books about: teacher     books:       First Year Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-To-Use Strategies, Tools & Activities for Meeting the Challenges ...37 reviews Julia G. Thompson Jossey-Bass, 2007 Kewl Book This is such a good book for new teachers who sometimes do not know how to manage some issues concerning teaching...             Teachers' Night Before Christmas (Night Before Christmas Series)7 reviews Steven Layne Pelican Publishing, 2001 Great Twist on a Christmas Classic I am a third-grade teacher, and I loved this story. The chaos that is portrayed on the pages of this delightful picture book is so true regarding what it is like the last few days before Christmas vacation. I especially loved reading about the room mom commandos and the yearly Christmas pageant. I have bought this book as a gift for several of my colleagues who have also thoroughly enjoyed it.             Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong69 reviews James W. Loewen Touchstone, 2007 Needed by parents everywhere This was an excellent book and I recommend it to anybody and everybody. I was a history minor in college, a business major, having decided not to teach history somewhere around my second year, I relegated my knowledge of history to something useful on trivia night. That is until the kids came around. I first realized there might be a problem with my son's education when he told me that Adolf ...             Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation: How to Work Smart, Build Collaboration, and Close the ... Kim Marshall Jossey-Bass, 2009 Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation How to Work Smart, Build Collaboration, and Close the Achievement Gap Kim Marshall Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation In this important book, education expert Kim Marshall shows how to break away from the typical and often ineffective evaluation approaches in which principals use infrequent classroom visits or rely on standardized test scores to assess a teacher's ...             The Piano Teacher: A Novel76 reviews Janice Y. K. Lee Penguin (Non-Classics), 2009 superb Great insight into WWII Hong Kong in a historical fiction novel. Easy read, interesting and engaging. Couldn't put it down. Enjoyed the perspective in which it was presented.             The Creative Teacher: An Encyclopedia of Ideas to Energize Your Curriculum (McGraw-Hill Teacher Resources)15 reviews Steve Springer, Brandy Alexander, ... McGraw-Hill, 2006 highlight of my day I never get bored looking through this book for ideas or suggestions. It's overflowing with possibilities and makes dreams for my classroom endless. All subjects are covered lit, math, science, social studies... all of them. There are also reproducibles for younger grades and upper grades. Lower grade ones have more space to write and draw pictures while the older ones are written in cursive and ...             Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong386 reviews James W. Loewen The New Press, 2005 Very easy to work with! Seller is very prompt at answering questions. very willing to solve problems. top rated in my books.             Teacher Man: A Memoir260 reviews Frank McCourt Scribner, 2005 Teacher Man Frank McCort's books are well-written and an insight into his life. His Teacher Man resonates with me, an English teacher in an inter-city school.             What the Best College Teachers Do38 reviews Ken Bain Harvard University Press, 2004 What the Best College Professors Do I listened to Ken speak, he did a great job. The book is similar in style and approach (d'oh). VERY helpful for graduate level instructors at all collegiate levels. For instance, creating an "expectation failure" even among budding scientists in order to challenge their underlying assumptions is not so easy. Thomas Kuhn's book (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) sets up the problem, ...             Chicken Soup for the Teacher's Soul: Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spirit of Educators13 reviews Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen HCI, 2002 A Story A Day Revitalizes the Soul I was a college professor of 19 years and have been a public school substiute since 09/05. Saw a copy in a public library and decided to get some food. Found myself turned out greatly by some stories, neutral on others and not touched at all on a few. But a great cookbook has some recipies for everyone. Putting myself into the shoes of each author I tried to sense the feelings in their soul. ...             Classroom Management for Middle and High School Teachers (with MyEducationLab) (8th Edition)14 reviews Edmund T. Emmer, Carolyn M. Evertson Allyn & Bacon, 2008 Book Great shipping time. The book arrived to me quick and was the exact item I was looking for.             The Reading Teacher's Book Of Lists, 5th Edition (J-B Ed: Book of Lists)30 reviews Edward B. Fry, Jacqueline E. Kress Jossey-Bass, 2006 Very Helpful and Useful The Reading TEacher's Book of Lists is good for any Elementary Teacher to have and use on a daily basis. There are lists of just about anything you need to teach reading. I found myself using this constantly in the classroom, right in front of the kids. Our spelling list was based on the use of silent letters. The kids wanted to know what other words there were, so we looked it up and came up ...             The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills12 reviews Jon Saphier, Mary Ann Haley-Speca, ... Research for Better Teaching, 2008 Reader-friendly Bought this book for a grad education class - the prof recommended it as one of the best, a real standard for all teachers to read. I agree!             WHAT GREAT TEACHERS DO DIFFERENTLY: 14 THINGS THAT MATTER MOST31 reviews Todd Whitaker Eye On Education, 2003 Inspiring and Effective Being a teacher for 15 years, students have changed over time. You have take a total different approach today than what I was taught in college all those years ago. Todd's book helped me build a better relationship with my students and my fellow teachers. This year has been so smooth and discipline free. If you are a veteran teacher or a new teacher, this book will be an eye-opener.             You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do With and For Their Chlldren from Birth to Age Six27 reviews Rahima Baldwin Celestial Arts, 2000 BEST "baby" book EVER this book has taught me more about positive child rearing than all the books I've read combined - whether you plan to have your child go to a Waldorf school or not, this book is invaluable for "raising" a child well             If You Don't Feed the Teachers They Eat the Students: Guide to Success for Administrators and Teachers (Kids' ...21 reviews Neila A. Connors Incentive Publications, 2000 An Educator's Review I had the honor to see Ms. Connors speak at a teacher conference this past week. I was feeling a bit jaded over the profession of teaching after completing my second year of teaching and after completing a research study proposal on the sad state of teacher retention due to low administrative support. I was at an oh-too-typical low point... Ms. Connors' words (both in spoken and written ...             Letters to a Young Teacher18 reviews Jonathan Kozol Three Rivers Press, 2008 Repeated Correspondence "Letters To A Young Teacher" by Jonathan Kozol, its title a reference to a work by Rilke, is a collection of letters that Kozol wrote to a first-year teacher in an inner-city Boston school. It is familiar stomping ground for Kozol, having begun his teaching career in the same setting, and having devoted his life afterwards to spending time with children of poverty in inner-city slums, ...             The Abstinence Teacher132 reviews Tom Perrotta St. Martin's Press, 2007 went out and bought the rest of his books A Laugh out loud and well-written honest piece. The author got into the psyche's of his characters and made them work. I am reading this book and thinking Holy Sh** this guy was not just content to hit the keyboard. The title is misleading because the book evolved more about the 2ndary main character and not only about the teacher. I could have used a 100 more pages, because it was that ...             The Organized Teacher: A Hands-On Guide to Setting Up and Running a Terrific Classroom13 reviews Steve Springer, Brandy Alexander McGraw-Hill, 2005 Helpful for a new teacher This book has helped me to set up my first 3rd grade classroom, make sure I have the materials I will need for the coming year, and has some helpful reproducibles for use throughout the year. I recommend this book to new teachers - it is comforting to have!             Teaching Hope: Stories from the Freedom Writer Teachers and Erin Gruwell14 reviews The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell Broadway, 2009 A Must Read for Teachers While reading this book, I have laughed, I have wept, I have remembered students long forgotten, I have relived battles with administrators who had no clue that a kid was troubled. I have remembered the resignations letter I wrote "bitching" about the tracking of minority kids in the lowest classes when they were much more capable. I have thought of Dr. Doug Ball and his inspiration for me to ...              search for books abstinence, achievement, activities, administrators, building, challenges, chlldren, christmas, classroom, collaboration, curriculum, differently, educators, encyclopedia, evaluation, everything, hands-on, management, mcgraw-hill, myeducationlab, organized, ready-to-use, rekindle, resources, rethinking, skillful, strategies, students, supervision, teaching books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen tools & hardware: Gladiator GarageWorks GAWESB6PSM Small Item Bins, 6-Pack we recommend Opera at its very best! home  impressum - about us