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101 Drama Games for Children: Fun and Learning with Acting and Make-Believe (SmartFun Activity Books)

By: Paul Rooyackers

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Hunter House: December 1997

Seller ID: 23656

ISBN: 0897932110

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Drama games are not staged plays but a dynamic form in which children explore their minds and the world around them. They can use their play-acting in sensory games, pantomimes, story games with puppets, in creating masks and costumes, and much more.

Drama games allow children to get more in touch with themselves and what they want to be, and are a delightful way to discover the freedom, creativity, and expression of acting- and living.

The SmartFunActivity series encourage imagination, social interaction, and self-expression in children. To make the books easy to use, gam...
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101 More Drama Games for Children: New Fun and Learning with Acting and Make-Believe (SmartFun Activity Books)

By: Paul Rooyackers

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Hunter House: November 2002

Seller ID: 23655

ISBN: 0897933672

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Designed to help teachers and group leaders create dynamic and supportive play environments, this book features completely different games than the first one. These improvisational, noncompetitive games encourage involvement and cooperation -- the participants gain as much as they contribute. By expressing themselves physically and emotionally and by exploring a range of possibilities, players gain self-confidence and a greater awareness of the feelings and experiences of others. 39 black-and-white illustrations are included.

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101 Music Games for Children : Fun and Learning With Rhythm and Song

By: JERRY STORMS, ANNE GRIFFITHS

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Pub Group West: February 1995

Seller ID: 103769

ISBN: 0897931645

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

This lively and imaginative book is being used in homes and schools in over 13 countries to help children learn about music and sound while they develop the ability to listen, concentrate, be creative, improvise, and trust one another.

Using audiocassettes or CDs, of popular songs and simple instruments children and adults get to play listening games, concentration games, musical quizzes, trust games, guessing games, and more. The games are not competitive- they encourage and reward children for participation, not for winning.

The SmartFunActivity series encourage imagination,...
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104 Activities That Build: Self-Esteem, Teamwork, Communication, Anger Management, Self-Discovery, Coping Skills

By: Jones, Alanna

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Rec Room Publishing: March 1998

Seller ID: 273769

ISBN: 0966234138

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This popular book makes teaching and learning by playing games a simple and fun experience for everyone. Games can be used to encourage people to modify their behavior, increase interaction with others, start discussions, address issues and build relationships. This book contains 104 games and activities that address the topics of teamwork, self-esteem, communication, coping skills, anger management, and self-discovery. If you have a small group, large group or even one-on-one sessions there is something useful in 104 Activities That Build for you. Games that can be used in any setting with mi...
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15+ Minutes Make Time to Listen Take Time to Talk

By: US Department of Health and Human Services

Price: $25.95

Publisher: US Department of Health and Human Services: January 2000

Seller ID: 265711

ISBN: B07TYG1Z7G

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - VeryGood

17,000 Classroom Visits Can t Be Wrong: Strategies That Engage Students, Promote Active Learning, and Boost Achievement

By: John V. Antonetti, James R. Garver

Price: $28.95

Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development: February 2015

Seller ID: 102277

ISBN: 1416620087

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Most educators are skilled at planning instruction and determining what they will do during the course of a lesson. However, to truly engage students in worthwhile, rigorous cognition, a profound shift is necessary: a shift in emphasis from teaching to learning. Put another way, we know that whoever is doing the work is also doing the learning and in most classrooms, teachers are working much too hard.

Authors John V. Antonetti and James R. Garver are the designers of the Look 2 Learning model of classroom walkthroughs. They ve visited more than 17,000 classrooms examining a variety of tea...
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200+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children of Color

By: Jawanza Kunjufu

Price: $14.95

Publisher: African American Images: November 2009

Seller ID: 14653

ISBN: 1934155195

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The advice and expertise presented in this book is supported by real-life examples rather than intangible theory. It tackles the issues of race and class while offering a legitimate criticism of the American school system that poses many of the problems that teachers face.
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200+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children of Color

By: Jawanza Kunjufu

Price: $14.95

Publisher: African American Images: November 2009

Seller ID: 55400

ISBN: 1934155195

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn (Leading Edge)

By: James Bellanca, Ron Brandt

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Solution Tree: April 2010

Seller ID: 48401

ISBN: 1935249908

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

This anthology introduces the Framework for 21st Century Learning from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills as a way to re-envision learning and prepare students for a rapidly evolving global and technological world. Highly respected education leaders and innovators focus on why these skills are necessary, which are most important, and how to best help schools include them in curriculum and instruction.
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5 Skills for the Global Learner: What Everyone Needs to Navigate the Digital World (Corwin Connected Educators)

By: Barnes, Mark

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Corwin Publishers: February 2015

Seller ID: 207740

ISBN: 1483382915

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

5 Skills for the Global Learner: What Everyone Needs to Navigate the Digital World (Corwin Connected Educators)

By: Barnes, Mark

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Corwin Publishers: February 2015

Seller ID: 277433

ISBN: 1483382915

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

50 Literacy Lessons for Less Able Learners Ages 5-7 (50 Literacy Hours/Less Able)

By: Louise Carruthers

Price: $33.35

Publisher: Scholastic Academic: January 2005

Seller ID: 4960

ISBN: 0439971772

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

This book provides easy-to-use lessons to teach year-appropriate literacy objectives to less able children. It provides grammar activities that revise KS1 objectives before building on them with the most important objectives from Years 1 and 2.
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50 Reproducible Strategy Sheets That Build Comprehension During Independent Reading: Engaging Forms That Guide Students to Use Reading Strategies and ... ElementsÂ—and Help You Assess Comprehension

By: Anina Robb

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Theory an: February 2003

Seller ID: 226956

ISBN: 0439387841

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Previous owner's name written in ink inside front cover otherwise pages unmarked.
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75 Quick and Easy Solutions to Classroom Disruptions

By: Bryan Harris, Cassandra Goldberg

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Eye on Education: January 2012

Seller ID: 92414

ISBN: 1596672099

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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

75 Quick and Easy Solutions to Classroom Disruptions

By: Bryan Harris, Cassandra Goldberg

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Eye on Education: January 2012

Seller ID: 92435

ISBN: 1596672099

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

8 Keys to End Bullying: Strategies for Parents & Schools (8 Keys to Mental Health)

By: Whitson, Signe

Price: $9.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: May 2014

Seller ID: 206990

ISBN: 0393709280

Condition: Used - Like New

Groundbreaking books have peered into the psychology of bullying and the cultural climate that--seemingly now more than ever--gives rise to such cruelty and aggression. But few have been able to synthesize what we know into 8 simple, targeted "keys" that equip educators, professionals, and parents with practical strategies to tackle the issue head-on. This book answers that call.

Social media bullying--and the recent tragedies stemming from it--has given the widespread problem a new dimension. While no magic cure-all exists, adults can learn and implement all sorts of quick and easy techniq...
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8 Keys to End Bullying: Strategies for Parents & Schools (8 Keys to Mental Health)

By: Whitson, Signe

Price: $9.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: May 2014

Seller ID: 269777

ISBN: 0393709280

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A Critical Handbook of Children's Literature

By: Rebecca J. Lukens

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Harpercollins College Div: August 1994

Seller ID: 4948

ISBN: 0673469379

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

This is a critical handbook of children's literature. It includes a look at character, plot, theme, setting, tone and picture books. It contains a glossary of literary terms.
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A Guide to the Common Core Writing Workshop - Primary Grades

By: N/A

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Example Product Manufacturer:

Seller ID: 251762

ISBN: 0325047987

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned

By: Jane Tompkins

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Perseus Books: September 1996

Seller ID: 167378

ISBN: 0201912120

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - LikeNew

In this text, one of America's leading literary scholars looks back on her own life in the classroom, and discovers how much of what she learned there needs to be unlearned.
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A Life in Storytelling: Anecdotes, Stories to Tell, Stories with Movement and Dance, Suggestions for Educators

By: Binnie Tate Wilkin

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: March 2014

Seller ID: 73880

ISBN: 1442231777

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A Life in Storytelling contains the reflections and lessons from one of the most noted storytellers of our times. Fifty years of storytelling has provided Binnie Tate Wilkin with the experiences and insights to form the basis of a text for the storyteller, both for the professional librarian, teacher or parent wanting to provide children with substance through story. The sections of the book are designed to provide background material for the art and craft of storytelling, the methods and uses of storytelling, sources and examples of stories, and a broad selection of over 100 stories briefly a...
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A Life in Storytelling: Anecdotes, Stories to Tell, Stories with Movement and Dance, Suggestions for Educators

By: Binnie Tate Wilkin

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: March 2014

Seller ID: 144688

ISBN: 1442231777

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Parent Guide to Study Abroad

By: Stacie Nevadomski Berdan, Allan Goodman, William Gertz

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Institute of International Education: May 2015

Seller ID: 183108

ISBN: 0872063771

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A Parent Guide to Study Abroad

By: Stacie Nevadomski Berdan, Allan Goodman, William Gertz

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Institute of International Education: May 2015

Seller ID: 196041

ISBN: 0872063771

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks; Revised Edition

By: Dorothy G. Singer, Tracey A. Revenson

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Plume: July 1996

Seller ID: 64197

ISBN: 0452275652

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Offers a fascinating and understandable account of childhood development for anyone--education and psychology students, day care center workers and nursery school teachers, and parents.

Jean Piaget is arguably the most important figure of the twentieth century in the field of child psychology. Over more than six decades of studying and working with children, he brilliantly and insightfully charted the stages of a child's intellectual maturation from the first years to adulthood, and in doing so pioneered a new mode of understanding the changing ways in which a child comes to grasp ...
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A Principal's Guide to Leadership in the Teaching of Writing

By: Lucy Calkins

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Heinemann: January 2008

Seller ID: 209984

ISBN: 0325026599

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Short Guide to Writing about Biology

By: Jan A. Pechenik

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Pearson: July 2009

Seller ID: 212041

ISBN: 0205667279

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, light reading wear.
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A Student Guide to Study Abroad

By: Stacie Nevadomski Berdan, Allan E. Goodman, Sir Cyril Taylor

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Institute of International Education: August 2013

Seller ID: 63201

ISBN: 0872063615

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A Word in the Hand Book One: An Introduction to Sign Language

By: Kitterman, Jane,Collins, S. Harold

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Garlic Pr: November 1984

Seller ID: 272466

ISBN: 0931993083

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Basic primers from which to learn Signed English. Book One contains 15 lessons and nearly 500 illustrations. Book Two contains 10 lessons with over 300 illustrations. All lessons provide vocabulary, illustrations, review, exercises, and assignments that any learner will find exciting.
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Academic Achievement Challenge : What Really Works in the Classroom?

By: JEANNE S. CHALL

Price: $52.00

Publisher: Guilford Pubn: March 2000

Seller ID: 4945

ISBN: 1572305002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

This volume addresses one of the central issues in education: how best to instruct our students. From the late Jeanne S. Chall, former Professor of Education at Harvard University and a leading figure in American education, the book reviews and evaluates the many educational reforms and innovations that have been proposed and employed over the past century. Systematically analyzing a vast body of qualitative and quantitative research, Dr. Chall compares achievement rates that result from traditional, teacher-centered approaches with those resulting from progressive, student-centered methods. H...
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Academic Freedom and Tenure

By: Richard DeGeorge

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: December 1996

Seller ID: 101920

ISBN: 084768332X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Clean copy, light shelf wear.
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Academic Freedom and Tenure: A Handbook of the American Association of University Professors

By: George Louis Joughin

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr: June 1969

Seller ID: 181048

ISBN: 0299054543

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses

By: Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa

Price: $4.95

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: January 2011

Seller ID: 166638

ISBN: 0226028569

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they're born. Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the fundamental question posed by Academically Adrift are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there?

For a large proportion of students, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's answer to that question is a definitive no. Their extensive research draws on...
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Accelerated Learning: A User's Guide

By: et al Alistair Smith

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Crown House Publishing: May 2005

Seller ID: 189474

ISBN: 1904424724

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

This book provides an easily accessible summary of what accelerated learning methods can offer and achieve. Organized into four chapters, this excellent volume gives the background to the accelerated learning approach, describes the use of the Accelerated Learning Cycle, gives advice on enhancing memory, summarizes good ideas to improve learning, and provides useful resources. Some of the learning principles in this book include- Meaningful learning involves risk; good teachers help learners negotiate risk. Anxiety paralyzes performance; good teachers provide structured challenge. Learning is ...
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Action, Talk, and Text: Learning and Teaching Through Inquiry (Practitioner Inquiry, 16)

By: Wells, Gordon

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Teachers College Press: February 2001

Seller ID: 277342

ISBN: 0807740144

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This text is an account by teachers of the inquiries into practice they have undertaken in their own classrooms. The contributing teachers share a common social-constructivist framework. They focus their inquiries upon the dialogue through which knowledge is constructed in the classroom.
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Activating the Desire to Learn

By: Bob Sullo

Price: $23.95

Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve: January 2007

Seller ID: 82254

ISBN: 1416604235

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The research is indisputable: Students are less disruptive and do better academically in schools that cultivate the internal motivation of students. In Activating the Desire to Learn, veteran educator Bob Sullo shows how to apply lessons from the research on motivation in the classroom.

According to the author, we are all driven to fulfill five essential needs: to connect, to be competent, to make choices, to have fun, and to be safe. Studies show that when these needs are met in schools, good behavior and high achievement tend naturally to ensue.

Written as a series of ...
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Active Lessons for Active Brains: Teaching Boys and Other Experiential Learners, Grades 3-10

By: Abigail Norfleet James, Sandra Boyd Allison, Caitlin Zimmerman McKenzie

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing: March 2014

Seller ID: 107200

ISBN: 1628737662

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Learn what to do when your students' feet just can't keep still.

If you have had enough of repeating yourself to students who aren't listening, try a little less talk and a lot more action. The authors of Active Lessons for Active Brains have assembled an indispensable, ready-to-use collection of mathematics, language arts, science, and classroom management strategies to focus a classroom full of energetic minds. Designed for active, hands-on learners--whether male or female--the text provides more than 70 specific lesson plans for addressing students' common challenges, alre...
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