Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day
It started with a simple observation: students need their teachers present to answer questions or to provide help if they get stuck on an assignment; they don't need their teachers present to listen to a lecture or review content. From there, Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams began the flipped classroom-students watched recorded lectures for homework and completed their assignments, labs, and tests in class with their teacher available.
Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: A Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything K-12
Author Deborah Schoeberlein pioneers the practical application of mindfulness in education. By showing teachers how to tune into what's happening, inside and around them, she offers fresh, straightforward approaches to training attention and generating caring both in and outside of the classroom. Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness emphasizes how the teacher's personal familiarity with mindfulness plants the seed for an education infused with attention, awareness, kindness, empathy, compassion, and gratitude.
Big Skills for the Common Core: Literacy Strategies for the 6-12 Classroom
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Zoom in on the academic skills students are required to learn in reading, writing, speaking/listening, and language! This book cuts through all of the Common Core jargon and gets right to the heart of what students need to learn now. Big Skills for the Common Core is packed with engaging strategies you can use immediately to improve your students' literacy skills and help them retain those skills.
English Teaching Professional issue 79 , March 2012
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English Teaching Professional is a quarterly magazine which is packed with classroom activities and teaching tips for every English language teacher.
In every issue you can find articles which focus on reviews of recent EFL theory, as well as lots of practical hints e.g. how to teach different language aspects, how to deal with some undesirable behaviour which appears in L2 classrooms, advice on how to improve your teaching, how to use computers more effectively and lots more.
Teacher Evaluation: To Enhance Professional Practice
Added by: Anonymous | Karma: | Only for teachers, Non-Fiction | 14 July 2014
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Teacher evaluation - a term that brings fear, anticipation, stress, anxiety, or even boredom to the hearts of teachers and administrators everywhere. How can we reinvent teacher evaluation so that it really makes a difference - so that the students succeed as a result of it? The bad news is that many schools and districts seem to be stuck in old ruts, involving The Observation, The Behavior Checklist, the Conference, and The Judgment. The good news is that many districts have paved the way for teacher evaluation to actually become professional development, by using a three-track evaluation system