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Please phone the Teacher Center (423) 272-4503 Ext. 131 or 114 or e-mail Nedra Jackson at jacksonn@hck12.net or Linda Bernard at bernardl@hck12.net to request resources to be sent via courier. Please request by assigned letter & number. DISCIPLINE
PR 1 Behavior Management: A Practical Approach for Educators, James Walker, Thomas Shea, & Anne Bauer. The text is written to provide a practical guide to experienced teachers, teachers-in-preparation, parents and paraprofessionals for applying behavior management techniques both in general and special educational settings and in the home. It is designed to help teachers who have responsibility for a diverse population of students.
PR 92 The Educator’s Guide to Preventing and Solving Discipline Problems,PR 2 Classroom Management for Elementary Teachers, Carolyn Evertson, Edmund Emmer, & Murray Worsham. This best-selling text gives teachers the information and skills they need to plan, implement, and develop the most fundamental classroom management task-to develop a smoothly running classroom that encourages learning. It includes arranging the physical space, establishing rules and procedures, planning and conducting instruction, encouraging appropriate behavior, addressing problem behavior, and using good communications skills with particular attention paid to the growth of ethnically diverse classrooms.
PR 3 Classroom Management for Secondary Teachers, Edmund Emmer, Carolyn Evertson, & Murray Worsham. This best-selling text gives teachers the information and skills they need to establish management systems in today’s rich multicultural classrooms, based on the author’s 30 years of research and experience in more than 500 classes. This resource helps teachers plan, implement, and develop the most fundamental classroom management task-to develop a smoothly running classroom that encourages learning.
PR 4 Classroom Management that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Every Teacher, Robert Marzano. Marzano analyzes research from more than 100 studies on classroom management and applies these findings to a series of “action steps” specific strategies that educators can use to get the classroom management effort off to a good start, establish effective rules and procedures, implement appropriate disciplinary interventions, foster productive student-teacher relationships, develop a positive “mental set”, help students contribute to a positive learning environment and activate schoolwide measures for effective classroom management.
PR 5 Common-Sense Classroom Management: Surviving September and Beyond in the Elementary Classroom, Jill Lindberg & April Swick. This resource addresses behavioral nuances with concrete, concise, and practical tips for educators. It provides a fresh perspective and keen insight into dealing the increased rates of attention and behavioral deficits that characterize modern society.
PR 6 Common-Sense Classroom Management for Middle and High School Teachers, Jill Lindberg, Dianne Kelley & April Swick. This book – really a manual of sorts- is a proactive, common-sense approach to help you create a successful classroom-learning environment. The strategies you find here can be implemented without extensive interpretation or planning, creation of materials, or permission from your administrator. They cover all aspects of a typical school day, providing specific and very practical ideas to assist in solving your classroom management problems.
PR 7 Discipline in the Secondary Classroom: A Problem-by-Problem Survival Guide, Randall S. Sprick, PH.D. For the secondary teacher, here is a remarkable new “survival guide” for solving all kinds of individual and group behavior problems in the 7-12 classroom, including procedures to help motivate even those students lacking the maturity or interest to appreciate the benefits of education or the joys of learning. Organized into 4 sections (Preparation & Organization, Self-Discipline & Motivation, Consequences for Misbehavior, Troubleshooting Specific Problems), it provides both immediate steps for handling specific misbehavior when they occur, and proven techniques for resolving long-practiced problems by gradually improving discipline policies and procedures.
PR 8 Reluctant Disciplinarian: Advice on classroom management for a softy who became (eventually) a successful teacher, Gary Rubinstein. In this funny and insightful book, Rubinstein relives his own truly disastrous first year of teaching. He begins his teaching career armed only with idealism and romantic visions of teaching – and absolutely no classroom management skills. By his fourth year, however, he is named his school’s “Teacher of the Year.” Any teacher – experienced or not- will enjoy this honest and humorous look at the real world of teaching, and will come away with some very helpful ideas for classroom management.
PR 9 Secondary Classroom Management: Lessons from Research and Practice, Carol Weinstein. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to secondary classroom management. It combines what research has to say about effective classroom management with knowledge culled from practice.
PR 10 Setting Limits in the Classroom: How to Move Beyond the Dance of Discipline in Today’s Classrooms, Robert J. MacKenzie. Proven methods that put you back in control of your classroom. Disruptive behavior, power struggles, lack of motivation, attention deficit disorder---at times the list of obstacles to teaching seems endless. This revised edition offers the most up-to-date alternatives to punishment and permissiveness—far beyond the usual methods that wear you down and gets you nowhere.
PR 11 Strategies for Addressing Behavior Problems in the Classroom, Mary Margaret Kerr & Michael Nelson. This book addresses school-based interventions in the context of multiple levels of positive behavior support. Some features of the book are: organization of strategies according to universal, targeted, and intensive levels of intervention, more links to additional intervention resources and access to professional support.
PR 12 Teaching and the Art of Successful Classroom Management: A How-To Guidebook for Teachers in Secondary Schools, Harvey Kraut. In this book, Kraut uses a wealth of professional and personal experience to compartmentalize and organize many of the fragmentary components of the teaching profession experienced by novice teachers. The book is appealing because it is arranged in a very systematic, logical and straightforward manner.
PR 13 Teaching with Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom, Jim Fay & David Funk. If you’d like to spend more time teaching and less time disciplining students, you need the practical techniques you’ll find in this book. This book is an essential resource for every teacher searching for new ways to gain student cooperation and for more positive discipline techniques. (10 copies)
PR 14 Teaching Self-Control Through Management and Discipline, Tom Savage. This book is written for those who deal with students on a daily basis. This book investigates both the prevention, that is, the management dimension, and the response, the discipline dimension. Some of the basic concepts of classroom management and discipline are provided to help each reader select and design an approach that is consistent with his or her own philosophy and the needs of the specific situation.
PR 15 You Have to Go to School-You’re the TEACHER!!, Renee Rosenblum-Lowden. 250 Classroom Management Strategies to make your job easier and more fun. This book offers beginning and experienced teachers new insights into developing that all-important rapport with students in managing everyday school problems. With dignity, wit, and insight born of experience, Renee offers educators commonsense tips and innovative, unconventional techniques that work, including ways to: being a winning year, develop and nurture honest, sensitive classroom communication, empower students through responsibility, avoid confrontation and showdowns, and enlist the support of parents and school staff.
GRANTWRITING
PR 16 Directories of Foundations and other funding sources showing grantseekers where the grants are: (2 Hard Copies & 1 Electronic ) · PR 16 A Adult Education and Vocational Training · PR 16 B Art, Music, Dance, and Drama · PR 16 C Child Development · PR 16 D Computer Technology · PR 16 E Conferences, Seminars, and Professional Development · PR 16 F Elementary and Secondary Education · PR 16 G Literacy, Libraries, and Media · PR 16 H Recreation Programs · PR 16 I Special Education and Developmental Disabilities
INCLUSION
PR 17 A Guide to Co-Teaching: Practical Tips for Facilitating Student Learning, Richard Villa, Jacqueline Thousand & Ann Nevin. At the heart of IDEA & NCLB is the goal of increasing student achievement for all students. Inclusion provides the opportunity for co-teaching classrooms. This book addresses what co-teaching is, what it can look like, and getting along. A must read for teachers who are co-teaching in inclusive classrooms.
PR 18 Inclusion Video Series: Video 1 – 42 minutes, VHS format. “ De-Mything” Inclusion. This informative video tackles five of the most prominent myths surrounding the subject of inclusion, providing “hands-on” examples and explores each. Video 2 – 31 minutes, VHS format. Taking the First Step: Strategies for Effectively Communicating About Special Students. Video 2 demonstrates several tools that can assist you and your teachers in building a program of inclusion. Video 3 – 53 minutes, VHS format. Strategies for Making Curriculum Modifications. Packed with powerful examples, this video will provide you with a multitude of techniques and strategies from which to draw. Video 4 – 34 minutes, VHS format. Strategies for Co-Planning and Co-Teaching. With the information presented in this video, you will have the structure and the tools in place to make co-planning and co-teaching successful realities in your school.
PR 19 Inclusion: The Next Step Video Series: Video 1 – 45 minutes CD format. Building Consensus for Inclusive Education. This tape will help you smooth the transition to inclusion by explaining what inclusion is and how to cope with natural reactions to the changes inclusion brings about. Video 2 – 48 minutes, CD format. Understanding Your Inclusion Options. This video will help you navigate the options for accommodations, understand the levels of resource intensiveness, evaluate accommodation ideas and strategies for students, realize the significance of six primary accommodation levels, and work modifications into the general curriculum. Video 3 –39 minutes CD format. Planning Effective Modifications and Accommodations. This video will help you structure student accommodations and curricular modifications, tackle the tasks of instructional planning and program planning, Communicate! Communicate! Communicate!, and put planned accommodations into action. Video 4 – 44 minutes CD format. Delivering Necessary Support. Video will help you promote collaboration among teachers and support staff, allocate crucial instructional and curricular materials, put consultative and pull-out resources to work in your program, and maximize the effective use of paraeducators.
PR 20 Lesson Plans and Modifications for Inclusion and Collaborative Classrooms: Video 1 – 39 minutes VHS format. Language Arts – This video is organized into several skills areas. It contains ideas and suggestions for teachers of students at any level of ability – from pre-reader to high school researcher. Video 2 - 25 minutes, VHS format. Math – This video exposes teachers to a variety of ideas, activities, and strategies aimed at instructing a group of students with diverse math and computer skills – all in the regular classroom. Video 3 -39 minutes VHS format, Science, Social Studies, and Physical Education – This video will amaze teachers with a vast array of modification ideas, strategies, and activities that can easily be incorporated into subject area instruction. Video 4 – 33 minutes, VHS format. Student and Classroom Skills – This video concentrates on modifications that involve student social and study skills, student behavior skills, and classroom management techniques.
LEADERSHIP
PR 98 Linking Teacher Evaluation & Student Learning, Pamela D. Tucker & James H. Stronge. Tucker & Stronge show that including measures of student achievement in teacher evaluations can help schools focus their efforts to meet higher standards.
PR 95 What Great Principals Do Differently: Fifteen Things That Matter Most, Todd Whitaker. What are the specific qualities and practices of great principals which elevate them above the rest? Blending school-centered studies and experience working with hundreds of administrators, author Todd Whitaker reveals fifteen things that the most successful principals do and that other principals do not. This book shows you why these practices are effective and it also demonstrates how to implement each of them in your school.
PR 96 What Successful Principals Do! 169 Tips for Principals, Franzy Fleck. Here are practical insights from an experiences principal about how to run a successful school. Organized into 3 sections (Beginning the School Year, During the School Year, and Ending the School Year) these tips are powerful and attainable. Each one is introduced by an inspiring quote, followed by practical advice on how to implement the strategy.
NEW TEACHERS
PR 72 A Better Beginning, Supporting and Mentoring New Teachers, Marge Scherer. This book lays out the fundamentals for helping new teachers succeed in the schools of the next century. Included is induction, making mentoring meaningful, planning comprehensive teacher support, improving instruction and communication, and listening to teachers.
PR 21 The Effective Teacher, Harry K. Wong. An Eight-Part Video Series with training manual. Part 1: The Effective Teacher. Part 2: The First Days of School. Part 3: Discipline and Procedures. Part 4: Procedures and Routines. Part 5: Cooperative Learning and Culture. Part 6: Lesson Mastery. Part 7: The Professional Educator. Part 8: Positive Expectations.
PR 28 The Everything New Teacher Book: Increase Your Confidence, Connect with Your Students, and Deal with the Unexpected, Melissa Kelly. This authoritative guide shows you how to: create a manageable schedule, handle classroom diversity, establish yourself as an authority and role model, evaluate schoolwork fairly, and formulate engaging lesson plans. Whether you are about to teach for the first time or are returning to the blackboard after a sabbatical, The Everything New Teacher Book is the perfect handbook to help you build a respectable career—without losing your sanity in the process.
PR 22 Finders and Keepers: Helping New Teachers Survive and Thrive in Our Schools, Susan Moore Johnson & The Project on The Next Generation of Teachers. This important and much-needed book is based on a longitudinal study of 50 new teachers during their first years in the classroom. It not only explores the difficulties new teachers face and offers rich cases and informed insight into their experiences, but also provides practical recommendations about how to best attract and retain a strong teaching force. A must read for system directors, district administrators, principals and anyone who cares about the retention and recruitment of high-quality teachers to public schools.
PR 23 First-Class Teacher: Success Strategies for New Teachers, Canter & Associates. For New and returning teachers. Hundreds of strategies, lesson ideas and activities and dozens of reproducibles for teachers, parents and students.
PR 24 First-Year Teacher’s Survival Kit: Ready to Use Strategies, Tools & Activities for Meeting the Challenges of Each School Day, Julia Thompson. Included are hundreds of proven strategies, professional tools, and ready-to-use materials to help you avoid pitfalls in discipline, organization, time management, lesson planning, grading, assessment, work relationships, student motivation, and job stress, to name a few. For quick access and easy use, it’s printed in a large 8 1/3” format for photocopying of any page and organized into 16 sections, each brimming with useful suggestions and strategies.
PR 73 How to Help Beginning Teachers Succeed, Stephen P. Gordon & Susan Maxey. Nearly ½ of the beginning teachers in the U.S. drop out of teaching within the first 7 years. Understanding why those teachers leave and identifying the needs of new teachers are key to addressing the attrition rates of a school’s staff. This book explores the reasons beginning teachers struggle and provide research-based plans for helping these newcomers make the most of their initial teaching years.
PR 74 New Teacher Induction: How to Train, Support, and Retain New Teachers, Annette Breaux and Harry Wong. A comprehensive “how to” book on how to structure a new teacher induction program. Includes over 35 successful induction programs with their step-by=step plans for easy replication, tells how to train and retain teachers who are effective from their first day of school, advises where $3 billion are available for training and retaining teachers and principals, and helps your new teachers fulfill a dream of making a difference in the lives of children.
PR 25 101 “Answers” for New Teachers and Their Mentors: Effective Tips for Daily Clasroom Use, Annette L. Breaux. This book generates instant impact on teaching and learning, provides a collection of “thought provokers” and teaching tips for new teachers, stimulates and organizes interactive sessions between new teachers and their mentors, supports and sustains master classroom teachers who need help mastering their roles as mentors, and offers common sense strategies for any teacher seeking to be more effective.
PR 26 The New Teacher’s Complete Sourcebook: Grades K-4, Bonnie P. Murray. This super-practical guide addresses all your concerns about your first days, weeks, and months in the classroom. You’ll find everything you need to: set up your classroom for maximum learning, prepare dynamite lessons, create an effective classroom-management plan, manage the paperwork, and so much more. Packed with tips from seasoned teachers, book lists, Web links, get-ready checklists, lesson ideas, teaching strategies, self-reflection sheets, organizational techniques, and plenty of reproducibles, this guide has it all.
PR 27 The New Teacher’s Complete Sourcebook: Middle School, Paula Naegle. This success guide takes you through your first year in the classroom and helps you build the foundation for great-and joyful-teaching every year. Included are: surviving the first days, planning curriculum, establishing routines, using powerful teaching strategies, great checklists, questionnaires, and reproducibles, and much, much more!
PR 77 Why Didn’t I Learn This in College? Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century, Paula Rutherford. As a result of over 30 years of teaching, leading, and learning from children and adults, it is clear to the author that while beginning teachers may say they need classroom management skills, what they really mean is that they need to know how to set up classroom conditions where high level engagement and learning can occur. This book is based on the tenet that the best management system is a strong instructional program.
PR 29 Your First Year As An Elementary Teacher: Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional, Lynne Rominger, Karen Heisinger, & Natalie Elkin. This resource provides practical solutions to the most common and difficult issues of teaching. Inside is everything you need to know to create an atmosphere of cooperation, learning, and respect within your classroom.
PR 30 Your First Year As a High School Teacher: Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional, Lynne Rominger, Suzanne Laughrea & Natalie Elkin. Full of real-world advice and answers for the complex issues facing today’s high school teachers, this down-to-earth and witty book will teach you how to create an atmosphere of cooperation, learning, and respect within your classroom.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PR 79 The Big Picture : Education is Everyone’s Business, Dennis Littky. This book is written to reenergize educators, inspire teachers in training, and start a new conversation about kids and schools, what we want for both, and how to make it happen.
PR 81 Creating Emotionally Safe Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents, Jane Bluestein. This resource examines neurological, environmental, historical, developmental, psychological, sociological, interpersonal, instructional and administrative factors that contribute to the emotional climate of an educational institution. This is the big picture: a comprehensive view of what makes a school feel the way it feels, and what we can do to make it feel safe for every child—and every adult—who walks through its doors.
PR 88 Creating the New American School, A Principal’s Guide to School Improvement, Richard DuFour & Robert Eaker. This book provides the ideas and tools that teachers and administrators need to respond to external mandates for reform. The authors stress building from within rather than importing from outside. They offer options without imposing prescriptions.
PR 80 Energize Your Meetings with Laughter, Sheila Feigelson. Here is a simple, down-to-earth guide for making meetings more productive by putting lighthearted humor and fun to work. The author presents time-tested, proven tips and techniques for energizing meetings.
PR 92 Failure is NOT an Option: Six Principles that Guide Student Achievement in High-Performing Schools, Alan M. Blankstein. This book does an extraordinary job of translating research into practice. It is imminently practical. Many practitioners use it as their guide for school improvement. The book is based on 15 years of practical research on what is working in schools, puts courageous leadership and a new definition of professional learning communities at the center of school reform.
PR 89 From Standards to Success, Mark R. O’Shea. From teacher observation to student assessment, O’Shea offers innovative strategies to help school leaders identify and analyze which standards are most important, select appropriate curriculum materials, provide instructional planning time for teacher, create a benchmark-testing program and design effective professional development. Checklists at the end of each chapter highlight best practices, and sample lessons show how to plan curriculum that enables students to meet state standards.
PR 82 How to Thrive as a Teacher Leader, John G. Gabriel. Challenging times demand dynamic leadership. Schools rely on teachers to assume a variety of leadership roles, both formal and informal, including department chair, peer coach, faculty representative, and Web page curator. Gabriel explores the responsibilities and rewards of teacher leadership, offering practical, positive advice on identifying leadership qualities and building a team, enhancing communication and earning respect, overcoming obstacles and implementing change, energizing colleagues and strengthening morale, and improving student and teacher achievement.
PR 91 I Saw What You Did & I Know Who You Are: Bloopers, Blunders and Success Stories on Giving and Receiving Recognition, Janis Allen with Gail Snyder. Nothing is more important to a high performance organization than positive reinforcement. Nothing is more important to successful positive reinforcement than delivering it correctly—a skill in which Janis Allen excels. This book will help readers enhance the effectiveness of their reinforcement and recognition, and as such, increase their organizational effectiveness. It’s filled with real examples that illustrate the do’s and don’ts of delivering reinforcement, examples that are often humorous, sometimes touching, but always memorable.
PR 94 Integrating Differentiated Instruction & Understanding by Design, Carol Ann Tomlinson & Jay McTighe. This book provides fresh perspectives on 2 of the greatest contemporary challenges for educators: crafting powerful curriculum in a standards-dominated era and ensuring academic success for the full spectrum of learners. The authors show you how to use the principles of backward design and differentiation together to craft lesson plans that will teach essential knowledge and skills for the full spectrum of learners.
PR 86 Leading in a Culture of Change, Michael Fullan. At the very time the need for effective leadership is reaching critical proportions, Fullan provides powerful insights for moving forward. He clearly articulates the core values and practices of leadership required at all levels of the organization.
PR 87 Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement,(2nd Ed.) Mike Schmoker. Through hundreds of up-to-date examples from real schools and districts, Schmoker shows how to achieve and celebrate both short- and long-term success.
PR 97 Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching & Learning, Mike Schmoker. Schmoker presents the brutal facts about the quality of instruction across the curriculum. He argues convincingly that if student achievement is to improve, especially in the higher-order proficiencies, instruction will necessarily have to change and improve simultaneously.
PR 75 The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal & professional problems. With penetrating insights & pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity – principles that give us the security to adapt to change & the wisdom & power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
PR 78 School Leadership that Works: From Research to Results, Robert Marzano, Timothy Waters, & Brian McNulty. This book explores the effects of school leadership on student achievement and includes a list of 21 leadership responsibilities that have a significant effect on it. This book gives school administrators the guidance needed to provide strong leadership for better schools.
PR 31 So, You Want to Become A National Board Certified Teacher?, Jerry L. Parks. A handbook of teacher tips for successfully completing the NBPTS Certification. It offers successfully proven strategies to help you become more productive throughout the certification process and avoid many of the pitfalls of the 60% first-time failure rate.
PR 32 Quick and Easy Ways to Connect with Students and Their Parents: Grades K-8: Improving Student Achievement Through Parent Involvement, Diane Mierzwik. This book includes activities that focus on positive interactions between you, the student, and the parent. The activities take very little time. When I began to use the activities, I found I had fewer confrontations with students and parents, gained support from parents, motivated students, and improved my perception of my classes.
PR 90 You Made My Day: Creating Co-Worker Recognition & Relationships, Janis Allen & Michael McCarthy. This book is directed to people who do not supervise others—people who can provide valuable positive recognition for their teammates. Learning how to give recognition to co-workers increases the recognition possibilities by at least tenfold, and build a positive culture from the bottom up. This book gives the framework for practicing a healthy, positive, productive working environment.
READING
PR 33 Children’s Literature Selection and Strategies for Students With Reading Difficulties: A Resource for Teachers, Nancy S. Williams. Here’s just what you need to help your students with reading difficulties enjoy and understand literature! It is packed with suggestions and strategies plus descriptions and annotations of over 180 books.
PR 34 Differentiated Literacy Strategies for Student Growth and Achievement in Grades 7-12, Gayle Gregory & Lin Kuzmich. This book is designed to help teachers of literacy skills and content area teachers face the realities of inclusive classrooms in an atmosphere of high accountability. This book sorts through the research to identify the tools, curricula, and strategies that have the best chance of accelerating literacy learning for middle-level and high school students.
PR 35 Getting Started with Literature Circles, Katherine Noe and Nancy Johnson. This super introduction to literature circles is a great companion to the widely-popular Literature Circles and Response, by Hill, Johnson, and Noe and Literature Circles Resource Guide, by Hill Noe and Johnson. Ideal for teachers just beginning to use literature circles in their classrooms, the book deals with the key components of goals, classroom climate, focus lessons, and extension projects.
PR 36 Literature Circles in Middle School: One Teacher’s Journey, Bonnie Hill, Katherine Noe, and Janine King. Open the pages of this guide and put yourself into a terrific literature circles environment- one where the focus is specifically on your middle school learners! You’ll find enough ready-to-use help and realistic strategies to get you started, help you implement, and even improve upon existing literature circles in your classroom.
PR 37 Strategies for Engaging Young Adult Readers: A Social Themes Approach, Jacqueline Glasgow. This resource presents a critical exploration of social issues (Japanese-American, Civil Rights, Appalachian Culture,Homelessness ,Middle School, Death & dying, Violence/Crime, Helplessness/Resilience, Poverty, Teen Pregnancy, Workplace Harrassment, Rape/Women’s Issues, Bullying), a plethora of reading strategies with student examples and scoring rubrics, and thematic units that bring current research on student reading engagement into viable practice. With these materials you give your students many opportunities to explore social issues in other cultures, past history, and current events through young adult literature. Included is a CD-ROM of the longer pieces comprised of multimedia projects.
PR 38 Research-Based Methods of Reading Instruction Grades K-3, Sharon Vaughn and Sylvia Linan-Thompson. This book explores the research on reading, providing a comprehensive overview of the 5 core instructional areas and how each affects student achievement. Dozens of reading activities and lesson plans that teachers can use immediately, all of which have worked in actual classrooms and are grounded in solid research are included.
PR 39 Scaffolding Reading Experiences: Designs for Student Success, Michael Graves and Bonnie Graves. Here’s a wealth of practical examples, updated listings of quality children’s literature, and new activities to promote successful reading experiences for K-8 learners.
PR 40 Teaching for Comprehension in Reading Grades K-2, Gay Su Pinnell & Patricia Scharer. This book evolved from and extends the authors’ work in guided reading. It provides everything you need to teach children to read deeply, confidently, and joyously. Part 1 discusses strategies and structures readers require to comprehend text. Part 2 shows strategy instruction in action, in real classrooms. See Master Teachers carrying out guided reading, independent reading, and interactive real aloud to improve students’ word recognition, fluency and ability to extend meaning. Part 3 focuses on how efficient planning, organization, and classroom management support effective instruction. Along the way, you’ll find a wealth of teaching techniques, real-world examples, case studies, book lists, ideas to try, and planning tools.
PR 41 Teaching Ideas for 7-12 English Language Arts: What Really Works, Patricia Gantt and Lynn Meeks. Help your students hone the thinking and analytical skills they need for developing good reading and writing. 22 chapters give you powerful ideas for reading and writing instruction plus the tools you need to put the ideas to immediate use in your classroom.
PR 42 Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who?, Rachel Billmeyer and Mary Lee Barton. Make the teaching of reading a practical goal in every subject with the principles and strategies from this book. Based on three interactive elements that apply to every reading situation, the authors explain: Why it’s good to always relate new vocabulary to the concepts you want students to learn, How to ask questions so students will make inferences and perceive relationships in what they read, Whether to use a guided or a reflective discussion to promote understanding, Why identifying text structure should never be an important outcome of reading. You’ll find 40 strategies that help students in every grade level develop their vocabularies, comprehend informational and narrative texts, and engage in meaningful discussions of what they read.
PR 43 Using Young Adult Literature: Thematic Activities Based on Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, Jacqueline Glasgow. Here are successful, field-tested thematic units based on Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences and his Principles for Teaching for Understanding, blended with award-winning young adult literature.
PR 44 When Adolescents Can’t Read: Methods and Materials That Work, Mary Curtis & Ann Marie Longo. The general consensus has been that even when treated, the poor reading of adolescents does not improve appreciably. The authors present a remedial program for adolescents who are behind in reading as much as 5 – 6 grade levels. The program, based on research and practice in reading and reading disabilities, has great simplicity and does not require elaborate and expensive teacher training.
SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS
PR 45 Substitute Teacher’s Reference Manual: Classroom Management Strategies, Advice on Knowing Your Students, Maintaining Order in the Classroom, and Lesson Plans Grades K-12, Carol A. Jones. This resource is designed to help the substitute teacher in their day-to-day contact with students in the classroom and to assist in all aspects of substitute teaching.
PR 46 The Substitute Teaching Survival Guide: Emergency Lesson Plans and Essential Advice Grades 6-12, John Dellinger. When substitute teachers are assigned to a classroom, they often have no directions, no lesson plans, no information and little hope of success. This guide offers substitute and regular teachers of grades 6-12 a welcome resource for planning and implementing a productive day of student learning. It is filled with helpful suggestions and tips for maintaining order in the classroom and includes 67 ready-to-use emergency lesson plans for language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science targeted for students in grades 6-12. TEACHING STRATEGIES
PR 47 Best Practices for High School Classrooms: What Award-Winning Secondary Teachers Do, Randi Stone. Designed to be a helpful book for practicing as well as future teachers, this unique guide provides exemplary teaching practices from outstanding educators who are willing to share their expertise.
PR 48 The Big Book of Reproducible Graphic Organizers, Jennifer Jacobson & Dottie Raymer. 50 great templates to help kids get more out of reading, writing, social studies, and more. For all grades.
PR 76 Classroom Instruction that Works, Robert J. Marzano, Debra Pickering, & Jane Pollock. Research-based strategies for increasing student achievement. This book presents nine broad teaching strategies that have positive effects on student learning.
PR 49 Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn’t Fit All, Gayle Gregory & Carolyn Chapman. This book addresses: creating a climate for learning; knowing the learner; assessing the learner, adjusting, compacting and grouping; instructional strategies for student success; and curriculum approaches for differentiated classrooms.
PR 50 Differentiating Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities: Best Teaching Practices for General and Special Educators, William N. Bender. The ultimate purpose of this book is to highlight a variety of differentiated instructional strategies that work for students with learning disabilities in the special education and the inclusive general education classroom. We all realize that most students with learning disabilities spend almost all of their school day in inclusive general education classes, and consequently, teachers need differentiated instructional strategies that are proven to work for these students in those classrooms.
PR 51 Fires in the Bathroom: Advice For Teachers From High School Students, Kathleen Cushman. What do students wish teachers knew about them and about how they best learn? In 10 practical chapters from “Creating a Culture of Success” to “When Things Go Wrong”, forty teenagers from across the country give their unvarnished and often surprising advice on how to engage, motivate, and challenge high school students.
PR 52 The First Six Weeks of School, Paula Denton & Roxann Kriete. The tone for the entire year is established during the early weeks of school. This is a comprehensive guidebook showing K-6 teachers how to structure the first six weeks of school in order to lay the groundwork for a productive year of learning. It features daily plans for the first 3 weeks and commentary about these plans at three grade levels: K-2, 3-4, & 5-6; detailed guidelines for building community, creating rules and teaching routines, introducing engaging curriculum, fostering autonomy, integrating social and academic learning and establishing high expectations for learning and behavior; an extensive collection of games, activities, greetings, songs, read-alouds, and resources especially useful during the early weeks of school.
PR 85 Future Force: Kids that Want to, Can and Do! A Teacher’s Handbook for Using TQM in the Classroom, Elaine McClanahan & Carolyn Wicks. Preparing our youngsters now to become the “thinkers” and “doers” who will lead us into the future is critical. The purpose of this book is to educated and train the children of today to deal with and contribute to the ever changing demands of the future.
PR 83 Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping, edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs. This books offers a wide range of perspectives on how to get the most out of the curriculum mapping process in districts and schools. In addition to detailed examples of maps from schools across the U.S., the authors offer concrete advice on all aspects of the curriculum mapping process.
PR 53 How the Special Needs Brain Learns, David Sousa. Video 60 minutes.
PR 54 How the Special Need Brain Learns, David Sousa. More and more students diagnosed with learning disabilities are included in general education classes. This book offers alternative instructional approaches. It focuses on the common difficulties and disorders that any teacher is likely to encounter in the general or special education classroom. On a broader scale, the updates on research and some of the suggested strategies may benefit all who work to educate children.
PR 55 How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, Carol Ann Tomlinson. Tomlinson shows teachers how to differentiate, or structure lessons at every grade level and content area to provide “scaffolds” – as well as high-speed elevators – for the content of lessons, the processes used in learning, and the products of learning. Strategies include curriculum compacting, “sidebar” investigations, entry points, graphic organizers, contracts, and portfolios.
PR 56 Motivating Students Who Don’t Care: Successful Techniques for Educators, Allen N. Mendler. This is a comprehensive and practical guide for reconnecting with our discouraged students and reawakening their excitement and enthusiasm for learning. The 5 effective processes for motivating students include: Emphasizing Effort, Creating Hope, Respecting Power, Building Relationships, and Expressing Enthusiasm. Each process is fully explained and illustrated with proven strategies from the classroom.
PR 84 Motivation & Learning: Practical Teaching Strategies & Tips for Block Schedules, Brain-Based Learning, Multiple Intelligences, Improved Student Motivation, and Increased Achievement, Spence Rogers, Jim Ludington, & Shari Graham. Includes over 600 classroom-tested, research-supported ideas that can be used immediately. Every strategy is sorted and labeled as to its best classroom use. In addition, each one is identified as to its most appropriate grade level. The index allows anyone to quickly find the strategies and tips that will work best in any given situation.
PR 57 Organizing Thinking Book 1, Sandra Parks & Howard Black. Graphic Organizers aimed at Grades 2-4 (writing, language arts, social studies, math and science.) Improves content knowledge as it develops critical thinking and effective learning strategies.
PR 58 Organizing Thinking Book 2, Sandra Parks & Howard Black. Graphic Organizers aimed at grades 5 – 8+ (reading, writing, social studies, mathematics, and science). Great handbook of lessons to integrate the teaching of thinking skills into instruction!
PR 59 The Parallel Curriculum: A Design to Develop High Potential and Challenge High-Ability Learners, Carol Ann Tomilson, Sandra Kaplan, Joseph Renzulli, Jeanne Purcell, Jann Leppien, & Deborah Burns. Published for the National Association for Gifted Children, it discusses a model to guide curriculum for design. Education benefits from a variety of models from which teachers and schools can select to most appropriately address both the learning needs of students and the ongoing professional growth of educators themselves.
PR 60 Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites, Marcia Tate. This resource focuses on brain-based literacy strategies for Grades K-12, structured around the International Reading Assn. and National Council of Teachers of English standards. It contains more than 300 activities from hundreds of teachers, as well as the author’s own classroom models.
PR 61 Sanity Savers For Early Childhood Teachers, Sharon McDonald. 200 Quick Fixes for Everything from Big Messes to Small Budgets.
PR 62 “Sit and Get” Won’t Grow Dendrites, Marcia Tate. Twenty professional learning strategies that engage the adult brain.
PR 63 Teaching As Decision Making: Successful Practices for the Secondary Teacher, Georgea M. Sparks-Langer, & Assoc. This book attempts to bridge the theoretical with the practical, recognizing the import of theory and skill development, carefully planned lessons and teachable moments, and the intangible but all important magic of the teacher/student relationship. Careful decision-making, which is necessary to plan lessons that address the needs of specific students, is stressed along with understanding the broader issues and context at hand.
PR 64 Teaching with the Internet K-12, Donald J. Leu, Deborah Diadium Leu, and Julie Coiro. Here’s sound, practical help for teaching and learning successfully with the internet – not the technical aspects that you find in so many other books; this is a true guide to good teaching. You see how others are using the Internet in new ways, how you can use the Internet thoughtfully in classroom contexts, and how to create opportunities for students to share their own expertise with new literacies.
PR 65 Teaching Tips: 105 Ways to Increase Motivation and Learning – Spence Rogers and the Peak Learning Systems’ Team . Learn how to increase student motivation and learning with practical, proven, and immediately usable tips for teachers at every grade level and in any subject.
PR 66 Thinking Inside the Block Schedule: Strategies for Teaching in Extended Periods of Time, Pam Robbins, Gayle Gregory, & Lynne Herndon. The authors provide an array of strategies that teachers, administrators, and staff development personnel will find useful as they work in planning, developing, and delivering content within extended periods of instructional time.
PR 67 Tools for Teaching: Discipline, Instruction, Motivation. Fred Jones. This book is the culmination of all that I have learned about managing classrooms. It describes the fundamentals of the job of being a classroom teacher. It is my gift back to the profession. Included are sections: building a classroom management system, exploiting proximity, creating independent learners, raising expectations, building classroom structure, setting limits, producing responsible behavior, and using the backup system.
PR 67A Tools for Teaching Video Toolbox - 3 individual sets- Fred Jones.PR 67B This videotoolbox has session tapes varying from 18 – 45 minutes in length which can be incorporatedPR 67C with study group meetings on Tools for Teaching (PR 67) to supplement after reading & discussing each chapter (this book is included with each kit). Wonderful resource for mentors to use with new teachers or for anyone hoping to get practical new ideas on classroom management. Two administrators from our system attended a Fred Jones training in summer 2005 and recommended it as a valuable resource for our teachers.
PR 68 Tools For Thought: Graphic Organizers for Your Classroom, Jim Burke. Dozens of graphic organizers and a hundred ways to use them! This workbook is a real workhorse, providing tools to spark student thinking that are both intriguing and precise and applicable to grades 6-12 in all subject areas. These tools range from annotations and literature circle notes to Venn diagrams and vocabulary squares. Each comes as a reproducible.
PR 69 Qualities of Effective Teachers – James H. Stronge. Discover which teacher qualities are most apt to lead to higher student achievement, which teacher preparation factors are most apt to affect student achievement, and “red flags” that are sure signs of ineffective teaching. Useful skills checklists and detailed lists help you quickly implement this book’s proven strategies.
PR 70 Universal Teaching Strategies, H. Jerome Freiberg & Amy Driscoll. Universal Teaching Strategies presents teaching from 3 specific actions: organizing, instructing, and assessing. The strategies mirror the universal nature of teaching in that they cut across grade levels, subject areas, and teaching situations.
PR 71 Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites, Marcia Tate. This resource targets teachers as “growers of brain cells” and encourages them to make practical applications of the findings of learning style theorists and neuroscientists. Tactile learners, spatial thinkers, and logical minds alike will become eager students as the strategies in this handbook are implemented.
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