Alida Leto's Library
West Creek High
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780974034324 | Project Based Learning (PBL) Starter Kit | John Larmer, David Ross, John R. Mergendollar | A practical guide to Project Based Learning. Designed for middle and high school teachers, the PBL Starter Kit contains down-to-earth, classroom tested advice, including six sample projects, step-by-step guidance, tips from experienced practitioners, planning tools and online resources plus project-ready rubrics and handouts. | Buck Institute for Education |
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| 9781133600466 | School: An Introduction To Education | Edward S. Ebert, Richard C. Culyer | Learn what it takes to be an effective professional teacher with SCHOOL: AN INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATION, Third Edition. Standards developed by the Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) state that teachers are expected to be reflective, knowledgeable, highly skilled, and creative professionals who are lifelong learners. With this book, authors Edward Ebert and Richard Culyer have developed a compelling and timely approach that gives you a thorough overview of what it means to be a successful teacher. Through first-person accounts and helpful strategies from prominent educators and in-service teachers, plus TeachSource Videos and activities linked to InTASC standards, you'll gain insight into the realities of being a teacher in today's rapidly changing society. The result is a book that will empower you as a pre-professional and, ultimately, as an instructional leader. Available with InfoTrac Student Collections http://gocengage.com/infotrac. | Cengage Learning |
| 9781071807248 | Special Education In Contemporary Society - Interactive Ebook: An Introduction To Exceptionality | Richard M. Gargiulo, Emily C. Bouck | Special Education in Contemporary Society: An Introduction to Exceptionality, Seventh Edition offers a comprehensive, engaging, and readable introduction to the dynamic field of special education. Grounded in research and updated to reflect the most current thinking and standards of the field, this book provides readers with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs that are crucial to constructing learning environments that allow all students to reach their full potential. Authors Richard M. Gargiulo and Emily C. Bouck encourage a deep awareness and understanding of the "human" side of special education, providing readers with a look into the lives of exceptional students and their families, as well as the teachers that work with exceptional persons throughout their lives.The Interactive eBook* for Special Education in Contemporary Society: An Introduction to Exceptionality, Seventh Edition includes access to a broad array of multimedia tools and resources! VIDEO: Boost learning and bolster analysis with SAGE Premium Video. Recapping the fundamentals in every chapter, each video activity is paired with chapter learning objectives and tied to assessment via SAGE Coursepacks. SOCIAL SHARING AND FOLLOWING: Share notes and highlights with instructors and classmates who are using the same eBook, and "follow" friends and instructors as they make their own notes and highlights. *Note: the access code for this Interactive eBook will be shipped to the address you indicate when you place your order. | SAGE Publications, Inc |
| 9781452216775 | Special Education In Contemporary Society: An Introduction To Exceptionality | Richard M. Gargiulo | The Fifth Edition of Richard Gargiulo’s well-respected Special Education in Contemporary Society: An Introduction to Exceptionality offers a comprehensive, engaging, and easy-to-read introduction to special education. Grounded in research and updated to reflect the most current thinking and standards of the field, the book provides students with the skills and knowledge to become successful teachers. Gargiulo’s text encourages a deep awareness and understanding of the human side of special education. The book provides students a rare glimpse into the lives of exceptional students and their families, as well as the teachers that work with exceptional persons throughout their lives.The New Edition of Gargiulo’s groundbreaking text maintains the broad context and research focus for which it is known, while expanding on current trends and contemporary issues to better serve both pre-service and in-service teachers of exceptional individuals. The text is organized into two distinct parts to offer students a truly comprehensive and humane understanding of exceptionality. In Part I, readers are provided strong foundational perspective on broad topics that affect all individuals with an exceptionality. In Part II, Gargiulo engages students with thorough examinations of individual exceptionalities, and discusses historical, personal, and educational details of each exceptionality as it affects a person across the lifespan."This is a well-written, comprehensive, well-organized text. It is obvious that much thought has been put into the supplementary materials and features."―Jenny Fererro, Palomar College | SAGE Publications, Inc |
| 9781562349264 | Super Simple Classroom Management (Grs.1-3) | The Mailbox Books Staff | Manage your classroom with these solutions and tools designed to help you with organization, discipline, parents, and more! Includes quick tips; reproducible checklists and communications; and full-color, ready-to-go pieces. 112 pages. | The Education Center, Inc. |
| 9781593631550 | Super Smart: 180 Challenging Thinking Activities, Words, And Ideas For Advanced Students (Grades 4-10) | Stephen S. Young | Get the minds of bright kids jump-started with these exciting, motivational Super Smart brain challenges. Put the minds of smart kids in overdrive! Filled with 180 "activity-a-day" classroom warm-ups, including new, challenging vocabulary activities and critical thinking activities that push the limits, Super Smart will pique students' curiosity and tickle their funny bone.This unique book, designed to challenge the brightest kids, offers teachers and parents a fun collection of activities―logic puzzles, riddles, optical illusions, math mysteries, and thought provokers.These short, attention-getting mind stretchers serve to grab students' attention and create a frame of mind and an atmosphere of fun, curiosity, and discovery conducive to getting kids off to a good start. There are three hooks for each day: a vocabulary word, a thought for the day, and a critical thinking hook, each designed to get students thinking and into a receptive mindset.Grades 4-10 | Routledge |
| 9781119903659 | Teach Like A Champion Field Guide 3.0: A Practical Resource To Make The 63 Techniques Your Own | Doug Lemov, Sadie McCleary, Hannah Solomon, Erica Woolway | Create classroom excellence with this hands-on field guide to the TLAC techniquesIn Teach Like a Champion Field Guide 3.0, accomplished educators Doug Lemov, Sadie McCleary, Hannah Solomon and Erica Woolway deliver a practical and hands-on workbook to show educators how to practice the 63 teaching techniques presented in Teach Like a Champion 3.0, drive instruction, and develop teaching excellence The book offers video, tools, and engaging activities to guide the reader through each of the techniques, showing you how to apply them in the real world, both online and in-person.Readers will also learn to hone their craft with: Field-tested activities incorporating the lessons from Teach Like a Champion 3.0 Over 25 keystone videos, complete with analysis, from example classrooms and educators Strategies for creating the most vibrant classroom culture Insights on using video as a tool for professional development- especially for master teachersAn advanced resource for teachers, professors, course creators, and anyone else who teaches material online or in-person, Teach Like a Champion Field Guide 3.0 create classrooms of rigor and excellence. | Jossey-Bass |
| 9781605252919 | Teaching | Sharleen L. Kato Ed.D. | Teaching, a great text for students considering a career in the field of education, helps the teachers of tomorrow explore the world of education and discover what makes a teacher effective. Students will learn about the history of education in the United States and how schools impact society. They will learn about all types of learners—how they change physically, intellectually, emotionally, and socially—and how that impacts the way they are taught. Additionally they will learn how to design an instructional plan, choose teaching strategies, and create an effective learning environment for their future students.Teaching includes four units:• Unit 1, You: The Teacher of Tomorrow, focuses on what a teacher does, the qualities of an effective teacher, and steps to becoming a teacher.• Unit 2, The Learner, explores human development, developmental theories, and the various developmental stages of children through teens.• Unit 3, The School, describes the early history of education in America, modern history of education, and current aspects of schools, including federal, state, and local responsibilities.• Unit 4, The Teacher, covers learning diversity, what makes an effective teacher, lesson planning, instructional strategies, technology, assessment, classroom management, and the student’s future as a teacher. | Goodheart-Willcox |
| 9781631260094 | Teaching | Sharleen L. Kato Ed.D. | Teaching helps students, the teachers of tomorrow, explore the world of education. Besides investigating teaching as a profession, students will develop an understanding of the different types of learners they will encounter in the classroom. This includes how humans develop physically, intellectually, emotionally, and socially as all of these impact the instructional methods used. The educational system, both past and present, is reviewed along with the responsibilities that come with employment. Students receive a full introduction to the role and duties of a teacher, including planning, instructional methods, assessment, and classroom management. Expanded chapter reviews help students develop a variety of skills while new professionalism features emphasize appropriate workplace behavior. This is the only textbook available for high school students planning a teaching career. | Goodheart-Willcox |
| 9780393714623 | Teaching Vulnerable Learners: Strategies For Students Who Are Bored, Distracted, Discouraged, Or Likely To Drop Out | Suzy Pepper Rollins | The practices that work―and those that don’t―to reach and teach students at risk.When schools fail to address the problems of struggling students, the consequences can be dire: course failures, absenteeism, suspensions or expulsions, dropouts. Those effects continue to ripple after school with lower rates of college attendance and graduation, underemployment and lower wages, and even incarceration.Yet many of these students can experience a very different trajectory when their learning difficulties are addressed. Whether it’s a student with ADHD who has trouble sitting still, a student just arrived from the Dominican Republic who speaks no English, or a traumatized student who dissociates in class, there are strategies that have proven effective in overcoming the hurdles they face. This guide will help teachers recognize the most common barriers to learning and apply solutions that will work in their classrooms.12 black-and-white illustrations | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 9781879097414 | Teambuilding | Spencer Kagan, & Laurie Kagan Miguel Kagan | When students have the desire and ability to work together as a team, something magical happens—Together Everyone Achieves More! Students like working together, academic achievement goes up, and discipline problems become a thing of the past. Includes step-by-step instructions, hints, variations, over 100 teambuilding activities, and ready-to-use blackline masters for each of 14 favorite teambuilding structures like: Find-the-Fib, Team Interview, and Same-Different. Promote a positive class and team atmosphere in your classroom and watch as your students work together in harmony. | Kagan Cooperative Learning |
| 9780976423331 | THE Classroom Management Book | Harry K. Wong, Rosemary T. Wong, Sarah F. Jondahl, Oretha F. Ferguson | This is a solutions book that shows how to organize and structure a classroom to create a safe and positive environment for student learning and achievement to take place. It offers 50 procedures that can be applied, changed, adapted, and incorporated into any classroom management plan. Each procedure is presented with a consistent format that breaks it down and tells how to teach it and what the outcome of teaching it will be. While all of the work and preparation behind a well-managed classroom are rarely observed, the dividends are evident in a classroom that is less stressful for all and one that hums with learning. | Harry K. Wong Publications |
| 9781118343043 | The Elementary Teacher's Big Book Of Graphic Organizers, K-5: 100+ Ready-To-Use Organizers That Help Kids Learn Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, And More | Katherine S. McKnight | 100 ready-to-use graphic organizers that help elementary students learnGraphic organizers are a powerful metacognitive teaching and learning tool and this book features 100 graphic organizers for teachers in grades K-5―double the number of any other book on the market. These graphic organizers can be used as before learning, during learning, or after learning activities, and support students' learning in the major content areas: English language arts, science, social studies, and mathematics. Teachers can use each graphic organizer as-is or customize for their own classroom's unique needs. Tips for classroom implementation and information on how the tool supports learning A Difficulty Dial that indicates the complexity of each graphic organizer Two Student Samples demonstrating how the organizer may be used with younger and older studentsThis book gives teachers in grades K-5 a powerful way to help students understand relationships between facts, terms, and ideas. | Jossey-Bass |
| 9781401307707 | The Essential 55 Workbook | Ron Clark | Put The Essential 55 rules into practice with this new workbook!From bestselling author Ron Clark comes the ideal companion to the New York Times bestseller The Essential 55.Ron Clark's The Essential 55 took the country by storm, selling over 850,000 copies in less than six months, and remaining on the New York Times bestseller list for months. Readers have been asking for a workbook to help them use Clark's Essential 55 rules with their own children and students. Now Clark, Disney's 2001 Teacher of the Year, provides the tools in The Essential 55 Workbook that will enable teachers and parents to transform any child into a successful student.Based on the bestselling The Essential 55, The Essential 55 Workbook is full of easy-to-do lessons to help you reinforce The Essential 55 rules that every child should know. With a series of self-tests, exercises, and questionnaires, The Essential 55 Workbook allows you to adapt Ron Clark's successful tools to your own situation. With determination, discipline, and regular rewards, the children you stick by will be the children you eventually admire. | Hyperion |
| 9780786888160 | The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules For Discovering The Successful Student In Every Child | Ron Clark | Now in paperback, Ron Clark's New York Times bestseller that's changing America one child at a time!The runaway bestseller that's a must-have for every parent and teacher. How many authors would travel coast to coast on a bus to get their book into as many hands as possible? Not many. But that's just what Ron Clark, author of The Essential 55, did to keep his book and message in the public eye. And it worked. After his Oprah appearance, sales skyrocketed: we've sold more than 850,000 copies in six months! The book sat tenaciously on the New York Times bestseller list for 11 weeks. Ron Clark was featured on the Today show, and in the Chicago Tribune, Good Housekeeping, and the New York Daily News -- not to mention the calls we've received from teachers and parents who want to get their hands on Ron's guidelines for teaching children.Now in paperback, The Essential 55 will be the perfect book for parents and teachers to slip into their own backpacks, to read on the train or at lunch, and to highlight the sections that resonate for them. And with an author who is truly a partner in getting his message to the masses, we just can't lose. | Hyperion |
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| 9780062563903 | The Unteachables | Gordon Korman | A hilarious new middle grade novel from beloved and bestselling author Gordon Korman about what happens when the worst class of kids in school is paired with the worst teacher—perfect for fans of Ms. Bixby’s Last Day. A good choice for summer reading or anytime!The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. Like Aldo, with anger management issues; Parker, who can’t read; Kiana, who doesn’t even belong in the class—or any class; and Elaine (rhymes with pain). The Unteachables have been removed from the student body and isolated in room 117.Their teacher is Mr. Zachary Kermit, the most burned-out teacher in all of Greenwich. He was once a rising star, but his career was shattered by a cheating scandal that still haunts him. After years of phoning it in, he is finally one year away from early retirement. But the superintendent has his own plans to torpedo that idea—and it involves assigning Mr. Kermit to the Unteachables.The Unteachables never thought they’d find a teacher who had a worse attitude than they did. And Mr. Kermit never thought he would actually care about teaching again. Over the course of a school year, though, room 117 will experience mayhem, destruction—and maybe even a shot at redemption. | Balzer + Bray |
| 9781425800468 | Understanding Learning Styles (Professional Resources) | Jeanna Sheve, Kelli Allen, Vicki Nieter | Students have different learning styles! This resource helps teachers determine the learning style of each student and the appropriate delivery methods to target and address the needs of as many of the intelligences as possible. Different learning styles are presented in this professional resource that help teachers determine how best to teach their students. Surveys, practical ideas, and suggestions for designing lessons that incorporate multiple learning styles are also provided to support differentiated instruction.About Shell EducationRachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world. | Shell Education |
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