Authors:Jo R. Blase, Joseph Blase,
Publisher: Corwin Press
Keywords: teachers, administrators, consultation, guide, bringing, peer
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2006-06-02
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1412925967
ISBN-13: 9781412925969
Author: Caron Chandler Loveless
Publisher: Howard Books
Keywords: teachers, celebrate, wish, book, gift
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2008-06-03
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 1416551972
ISBN-13: 9781416551973
A new addition to the popular series -- it’s time to tell teachers just how valuable and appreciated they really are! Everyone knows that teachers are overworked and underpaid. Too often even the students they teach don’t understand the effort that is put into each class period. What If There Were No Teachers? uses illustrations on the order of Norman Rockwell to let teachers everywhere know that we couldn’t live without them.A beautifully illustrated poem reveals how sad life would be without teachers, and this uplifting book will be a gift that any teacher will cherish. Wit
Author: Kylene Beers
Publisher: Heinemann
Keywords: teachers, guide, read, kids
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-10-28
List price: $40.63
ISBN-10: 0867095199
ISBN-13: 9780867095197
For Kylene Beers, the question of what to do when kids can’t read surfaced abruptly in 1979 when she began teaching. That year, she discovered that some of the students in her seventh-grade language arts classes could pronounce all the words, but couldn’t make any sense of the text.
Author: Karen L. Graves
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: teachers, lesbian, gay, florida, wonderful, purge
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2009-06-03
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0252076397
ISBN-13: 9780252076398
Focusing on Florida’s purge of gay and lesbian teachers from 1956 to 1965, this study explores how the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, commonly known as the Johns Committee, investigated and discharged dozens of teachers on the basis of sexuality. Karen L. Graves details how teachers were targeted, interrogated, and stripped of their professional credentials, and she examines the extent to which these teachers resisted the invasion of their personal lives. She contrasts the experience of three groups--civil rights activists, gay and lesbian teachers, and University of South
Author: Judith A. Deiro
Publisher: Corwin Press
Keywords: teachers, students, connecting, guide, difference
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2004-10-05
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1412906547
ISBN-13: 9781412906548
Deiro provides powerful strategies teachers can employ to build a healthy student-teacher connection, decrease behavioral problems, and increase social and academic skills.
Author: Joe L. Kincheloe
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: teachers, empowerment, library, path, inquiry, researchers, qualitative
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-12-06
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0415276454
ISBN-13: 9780415276450
De-skilling in the education of teachers involves breaking down their tasks and delegating them to low-skill workers. This book encourages teachers to resist de-skilling, to develop the ability to teach themselves and to become empowered.
Authors:Anne D. Cockburn, Terry Haydn,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: teachers, teach, understanding, recruiting, retaining
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-12-16
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0415284392
ISBN-13: 9780415284394
This excellent guide gives advice on how to recruit and keep good teachers, focusing on the interests and concerns of principals and senior management teams in schools.
