San Antonio College Library

"Enlivening Secondary History is the ideal handbook for busy history teachers who want to do something different in their classrooms but have little time to plan and organise their lessons. With 40 activities based on four themes (Visual, Numerical Data, Abstract Ideas and Primary Texts), this book offers tried-and-tested practical ideas complete with relevant exemplars and step-by-step advice." "Each activity includes links to key topics at Key Stages...

Shows at-risk teens how difficult their lives will be if they drop out of school. The dropouts interviewed in the video have found that without diplomas they cannot achieve their dreams, regardless of their talents and amibitions.

This book contains forty practical, classroom-tested and reproducible mini-lessons that get to the heart of reading motivation and that can be used immediately in English-as well as other content-area classrooms. These easy-to-use motivational lessons serve as weekly reading "booster shots" that help maintain reading enthusiasm in your classroom from September through June. The mini-lessons, ranging from five to twenty minutes in length, hit home...

This program explores school and classroom success factors in two parts.

This program explores school and classroom success factors that support the academic achievement and life readiness of secondary school students.

The current global marketplace demands more workers who are scientifically literate, yet few are being adequately prepared to meet that demand. Particularly underrepresented are women and minorities, who often lack the social and academic support that stimulate and sustain interest in science, math, and engineering. The authors of this book demonstrate that early intervention, especially during grades 4 through 8, can help overcome some of these obstacles....

In this ethnographic study contributing to the discourse on what teaching does to teachers, Britzman (education, social and political thought; women's studies, York U., Toronto) explores the meaning of their often contradictory experiences through secondary teacher narratives.