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"How to optimize educational spaces, both physical and virtual, for more effective learning. The design of classroom spaces is one of the overlooked issues in education. Poorly designed physical environments can impede learning, while well-designed spaces can enhance it. From the Campfire to the Holodeck gives teachers and administrators concrete advice and insight on redesigning or optimizing educational spaces to improve student engagement, enable...

Peter M. Jonas explores the ways in which humor can enhance the learning environment. He presents a theoretical model of humor, along with practical examples for use in schools and classrooms. He demonstrates that humor is a natural and fundamental activity that teachers and administrators need to utilize properly to maximize their effectiveness.--[book cover].

To keep students engaged during live lessons, we need to flip things. We need to get the students going off and working independently to actually be accountable and manage their work before coming back and sharing their progress.

The ever present new media, social sites, information, and global society have changed the way tech savvy people access information. But cognitive science tells us that today s students think in very much the same way students did in the past. The focus of this K 12 book is how educators can effectively deliver instruction that maximizes their students ability to grow academically and emotionally amidst the noise of technology. This resource is aligned...

A social strategy that I use in my classroom, both in my entrepreneurship course, as well as my esteem studio courses is a focus on peer competition.

Enhancing Relationships Between Children and Teachers focuses on the complexity of the child-teacher relationship and how school psychologists and counselors can help teachers to understand the myriad factors involved in their classroom relationships. Pianta uses systems theory to discuss the multiple factors in child-teacher relationships and integrates school, clinical, and developmental psychology.

It's no secret that disruptive behaviors are creating problems in colleges and universities. Some academics believe it's a necessary evil, but as schools work to recruit new faculty and nurse educators, the question of whether faculty work in a civil culture or hostile environment becomes a real issue. In nursing, the risk assumed by not addressing uncivil behavior reaches well beyond the college campus and can negatively impact patient safety, nurse...

Video scenes from high school classrooms illustrate what successful teachers do in all four domains of effective practice. Whether your focus is on teacher preparation or advanced professional development, here's a great tool to ensure that you're following a research-based teaching framework and an observation process that is used by thousands of schools.