A full 12 months of creative ideas! Involve your students in creating bulletin board displays as you reinforce math, reading, science, social studies, character building, health and safety, listening, and art skills. This resource includes everything you need, including topics and curriculum connections, all pattern pieces, and materials and supplies list.

• Topics and curriculum connections
• All pattern pieces, from Alphabets to Zippers
• Materials and supplies lists for each design

School restructuring movements across the country have spurred national interest in multiage classrooms. At the same time, questions from teachers, administrators, and parents about teaching mixed ages abound. Now, there's a practical guidebook to address your questions and concerns.
Creating the Multiage Classroom provides a complete design for the mixed-age primary classroom-from philosophy and rationale to sample lesson plans and evaluations forms. Teachers and administrators will find answers to all their questions about planning, implementation, environment, curriculum, management, assessment, and evaluation.

This classic conflict resolution guide offers more than 20 proven conflict-resolution techniques. Examples and more than 200 classroom-tested activities and games provide constructive responses to your students' problem behaviors. There are even tips for resolving your own professional conflicts.

Here's a personal creative writing course with 5 self-contained instructional units for learning to write narrative, short fiction, and poetry. Students can work independently at home or school. Includes real student writing samples.

Drawing on the combined 47 years of experience as Title 1 resource teachers, this book provides a detailed road map for helping struggling readers. Breaking the process into easily manageable steps, this book shares the systematic and sequential techniques for teaching decoding skills and phonics, while building vocabulary and reading comprehension skills.

Help your child establish good learning and homework habits, to work independently and with confidence. Experts show you how to support your child without doing homework assignments yourself! You'll learn how to help your child approach any school assignment.

More Bulletin Boards for Every Month and every wall...offers ideas and activities for every month of the year from September through August, for a wide variety of curriculum subjects-from language arts, math, science, and social studies to health, safety, and holidays, plus many for character building and self-esteem.
The material from this book can also be found in Big Book of Bulletin Boards

Practical, honest advice helps simplify and demystify the art and science of teaching. This indispensable guide covers such basics as classroom design and decoration, curriculum, assessment, the first day and week, and interaction with faculty, students, and parents, plus all the little things that are important to new teachers. It also covers professional development, rights and laws, new technologies, and the unexpected. Includes reproducible letters, schedules, and charts.

Substitute teachers who have these lesson plans in their "bag of tricks" will never again worry that they'll run out of things to do on sub days. Includes lesson plans and activities in every curriculum area plus class management suggestions. Teeming with all of the time-tested favorites of the best-selling first edition, Super Sub now offers three important new features: New ESL/ELL lesson plans,; Standards language provided for lessons, along with steps for teaching to standards; and Additional teaching tips for lessons. A must-have professional handbook just for you, the substitute teacher.

This immensely popular, alphabetized handbook is updated and expanded to cover 161 contemporary problem behaviors and issues. Positive suggestions for dealing with and resolving these problem behaviors and issues. Positive suggestions for dealing with and resolving these problems are given in a common-sense, authoritative manner, reflecting the latest legal requirements as well as the most current medical and instructional techniques. 2nd Edition

Every list imaginable-from Spelling Demons, Signs and Symbols, and Things to Write to Foreign Words, Major Sports Teams, and Shopping Tips - is at your fingertips in this updated and expanded reference. More than 100 lists, relating to all subject areas, can be used as support for basic skills instruction as well as overall curriculum enrichment-and just plain fun! Includes reproducible worksheets.

An expert Inclusive Coach provides proven strategies and practical guidance for building a successful inclusive program that welcomes and supports all students' learning needs. Learn how to determine learning styles, differentiate instruction, and use multiple intelligences in the classroom. Includes lesson designs and modifications, an 8-week curriculum on How to Success in School, ways to change 10 negative behavior cycles, plus reproducible evaluation, assessment, and reporting forms.