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Offers lesson plans and practical suggestions for stimulating active learning and creating learning opportunities in new ways. For teachers of years 4-12.
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.
This powerful book helps teachers redefine an inclusive curriculum by questioning what is taught, how it is taught, to whom, and under what conditions and by offering a wealth of challenging, open-ended pursuits.
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.
How can every teacher create and maintain a well-run classroom full of engaged students? Kathy Lundy moves step-by-step through the nitty-gritty details of creating a classroom that works for both teachers and students. This honest look at the complexity of teaching introduces 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 teacher-mentors, Stand Up & Teach will help every teacher on their journey to become the educator they want to be.
Have trouble speaking in front of the class? Revitalize your speaking skills by deciding what to say, why to say it, and how to do so in ways that will capture the attention of any audience, and keep them engaged until the very end.
This passionate book is committed to the building of respectful relationships among students, teachers, and the school community; it is about helping kids care more about their work and each other, and helping teachers care about their classroom. Through active, engaging, relevant, open-minded 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.
Provides a fictionalized account, interspersed with factual information, of Ruby Bridges' experiences as the first African American child to attend a formerly all-white school in New Orleans at the age of six.
Presents strategies on ways to create a classroom environment that will motivate reluctant learners.
This book will give teachers from all subject areas the confidence to explore the possibilities of drama in the classroom.