Teacher's Tackle Box

Teacher's Tackle Box

Author: Sue Nothstine

Publisher: Tacklebox Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780615256078

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Teacher's Tackle Box Teacher's Tackle Box is a comprehensive guide designed to mentor, motivate and inspire new teachers. It is written with a sense of humor and is fully illustrated with Tackle Box characters. It is interspersed with student snapshots, Golden Moment stories shared by veteran teachers, and inspirational quotes. The information found in this book truly conveys the Art and Heart of Teaching with solutions to the real problems teachers face in their classrooms and in their school environments. Teacher's Tackle Box provides helpful tips to guide the new teacher through the first few hectic days of the school year. There is information on how to maintain a positive learning environment when there are many students who are eager to learn and others who are disruptive. Good advice is given on how to talk to parents even if their child is not a model student. There are suggestions for dealing with students' behavioral and emotional issues and many ideas to keep both students and teachers energized and enthusiastic. An accompanying CD is available free at the website, www.teacherstacklebox.com, which provides easy access to all of the worksheets and ideas referenced in the book.


Creativity Tackle Box

Creativity Tackle Box

Author: Laura Magner

Publisher: Pieces of Learning

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1934358096

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The Creativity Tackle Box offers strategies, games, exercises, and thinker tools to help students practice thinking more creatively. Some strategies limber their creative minds. Others help solve real problems in a creative way. These activities practice fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration; risk taking, preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification - Torrance's, Williams' and Wallas' components that help define the theory of creative thought. So, what can we learn about creativity and how to teach it? It is important to let go, to feel free to take chances, to fail, and to try again. And not just in art class - in any class. Teachers need to allow breathing room for students and need to cultivate an accepting atmosphere for students to create. The activities in The Creativity Tackle Box remind educators to allow students to feel the joy and satisfaction they get from making something new, thinking something novel, and doing something real as they use their creativity to solve real problems.


Teachers, Change Your Bait!

Teachers, Change Your Bait!

Author: Martha Kaufeldt

Publisher: Crown House Publishing

Published: 2005-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781904424611

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Provides teachers with information on meeting the instructional needs of all students.


The Kids' Book of Fishing and Tackle Box

The Kids' Book of Fishing and Tackle Box

Author: Michael J. Rosen

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780894808661

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Complete with hook, line, and sinker, The Kids' Book of Fishing is an initiation into the oldest unofficial club in the world. Written with an emphasis on freshwater catch-and-release fishing, this fact-filled, illustrated book points out the best fishing holes and what to use for bait. Kids meet bluegills, crappies, perch, bass, and trout; learn about their habits and habitats; and discover if they feel pain (they don't). Then it's time to catch them. Beginning with the simplest hand-line method for jigging, The Kids' Book of Fishing establishes the basics: tying knots, judging water depth, choosing the right tackle and bait, attaching a bobber, and-most important of all-how to tell when a bite comes and what to do about it. Packaged with each book are 30 feet of monofilament line, 3 sinkers, 3 hooks, 1 plummet weight, 1 snap-swivel, 1 red-and-white bobber, and a custom-made plastic tacklebox. With its environmental tips, neat facts, projects and activities, The Kids' Book of Fishing is The Compleat Angler for kids. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Rodale Book Club. 190,000 copies in print.


Creative Teaching for All

Creative Teaching for All

Author: Jack Zevin

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1610484037

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Read Creative Teaching for All as an antidote to rapidly growing pressures for quick and easy teacher results, and constant evaluations. Employ creative ideas to resist teaching to the (usually factual) test, and to the many choking rules, standards, cores, and state regulations that strangle motivation and destroy experimentation. Reclaim teacher control of curriculum design and instructional methods across all fields by boldly going 'outside', even off the walls, where teachers have lived happier lives before the invention of rubrics and rules. Become the truly creative teacher to which you have aspired Highlights of the book: -Explores and expands opportunities for engaging student conversation and ideas - Adds variety and depth to your teaching methods - Hone questioning and critical thinking skills - Move from lower to higher levels -Reinvent instruction at home, work, or in classrooms as places of imagination and enjoyment


Teacher in the Cupboard

Teacher in the Cupboard

Author: Lisa Jane Ashes

Publisher: Crown House Publishing Ltd

Published: 2019-02-14

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1781353255

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In Teacher in the Cupboard: Self-reflective, solution-focused teaching and learning, Lisa Jane Ashes takes educators on a self-reflective journey that will inspire them to challenge the 'how to', tick-box approach to teaching. Even if all the problems in your classroom have been solved by the time you read this, plenty more would surface to take their place ... And while each problem has multiple solutions, you'll need your creativity in order to find them. In this book, Lisa explores how spending time 'in the cupboard' - a metaphor for removing yourself from a situation and seeing it through a more objective lens - can help teachers come up with creative solutions to everyday challenges and positively transform their classroom practice and human interactions. Teacher in the Cupboard encompasses Lisa's many and varied observations in education - and each chapter includes real-life experiences to make you think, as well as practical techniques to help educators avoid retreating into self-blindness: a common affliction that robs them of their perception of their own contribution as part of the teaching and learning process. Brimming with fresh perspectives, the book presents a wide range of innovative ideas to enable educators to harness the power of self-reflection and create a stimulating learning environment that produces excellent results for them, their students and their colleagues. It also talks teachers through a number of methods, approaches and resources that will enable them to instil in their learners a sense of satisfaction derived from the learning skills and behaviours being developed in the classroom. These materials are collated in the 'Resource Cupboard' section at the back of the book, offering adaptable - and downloadable - resources that Lisa has used to successfully enhance learning in the classroom. Suitable for NQTs, teachers and school leaders.


The Power of Assessment for Learning

The Power of Assessment for Learning

Author: Margaret Heritage

Publisher: Corwin

Published: 2019-11-15

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1544394217

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Enrich, grow, and sustain AfL in your classroom. Twenty years after the publication of Inside the Black Box, the landmark review of formative classroom assessment, international education experts Christine Harrison and Margaret Heritage tackle assessment for learning (AfL) anew, with fresh insights gained from two decades of research, theory, and classroom practice. Packed with key AfL ideas and supports, vignettes that illustrate AfL in action, and practice-based evidence to enrich understanding of AfL from both the teacher’s and the student’s perspectives, this book is a ‘sounding board’ for educators to explore and reflect on their own AfL practices and beliefs.


The World Becomes What We Teach

The World Becomes What We Teach

Author: Zoe Weil

Publisher: Lantern Books

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1590565193

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New Revised Edition. How can we create a just, healthy, and humane world? What is the path to developing sustainable energy, food, transportation, production, construction, and other systems? What’s the best strategy to end poverty and ensure that everyone has equal rights? How can we slow the rate of extinction and restore ecosystems? How can we learn to resolve conflicts without violence and treat other people and nonhuman animals with respect and compassion? The answer to all these questions lies with one underlying system—schooling. To create a more sustainable, equitable, and peaceful world, we must reimagine education and prepare a generation to be solutionaries—young people with the knowledge, tools, and motivation to create a better future. This book describes how we can (and must) transform education and teaching; create such a generation; and build such a future.


Teaching When the World Is on Fire

Teaching When the World Is on Fire

Author: Lisa Delpit

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1620974320

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A timely collection of advice and strategies for creating a just classroom from educators across the country, handpicked by MacArthur Genius and bestselling author Lisa Delpit "A favorite education book of the year." —Greater Good magazine Is it okay to discuss politics in class? What are constructive ways to help young people process the daily news coverage of sexual assault? How can educators engage students around Black Lives Matter? Climate change? Confederate statue controversies? Immigration? Hate speech? In Teaching When the World Is on Fire, Delpit turns to a host of crucial issues facing teachers in these tumultuous times. Delpit's master-teacher wisdom tees up guidance from beloved, well-known educators along with insight from dynamic principals and classroom teachers tackling difficult topics in K–12 schools every day. This cutting-edge collection brings together essential observations on safety from Pedro Noguera and Carla Shalaby; incisive ideas on traversing politics from William Ayers and Mica Pollock; Christopher Emdin's instructive views on respecting and connecting with black and brown students; Hazel Edwards's crucial insight about safe spaces for transgender and gender-nonconforming students; and James W. Loewen's sage suggestions about exploring symbols of the South; as well as timely thoughts from Bill Bigelow on teaching the climate crisis—and on the students and teachers fighting for environmental justice. Teachers everywhere will benefit from what Publishers Weekly called "an urgent and earnest collection [that] will resonate with educators looking to teach 'young people to engage across perspectives' as a means to 'creating a just and caring world.'"