Are you overwhelmed by unruly students, difficult parents, and never-ending classroom distractions? Are you tired of scavenging and pleading for basic school supplies? Do you wonder if anyone notices or cares how much effort you put into teaching every day? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you. When Teaching Gets Tough offers practical strategies you can use to make things better right away. --from publisher description....

What are the characteristics of a great teacher? What qualities of mind and spirit are necessary to help others acquire the knowledge through which they can understand and live a good life? In this book, James Banner and Harold Cannon draw on many years of experience to set forth the intellectual, moral, and emotional capacities that they believe the best teachers must possess. Their book is an inspiring guide to current and future schoolteachers...

"In Crafting Your Message: Tips and Tricks for Educators to Deliver Perfect Presentations, author Tammy Heflebower utilizes her extensive knowledge of presenting, accumulated over two decades, to create a book that provides all of the tools necessary to become a master of the art of presentation. The author conceives of effective presentation as a process, and has utilized her decades of experience in the construction of this process. As such, this...

This program shows a wealth of strategies to use in the classroom to engage all students and to increase student achievement. Vivid classroom scenes incorporate current research to show how to structure and pace a solid lesson, including modeling, role-playing, teaching a new skill, providing feedback and practice, assigning homework, and using assessments. Viewers will be able to use strategies such as questioning and problem based learning to deepen...

Build foundation skills for developing classroom management that works! Valuable ideas on how to set up a classroom physically - and vary the set-up according to different age groups or content to be conveyed - are vividly displayed. How to establish classroom routines, maintain discipline, and deal with transitions are covered. Practical and immediately applicable advice for managing today's classrooms in a positive way, for diverse students, is...

"The ultimate new teacher's guide to surviving and thriving in the classroom so that you can establish and improve your practice in meaningful ways"--

"The transition from graduate studies to teaching is full of challenges. In this concise, practical guide for the aspiring professor, Michael Kibbe offers plenty of personal examples and tested advice as he covers preparation for teaching, best practices in the classroom, self-evaluation, and the discovery of your mission and method"--

"Public schools face the challenge of educating large numbers of students for whom learning does not come easily. They are institutions with long-established practices, often protected by politics and therefore highly resistant to change. The Best Teachers in the World explains why changing our traditional approach to improving our schools is critical and tells how to achieve such change. John Chubb shows how we can raise student achievement to levels...

The noble profession of teaching plays a vital role in inspiring students to achieve excellence. This new edition of one of the most comprehensive introductions to teaching available provides essential knowledge and actively engages new teachers in practice to become an exceptional teacher. Easy to understand and practical, this wide-ranging guide provides tools such as questions and activities at the end of each chapter, Web sites and vital readings...