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About this Book:
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190 inspiring ideas to uplift your teaching! These are research-based, tried and proven strategies that will make your life as a teacher easier and more effective! You can use the index to look up specific areas of struggle, or you can use this as a daily reader to address one area of your teaching each day. The ideas are instantly applicable and immediately effective! This is a life jacket for the "sink or swim" profession! Why just get by when you can learn to float?
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About the Author:
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Robbin Wardlaw has been teaching for 13 years. She became Nationally Board Certified in 2002 and received her M.Ed. in divergent learning from Columbia College in 2006. She has worked in both rural, economically challenged areas as well as suburban areas. She has taught all levels - from Advanced Placement to remedial HSAP preparation and basic skills classes. She has gathered ideas from workshops and presentations, research, professional study and collaboration groups, and from practice and application within her classroom. These are compiled here to assist other teachers in their effort to be more effective in their own teaching craft.
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Book Review:
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Life Jacket for Teachers offers ideas that are effective and easy-to-apply. These strategies span a multitude of current research including assessment ideas, issues with plagarism, classroom management and procedures, creating student interest and motivation, curriculum design, differentiated instruction, instructional strategies and planning techniques, learning modalities and how to use them to move instruction, mind research, ways to help struggling students including ESOL, multi-cultural approaches to instruction, research and literacy techniques, and use of technology. No other book offers this concise collection of proven ideas to apply such a vast scope of research to improve teaching efficacy! Each idea takes 3-5 minutes to read and can be used immediately! In addition, an appendix is included with hand-outs and strategies that may be reproduced, as well as access to electronic documents that may be downloaded and altered to suit individual teacher's needs. This is truly a life saver for teachers - struggling or not! Why just keep your head above water in the "sink or swim" profession? This book will make your job easier and more effective - learn to float!
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