Introducing your guide to navigating the seemingly endless swirl of questions facing new teachers.
A veteran teacher shares the lessons she learned from more than two decades in the classroom to help prepare new teachers for the realities of a career in education.
This book offers insightful and well-researched advice to inspire both new and experienced teachers.
The best-selling First Year Teacher's Survival Kit gives new teachers a wide variety of tested strategies, activities, and tools for creating a positive and dynamic learning environment while meeting the challenges of each school day. The new edition is fully revised and updated to cover changes in the K-12 classroom over the past five years.
A refreshing and hopeful guide to help new teachers thrive in our ever-changing world. This book gives you a fresh take on topics like classroom management, project-based learning, group collaboration, increasing buy-in, and partnering with parents.
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This book uses dispositional teaching to address productivity and promote positive habits in the classroom, presenting seven productive behaviors that general education teachers can teach to all students across all content areas.
The A-Z of Great Classrooms is a celebration of that magical double act of teaching and learning, helping teachers effectively manage their classrooms.
This practical, interactive guide provides a framework for educators to solve a variety of problems they face by leveraging design thinking to evaluate potential solutions.
Being cooperative, empathetic, and accommodating are great qualities for teachers but can also lead to higher rates of burnout. In this book, find out how becoming more assertive can help highly agreeable teachers thrive.
This insightful, friendly guide to establishing a dynamic classroom is a lifeline of practical support for teachers, providing answers to your biggest questions at the moment you most need them. Through instructional tools, teaching tips, classroom examples, reading suggestions, and more, this book equips teachers to embark on the path of success toward building a positive and energetic learning environment.
Transform your chaotic classroom environment into a classroom of calm by fostering community, trust, and self-reflection. This book will help you promote student engagement and self-regulation using strategies grounded in neuroscience research.
Developed by experts on trauma-informed and positive behavior support, this book offers practical guidance for creating a safe, supportive, and smoothly functioning classroom environment for all learners, including those who have experienced trauma.
This resource provides a vital classroom management and behavior support toolkit, providing step-by-step guidelines for structuring the classroom environment, actively engaging students in instruction, setting clear expectations, and implementing a continuum of strategies to reinforce positive behavior and respond to inappropriate behavior.
Preserve your mental health while meeting the demands of the education profession using proven tools and research. Happy Teacher Revolution helps educators address burnout and jumpstart their own practices to claim joy.
This book outlines five areas in which you can build healthy habits to combat burnout--mindset, personal care, time management, boundaries, and stress management. This offers clear, easy-to-implement tools to help you find greater balance, energy, and fulfillment.
This book delivers 12 brain-based principles for avoiding teacher burnout and increasing health and wellness for teachers. These research-backed strategies will help you thrive personally and professionally. Each chapter digs into the benefits of these self-care and stress management tips and offers suggestions for bringing the practice to life in your classroom.
Over time, teachers internalise myths about their success that cause them to fall out of love with teaching. This book dispels them all and replaces them with practical antidotes to burnout and perfectionism so that you can reclaim your calling.
This book provides a roadmap for you to show up in your classroom feeling energized and organized. The author uses her own experience to offer simple steps, stories, and strategies to inspire you to take action and experiment with ideas in your classroom and personal life. You will also gain tools to teach your students, equipping them with the skills they need to be even more successful in your classroom, school, and their lives in general.
Offering clear strategies rooted in research and expert recommendations, this book empowers teachers to prevent and recover from burnout while finding success at work in a sustainable way. Each chapter explores a different common cause of teacher burnout and provides takeaway strategies and realistic tips.
In this book, you will gain evidence-based approaches for engaging students and equipping them to better focus in the classroom. With this book's straightforward strategies, you can learn to motivate all your students to actively participate in learning.
Dealing with poor behaviour is exhausting and stressful. But it doesn't have to be! In this book, learn the secrets of how behaviour whispering can improve 100 common classroom problems.
If you have a "smart but scattered" child, take heart. This guide is grounded in research on the crucial brain-based skills that 4- to 13-year-olds need to get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses and emotions. The expert authors guide you to identify your child's executive strengths and weaknesses, boost skills that are lacking, fix everyday routines that don't work, and reduce everyone's stress.
How can we help our students navigate challenges with confidence, mental well-being, and presence? This book shows an easy, effective, and sustainable way to incorporate mindfulness into your classroom no matter what grade or subject you teach.
This book is centered around eight myths about students and teaching, dismantled with a truth, followed by an easy-to-implement foundational skills lesson for teachers and students. The author shows how you can build attention control, executive functioning, and social-emotional learning in both yourself and your students, to help students thrive in school and in the real world, and to help you feel fulfilled in your teaching career.
This book is a useful guide for educators who seek to better engage students in rich, meaningful learning, outlining a clear set of key concepts and principles for relational pedagogy in school classrooms. The relationships between students and teachers directly affect the experience of education, how learning unfolds and overall educational outcomes. Building on scholarly work and school practices, this book argues that relational pedagogy should be at the centre of teaching and learning in schools, in order to drive positive educational change
This book shows the benefits of a strength-based approach that emphasizes students' assets and capabilities, making them feel more connected to teachers and peers and more engaged in learning. You'll learn practical, research-backed ways to help students of all grade levels identify and celebrate their strengths, develop self-confidence and a growth mindset, build intrinsic motivation, overcome a fear of making mistakes, manage their feelings, focus on gratitude, and more.
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