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How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making and how it can help us make better choices. Since Plato, philosophers have described the decisionmaking process as either rational or... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Overcoming Dyslexia : New and Complete Science-based Program for Reading Problems At Any Level (03 Edition) by Sally Shaywitz Publisher Comments FOR EVERYONE WHO STRUGGLES TO READ! Clear, practical, science-based information and advice for successful results One in five American children has trouble reading. But they are not stupid or lazy. In Overcoming Dyslexia, Dr. Sally Shaywitz, codirector... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Teach Like a Champion - With DVD (10 Edition) by Doug Lemov Publisher Comments This special enhanced edition of Teach Like a Champion brings to life the 49 essential teaching techniques from Doug Lemov. In his best-selling book, Teach Like a Champion, Doug Lemov helps new and veteran teachers working with students of all ages... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Backwards and Forwards : a Technical Manual for Reading Plays (83 Edition) by David Ball Publisher Comments This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather then contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts. Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Girl With the Brown Crayon : How Children Use Stories To Shape Their Lives (97 Edition) by Vivian Gussin Paley Publisher Comments wonder, Paley discovers how the unexplored territory unfolding before her and Reeny comes to mark the very essence of school, a common core of reference, something to ponder deeply and expand on extravagantly.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Teaching With Love and Logic : Taking Control of the Classroom (95 Edition) by Jim Fay Publisher Comments Teachers often find themselves facing a variety of classroom situations never covered in initial training. This valuable resource helps teachers increase skills, enhance professional development and maximize classroom learning time. .Discover why Love... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Teaching To Transgress : Education As the Practice of Freedom (94 Edition) by bell hooks Publisher Comments After reading Teaching to Transgress I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving. -- Paulo Freire In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Experience and Education by John Dewey Publisher Comments Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey'... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding By Design : Connecting Content and Kids (06 Edition) by Carol Ann Tomlinson Book News Annotation Tomlinson and McTighe explain the curriculum approaches Understanding by Design and Differentiation Instruction, which focus on standards and diversity in learning, respectively, and how they can be used together. They explain teaching that centers on... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Becoming a Teacher Through Action Research (2ND 10 Edition) by Donna Kalmbach Phillips Publisher Comments Becoming a Teacher through Action Research, Second Edition skillfully interweaves the stories of pre-service teaching with the process of action research. This engaging text focuses specifically on the needs of pre-service teachers by providing... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $36.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 by Rafe Esquith Staff Pick Few teachers get the recognition that Rafe Esquith has received during his extraordinary career, but in this case, it is so richly deserved. In a recent poll, over 60 percent of Americans said our country is headed in the "wrong direction." As I read... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Where Great Teaching Begins: Planning for Student Thinking and Learning by Anne R Reeves Publisher Comments Anne R. Reeves presents a streamlined approach to instructional design that empowers every teacher to plan engaging, objective-based lessons that will help students master essential content, develop valuable thinking skills, and learn deeply and... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making and how it can help us make better choices. Since Plato, philosophers have described the decisionmaking process as either rational or... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Fifty Strategies for Teaching English - With DVD (4TH 12 Edition) by Adrienne L. Herrell Publisher Comments 50 Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, Fourth Edition, by Adrienne Herrell and Michael Jordan, includes a rich assortment of practical strategies aligned to TESOL standards which have been field-tested in diverse classrooms. Each strategy... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $33.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms by Shirley Brice Heath Publisher Comments Ways with Words is a classic study of children learning to use language at home and at school in two communities only a few miles apart in the south-eastern United States. 'Roadville' is a white working-class community of families steeped for generations... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Choice Words by Peter H. Johnston Publisher Comments In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach children skills: they build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities. Teachers create intellectual environments that produce not only technically competent students, but also caring... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Art and Science of Teaching : a Comprehensive Framework for Effective Instruction (07 Edition) by Robert J. Marzano Publisher Comments Though classroom instructional strategies should clearly be based on sound science and research, knowing when to use them and with whom is more of an art. In The Art and Science of Teaching: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Instruction, author... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Teaching With Brain in Mind (2ND 05 Edition) by Eric Jensen Book News Annotation Trainer and educator Jensen applies current research on how the brain works to the classroom, primarily to help teachers and other educators make decisions about both approach and content based on what the brain needs for its owner to learn. He starts... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Real Talk 1: Authentic English in Context by Lida Baker Publisher Comments Real Talk 1, by Lida Baker and Judith Tanka, helps intermediate to high-intermediate students break away from the classroom and enter the world of authentic English. Each of the book’s eight thematic chapters has four parts: In Person, On the Phone,... (read more) List Price $43.75 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance by Elaine K Mcewan Publisher Comments `I could hear the voices of some of the principals who were interviewed speaking to me. The author clearly knows how to gather information and present it in a meaningful way' - Bonnie Tryon, Zone 2 Director, National Association of Elementary School... (read more) List Price $41.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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