Your teacher training may have provided sound theory and a collection of instructional techniques, but it's often the practical details that can make day-to-day survival difficult in your first days,
Follows five successful high school students in their often stressful journey through class work, grades, and tests, all of which contribute to the lacking performance of even our top schools.
A companion to Aspects of Teaching Secondary Geography, Teaching Geography in the Secondary School: A Reader brings together a wide range of key writings that look at central issues, debates and ideas
Contemporary's GED Exercise Book: Language Arts, Writing provides activities ranging from simple sentence structure to the essay writing process. Activities include informational texts, business docum
If Students Need to Know It, It’s in This BookThis book develops the reading comprehension skills of 10th graders. It fosters skill mastery that helps them succeed both in school and on the Florida Co
This book provides a practical illustration of the skills, knowledge and understanding required to teach in the secondary classroom. As well as discussing concepts and ideas, the book gives a critical
Need ideas to stimulate student interest in reading and library usage? Try one of the 98 bulletin board and showcase ideas featured in this eagerly awaited sequel to the best-selling first volume of t
Pirie teaches high school English in Ontario, Canada. He argues that it's time for educators to address the difficulties of being a male teenager in an English class with the same energy and commitme
Today's surest, most direct route to success on the GEDMcGraw-Hill's GED Short Course helps you enter the testing room confident in your mastery of test materials, even as it cuts your study time in h
This book shows administrators and teachers what they can do to make their students' ninth grade experience a successful one. Practical and research-based, this book showcases strategies to help you r
Educators in the US and Australia explore the significance of youth's engagement with digital technologies, taking into account how adolescents use information and communication technologies to negoti
Discussions of educational reform often involve windy talk of a "return to the classics," yet rarely do would-be reformers go so far as to advocate a return to education in the classical languages th
This book demonstrates how to make your classroom more responsive to the needs of individual students with a wide variety of learning styles, interests, goals, cultural backgrounds, and prior knowledg
The ability to ask intelligent and searching questions, to use questioning for different purposes and to know what to do with the answers is crucial to teachers of all subjects and age groups. Sometim
This is the first book in a new annual series of research volumes designed to present and discuss a wide range of issues in the field of service-learning. Twenty-one American academics and researcher
