Social Teaching

This delightful audiobook - one of Amazon's 2019 Holiday Gift Picks and Most Anticipated Books - is designed to start conversations with kids about generosity. In the tradition of Goodnight Gorilla, the words are intentionally spare. The audiobook is meant to be listened to interactively, with adults posing questions so kids can guess what's happening (and why). Praised by both parents and teachers for sparking imagination and eliciting discussion, the story can be interpreted differently in every family, by every child, and reinterpreted many times over.

In this thoroughly updated third edition of Marcia Tate’s bestseller, you’ll learn about twenty definitive brain-compatible techniques to maximize retention and minimize forgetting in learners of all ages. Tate’s techniques are drawn from the latest neuroscientific research and learning style theory and are described step-by-step for immediate application in your classroom.

Students and teachers alike face a dilemma: Why think deeply when we can just take a shortcut by googling something? Why read an article when we can learn from a social media headline? If, as educators, we want to encourage our students to value thoughtfulness and to embrace the effort it takes to reach deep understandings, we must model that behavior ourselves.

All four Harry the Happy Mouse stories in one audiobook! The stories are used in schools around the world to teach children about themes such as kindness, teamwork, saying thank you, and not being afraid of the dark! All four titles are read by Hollye Sangster.

Are you ready to break down conflict and build consensus on polarizing topics? Ideally, education equips students to care about the world and helps them shape their futures. In an era that has become incredibly polarized, we can help our students learn how to come together despite differences. Michelle Blanchet and Brian Deters show how all educators can equip our youth with skills to become active and engaged citizens. A one-off course on civics is not enough. Preventing Polarization offers basic strategies that every teacher can use. You will create experiences to help students break down...

In Who's in My Classroom?, accomplished educator and author delivers an inspirational and practical combination of true stories from teens in Youth Communication's award-winning writing program and the most current educational research. The book links theories of adolescent development and identity formation to best practices in real-world classrooms where teachers strive to form supportive relationships with students.

These are strange times. A time of climate crises. Health crises. Collapsing systems. Influencers. And yes—Jordan Peterson. We are currently living in a (Post) Peterson Paradigm. This book–12 Rules for (Academic) Life—explores what has happened to teaching, learning and politics through this odd and chaotic time. Deploying feminism, this lens offers a glass-sharpened view of this moment in international higher education. It is organized through twelve mantras for a university sector searching for a purpose in this interregnum.

Arrested? For teaching? John Scopes’s crime riveted the world, and crowds flocked to the trial of the man who dared to tell students about a forbidden topic—evolution. The year was 1925, and discussing Darwin’s theory of evolution was illegal in Tennessee classrooms. Lawyers wanted to challenge the law, and businessmen smelled opportunity. But no one imagined the firestorm the Scopes Trial would ignite—or the media circus that would follow.

This is an essay on the unique teaching of J. Krishnamurti. It starts with the question "What is consciousness?" - and carefully proposes a holistic definition, after reviewing the various psychological and spiritual theories that deal with this subject. The author actually goes a step ahead and focuses on a more particular issue, a provocative question asked by K: “How to empty consciousness of its content?”

Nicole M. Joseph investigates factors that contribute to the glaring underrepresentation of Black female students in mathematics. Joseph's account calls attention to educational structures and practices that contribute to race- and gender-based stratification in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In her assessment of the intersectional difficulties facing this marginalized group, Joseph offers a critical view of the existing mathematics education research, practice, and policies that have neglected Black girls and women; and then provides suggestions for reform.

American schools are not designed to educate Black children. Black children often succeed despite their schools instead of because of them. School can be a fantastic experience that propels Black students ahead in life, but only if both teachers and parents know what Black children's unique needs are and how to meet them. You will love this audiobook because an award-winning educator with more than two decades in the classroom uses his personal experiences to provide easy-to-understand methods to save Black children from America's education system that too often ignores their needs.

You have likely heard the adage, "Everyone makes mistakes." But what you might not have heard is that there are some predictable reasons why we make these mistakes. Knowing why we make mistakes can help us make fewer mistakes and ensure that when we do make mistakes they’ll be more of the more useful variety. In Risk. Fail. Rise. teachers will learn how to address their own teaching mistakes, model with their own mistake-making, and improve their response to others' mistakes.

What Shall We Do Today?: 16th May: The Purple Bandana Adventure Join Imani, Tommy, and Maya on an extraordinary day of discovery, kindness, and friendship! In this heartwarming addition to the beloved "What Shall We Do Today?" series, three curious children embark on a special adventure celebrating five important themes: community service, environmental awareness, peace, safety, and togetherness. When knowledge-loving Maya arrives with purple bandanas and news of several special celebrations happening on the same day, the friends transform an ordinary day into an extraordinary journey of ...

This Series has three volumes containing more than 100 selections of my 60 years of writings totaling 1200 pages and containing 1000 Web links to archived copies full text of the original articles or books from which the selections are taken. The Series is divided by decades: Volume 1: 1960-1981; Volume 2: 1982-2003; Volume 3: 2004-2025. Each selection is linked to a Web based archived copy of the original article or book, so that readers can view them with their Web browser. A wide range of topics are included. In Volume 1: semantic satiation; bilingualism and language learning; ...

In Small Teaching K-8, a team of veteran educators bridges the gap between cognitive theory and the K-8 classroom environment, applying the same foundational research found in author James Lang's bestselling Small Teaching to the elementary and middle school setting. The book demonstrates how to integrate simple interventions into pre-existing pedagogical techniques to dramatically improve student outcomes.

Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs Synopsis: Carefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of government law and regulation. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions. The Book Of Approved Words: A government approved "author" is tempted to show the world the words they are missing. The Draft: Society forces all babies to be born, but creates a lottery system requiring all men to care for the offspring. For Your Safety: ...

More than five years in the making, this second of a series of Biblical teachings is a lot more than just a compilation of Bible studies. This collection of the apostle Luke's writings presents them from broader perspectives that are much more applicable to modern life than one might expect.

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"Teaching is a noble profession" is the most common compliment society pays to teachers, but they are just as quick to blame them for the failures of the education system. If teachers are going to be faulted for upholding substandard conditions, then maybe it's time for teachers to endorse a new standard. Shed your scapegoat status and eliminate any legitimacy ever being attached to a demand for you to do more, better, or different by embracing the supply it principles today!

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.