mathematics and science...read more