Supervising Student Teachers - The Professional Way

Supervising Student Teachers clearly defines the role of cooperating teachers and guides them through their responsibilities. From preparing for the arrival of the student teacher through the writing of the letter of recommendation, the cooperating teacher learns how to create an environment that will maximize the growth of the student teacher. The opening vignettes and case studies allow the reader to experience and apply a broad range of useful, practical strategies. This book includes a solid body of research yet reads in a conversational tone. It should be the companion for every cooperating teacher, teacher educator, supervisor, and principal.

The Complete Book of Reading, Grades 5-6

The Complete Book of Reading takes the reader step by step through the activities necessary to learning important comprehension, grammar skills, and writing techniques.

Achieving Competence, Success and Excellence in Teaching

Measuring the ability to teach is central to government policies to raise standards in schools. 'Successful teaching' is now measured through basic technical and personal skills in the context of the National Curriculum. Teachers are labelled successes or failures based on graded OFSTED inspections.
This thought-provoking book explains how different levels or qualities of teaching can be identified and achieved. It outlines the criteria for competent, successful and excellent educational practice, whilst suggesting ways of achieving the highest possible measure of excellence.

Brave New Digital Classroom: Technology and Foreign Language Learning

Brave New Digital Classroom deftly interweaves results of pedagogical research and descriptions of the most successful computer-assisted language learning (CALL) projects to explore how technology can best be employed in the foreign-language curriculum to assist the second language acquisition process.

Daily Academic Vocabulary, Grade 6

Daily Academic Vocabulary provides 36 weeks of direct instruction and reproducible practice on key vocabulary words that students will encounter in many different academic contexts and learning experiences.

Examples of the words presented in grade 6+:

- acquire, cite, implicit

- characteristic, distinguish, infer
- concise, exclude, irrelevant
- connotation, feasible, strategic