Teaching Skills & Techniques

Collect multiple forms of data and connect data to improved student achievement! Are you looking for new ways to use data in the decision-making pr...

"The Teachers Network, one of the most effective professional development organizations in education, has much to teach us. Ellen Meyers and her co...

"Models of Teaching is a great asset for beginning teachers as they integrate their pre-service training with the standards-based curricula in scho...

"I cannot imagine any teacher who wants to be the best possible teacher not loving this book!"—Renee Peoples, Teacher/Math CoachWest Elementary Sch...

This book introduces research-based pedagogical practices for supporting and enhancing language development and use in school-based immersion and d...

"A highly accessible work of immense value on all facets of informal learning opportunities. The focus on specific content areas is an excellent to...

This edited collection broadens understanding of family–school–community partnerships by focusing on how community groups, educators, and universit...

  Make a breakthrough with underachieving and at-risk students! Little compares to the thrill of seeing a young mind come alive with wonder. But d...

"The sanest and safest kids on this planet are the ones who know who they are and how to make choices. The author has condensed this complex and cr...

"Relationship building is key to the successful mentoring and teaching of today′s youth. This book is an indispensable reference for both students ...

Collect multiple forms of data and connect data to improved student achievement! Are you looking for new ways to use data in the decision-making pr...

The importance of interagency cooperation within children’s services has been highlighted within recent government strategy, including the Every Ch...

Praise for the first edition:"Smutny and von Fremd′s very special talent is in helping adults nurture and cherish the creativity and learning joy t...

"Helps with planning content, methodology, and assessment and gives an overview of current trends that directly impact the classroom. The illustrat...

"If you are seeking a more effective way to improve teaching and learning for your students or innovative ways to help teachers become actively inv...

"A superb book that does exactly what it promises: takes the reader from theory to practice. Rich with clear prose, strong research, and thoughtful...

"Teaches you how to build a portfolio and shows the potential benefits of the portfolio process. Qualitative research, which is essentially what po...

"I wish I′d had this book forty years ago when I first started teaching. Everything But Teaching, with its moving anecdotes, pragmatic examples, an...

"Teachers will love the straightforward, practical information. The topics and strategies are excellent."—Debi Gartland, Professor of Special Educa...

Deepen students′ understanding of math concepts through active involvement! Engaging students directly in creative learning experiences is the basi...

"Within this robust collection, the reader is soon privy to a noble and notable vision of schooling in which mindfulness permeates the metaphorical...

"This book addresses a real area of need and contains an abundant set of strategies."—Susan Koba, Educational Consultant"This is an excellent sourc...

The Human Side of Teaching focuses on thoughts that give the new teacher a realistic view of the teaching and school communities in which they are ...

This book is an essential companion for all primary trainee teachers, whatever their training route. It focuses on the school-based experience and ...

Formerly published by Peytral Publications"The cartoons are great! Michael Giangreco has done it again with his third book of right-on-target carto...

In Visible Learning: Lesson Planning, John Hattie and Klaus Zierer make explicit how to implement the world-famous Visible Learning® research into ...

In a classroom setting interaction among students is the norm. How do you replicate that informality, spontaneity, and focus online? This book prov...

Building Your Inclusive Classroom explores why we need to adapt our teaching – and our approaches to children and young people – and how this will ...

"Teaches you how to build a portfolio and shows the potential benefits of the portfolio process. Qualitative research, which is essentially what po...

"A superb book that does exactly what it promises: takes the reader from theory to practice. Rich with clear prose, strong research, and thoughtful...

This book demystifies the concept of collective efficacy and empowers teacher teams with the necessary tools to ignite collaborative processes, poo...

"Teachers will love the straightforward, practical information. The topics and strategies are excellent."—Debi Gartland, Professor of Special Educa...

Building Your Inclusive Classroom explores why we need to adapt our teaching – and our approaches to children and young people – and how this will ...

"Places all of a teacher′s concerns on the table, and whittles them away with classroom strategies." -Toby Karten, Educational Consultant "The idea...

Second EditionThis book introduces the reader to the principles of assessment of student learning outcomes in the context of program review, and il...

"I have not seen a more teacher-friendly resource for using the Web in the classroom. The authors took both novices and experts into consideration....

Grounded in a combination of evidence, personal narratives, interviews, data, and research, Identifying and Serving Diverse Gifted Learners: Meetin...

"With Reading for Meaning, there is no more of the ′in one eye, out the other′ type of reading that so many students are guilty of, because this ap...

Finally, a concrete resource for teaching adolescents the way they learn best!Teachers of teens will not be particularly surprised by the latest re...

"Teach! Change! Empower! takes the concepts of diversity and change—which are often complex, abstract, confusing, and not salient to many teachers ...

Learn all the essentials for making your first year of teaching a success! In this bestselling book, renowned educators Todd Whitaker, Madeline Whi...

"There is something for everyone here. A valuable resource for experienced teachers starting on the road to curriculum integration or switching to ...