Do you want to move beyond drill and kill, teaching math for understanding? Do you want to sharpen your students' mathematical thinking skills? Do you want your students to help each other learn about mathematics? Do you want to incorporate multiple intelligences in your math instruction? Yes? Here's your road map! Includes 36 cooperative writing activities guaranteed to get students thinking and writing about mathematics. The activities are open-ended, so they'll work with every mathematical topic you teach.

Write! Mathematics: Multiple Intelligences & Cooperative Learning Writing Activities, Grades 4-9

Education & Teaching

VIRGINIA DEBOLT

Schools & Teaching

Kagan Publishing

This book has ready-to-use cooperative activities and blackline masters for teaching every decimal concept: Understanding, reading and writing, comparing and ordering, placing, rounding, estimating, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, converting decimals into fractions and percents, and solving real life decimal problems. Base 10 manipulatives are incorporated in the activities to teach for understanding.

Discovering Decimals through Cooperative Learning, Grades 3-8

Candler, Laura

In a matter of moments you can convert any class into a focused, high-energy community. Boost energy. Boost achievement. Release joy with the world s most comprehensive collection of indoor &amp; outdoor, sport and game activities. Includes over 200, step-by-step, fun, and involving sports and games in nine categories, including: Terrific Tag, Happy Helpers, Beautiful Balances, Creative Coordination, Meaningful Movements, Crazy Challenges, Ridiculous Relays, Silly Sports and Goofy Games. Use em for classroom brain breaks. Use em for rainy-day fun. Use em for physical education. You will promote classroom community with these games everyone wins!

Silly Sports & Goofy Games

Kagan, Spencer

Finally. A cooperative learning book specifically for high school mathematics teachers. Includes a rich array of activities for all levels of high school mathematics. You receive half a dozen Kagan cooperative learning structures: Line-Ups, Mix Pair RallyCoach, Mix-N-Match, Inside-Outside Circle, RallyCoach, RoundTable. For each structure you receive numerous activities and blackline masters for Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Trigonometry, and Pre-Calculus. Activities for fractions, geometry definitions, graphs, probability, algebraic expressions, word problems, slope, angle, proofs, equations, functions, parabolas, and much, much more. Nearly 300 activities in all! Your students will work together successfully with these proven cooperative structures. Working together, your students enjoy math more and learn more.

Cooperative Learning & Mathematics: High School Activities, Grades 8-12

Dina Kushnir

Structures for Success Workbook

Spencer Kagan

Laurie Kagan

Cooperative Learning Structures for Success!

Win-Win Discipline is the single most comprehensive and effective classroom discipline program available. Period. Never before has there been a more practical and powerful step-by-step approach to discipline. Win-Win seeks a higher goal than other discipline programs: The goal is not merely to end disruptions; the goal is to teach students to meet their unmet needs so they no longer need to be disruptive. Watch disruptive behavior disappear as Win-Win... The single most comprehensive and effective classroom discipline program available! Turns anger into rational decision-making Replaces boredom with active engagement Channels excess energy into productive learning Ends control-seeking via learned self-efficacy Transforms attention seeking into self-validation Converts avoidance of failure into self-confidence If we end a disruption, we improve our classroom for a while. If instead we foster autonomous responsibility, we prevent future disruptions and empower our students for a lifetime. Win-Win provides proven step-by-step strategies and structures to prevent disruptions, for the moment-of-disruption, and follow-ups. Go beyond manipulative tricks to end disruptions. Use Win-Win's proven approach to prevent disruptions by teaching learned responsibility. With Win-Win, you create a safe, comfortable learning environment for you and your students A place where students are excited to come and where you don't feel stressed by the end of the day. Win the freedom to focus on learning and growing, not on disruptions. With Win-Win your students win skills for a lifetime and you win the freedom to do what you do best teach without distractive disruptions.

Win-Win Discipline

Business & Money

Spencer Kagan, PhD

Patricia Kyle, PhD

Sally Scott, MA

Business Culture

Brain-Friendly Teaching Tools, Tips & Structures

Spencer has done it again! He's written another must-have reference for all educators. Dr. Kagan has translated the enormous field of theory and research on emotions into a practical guide any teacher can use to make their teaching more emotion-friendly. Not only does he review the extensive research on how eliciting positive emotions boosts student achievement, Spencer provides plenty of do's and don'ts, ready-to-use student activities, and simple tips to put students in the optimal emotional states for learning. Dr. Kagan introduces us to the Emotion Wheel, a student-friendly way to help our students understand and manage their own emotions. We not only learn why EQ can be more important than IQ to students' success, Dr. Kagan provides a practical guide to developing the facets of EQ, including student self-knowledge, self-control, motivation, and empathy. And last, but definitely not least, we learn how to evoke emotion when we teach to make learning more meaningful and memorable. This book is your blueprint for creating the emotion-friendly classroom. 368 pages.

Kagan Emotion-Friendly Teaching Book

Win-Win Discipline is Kagan's transformative approach to student discipline: Instead of seeing a disruptive student as an obstacle to teaching and learning, Win-Win Discipline sees the disruptive student as an opportunity for teaching and learning! Rather than punishing disruptive students, we use proven Win-Win Discipline strategies so students learn responsible ways to meet their needs. This MiniBook provides an overview of the essential elements of Win-Win Discipline, including proven preventative procedures, step-by-step strategies for the moment-of-disruption, focused follow-ups, an ABCD system for identifying disruptive behaviors, and a differentiated 7-position system to identify the needs of each disruptive student. Perfect for teachers, administrators, and schools who want a quick overview of Kagan's approach to discipline where everyone wins. For a more comprehensive reference guide, see the Win-Win Discipline book. 144 pages.

Win-Win Discipline MiniBook

Unknown, Author

Children's Books

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Kagan Publishing publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Kagan Publishing