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Our education environment is often stacked against teachers—from insufficient funding and mandatory meetings to red tape and standardized testing. Drawing on real-life struggles from the teachers who have used Sears' strategies to overcome burnout and make the most of their time, How To Love Teaching Again will give you specific steps to stop drowning in to-dos and do the work that inspires you.

In 39 Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning Activities: A Very Practical Guide to Using TBL in the ESL/EFL Classroom, you'll get a ton of creative and interesting ideas for speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and more to use in your own classroom. The highly detailed descriptions will show you exactly how to use the activities during your lessons. The clearly and concisely explained activities will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students.

Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: From Robots to Rocket Science. This book explores how artificial intelligence is changing education — from traditional classrooms to smart, personalized learning environments. This insightful book bridges the gap between emerging technologies and modern education, providing teachers, students, and policymakers with a roadmap for thriving in a world driven by artificial intelligence.

In early 2020, because of COVID-19, many colleges and schools around the world closed, and many teachers, instructors, and faculty members had to learn how to teach online in a hurry. This book takes a step back and focuses on helping educators teach effective live online sessions with Zoom.

In Woven Together: How Unpacking Your Teacher Identity Creates a Stronger Learning Community, expert educator Dr. Courtney E. Rose delivers a student-driven approach to teaching that demonstrates how to bring your full self to the classroom. You'll learn to create space for your students to do the same thing, de-standardizing the current norms of the classroom while embracing their unique experiences, perspectives, and understandings to create more meaningful learning experiences.

The original Visible Learning research concluded that one of the most important influencers of student achievement is how teachers think about learning and their own role. In Ten Mindframes for Visible Learning, John Hattie and Klaus Zierer define the 10 behaviors or mindframes that teachers need to adopt in order to maximize student success. These powerful mindframes, which should underpin every action in schools, are founded on the principle that teachers are evaluators, change agents, learning experts, and seekers of feedback who are constantly engaged with dialogue and challenge.

Nicole M. Joseph investigates factors that contribute to the glaring underrepresentation of Black female students in mathematics. Joseph's account calls attention to educational structures and practices that contribute to race- and gender-based stratification in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In her assessment of the intersectional difficulties facing this marginalized group, Joseph offers a critical view of the existing mathematics education research, practice, and policies that have neglected Black girls and women; and then provides suggestions for reform.

What does it take to have fearless schools? It starts with psychological safety-students, teachers, and leaders who know that mistakes are the source of learning, not shame or embarrassment. In order for great learning to take place, we first must build the trust and resilience needed to produce fearless students, teachers, and leaders - and ultimately create fearless schools.

The past two decades have brought giant leaps in our understanding of how the brain works. But these discoveries—and all their exciting implications—have yet to make their way into most classrooms. With the concise and easily digestible Brain Words: How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching you will learn how children’s brains develop as they become readers and discover ways you can take concrete steps to promote this critical developmental passage.

Teaching has never been easy, but these days, it seems to keep getting harder. As the pressure builds, many educators are calling it quits on a profession that once felt like a calling. Planning to Stay offers a hopeful alternative.

In Hacking Leadership, award-winning school administrators Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis demonstrate how to increase learning by leaving the office and engaging directly with all teachers and learners. They identify 10 problems with school leadership and provide dynamic, right-now solutions.

This book contains information for parents to teach early literacy skills such as: alphabet identification, phonics, vowel sounds, consonant blends, and three-letter word reading. The book provides details regarding the appropriate tools and methods used by professional educators to have children reading at an accelerated pace.

This is a guide for beginning private guitar teachers, and private or group lessons in your own home or at the student's residence. I have taught private guitar lessons for over 30 years, and my accumulative experience has served me well. I have played in popular bands as a singer/musician for over 1,500 nights, and I have taught guitar as a rewarding and enjoyable experience. I have taught all age groups from five to 80, beginning and advanced. These private guitar teacher tips work with acoustic or electric guitars.

This completely revised second edition pulls from years of research, practice, and results to reanalyze and reevaluate the nine instructional strategies that have the most positive effects on teaching and learning. A new framework organizes the nine instructional strategies that have the most positive effects on teaching and learning in preparation for instructional planning, and it highlights the point that all of the strategies are effective and should be used to complement one another.

The Wild Card is your step-by-step guide to experiencing a creative breakthrough in your classroom with your students. Authors Wade and Hope King show you how to draw on your authentic self - your past experiences, personality quirks, interests, hobbies, and strengths - to deliver your content creatively. If you are a high school teacher or a kindergarten teacher, the seven steps in The Wild Card will give you the knowledge and the confidence to bring creative teaching strategies into your classroom.

The authors of Make Just One Change argue that formulating one's own questions is "the single most essential skill for learning" - and one that should be taught to all students. They also argue that it should be taught in the simplest way possible. Drawing on 20 years of experience, the authors present the Question Formulation Technique, a concise and powerful protocol that enables learners to produce their own questions, improve their questions, and strategize how to use them.

Now in its third edition, this best seller has remained popular, relevant, and a must-have for new teachers, mentors, administrators, and staff development professionals. Appropriate for individual or collaborative study, this book provides simple, practical solutions to the challenges experienced by both new and veteran teachers, including:

Discover how to close the knowing-doing gap and transform your school or district into a high-performing professional learning community (PLC). The powerful audiobook edition of this comprehensive action guide from experts Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, Thomas W. Many, and Mike Mattos updates and expands on new and significant PLC topics.

If you want a loving dog that takes care of himself the right way, keep listening because this audiobook is for you! Most audiobooks will only explain the basics and not go into the underlying mechanics that actually make you understand your dog. Luckily Puppy Academy is different, as the proven easy-to-follow step-by-steps are why more and more listeners are getting the obedient and playful dogs they always wished for. Will you be one of them? Whether your dog is young or mature, the easy and actionable techniques will correct bad dog habits.

50 Things to Know About IELTS for General Training Module is the ready reckoner guide that offers an approach to get the highest score in the IELTS exam. This book will teach you how to condition your mind and then to apply all tips and tricks to get going.