Product Description: When the language we use with our students is positive, clear, and purposeful, our classrooms are transformed. This practical book focuses on five types of positive teacher language:Envisioning languageReinforcing languageReminding languageRedirecting languageOpen-ended questionsBook features:Guidelines for using each type of languagePractical tips to strengthen your use of languageNumerous examples to use as modelsCharts to help you track your progres...read more

Product Description: Get more out of your classroom behavior management system with Classroom Currency! These full-color token designs are sure to please. Use them with any token economy system or behavior support system. You can also use them in tutoring, after-school programs, at home, and anywhere that kids need a little behavior reinforcement! They come in 10 fun and interesting designs...read more

Student Discipline is a book for Pre-K-12 educators and those who do professional development regarding discipline practices. The core chapters will provide a concise overview of evidence or praxis-based programs and approaches that are currently in use and have yielded real results in promoting and providing positive, prosocial learning environments.

Product Description: If you think teaching is easy or that you might like to give it a try - read this first! Of course, it didn't help that I had been expelled from school myself, or that after a lifetime selling IT systems in the City I was somewhat too partial to the bottle, or that I still can't take life seriously, or even that I was still by far 'the naughtiest boy in school!' A must for all teachers, would-be teachers, and grown-up school children everywhere...read more

Product Description: How do children learn to spell and what kinds of teaching support them most effectively? Based on a three-year longitudinal study of children's spelling in different primary classrooms, Olivia O'Sullivan, Assistant Director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education and Anne Thomas, the former Inset Director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, pose a number of important questions: what kinds of knowledge are involved in spelling? what are the links between learning to read and learning to spell? what kinds of systematic teaching and interventions make a difference to children's progress? Packed with case studies, photographs and examples of children’s work, this unique book sets out the most effective approaches to spelling and provides teachers with a broad set of principles on which to base their teaching...read more

Product Description: This book builds on the guidance given by the Primary Strategy for Literacy. By 'filling in the gaps' that the planning documentation leaves, the book provides teachers with the structures and ideas to plan creatively and effectively for their children whilst following and enhancing the recommendations of the strategy...read more

Providng an overview of the issues crucial to understanding inclusion and behavior management in schools, this book discusses: * Policy at national, local authority and school level * Inclusive practices in mainstream settings * Issues such as race, ethnicity school disciplines and exclusion

Product Description: Have you ever entered a building or room for the first time and felt enhanced--felt your body relax and spirit elevate? The effect of human-made environments on learners’ brains is not subjective. According to research studies, we all have measurable responses to the design of a space...read more

Product Description: Would you like to encourage greater academic passion in your students, interact with them more influentially, and be extraordinarily effective in inspiring them on a daily basis?Then this is the book for you! This book is a collection of unconventional classroom approaches, lessons, and strategies rarely found in text form...read more

Product Description: This book provides comprehensive direction that you need to prepare for your student teacher's arrival and the initial weeks. It includes essential information in an easy-reading, handy format. With key advice from experienced teacher educators sprinkled with gems of research, you will understand your role clearly and know how to create a solid foundation for a successful student teaching experience...read more

Product Description: Behavior Bear Children’s Character Development Resource Book Meet the Award Winning National Promising Practice Recipient Behavior Bear! In this character development book you’ll find reproducible materials which children easily relate to, helping them to internalize and understand good behavior...read more

Enhancing Classroom-based Talk provides an overview of the major research and theoretical perspectives that underpin the development of classroom-based talk. It outlines specific dialogic strategies and elaborates on the key role that teachers play in promoting interactions, challenging thinking and scaffolding the learning of students. While it is important to know how different dialogic approaches can enhance students’ interactions and learning and the effects they have on students’ social, emotional and cognitive development, it is also important to understand how students’ interactions promote understanding and learning during small group discussions. Throughout the book, teachers will be shown how to embed different dialogic approaches in their classrooms to promote discourse, with chapters covering: Interest in classroom-based talk The teacher’s role in promoting dialogue in the classroom Dialogic approaches to teaching Strategies to promote students’ interactions, thinking and learning Help seeking and help giving behaviours Creating environments that promote classroom-based talk Enhancing Classroom-based Talk will be a valuable asset to all those concerned with promoting classroom-based talk, as well as postgraduate students, teachers and academics who are regularly called upon to assist in developing classroom interventions that provide for the academic and social needs of students.

Product Description: This very well organized book is packed with practical solutions to the most common classroom problems – side talk, rude behavior, calling out, students losing focus, and students refusing even to try. Every solution is classroom-tested, highly effective, and quick and easy to implement! Use this book to help make your classroom a happier, more productive learning environment – one in which your students thrive and everyone benefits...read more

Product Description: Have you ever entered a building or room for the first time and felt enhanced--felt your body relax and spirit elevate? The effect of human-made environments on learners’ brains is not subjective. According to research studies, we all have measurable responses to the design of a space...read more

Product Description: Albert Schweitzer had it figured out when he said, “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” Finding the right road to travel over the course of your professional career deserves a plan and an approach that will lead you on a satisfying journey...read more