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Take Control of Your Classroom! You didn't become a teacher to fill out paperwork, maintain files and issue reports to administrative staff. Your satisfaction comes from helping young minds develop. Introduction to Google Classroom allows you to spend more time teaching and less time on the other stuff, thanks to its step-by-step breakdown of this helpful program. Learn to navigate the user-friendly interface so you can utilize Classroom's powerful tools for increasing your productivity and streamlining your responsibilities, including: -Sharing Information -Distributing Assignments -Tracking Student Work -Posting Grades And so much more!

Be a Better Teacher You want the best for your students. But how do you know which techniques really work? Visible Learning Day by Day has the answers. Packed with 50 proven strategies, this workbook provides classroom-ready worksheets, resources and self-evaluations to help you implement visible learning in: • Collaboration with educators • Teacher clarity and goal setting • Parent communication • Math and literacy programs • Instruction planning • Classroom management • Assessment and grading This innovative approach to teaching makes students active participants in their own education. Visible learning will improve your student’s growth by making the teaching process open and accessible to them.

Bring Math to Life with Balls, Strikes & Hits Math is everywhere, but nowhere is it more interesting than when it’s part of the great American pastime. This workbook is a fun and engaging way to practice your math skills by relating every problem to baseball. Each activity in the book is based on real baseball situations, like batting averages, pitching speed and even stadium size. Use these scenarios to improve your math skills while also learning more about the game of baseball, on and off the field. You can go straight through the book, practicing each skill, or you can go to a specific chapter you need more practice with. Each chapter focuses on a different math skill: • Numbers in Base Ten • Operations and Algebraic Thinking • Number and Operations in Fractions • Measurement and Data • Geometry

100 ready-to-use projects to challenge and inspire your third-, fourth- and fifth-graders! Project Based Learning Made Simple is the fun and engaging way to teach twenty-first-century competencies including problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, communication and creativity. This straightforward book makes it easier than ever to bring this innovative technique into your classroom with 100 ready-to-use projects in a range of topics, including: Science and STEM • Save the Bees! • Class Aquarium • Mars Colony Math Literacy • Personal Budgeting • Bake Sale • Family Cookbook Language Arts • Candy Bar Marketing • Modernize a Fairy Tale • Movie Adaptation Social Studies • Build a Statue • Establish a Colony • Documenting Immigration

A teacher’s guide to empowering students with modern thinking skills that will help them throughout life. Design thinking is a wonderful teaching strategy to inspire your students and boost creativity and problem solving. With tips and techniques for teachers K through 12, this book provides all the resources you need to implement Design Thinking concepts and activities in your classroom right away. These new techniques will empower your students with the modern thinking skills needed to succeed as they progress in school and beyond. These easy-to-use exercises are specifically designed to help students learn lifelong skills like creative problem solving, idea generation, prototype construction, and more. From kindergarten to high school, this book is the perfect resource for successfully implementing Design Thinking into your classroom.

Create a more inspiring classroom with amazing anchor charts. Filled with 100 ready-to-use, fun and helpful anchor charts, this handbook for elementary teachers is packed with examples for science, reading, math, classroom management, and so much more. There are easy-to-follow tips and time-saving tricks for taking your charts to the next level. Whether you’re creating your very first chart or looking for fresh ideas, there’s something for everyone, including: • Eye-Catching Designs • Helpful Ideas • Clever Visuals • Friendly Facts

The fun way to teach middle schoolers the mental math, problem-solving skills they need to meet common core standards and attain mathematical fluency. Bringing the exciting teaching method of number talks into your classroom has never been easier. Simply choose from the hundreds of great ideas in this book and get going, with no extra time wasted! From activities on multiplication and division to decimals and integers, Classroom-Ready Number Talks for Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grade Teachers includes: Grade-level specific strategies Number talk how-tos Visual and numerical examples Scaffolding suggestions Common core alignments Questions to build understanding Reduce time spent lesson planning and preparing materials and enjoy more time engaging your students in learning important math concepts! These ready-to-use number talks are sure to foster a fresh and exciting learning environment in your classroom.

Give every amazing teacher a gift they’ll treasure forever with a book filled with fun prompts that kids can fill out, personalize, and color to say thank you for a wonderful school year. Every one-of-a-kind teacher deserves a one-of-a-kind gift! The Ultimate Teacher Appreciation Gift Book gives kids of all ages the chance to record memories from the school year, draw, color, and create unique appreciation pages. Kids can give their favorite teacher the entire book to show their gratitude or tear out the individual, perforated pages to include one or many with a special thank you gift. Inside, students are prompted to write notes and stories about what made their year so special, like: My favorite memory from this year was definitely. . . The funniest thing you said was. . . I will miss these three things most about our class. . . These are five things I’ll remember about you. . . You are such a special teacher because. . . For the holidays, end of school, Teacher Appreciation Week, or just because, give teachers a personalized book they can treasure forever and that tells them exactly what kind of difference they made in their students’ lives.

Pair thoughtful teacher appreciation week gifts with these one-of-a-kind, kid-created tear-out cards that teachers will treasure long after the school year ends. Give every amazing teacher a fun, pun-filled teacher appreciation gift with Thank You a Latte! , a cute collection of tear-out cards students can fill out, color in, customize, and then pair with a perfect gift. Each of the 20 perforated, easy-to-remove teacher appreciation gift cards in this collection has been crafted charmingly punny to go with end-of-year and holiday presents teachers love (from gift cards and elegant scented candles to homemade baked goods and movie passes): You Light Up the Classroom (paired with a beautiful scented candle) You Made Me One Smart Cookie (paired with a jar of homemade cookie dough) When It Comes to Being a Great Teacher, You Wrote the Book (paired with a cute journal) After coloring and customizing the front of each card, students have space on the back to write their teacher a heartfelt note, creating a unique gift that any teacher will keep for years to come.

Build a mindful, trauma-aware classroom today with this practical, easy-to-use book. Designed specifically for busy teachers, it is full of strategies and tools for understanding trauma and building empathy. One in four children have witnessed or experienced a traumatic event that can affect behavior and learning. But school can be a safe, stress-free environment that can actually reduce bad behavior, foster resilience, and heal trauma. The Supportive Classroom shows teachers and educators how they can provide the different types of trauma-aware support that each student needs. Written by two experienced school psychologists, The Supportive Classroom offers an easy-to-understand overview of trauma, empathy, and self-care paired with proactive and reactive tools that can be implemented in the classroom right away. These practical ideas include: - Suggestions for classroom setup - Proactive behavioral supports - Checklists for identifying triggers - Examples of trauma-aware support from real-life students and teachers - Strategies for recognizing trauma exposure Every teacher brings their own unique culture, style, and passion into the classroom. This book offers a blueprint for creating a safe, welcoming classroom based in trauma-sensitive practice that can be adapted to your unique classroom.

Transform the way you start and end the school day with the fun, interactive, and adaptable lessons, exercises, and activities in this easy-to-use classroom management resource designed with busy teachers in mind. Daily classroom routines are proven to engage students, build trust, and support learning on all levels. But finding fun and interesting ideas for every day is difficult, not to mention figuring out how to incorporate them into an already jam-packed schedule. Morning Meetings and Closing Circles is here to help. From establishing rules and expectations to time management techniques and helpful meeting props, this book will impart the ins and outs of starting and ending each day with an effective meeting. With 100 classroom-ready ideas, connecting with your students throughout the school day has never been easier. Plus, with suggestions for tailoring activities to your own unique classroom, you will be able to create more meaningful experiences for your students. Build a safe community that fosters positive attitudes and academic growth by bookending the day with a morning meeting and a closing circle.

Stay inspired and motivated with this ultimate teacher self-care action plan designed to help educators avoid workplace stress and burnout. Any educator will tell you it's no surprise that 50% of teachers leave education within their first five years. Being a teacher is deeply rewarding and inspiring, but keeping that big picture in mind is hard after long days, difficult students, and limited resources. On top of it all, teachers have the added burden of managing an entirely new digital learning environment. But burning out doesn't have to be your only option. Don't Just Survive, Thrive offers hardworking teachers a sustainable blueprint for becoming unshakeable at school with the power of self-care. Through mindfulness, connection, and creative art, you can work toward building a trauma-informed, self-aware strategy that fosters resilience and results in more engaged and effective teaching. Just five minutes a day or more of implementing the practical ideas in this book can result in powerful change. These strategies include: - Ten ways to practice mindfulness during recess duty - Guided journaling to celebrate what’s working in your classroom - Daily routines to keep you in the present moment - Quick practices for self-regulation during a conflict situation - Sentence stems to encourage internal dialogue and positive self-talk Whether you're a special education teacher, paraprofessional, speech pathologist, counselor, or any type of educator, this book offers a guide to becoming not only a social-emotional role model for students but a better, healthier teacher.

Help elementary school students engage in the learning process and achieve their goals in the classroom with this effective & proven teaching method. Clear communication between students and teachers is crucial for effective learning. When students understand the why and how of learning (a.k.a. “teacher clarity”), it’s so much easier for them to fully engage with the process and achieve their goals. This book details the benefits that clear communication can have in elementary classroom, from breaking down the basics of teacher clarity and shared learning progressions to providing classroom-ready activities. Plus, you’ll discover suggestions for effective classroom teaching practices, including: Deconstructing state standards to develop learning intentions and objectives Developing success criteria to support new learning Building student awareness through structured language talk Embedding self-assessment checks for students to assess their levels of understanding throughout a lesson And much more Through the research-based methods of teacher clarity, educators will understand the importance of partnership between students and teachers, which in turn fosters improved student success.