Everyday Engagement: Making Students and Parents Your Partners in Learning

Everyday Engagement offers specific strategies to try in your classroom, with your students, and with their parents that will help you
* Connect with students and parents as individuals.
* Communicate invitations to engagement (and regroup and respond if your initial invitations are rejected).
* Provide appropriate, ongoing support and encouragement that will keep students in class, behavior in check, and learning on track.
* Anticipate and handle setbacks and complications in teacher-student and teacher-parent relationships.
* Tap outside resources to extend learning beyond the walls of the classroom.

Transformational Teaching in the Information Age: Making Why and How We Teach Relevant to Students

How can teachers meet the challenges of engaging and educating all students, from those who are gadget-toting and plugged-in to those who are language learners or economically distressed and everyone in between? How can you help students learn what they need to know when the world and all that s in it is changing rapidly? Standards and high-stakes testing haven t answered the call, but you can.

By pairing a fiction and nonfiction book on the same theme and packaging them with copies of the provided questions and activities, teachers and librarians can send students off with take-home science learning packets perfect for independent learning and family fun. Organized into 60 topics to coordinate with the Core Knowledge Curriculum, the guide's themes are integral to any elementary program.

Teaching Teenagers: Model Activity Sequences for Humanistic Language Learning

This book shows how teachers can motivate teenage language learners, encourage them to communicate in a real way and teach humanistically while following a predetermined school syllabus. It gives 9 sequences of activities which provide an account of the authors' experience of addressing these problems and the techniques which they used.

Recipe Book: Practical Ideas for the Language Classroom

This is a collection of language "recipes" from a number of different authors. The book aims to be a source of information for teachers looking for learner-centred activities. All the ideas have developed out of classroom experience and have been contributed by practising language teachers and deal with everything from vocabulary to visuals and testing.