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Emerging countries, new economic hubs, growing middle class, etc. Resource management, sustainable development, agriculture efficiency, etc. Education, a central formation throughout our lives. Lifelong learning is one of the solutions that will solve the Millennials are now the largest segment of the population, ahead of Can companies be citizens too?
Companies don't operate in a vacuum: China, a development closely linked to demographics. Disruptive forces at work for healthcare. In other words, he discovered that great teachers are made, not born. What may appear to be innate genius or some special DNA for charisma is, in fact, deliberate technique that, with hard work, you too can master. Lemov offers 49 concrete, specific and immediately actionable techniques clustered into several themes like raising academic and behavioural expectations, structuring and delivering lessons, creating a vibrant student culture, and building character and trust.
He also discusses pacing or creating a positive rhythm in your classroom and how to encourage critical thinking. In addition, he focuses on the essential skills for teaching reading.
Many of these techniques can be seen by watching the remarkable videos included on the accompanying DVD. The focus on technique and its constant refinement is the path to excellence, he says. That, coupled with the aggregate wisdom of champion teachers is sufficient to change the equation of opportunity in schools and close the achievement gap. I have not come across any book that so clearly and persuasively addresses how to systematically become a great teacher.
Teach Like a Champion: Language arts are alive and well and flourishing. To support his claim he traces how reading and writing instruction has evolved over the years — where we were, where we are and where we can go in teaching literacy. He highlights the importance of innovative teachers who integrate the old and the new into their classrooms, incorporating fresh ideas like digital learning or literature circles while retaining what has worked in the past, like phonics or whole-language techniques. Each chapter begins with a peek inside a modern classroom where a remarkable teacher is engaged in an extraordinary literacy lesson.
Armed with a variety of strategies, such as the use of theatre, graphic texts and the application of fiction in all subject areas, teachers are able to engage and motivate even their most reluctant readers.
Booth shows how the wireless world has made available a vast array of ideas and strategies that we can implement almost instantly in our classrooms. In addition, interactive web sites and social networks connect us to educators with whom we can exchange ideas. The book offers much to new and veteran teachers alike, providing a comprehensive collection of the successful strategies of the past as well as a road map for current innovations in theory and practice. Whatever Happened to Language Arts?
This book empowers teachers to harness the skills they need to face stress both in and out of school, as many demands pull them in different directions. As well, it shows them how to build resilience and emotional strength to prevent total burnout. Seventy-seven easily applied remedies are offered to help teachers regain mental and emotional equilibrium. Each chapter is loaded with classroom stories, behaviour tips and practical strategies and advice, backed up by compelling research. For example, the first remedy is to take care of your physical health to boost your psychological immunity to stress and the fallout from it — a well-known strategy with proven results.
Other tips and prescriptions teach you to buffer against stress and to master those stressors that insinuate their way into your life.
Much of the advice can be extended to everyday pressures outside the school setting to help lead you along the path of health and happiness. Pius X Catholic School in Toronto. The number of young men living with their parents is twice what it was 20 years ago. In this timely book, author Leonard Sax suggests five factors that have contributed to this phenomenon.
As a consequence, boys become frustrated not only with literacy in the primary years, but with learning and school itself. Video games are another factor draining boys and men of their motivation, says Sax. The problem, of course, is that video games do not occur in the real world, rendering their conquests empty. Attention deficit disorder medications also come under fire as Sax cites research showing how these drugs may damage the part of the brain that is responsible for translating motivation into action. The fourth factor he examines is endocrine disruptors found most commonly in plastics.
These environmental estrogens accelerate puberty in girls but delay it in boys, leading to lower sperm counts and lack of drive. Finally, Sax expresses deep concern about the absence of positive male role models, not only in the media but in the actual lives of boys. This book is essential reading for anyone new to teaching kindergarten or those who are looking for new ways to promote literacy in young children using authentic play experiences.
True, the outcome of play is difficult to quantify, but teachers must learn how to observe specific learning moments. Burke proposes that play-based centres can activate meaningful, open-ended play and creative conversations. Science centres might feature chemistry, biology and the environment.
Booklists, web sites and suggestions for parents to increase literacy skills at home are recommended. Burke has compiled a comprehensive resource that gives solid explanations of the work of theorists such as Vygotsky, Piaget, Marie Clay, Elkind, Sutton-Smith and Smilansky.
The second part provides teachers with all the needed materials for step-by-step student activities. Attention deficit disorder medications also come under fire as Sax cites research showing how these drugs may damage the part of the brain that is responsible for translating motivation into action. Each chapter is loaded with classroom stories, behaviour tips and practical strategies and advice, backed up by compelling research. Although the Earth has already been through phases of global warming, According to the authors, the key to banishing boredom for both students and teachers is variety. Some books have a special place in our hearts and on our library shelves.
The research may appear heavy going at first, but once engaged, readers will find it practical and user friendly. New teachers are often so overwhelmed by the daily delivery of content and assessment that they fail to see the big picture. They have little time to think about how their lessons fit into the journey of the class as a group. Pulling Together shows teachers how to organize an annual plan for a secondary English class.
Written by four British Columbia teachers who work with the same curriculum strands and assessment as we do in Ontario, the book takes the form of a staff room conversation. The teachers implement a customized plan for different groups of English students. They model the how for their students, using high-support approaches talk-alouds and shared writing as well as low-support levels guided and independent study.
The book illustrates the best practices of experienced teachers who work well together. It provides chapter after chapter of strand units, assessments, processes and summative rubrics. Kara Smith , OCT, teaches and develops English-language arts for the Faculty of Education at the University of Windsor and is a language consultant with several boards of education in southwestern Ontario. The ghost stories in this book come from all over the world, and each is rated according to its level of scariness.
Skeletons, children, noisy animals, ancestors and many others all show up as ghosts in these stories. Not all of them are scary. Some are humorous — hungry for candy or wanting to party — and some are helpful. The stories are a great read and none of them are too terrifying.