Meat & Three

Paterson, Kathy

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Point Publishing Limited

Help Survival: Strategies for Teachers

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Pembroke Pub Ltd

5-minute motivators designed to launch any lesson with a bang. The book offers hundreds of ways to keep students enthralled throughout the year -- from suggestions for simple props to attention-grabbers including giant bubbles, mystery envelopes, games, jokes and riddles, story telling, and quotable quotes.

Ready...Set...Teach!

Stenhouse Publishers

The book stresses the importance of listening to kids and offers useful tools for initiating discussion. The book also includes a simple questionnaire that can be used as the basis for communication with teens. Discusses all the major issues, including discipline, grades, apathy, alcohol, money, independence, sexuality, and drug abuse.

Every Adult's Guide to Talking to Teens

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This timely book will show teachers how to create a learning environment that meets the needs of students, parents and teachers. Presented as simple lists of classroom-tested ideas, teachers will find instant solutions for specific challenges that are part of the "real" classroom. Novel ways to make learning more fun for students are featured along with tips to help teachers keep up with their planning, marking, and record-keeping. This comprehensive book looks at all aspects of running effective classrooms: Promoting efficient classroom practices that range from seating plans to finding time for all the marking; Communicating and finding time to meet the needs of all students, especially when some seem to demand so much more; Grabbing the attention of students at the beginning of a lesson and using games to teach the same old stuff in a different more meaningful way; Coping with and avoiding behavior problems by getting students more involved through projects like a Classroom Bill of Rights; Making students more accountable, dependable and enthusiastic about their work. Easy for teachers to use, the book includes ready-to-copy tip sheets to share with students on topics as diverse as good study habits, homework and taking tests. Reproducible pages to involve parents in the classroom range from tutoring tips to a parent interest questionnaire.

How Do I Teach?

Pembroke Publishers

To teach with excellence demands more than strategies and techniques. The most successful teachers draw on their personal power—their confidence, compassion, and empathy, and their professional power—their ability to lead, instruct, and inspire their students to do their best. With practice, most teachers can develop the skills they need to conquer almost any classroom challenge. This book offers specific, practical ideas to help teachers: 
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<li>manage their classroom time efficiently;</li>
<li>educate with passion and enthusiasm;</li>
<li>support students who are struggling;</li>
<li>motivate with creativity and humor;</li>
<li>lead effectively both inside the classroom and out.</li>
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 In 55 Teaching Dilemmas, Kathy Paterson also shows readers how to counsel students in need, how to recognize and prevent burnout, how to communicate with parents and guardians, and how to encourage cooperative learning among students with different capabilities and skills.

55 Teaching Dilemmas: Ten Powerful Solutions to Almost Any Classroom Challenge

The compelling connection between the classroom and what happens in the world is the basis of Real Life Literacy. It shows teachers how to turn kids on to learning and build skills that will help them function more successfully in the real world. It fills in the gaps often missing from traditional language arts classes and offers a range of classroom tools that promote real-world reading and writing.
Some of the basic literacy topics that are covered include:
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<li>Writing and deciphering messages — from notes and memos to invitations and advertisements;</li>
<li>Taking the mystery out of labels — from understanding labels on medicine bottles to making sense of food and clothing labels;</li>
<li>Coping with everyday money management — from completing order forms to writing cheques and balancing a bank book;</li>
<li>Reading and interpreting specialized text — from finding information in nonfiction books to effectively using phone books, entertainment guides, and bus schedules.</li>
</ul>
This timely book makes a powerful case for linking genuine, purposeful, and functional in-school activities to the lives of students. It promotes using classroom learning to guide and support students as they strive to make meaning of their world.

Real Life Literacy: Classroom Tools that Promote Real-World Reading and Writing

3-Minute Motivators will show you how to turn unmotivated, unfocused students into eager classroom participants and learners. This practical handbook includes more than 100 simple ideas that will refocus a group, release excess energy, or start off class with a bang.
Organized around common classroom challenges, 3-Minute Motivators offers a wide variety of ready-to-use activities that turn potential problems into opportunities, and get students out of a rut and into a more productive mode:Calm Down—relaxing activities that let imaginations soar, including Collecting Clouds and the Silent ScreamGet Moving—lively motivators, from the Big Yawn to Number Shakes Act, Don't Speak—silent but fun, from Balancing Act to As the Circle TurnsWords and Movement—activities that mix talk with action, including Explosion, Mad Milling, and Kodak MomentsSingle Words and Sounds—the simplest communication, from Interactive Words to Chant-along Conversation—getting motivated one-on-one, from Song Speak and Slow-Mo to Think TalkBrainstorm—working together to let the ideas fly, from Word Tennis to Break-upPaper and pencil activities that range from Letter Scrambles and 4-word Lottos to Written Rumors and Shared-pen Stories.
This book is an ideal resource for both new and experienced teachers, promoting inherently playful activities that involve competition, cooperation, and opportunities to focus on real learning.

Three-Minute Motivators: More Than 100 Simple Ways to Reach, Teach, and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined

Business & Money

Education & Reference

This timely book offers teachers practical tools that promote student learning and personal growth in our fast-paced information age. Building on students' love of text messaging, this book offers 100 "crisp and snappy" strategies that are easily taught, reviewed, and reinforced by teachers. The name of each strategy reflects its function, which makes the strategy easy to recall, easy to apply, and fun to use. The strategies are organized around seven themes -- Remembering, Communicating, Organizing, Discovering, Understanding, Creating, and Living Well -- that represent general teaching goals. Text Me a Strategy provides teachers with a wealth of tactics to help students sift through volumes of content and develop life-enhancing strategies.

Text Me a Strategy: How to Encourage Students to Develop Skills They Need to Become Independent Learners

How do we specifically help kids become good problem-solvers in school as well as in their everyday lives? Desperately Seeking Solutions discusses the specific skills and the critical and creative thinking that go into confronting problems. Organized for easy classroom use, the book introduces a five-step plan for handling almost any situation—defining the problem, considering possibilities, choosing the best option, taking action, and evaluating decisions. Concrete examples teacher-specific tips, and educational games complement this important resource.

Desperately Seeking Solutions: Helping students build problem-solving skills to meet life's challenges

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