Tailored for novice teachers of kindergarteners through high schoolers, this handbook explores the most common challenges inexperienced teachers face and offers techniques to overcome them successfully. While practical topics such as classroom organization, student discipline, and lesson plans are addressed, the often unmentioned realm of the politics of teaching is also discussed, with advice on how to deal effectively with administrators and parents.
Are you stuck for ways to stretch your best English students? By focusing on what excites and motivates all learners, this book provides you with a clear guide to ensuring sound provision for your gifted and talented students. Included is advice on: o how to identify more able students o what to do to get other staff on board o successful strategies for working with more able students o using ICT effectively in lessons and activities o how to measure students' progress o personalised learning.
Make your ailing vocabulary go from merely good to exceptionally splendid and stupendous! Your brain holds an impressive vocabulary of more than 20,000 words, but chances are you only use a small fraction of them. That fraction is usually filled with worn-out oldies that have lost their impact, such as interesting, good, and nice.. Now you can rejuvenate your vocabulary and rehab your verbal skills with this guide for using language to communicate more effectively in writing and speech.
To use memory effectively, we must do much more than shuttle information into and out of storage. Much of our use of memory is actually the action of higher-level decision making on the inputs to and the outputs from memory stores. The central premise of this volume is that the many capabilities of memory reflect not the action and interaction of multiple memory systems but rather the myriad of ways in which memory queries can be strategically devised for the task at hand and the degree to which the products of memory can be flexibly acted upon. The chapters here review research that demonstrates how we select strategies for querying memory effectively, how we successfully remember to perform intended actions, how the skillful use of encoding and retrieval strategies can moderate memory deficits and support expertise, and how we accommodate our responses and monitor our output in order to satisfy situational demands while making optimal use of the information that our memory provides us with.
Frequent headaches seriously affect the lives of millions of sufferers. The result can be lost productivity and income, restrict activity, lower self-esteem, and even social isolation. For many, it takes years to find the appropriate medication to manage your headaches effectively. In Managing Your Headaches, Mark and Leah Green and John Rothrock explain what information you should record for your physician...
