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This video shows classroom strategies 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 see flexible grouping in action and learn how to determine when it is appropriate to use whole group instruction,...

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. Teachers discuss how to involve students in classroom rule-making and how to establish a positive environment based on mutual respect. Practical and immediately applicable advice is presented for managing today's classrooms...

At the heart of Teacher/Child Interaction is this simple but heartfelt philosophy: 'Teachers must deal with children with humor, compassion and respect.' With that in mind, this program illustrates several strategies that teachers can use to help children learn to become more self-disciplined and self-confident. Some topics touched on include: "¢ the importance of modeling appropriate behavior "¢ the struggle to stay away from 'no' "¢...

The handbook for improving morale by managing, disciplining and motivating your students This second edition includes practical suggestions for arranging your classroom, talking to students, avoiding the misbehavior cycle, and making your school a place where students learn and teachers teach. The book also contains enlivening Q & A from teachers, letters from students, and tips for grading. This new edition has been expanded to include coverage of...

Based on papers and posters presented by experts at a Special Session of the International Astronomical Union, this volume highlights the many places for astronomy in the curriculum. It covers relevant education research and "best practice"; strategies for pre-service and in-service teacher education; the use of the Internet and other technologies; and the role that planetariums, observatories, science centers, and organizations can play. It concludes...

This program demonstrates how teachers incorporate conferences with students into their writing instruction. Viewers will see how teachers structure conferences, choose a teaching focus for the conference, and keep records of their interactions. The emphasis is on practical strategies and on the fundamental benefit of responding personally to student writing.

Third-grade teacher Jeanne Boiarsky teaches a peer conference protocol to her class, and Lindsay Dibert's fifth-grade class uses a different peer conference strategy in revising personal narratives.

How can teachers of grades 3 to 5 create classrooms that nurture and support students' confidence in their ability to write and help them forge their own writing identities? This program explores strategies and practices to help establish successful writing communities within classrooms.

For elementary-age children, revision is often new and challenging. This program shows how teachers overcome students' resistance to changing their writing by providing concrete and effective revision strategies.

"Imagine a classroom where all students are engaged in highly rigorous and fun learning every single day. That classroom can be yours starting tomorrow. This handy guide gives teachers, schools, and districts the support they need to help their students achieve dramatic academic gains and become lifelong readers. Students will be raised to the highest level of fervor, love of learning, stamina, and independent thinking. Reading Without Limits provides...