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A practical guide to staying well in a high-pressure profession. In the midst of a recruitment crisis and a massive exodus of teachers from our schools, now is the time for some joined-up thinking about teacher well-being and mental health. Filled with insightful advice and practical strategies, Peter Radford's Love Teaching, Keep Teaching invites educators to think differently about the way education is 'done' and shows them how they can keep doing the job they love without sacrificing their health and well-being.

After publishing the New York Times best seller The Essential 55, award-winning teacher Ron Clark took his rules on the road and traveled to schools and districts in 49 states. He met amazing teachers, administrators, students, parents, all kinds of people involved in bringing up great kids. In the best of these people, he noticed the same qualities that he'd observed in so many of the teachers, children, and parents he'd worked with during his time teaching in North Carolina and Harlem.

Far too often, our students attain only a superficial level of knowledge that fails to prepare them for deeper challenges in school and beyond. In Teaching for Deeper Learning, renowned educators and best-selling authors, Jay McTighe and Harvey F. Silver propose a solution: teaching students to make meaning for themselves.

Candle making has always been one of the more popular hobbies that people can start and enjoy with very little cost, and you will be surprised at what you can find and achieve once you start. Candles are becoming more and more valuable, and thousands of them are being sold online. Within this book, I will tell you the best methods and ways to make your candles, ensuring they are of the highest quality.

Are you a new teacher stepping into the classroom for the first time or a seasoned educator aiming to elevate your teaching game? This is your golden key! Are you embarking on the thrilling journey of shaping minds, seeking to revolutionize your strategies to work smarter—not harder—or searching for an unparalleled team-building guide? Your search ends here! Discover the Ultimate Resource Book designed to ignite passion, foster innovation, and build unbreakable team spirit in the teaching world. Welcome to the future of education, where excellence meets inspiration!

The college classroom is inevitably influenced by, and in turn influences, the world around it. In the United States, this means the complex topic of race can come into play in ways that are both explicit and implicit. Teaching Race in Perilous Times highlights and confronts the challenges of teaching race in the United States—from syllabus development and pedagogical strategies to accreditation and curricular reform.

Discover how AI can revolutionize your teaching experience, making it more personalized, engaging, and efficient. "The Power of AI for Educators" is your comprehensive guide to effectively integrating AI into your classroom.

Since it's inception in the 1990s, Howard Glasser's Nurtured Heart Approach has supported parents, caregivers, educators, and treatment professionals worldwide in guiding challenging children's intensity toward greatness. Transformational impact through this Approach has always involved internal transformation on the part of the adult applying it.

This audio study guide for Teaching to Transgress by Bell Hooks includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as confronting divisions in American education and the necessity of accessible theory. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

Would you want to be a student in your own classroom? In this bestselling book, Pernille Ripp invites both novice and seasoned teachers to cocreate a positive, interactive learning environment with students. Based on honest reflections on her own teaching experience, Pernille offers a wide variety of ideas for sharing control, developing your intuition, learning how to fail, giving yourself grace, building community and trust, creating more choice, allowing time for student expertise, and letting go of the punish, behave, and reward cycle so that intrinsic motivation can thrive.

Teaching Art takes patience, empathy and hard work. Nurturing creativity in children takes time; but often you will be sidetracked organizing supplies, equipment and students! You also need to decide what supplies to buy with a limited budget. This book helps you prepare and plan for a long-term program for each art medium you teach. Actual lessons are detailed with "not to forget" ideas underlined for quick reference. Clean-up instructions are included so your next class can begin at the bell!

"¡No te pierdas la escuela los lunes!" hace el mejor trabajo que he visto para animar a los maestros y otros educadores a considerar la enseñanza como una vocación superior y un acto de justicia social. Las historias verdaderas de Pat James, las lecturas obligatorias de las escrituras y tareas ayudarán a cualquier maestro a mantener el corazón por enseñar tanto en los buenos tiempos como en los malos en una sociedad donde se pide a los maestros que lo hagan todo y, a menudo, de una manera estandarizada. Pat inculca también el arte de enseñar.

We often talk about the challenges of teacher recruitment and retention, about new initiatives and political landscapes, but day in, day out, teachers and schools are delivering exceptional teaching, and most of it is invisible. Ross uncovers, celebrates, and disseminates best practice in teaching. This is supported by case studies and research undertaken by Ross in 10 primary and secondary schools across Great Britain, including a pupil referral unit and private, state and grammar schools, as well as explanations from influential educationalists as to why and how these ideas work.

Are you stuck in the lecture-and-worksheet rut? Many teachers continue to struggle to break out of the corporate lesson-and-worksheet cycle to find fresh, meaningful ways to develop original, engaging and effective instruction. In The EduProtocol Field Guide, Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern outline sixteen classroom-tested protocols to break up clichéd lesson plans, build culture, and deliver content to K–12 students in a supportive, creative environment.

Dive into the comprehensive Praxis Core Study Guide, meticulously crafted to equip you with the essential skills needed to excel in the Reading, Writing, and Mathematics sections of the exam. Whether you're aiming to refine your critical reading abilities, polish your writing proficiency, or conquer mathematical challenges, this guide is your ultimate companion.

Reform the schools, improve teaching: these battle cries of American education have been echoing for 20 years. So why does teaching change so little? Arguing that too many would-be reformers know nothing about the conflicting demands of teaching, Mary Kennedy takes us into the controlled commotion of the classroom, revealing how painstakingly teachers plan their lessons, and how many different ways things go awry. Teachers try simultaneously to keep track of materials, time, students, and ideas.

In Teaching the Invisible Race, anti-bias and anti-racist educator and researcher Tony DelaRosa (he, siya) delivers an insightful and hands-on treatment of how to embody a pro-Asian American lens in your classroom while combating anti-Asian hate in your school. The author offers stories, case studies, research, and frameworks that will help you build the knowledge, mindset, and skills you need to teach Asian-American history and stories in your curriculum.

Mike Wells and one of the leading academics in the subject, Professor William Doyle, come together to examine a period in history which sent shock waves around the world, inspired millions, and still has the ability to send a shiver down the spine. Our History A Level series on the French Revolution and Napoleon fully follows the curriculum, providing new and fresh perspectives on this period, and will fully prepare and inform you throughout the course and provide a valuable resource when it comes to your exams.

Ever since Socrates, teaching has been a difficult and even dangerous profession. Why is good teaching such hard work? In this provocative, witty, and sometimes rueful book, David K. Cohen writes about the predicaments that teachers face. Like therapists, social workers, and pastors, teachers embark on a mission of human improvement. They aim to deepen knowledge, broaden understanding, sharpen skills, and change behavior. One predicament is that no matter how great their expertise, teachers depend on the cooperation and intelligence of their students, yet there is much that students do not know.

The Feeling of Teaching is part of a larger project, Teaching through Emotions (TTE), developed by the author, Elizabeth Burris. Throughout the book, listeners are shown the power of emotion work: practicing self-awareness, describing, looking for good reasons, guessing, self-disclosing, listening, and planning. By doing emotion work, teachers can take full advantage of the emotional and relational data their students are constantly providing to shift their teaching and better attune with the learners in their classrooms.