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Would you want to be a student in your own classroom? In this bestselling book, Pernille Ripp invites both novice and seasoned teachers to cocreate a positive, interactive learning environment with students. Based on honest reflections on her own teaching experience, Pernille offers a wide variety of ideas for sharing control, developing your intuition, learning how to fail, giving yourself grace, building community and trust, creating more choice, allowing time for student expertise, and letting go of the punish, behave, and reward cycle so that intrinsic motivation can thrive.

Arrested? For teaching? John Scopes’s crime riveted the world, and crowds flocked to the trial of the man who dared to tell students about a forbidden topic—evolution. The year was 1925, and discussing Darwin’s theory of evolution was illegal in Tennessee classrooms. Lawyers wanted to challenge the law, and businessmen smelled opportunity. But no one imagined the firestorm the Scopes Trial would ignite—or the media circus that would follow.

This audiobook includes three books in The Teaching Today series: Teaching Yourself to Teach, Teaching Online, and Creating Online Courses.

The “Great Commission” given by Jesus is usually talked about in the context of making disciples and baptizing them. But, this is only half of the verse. The other half of the verse says to teach His disciples to observe all the things that Jesus taught. This is often overlooked.So, teaching is a very important part of the “Great Commission” given by Jesus. It is so important to preach and evangelize and make new converts to Christianity, but it is just as important to teach the new converts the commandments of Christ. Jesus was the “Great Teacher”. Jesus spent more time ...

These are strange times. A time of climate crises. Health crises. Collapsing systems. Influencers. And yes—Jordan Peterson. We are currently living in a (Post) Peterson Paradigm. This book–12 Rules for (Academic) Life—explores what has happened to teaching, learning and politics through this odd and chaotic time. Deploying feminism, this lens offers a glass-sharpened view of this moment in international higher education. It is organized through twelve mantras for a university sector searching for a purpose in this interregnum.

Love them or hate them, watching movies and playing games allow us to learn at light-speed. Thismeans that using them as a tool in teaching is a no-brainer. Every day, we see how this medium dictates what we believe and how it influences behavior, for better and for worse. Our future is dependent upon the “viewers” learning how to verify accuracy, and the future of learning depends upon the willingness to harness what engages.

This book helps you be the biggest, boldest, and most powerful version of your teacher self. It reminds you why you became a teacher and coaches you to bring your unique gifts and talents into the classroom. The difference between a so-so lesson and one that leaves a lasting impact on students has everything to do with how confident and connected you feel to yourself and your students.

Workshop teachers struggle with time—building in two teaching sessions, one for reading and another for writing. There is just too much to do, too many transitions, and very little integration of reading and writing. To compound the frustration, we find that our students don’t have nearly enough time to read and write independently. Enter the Literacy Studio, an alternative workshop model that combines reading and writing. It’s a way of teaching that makes sense to kids—with more time for choice, independent reading and writing, small group work, and conferring.

In Small Teaching K-8, a team of veteran educators bridges the gap between cognitive theory and the K-8 classroom environment, applying the same foundational research found in author James Lang's bestselling Small Teaching to the elementary and middle school setting. The book demonstrates how to integrate simple interventions into pre-existing pedagogical techniques to dramatically improve student outcomes.

Are you seeking ways to make your classroom more engaging, interactive, and interesting? Do you want to delve into the intricacies of cooperative learning and its transformative impact on education? Look no further—this book is your ultimate guide to mastering the art of cooperative learning. Master the Art of Cooperative Learning is meticulously designed as a comprehensive resource, offering educators a clear blueprint for implementing cooperative learning strategies. This guide will aid you in fostering young learners' comprehension, tackling complex concepts, honing communication ...

PEACEFUL POEM ABOUT DIVERSITY. This poem is for everyone on earth. There is a need for people to recognizes their common traits as well as embrace their differences. By opening one's eyes to the world around them and seeing all the ways in which there are choices and opportunities and differences and perspective, you can teach the world, one at a time, how to harmoniously live together

In Woven Together: How Unpacking Your Teacher Identity Creates a Stronger Learning Community, expert educator Dr. Courtney E. Rose delivers a student-driven approach to teaching that demonstrates how to bring your full self to the classroom. You'll learn to create space for your students to do the same thing, de-standardizing the current norms of the classroom while embracing their unique experiences, perspectives, and understandings to create more meaningful learning experiences.

Are you an educator, administrator, or EdTech enthusiast looking to navigate the rapid field of artificial intelligence in education? "AI in Education: Empowering Educators, Inspiring Students: Practical Strategies to Transform Teaching and Improve Learning Outcomes" is your step-by-step guide to understanding and unveiling the power of AI. This book is designed to empower you, giving you the confidence and capability to enhance teaching and learning experiences with AI.

This book that will introduce you to the world of teaching English abroad and the roles that almost any native English speaker will be able to do.

In Who's in My Classroom?, accomplished educator and author delivers an inspirational and practical combination of true stories from teens in Youth Communication's award-winning writing program and the most current educational research. The book links theories of adolescent development and identity formation to best practices in real-world classrooms where teachers strive to form supportive relationships with students.

The purpose of this book is to provide you with the tools you need to be successful in your trigonometry course. Each section offers step-by-step explanation of concepts together with many examples and exercises. The texts had been revised and improved to make it easy to follow with little help. The clear explanation of concepts makes the book excellent for self-study.

Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face, scholar Jon Hale reveals what most fail to see: school choice is grounded in a complex history of race, exclusion, and inequality. Through evaluating historic and contemporary education policies, Hale demonstrates how reframing the way we see school choice represents an opportunity to evolve from complicity to action.

After devoting half of his lifetime transforming his start-up business into a multi-million dollar industry leader, author John McLaughlin set out in a new direction: to teach what he had learned to others. Due to a lack of teaching experience, his only job offer was to teach entrepreneurship to prisoners at a minimum-security camp in North Carolina. John gradually builds an effective program until a scandal involving prison officials blindsides his progress and threatens to bring his teaching career to an unceremonious end.

You can tell by simply looking at the cover of this book that it isn't your ordinary grammar curriculum. As you look at a stick drawing of a young man with a mouthful of 'gum' balls, you know you're in for a real grammar treat. The publisher refers to this book as, "Shel Silverstein meets Strunk & White." Cathy Campbell has a real knack for making grammar understandable but keeping it humorous. There were times I laughed out loud at her drawings and use of descriptive words. The book is divided into 3 sections - grammar, usage, and mechanics. This is no light coverage of the topics, yet ...

Help Your Preschooler Get a Head Start on Understanding Money As a parent you want your child to have all the tools necessary to be successful in life. This includes helping them understand how to earn and manage their money. This book helps you lay the foundation on personal finance for your preschool children. This book focuses on what you can teach your 3 - 6-year-olds to get them started on the right financial path. Topics include: * Learning to count * Earning money * Spending money * Goal setting * How to start working on big concepts such as debt An easy read that will allow you to ...