Presents lesson plans and reproducible patterns for and/or illustrations of finished work for thirty-six art lessons. Each lesson plan includes sections on the purpose of the lesson, its art history background, materials needed, procedures, assignment choices for students, and a connection section that links lesson contents with the work of a featured artist.
Deftly handle the sixty most common problems classroom teachers face Quick Answers for Busy Teachers presents some of the most common challenges teachers encounter in the classroom, and provides expert help toward solving those problems. This easy-to-read guide is organized into short, discreet chapters, making it an ideal quick reference for on-the-spot answers, with practical advice and concise, actionable solutions. Readers will develop systems for dealing with issues that repeatedly crop up, from handling the out-of-control class to falling out of love with the job. The book offers innovative methods and techniques that improve student achievement and behavior while minimizing stress on the teacher. Recover from challenging situations with parents, students, coworkers, or administrators, implement a system that keeps those challenges from happening again, and learn to relax and enjoy this richly rewarding profession. Teaching is difficult. Educators must grapple with a roomful of diverse students, an evolving curriculum, massive organization of books, papers, and supplies, and ever-changing technology. They must deal with challenges from uninvolved parents, overinvolved parents, administrators, and fellow educators. This book helps teachers avoid some of the frustration by providing solutions for the sixty most common challenges teachers face. Deal with the student pushing your buttons, and get that student actively engaged in meaningful learning Keep students on task, and deal effectively with poor test performance Speak your mind at faculty meetings Deal with negative coworkers effectively Handle problem parents without embarrassing students or sacrificing professionalism As a teacher, igniting young minds is only a small part of the battle – it's usually everything else that makes teachers occasionally reconsider their career choice. With solutions and systems in place ahead of time, readers can handle challenges swiftly and skillfully with Quick Answers for Busy Teachers.
Presents lesson plans and reproducible patterns for and/or illustrations of finished work for thirty-six art lessons. Each lesson plan includes sections on the purpose of the lesson, its art history background, materials needed, procedures, assignment choices for students, and a connection section that links lesson contents with the work of a featured artist.
A guide to assist teachers with classroom management and organization, and includes ideas for challenging subject areas as well, such as art and physical education.
A Busy, Busy Day Teacher's Guide is one of the components of Languages4kidz, Inc. English 4 Toddlers Program. This Teacher's Guide is broken down into 12 lessons. Activities designed for the lessons in A Busy, Busy Day promote children's understanding of their immediate world. Lessons 1-4 are designed to help toddlers discover the places where they live, their homes. The experiences provided in these lessons include vocabulary related to children's immediate environment as well as members of their families. Lessons 5-6 focus on activities that introduce and reinforce vocabulary, expressions and structures related to actions children perform at home every day. Lessons 7-11 provide children with some knowledge about the places and people they visit with their parents at some time or another, such as their grandparents, their doctor, their dentist, friends, the supermarket, restaurants, and their schools. Lesson 12 is the last lesson on the A Busy, Busy Day unit. It is a "celebration" for children's accomplishments. The lesson plan presents a review of children's and their parents' favorite activities, songs and rhymes. It lets them have fun showing what they have learned and then motivates them to continue enjoying and practicing the English language through the following unit, Birds, Buds and Blooms. Each lesson plan includes at the beginning important information regarding the materials necessary to carry out the activities and the vocabulary and structures that need to be introduced and/or practiced. Throughout this Teacher's Guide you will find additional information to help you focus on important teaching components. There are Information Boxes that provide statements that elaborate or give additional information about certain activities, Language Learning Boxes that focus your attention on important issues regarding language development and Specific Icons that facilitate the identification and location of activities in the lesson plans. Each lesson includes activities for the following: Welcome Warm-up All Together Playful Time Creative Time Story Time Wrap-up! Each lesson introduces children and their parents to basic vocabulary, lovely songs, finger plays, stories, poems and games to help develop their skills in the target language. With this Teacher's Guide you can start teaching using whole language in context right away with minimal investment of time researching and creating your own lesson plans. Together with the Picture Books, Enrichments activities Booklets, CDs with songs, finger plays and rhymes, Languages4kidz Teacher's Guides provide you with the tools necessary to implement the program, and make it easy for children to gradually acquire and build up their vocabulary and communicative competence, catch up or improve their English language skills. A Busy, Busy Day Unit Package has the following components: A Busy, Busy Day Teacher's Guide with Enrichment Activities Booklet Ms. Wishy-Washy cleans her house literature book A busy, busy day literature book, and A busy, busy day CD with songs, finger plays, rhymes and read alouds. Each item is sold separately on Amazon.
**NOW OUT OF PRINT - PLEASE SEARCH 'HOW TO LEARN' BY MATT BROMLEY**ABOUT THE SERIES'A Teacher's Guide To...' is a series of short books ideal for new teachers as well as those about to embark on teacher training programmes. Written in a friendly and fluent style, these books provide perfect synopses of the key ideas and issues affecting teachers today.All the books in this series are practical handbooks for busy teachers - books of ideas which can be put into practice and which can be dipped into when help and advice are needed most. The author is not a university professor; he is a teacher who has worked in schools for over a decade. He has worked at senior leader level in two secondary schools and has, at one time or another, managed every aspect of a school's organisation. He has helped schools on the journey towards 'outstanding': one school became a beacon of good practice in teaching and learning; another became the highest achieving comprehensive school in its authority and one of the top five most improved schools in the country; a school judged 'good with outstanding features' under the new Ofsted framework within three years of emerging from 'special measures'. ABOUT THIS BOOK'A Teacher's Guide To... Teaching Outstanding Lessons' is Volume 2 in the series and covers: 1. What is outstanding?2. The Ofsted context3. What is outstanding teaching?4. What is outstanding behaviour?5. What is personalised learning?6. What is learning to learn?7. What is connected learning?8. How do you engage students in learning?With detailed appendices explaining:I. Assessment for LearningII. Learning to learnIII. Social and emotional aspects of learningIV. Personal Learning and Thinking SkillsV. Assessing Pupil ProgressThis book debates the main theories AND provides hands-on advice and strategies.
ABOUT THE SERIES 'A Teacher's Guide To...' is a series of short books ideal for new teachers as well as those about to embark on teacher training programmes. Written in a friendly and fluent style, these books provide perfect synopses of the key ideas and issues affecting teachers today. All the books in this series are practical handbooks for busy teachers - books of ideas which can be put into practice and which can be dipped into when help and advice are needed most. The author is not a university professor; he is a teacher who has worked in schools for over a decade. He has worked at senior leader level in two secondary schools and has, at one time or another, managed every aspect of a school's organisation. He has helped schools on the journey towards 'outstanding': one school became a beacon of good practice in teaching and learning; another became the highest achieving comprehensive school in its authority and one of the top five most improved schools in the country, a school judged 'good with outstanding features' under the new Ofsted framework within three years of emerging from 'special measures'. ABOUT THIS BOOK 'A Teacher's Guide To... Behaviour Management' is Volume 1 in the series and covers: 1. Practical strategies for managing behaviour 2. The three pillars of effective behaviour management 3. How behaviour management works in practice 4. How to differentiate your approach to behaviour management 5. How developing students' emotional intelligence in the classroom can help improve their behaviour 6. How to use rewards and sanctions effectively 7. How personalised learning is at the heart of good behaviour. 8. Behaviour management for new teachers This book debates the main theories AND provides hands-on advice and strategies.
