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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness inside Room 56
Perhaps the most famous fifth-grade teacher in America, Rafe Esquith has won numerous awards for his outstandingly successful methods. This bestseller gives any teacher or parent all the techniques, exercises, and innovations that have made its author an educational icon, from personal codes of behavior to tips on tackling literature and algebra. |
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Be a Teacher: You Can Make a Difference
All contributors are national award-winning teachers with extensive contemporary classroom experience. The editors bring over 40 years of classroom experience to the subject. Philip Bigler is the 1998 National Teacher of the Year, a Milken National Educator Award winner, a Disney American Teacher Award winner, and a recipient of the Washington Post Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award. |
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Letters to a Young Teacher Overall, the book will delight and encourage first-year (or for that matter, 40th-year) teachers who need Kozol's reminders of the ways that their beautiful profession can bring joy and beauty, mystery and mischievous delight into the hearts of little people in their years of greatest curiosity. |
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Teachers: A Tribute to the Enlightened, the Exceptional, the Extraordinary
These are the teachers who encourage, enlighten, and inspire their young charges every day. In this celebration of the world’s second-oldest profession, Gary Firstenburg and writer John Yow have captured the guiding spirit of these special people. Superb photographs, compelling stories, and an elegant design combine to make this a rare and much-deserved tribute to teachers everywhere. |
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1,003 Great Things about Teachers
Teachers are simply the best. They're the special breed of people who strive to infuse us with an appreciation for the miraculous world in which we live and a sincere passion for learning. What better way to sing their praises than by declaring more than a thousand great things about them? |
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Those Who Can... Teach!: Celebrating Teachers Who Make a Difference
Many successful people can point to a single teacher whose talent and dedication made a crucial difference in their lives. Sometimes former students clearly recall a teacher's casually brilliant remark that produced an instant "aha!" response; sometimes they are affected by a teacher's passionate devotion to professional duty. The methods of a great teacher are as varied and distinctive as teachers themselves, but the result - inspired teaching - is a gift enjoyed for a lifetime. |
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Conversations about Being a Teacher
Let the author of Conversations About Being a Teacher take you on an introspective journey that follows a young woman about to begin her high school teaching career and the university professor from whom she seeks expert guidance. |
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Teachers with Class: True Stories of Great Teachers
Teachers with Class celebrates teachers and the art of good teaching. Almost everyone has had a special teacher at some point-one who saw potential where others did not, one who made ideas come alive, one who taught more than what was in the textbook. In this book, 30 famous and not-so-famous people thank their favorite teachers with essays that praise the difference a good teacher makes. |
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The Laughing Classroom: Everyone's Guide to Teaching with Humor and Play
What distinguishes a boring classroom from a learning classroom? Laughter. This book helps move teachers from a “limiting” teaching style to a “laughing” style that inspires creativity and helps students learn faster. |
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License to Laugh: Humor in the Classroom
Laughter stimulates creativity, reduces stress, and motivates students to perform. These are only some of the benefits that make humor a great tool for the classroom. With practical strategies, simple methods, examples, and classroom-tested activities, this book shows you how to use appropriate humor with students to make learning easier and more fun. |
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Professors Are from Mars, Students Are from Snickers: How to Write and Deliver Humor in the Classroom and in Professional Presentations
Professors and students seem to come from different planets (or candy bars). Barriers frequently exist that impede their communication, such as age, income and cholesterol level.Humor can break down these barriers so that professors can better connect with their students and other audiences. It can be used as a teaching tool to facilitate learning. |
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