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You may be able to design creative, compelling lessons. But if your classroom is chaotic or its inhabitants are disrespectful, your students will not be learning well. And you will be anywhere from dissatisfied to miserable! Kim Campbell knows the ins and outs of classroom management. She's a real, live, practising middle years teacher with a great gift of humour, a straight-talking approach and a parade of 12- to 15-year-old culturally mixed students to keep her honest. This is her story of what works, what doesn’t and what she’s learned from her students, parents and colleagues. In the manner of a teacher having a chat with another teacher, Kim shares strategies, stories and ideas for how to stop creating behaviour and management problems yourself, and more.

Standards, curricula and assessment have been built and rebuilt to provide excellence and achievement. Now we're faced with the one variable that can turn all this effort into ash: the students. Navigate the hot topic of student engagement with a true expert. The author explores the many factors involved in bringing out the best in students, such as relationships, emotions, environment and expectations. Discover how to create an environment in which students feel confident and safe enough to take risks, make mistakes and immerse themselves in learning experiences. Above all, become empowered to demand an authentic joy for learning in your classroom.

Whether students are outgoing or withdrawn, are defiant or inattentive, have developmental disabilities or suffer from mental illness, connecting with them is the key to teaching them. This remarkable book shows you how to connect with students, get to know what makes them tick and discover what makes them behave and learn the way they do (or don't). Reaching & Teaching Them All shows you how to use body language, humour, shared experiences and curriculum to engage students, manage the classroom and support learning. This comprehensive approach to improving your students' learning environment in your classroom is full of fresh strategies for F-12. New and experienced teachers will find valuable insights, checklists and tools for reaching individual students, small groups and a whole class.

Students discuss an issue, then read and interact with a story about it. They connect the story to their own experiences, reflect on their own attitudes and behaviours and recommend solutions. Learn More

Getting Them to Talk: A Guide to Leading Discussions in Middle Years Classrooms provides practical, classroom-tested strategies to lead productive classrooms discussions, one of the most challenging skills of teaching. Learn how to meet outcomes for comprehensions and collaboration; foster students' critical thinking skills through active learning; develop empathy and intellectual depth in your students; support students' identity formation as they articulate their ideas and integrate others' ideas; plan, facilitate and assess discussions; create high quality questions that will engage all students and integrate neurological, cognitive and social modes of reasoning; establish a collaborative, respectful community and provide a wide range of strategies for small and whole groups.

Give your students the tools they need to motivate themselves with tips from award-winning educator Larry Ferlazzo. A comprehensive outline of common classroom challenges, this book presents immediately applicable steps and lessons plans for all teachers looking to help students motivate themselves. With coverage of brain-based learning, classroom management and using technology, these strategies can be easily incorporated into any curriculum. Blogger and educator Larry Ferlazzo has worked to combine literacy development with short and rigorous classroom lessons on topics such as self-control, personal responsibility, brain growth and perseverance.

Differentiation and Response to Intervention work together to allow all students, from the gifted and talented to those with learning difficulties, to achieve their potential. In this book you will learn about a variety of research-based interventions, including behavioural management and instructional strategies. You will find out how to link student needs to specific interventions. This book will show you how to assess and monitor individual student progress, and how to select and use the Coil RTI Progress Monitoring Forms that best meet your students'’ needs. Interventions explored in this book include goal setting, organisational skills, graphic organisers, test-taking skills, tiered lessons and many more.

Marzano Research combines Dr Robert Marzano's 40 years of educational research with continuous action research in all major areas of schooling in order to provide effective and accessible instructional strategies, leadership strategies and classroom assessment strategies that are always at the forefront of best practice. Marzano Research provides teachers and school leaders with the tools they need to effect profound improvement in student achievement. This series is a collection of Marzano Research's invaluable resources.

ASCD Arias publications provide concise answers to challenging questions that you need to solve today—in a convenient format that you can read in one sitting and immediately put into practice. They’re the next-generation, immediate-need resources for everyone committed to the success of each learner.

Building Classroom Communities: Strategies for Developing a Culture of Caring brings theory and practice together to guide you in creating a unified and caring classroom where all students feel a sense of belonging. Developed from the author's experiences in a variety of school settings, Building Classroom Communities provides specific strategies for: creating emotionally safe classrooms; encouraging honour and respect; facilitating a sense of interdependence and generosity; and teaching empathy as a primary social skill. Use Building Classroom Communities: Strategies for Developing a Culture of Caring to create a sense of belonging and meaning in your classroom.