Best Teaching Methods For High School - April 2024

The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students

Moody. Reckless. Impractical. Insecure. Distracted. These are all words commonly used to describe adolescents. But what if we recast these traits in a positive light? Teens possess insight, passion, idealism, sensitivity, and creativity in abundance--all qualities that can make a significant positive contribution to society. In this thought-provoking book, Thomas Armstrong looks at the power and promise of the teenage brain from an empathetic, strength-based perspective--and describes what middle and high school educators can do to make the most of their students' potential. Thoroughly grounde... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1416621873
• ASIN: 1416621873
• ISBN: 1416621873
• Manufacturer: ASCD

100 Write-and-Learn Sight Word Practice Pages: Engaging Reproducible Activity Pages That Help Kids Recognize, Write, and Really LEARN the Top 100 High-Frequency Words That are Key to Reading Success

Watch confidence soar as children master 100 sight words—the words most commonly encountered in any text. Children read more fluently, write with greater ease, and spell more accurately when they know these high-frequency words! These fun, ready-to-go practice pages let kids trace, copy, manipulate, cut and paste, and write each sight word on their own. Features words from the Dolch Word List, a commonly recognized core of sight words. Also includes games and extension activities. For use with Grades K-2.

• ASIN: 0439365627
• UPC: 078073365623
• ASIN: 0439365627
• ISBN: 0439365627
• Brand: Scholastic
• Manufacturer: Teaching Resources

Contexts of Teaching: Methods for Middle and High School Instruction

This unique new book enters into the middle and high school teaching methods market with an intimate, first-person approach, and an emphasis on reflective teaching. Reader, biography, teaching philosophy, and portfolio activities make this a practical book rich in applications. Teaching is portrayed as a process of ongoing learning, growth and development—and a strong emphasis is placed on multiculturalism and diversity. While most books tend to take a more traditional, skills-based approach, Contexts of Teaching presents teaching methods from a constructivist, inquiry perspective consist... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0135981115
• ASIN: 0135981115
• ISBN: 0135981115
• Manufacturer: Pearson

Styles and Strategies for Teaching High School Mathematics: 21 Techniques for Differentiating Instruction and Assessment

This book offers effective, research-based strategies that can be mixed and matched to differentiate mathematics instruction for high school students through four different learning styles.Learn From the Experts!Sign up for a Math Professional Development Institute in your area―visit www.ThoughtfulClassroom.com/events

• ASIN: 1412968356
• ASIN: 1412968356
• ISBN: 1412968356
• Brand: Corwin
• Manufacturer: Corwin

The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers

With hit books that support strategic reading through conferring, small groups, and assessment, Jen Serravallo gets emails almost daily asking, "Isn't there a book of the strategies themselves?" Now there is. "Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible," Jen writes. In The Reading Strategies Book, she collects 300 strategies to share with readers in support of thirteen goals-everything from fluency to literary analysis. Each strategy is cross-linked to skills, genres, and Fountas & Pinnell reading levels to give you just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen's ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 032507433X
• ASIN: 032507433X
• ISBN: 9780325074337
• Brand: Heinemann
• Manufacturer: Heinemann

The Writing Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Writers

The Reading Strategies Book made the New York Times Best Seller List by making it simpler to match students' needs to high-quality instruction. Now, in The Writing Strategies Book, Jen Serravallo does the same, collecting 300 of the most effective strategies to share with writers, and grouping them beneath 10 crucial goals. "You can think of the goals as the what, "writes Jen, "and the strategies as the how." From composing with pictures all the way to conventions and beyond, you'll have just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen's help you'll: develop individual goals for every writer give ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 032507822X
• ASIN: 032507822X
• ISBN: 032507822X
• Manufacturer: Heinemann

SAT Prep Black Book: The Most Effective SAT Strategies Ever Published

Click the "look inside" feature above to browse the SAT Black Book and get a feel for how it approaches the SAT! The fully up-to-date SAT Prep Black Book, Second Edition gives you unique, effective SAT strategies from Mike Barrett, an SAT tutor with clients all over the globe who pay him hundreds of dollars an hour for phone tutoring. In addition to extensive and effective training on every aspect of the SAT, the SAT Black Book gives you detailed, systematic, easy-to-follow walkthroughs for every question in 4 of the College Board's official SAT Practice Tests.The Black Book is a must-have in ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0692916164
• ASIN: 0692916164
• ISBN: 9780692916162
• Manufacturer: ACT Prep Books

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read? Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading? Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you'll do something wrong? RAs DISTARreg; is the most successful beginning reading program available to schools across the country. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTARreg; method outperform their peers who receive instruction from other programs. Now for the first time, this program has been adapted for parent and child to use at home. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0671631985
• ASIN: 0671631985
• ISBN: 0671631985
• Brand: Touchstone
• Manufacturer: Touchstone

Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally (8th Edition) (Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics Series)

Written by leaders in the field, this best-selling book will guide teachers as they help all Pre-K — 8 learners make sense of math by supporting their own mathematical understanding and effective planning and instruction.    Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentallywas written to help teacher candidates and practicing teachers understand mathematics and become more confident in their ability to teach the subject to children in pre-K through eighth grade. Structured for easy reference, offering 23 chapters reflecting the latest research to consult throughout one... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0132612267
• ASIN: 0132612267
• ISBN: 9780132612265
• Brand: Brand: Pearson
• Manufacturer: Pearson

Geometry

An excelent book for learning geometry.

• ASIN: 0395977274
• ASIN: 0395977274
• ISBN: 9780395977279
• Brand: Houghton Mifflin McDougal Littell
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin

The Anatomy Coloring Book

Why use this coloring book?   For more than 35 years, The Anatomy Coloring Book has been the #1 best-selling human anatomy coloring book! A useful tool for anyone with an interest in learning anatomical structures, this concisely written text features precise, extraordinary hand-drawn figures that were crafted especially for easy coloring and interactive study. Organized according to body systems, each of the 162 two-page spreads  featured in this book includes an ingenious color-key system where anatomical terminology is linked to detailed illustrations of the structures of the body. Whe... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0321832019
• UPC: 642688054786
• ASIN: 0321832019
• ISBN: 0321832019
• Brand: Pearson Education
• Manufacturer: Pearson

180 DAYS: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents

"Teaching is art-creation-and a curriculum map is only as good as the teacher who considers it, who questions it, and who revises it to meet the needs of each year's students." -Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle Two teachers. Two classrooms. One school year. 180 Days represents the collaboration of two master teachers-Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle-over an entire school year: planning, teaching, and reflecting within their own and each other's classrooms in California and New Hampshire. Inspired by a teacher's question, "How do you fit it all in?" they identified and prioritized the daily, es... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0325081131
• ASIN: 0325081131
• ISBN: 0325081131
• Manufacturer: Heinemann

Adult All-In-One Course: Lesson-Theory-Technic: Level 1

Alfred's Basic Adult All-in-One Course is designed for use with a piano instructor for the beginning student looking for a truly complete piano course. It is a greatly expanded version of Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course that will include lesson, theory, and technique in a convenient, "all-in-one" format. This comprehensive course adds such features as isometric hand exercises, finger strengthening drills, and written assignments that reinforce each lesson's concepts. There is a smooth, logical progression between each lesson, a thorough explanation of chord theory and playing styles, and out... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0882848186
• UPC: 038081114415
• ASIN: 0882848186
• ISBN: 9780882848181
• Brand: Alfred Publishing
• Manufacturer: Alfred Music

The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

• ASIN: 0679778314
• ASIN: 0679778314
• ISBN: 9780679778318
• Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: An Easy-to-Use Guide with Clear Rules, Real-World Examples, and Reproducible Quizzes

A revised and updated new edition of the bestselling workbook and grammar guide The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is a concise, entertaining workbook and guide to English grammar, punctuation, and usage. This user-friendly resource includes simple explanations of grammar, punctuation, and usage; scores of helpful examples; dozens of reproducible worksheets; and pre- and post-tests to help teach grammar to students of all ages. Appropriate for virtually any age range, this authoritative guide makes learning English grammar and usage simple and fun. This updated Eleventh Edition reflects ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1118785568
• UPC: 001118785568
• ASIN: 1118785568
• ISBN: 1118785568
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Wiley

The Power of the Adolescent Brain : Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students

Moody. Reckless. Impractical. Insecure. Distracted. These are all words commonly used to describe adolescents. But what if we recast these traits in a positive light? Teens possess insight, passion, idealism, sensitivity, and creativity in abundance--all

• UPC: 53596854

Hi-Lo Nonfiction Passages for Struggling Readers: Grades 6-8 : 80 High-Interest/Low-Readability Passages with Comprehension Questions and Mini-Lessons for Teaching Key Reading Strategies

Reproducible passages, grouped by reading strategies, come with test-formatted

• UPC: 5171601

Teaching the Digital Generation : No More Cookie-Cutter High Schools

The authors show how traditional industrial-type high schools have failed to meet students' learning needs and explore ten alternative high school models that address 21st-century

• UPC: 10554106
• Model: 9781412939270
• Color: Multicolor
• Rating: 4.0

Best Practices for Teaching Science : What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

Originally published: Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press,

• UPC: 43905357

Suggestive Outlines and Methods for Teaching the Use of the Library, a Guide for the Use of Librarians Giving Instruction to High School Students

Suggestive Outlines and Methods for Teaching the Use of the Library, a Guide for the Use of Librarians Giving Instruction to High School

• UPC: 53582297

Reading Like a Historian : Teaching Literacy in Middle and High School History Classrooms

"Aligned with common core state

• UPC: 21826210

A Comparison Between General and Special Methods Courses in the Teaching of High School Subjects Volume 2, No. 3

A Comparison Between General and Special Methods Courses in the Teaching of High School Subjects Volume 2, No.

• UPC: 280175149

A Comparison Between General and Special Methods Courses in the Teaching of High School Subjects

A Comparison Between General and Special Methods Courses in the Teaching of High School

• UPC: 742758280

Teaching Informational Text in K-3 Classrooms : Best Practices to Help Children Read, Write, and Learn from Nonfiction

"Specifically designed for K-3 teachers, this accessible guide describes ways to use informational text creatively and effectively in both reading and writing instruction. The book presents lessons, read-alouds, and activities that motivate students to engage

• UPC: 45434717

Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching High School : Understanding How to Use Functions

Develop a deep understanding of mathematics. This user-friendly resource presents high school teachers with a logical progression of pedagogical actions, classroom norms, and collaborative teacher team efforts, to increase their knowledge and improve mathematics instruction.

• UPC: 51649788