Product Description: We all hate to throw electronics away. Use your 5 volt Arduino and have fun with them instead! Raid your electronics junk box to build the Cestino (Arduino compatible) board and nine other electronics projects, from a logic probe to a microprocessor explorer, and learn some advanced, old-school techniques along the way...read more

Product Description: Every student loves to hear the teacher say, "Let's break into groups" because group discussions and activities can quickly turn into a digressive social hour. Yet group work can be a powerful strategy for promoting literacy, inquiry, and diversity among students of any age...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Kathleen and James Strickland provide their students with opportunities for authentic learning through meaningful, reflective activities every day. They firmly believe that if we empower students to make decisions about their learning, to set goals, and to work at a pace that is appropriate for them, they will be engaged in true learning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Portfolios are a driving force in student motivation and growth. Some are so stunning that they are the very models of what writing-reading workshops set out to do-to engender in students confidence in their own abilities and to inspire them to become sophisticated users of language...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Suggests ways to overcome the problems teachers face when teaching the classics--length, challenging vocabulary, complex syntax, and alien times and settings--and lists suggested titles. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Is it possible to keep assessments authentic and meaningful, and still satisfy district mandates to focus on tests? In Making Assessment Elementary, Kathleen and James Strickland prove that it is and provide lots of ideas for making assessment an enriching, informative process for teachers and students alike...read more

Product Description: Assessment and evaluation are probably the most difficult-if not the most controversial-challenges teachers face. There are no easy answers, nor is there a program to follow-the foundation of assessment and evaluation is an understanding of the philosophy of transactional teaching and learning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book addresses the question, "What is whole language and how can it be used in the high school and college classrooms?" (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)