This quick and easy flipbook has all the answers for kids who find it difficult to speak in front of the class. It offers suggestions on making presentations more memorable by deciding what to say, why to say it, and how to do so in ways that arrest the attention of the audience and keep them involved until the very end. The book shows how to build confidence by moving from sharing informally in pairs to presenting in small groups to performing in front of the class. Timely "Dos and Don'ts", lists of "Top Ten Tips", and assessment charts for oral language round out this remarkable resource -- perfect for students and teachers alike!
Discover innovative ways to conquer the many curricular challenges in today's diverse classrooms!
This practical book shows teachers how to work collaboratively to weave authentic learning tapestries where content knowledge and diverse understandings are drawn from one subject discipline and used to enrich others. It offers simple ways to build on the four principles of inquiry, innovation, identity, and integration to form a creative framework for delivering curriculum. The book introduces ten comprehensive, planned projects that integrate curriculum areas, and encourage students to see different perspectives; think critically and imaginatively about ideas; work with new materials; and represent their knowledge in precise and profound ways. Based on Kathy Lundy's extensive classroom experience, this timely new book suggests meaningful ways for the entire education community to work together to deliver a curriculum that is relevant and engaging.
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This passionate book is about community, compassion, and creativity; it is about caring for others. It is also about helping students care about their work. Teachers will learn how to establish inclusive classrooms where kindness and concern become crucial backdrops for critical conversations. They will be introduced to simple but profound strategies that initiate and maintain respectful dialogue, promote collaboration over competition, and confront difficult issues such as bullying and exclusion.
Creating Caring Classrooms is committed to building respectful relationships among students, teachers, and the school community. Through active, engaging, relevant, open-ended activities, students will be encouraged to explore events, ideas, themes, texts, stories, and relationships from different perspectives, and then represent those new understandings in innovative and creative ways.
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We are pleased to offer sample chapters from four of our newest and bestselling titles on equity and inclusion—a peek inside FOUR key resources, completely FREE!
Teaching Tough Topics
Each chapter in this timely book deals with an important tough topic designed to help students consider their own identities and the identities of others. Model lessons are outlined using picture books, novels, poetry, and nonfiction as sources for responding through talk, writing, and the arts to address diversity and enrich empathy and tolerance.
Teaching Fairly in an Unfair World
This timely revision of a ground-breaking resource is an essential tool for exploring social justice issues with students in our evolving classrooms. Practical activities, useful resources, and classroom techniques for helping students make sense of the world around them, complemented by a glossary of over 50 strategies and reproducible pages.
Stop the Hate for Goodness Sake
Over 40 practical lessons that guide teachers to confront racism and discrimination, and that lead young people to consider ethical and moral behavior. A thoughtful examination of today’s world that will help teachers encourage reflection, foster inclusion, and inspire students to take action. This in-depth guide will show teachers how to start and manage important conversations that will lead to change.
Finding a Place for Every Student
Finding a Place for Every Student delves deeply into teaching all types of exceptionalities in the mainstream classroom. With a new focus on social belonging, this comprehensive resource includes autism, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, mental health issues, learning disabilities, behavior challenges, trauma, intellectual disabilities, visual and hearing impairments, giftedness, and low-incidence disabilities.
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This sensible, invigorating book offers lesson plans and practical suggestions for stimulating active learning and creating learning opportunities in new ways. It directs teachers to simple methods of inspiring a questioning attitude that will help students master skills, acquire information, and become critically aware of their own possibilities as learners. The book shows teachers how to encourage students to:
Teachers will find engaging entry points and proven strategies they can use, and a refreshed and revitalized view of everyday teaching they will love.
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What do you need for a well-run classroom full of engaged students? Kathy Lundy takes you step-by-step through the nitty-gritty details of creating a classroom that works for you and your students. This honest look at the complexity of teaching introduces you to strategies that work and classroom management tips that make a difference. From building a safe and inclusive classroom, to teaching with imagination and
innovation, to engaging with your mentors, Stand Up & Teach will help you become the teacher you want to be.
This era of “fake” news demands a deeper curriculum that questions inconsistencies of facts and opinions in various texts and images. This timely revision of a ground-breaking book offers opportunities for students to connect with social justice issues through inventive language exploration and the active examination of all forms of media. It encourages teachers to evaluate their core teaching beliefs and recognize the realities of their students’ lives for a richer understanding of our complex world. A glossary of more than fifty strategies, along with reproducible pages for easy classroom use, complement this essential resource.
Every teacher has a least one student in their class that they are afraid they may never reach. This insightful resource will help teachers to break down barriers, reach beyond the day-to-day frustrations, and turn even the most reluctant student onto learning. Discover how to organize classroom goals and activities to make daily operation easier, more organized, joyful, and exciting. With simple, straightforward strategies to make learning contextualized, inclusive, respectful, and creative, the book will deliver ways to build a classroom environment that will meet the needs of every student. This remarkable guide will help teachers to motivate and inspire those hard-to-reach kids that keep them awake at night.