New Resources Available for Teachers in Preparation for the Upcoming School Year
Hoboken, NJ (PRWEB) July 10, 2013 -- For first-year or veteran teachers alike, the summer provides a good opportunity to catch up on new teaching methods or discover brand new skills before the upcoming the start of the new school year. Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley, has brand-new titles and backlist favorites for teachers in the areas of reading, the Common Core curriculum, teacher leadership and more. For new teachers, The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools and Activities for Meeting the Challenges of Each School Day, 3rd Edition, is a must have resource for that first and challenging year.
Here is a list of the top titles for teachers:
Great Habits, Great Readers: A Practical Guide for K-4 Reading in the Light of Common Core (By Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, Aja Settles and Juliana Worrell). A vital text for all elementary school educators. It’s tailor-made to foster the habits of great reading and provides real-world examples of how teachers can adjust their lesson plans to raise their students up to the Common Core Standards. It dispels the myth that some students are just more innately gifted than others, and offers clear teaching strategies to help all students develop the habits that are needed to become great readers. (Available Now)
Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools (By Ben Mardell, Mara Krechevsky, Melissa Rivard and Daniel Wilson). Based on the Reggio Emilia approach to learning, Visible Learners highlights learning through interpreting objects and artifacts, group learning, and documentation to make students' learning evident to teachers. Visible classrooms are committed to five key principles: that learning is purposeful, social, emotional, empowering, and representational. The book includes visual essays, key practices, classroom and examples. (Available Now)
The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools and Activities for Meeting the Challenges of Each School Day, 3rd Edition (By Julia G. Thompson). This award-winning book gives beginning educators everything they need to survive and thrive in the classroom. The third edition covers new material including working as a part of a professional learning community (PLC), teaching media literacy and social responsibility, incorporating Common Core State Standards, handling "homework push-back" from parents, changes in classroom technology, techniques for motivating students, seeking feedback, and much more. (Available Now)
Everyone at the Table: Engaging Teachers in Evaluation Reform (By Ellen Behrstock-Sherratt, Allison Rizzolo, Sabrina W. Laine and Will Friedman). There is no magic formula for successfully designing a teacher evaluation system. However, there is abundant evidence that suggests that involving teachers in the process will reduce the likelihood of opposition, gridlock, and reform failure. Everyone at the Table provides materials to genuinely engage teachers in the evaluation process. The book is a research-based and field-tested practical guide for school leaders. With this resource, educators will have the tools they need to develop meaningful teacher evaluations. (Available now)
The New American High School (By Theodore R. Sizer, Foreword by Deborah Meier, Introduction by Nancy Faust Sizer). The late Theodore Sizer's vision for a truly democratic public high school system. Our current high schools are ill-designed and inefficient. We have inherited a program of studies that in its overall structure has not changed in over a century. The question is what’s next? Theodore Sizer, the founder of The Coalition of Essential Schools, was a passionate advocate for the American school system. In this, his last book, he offers a vision of what a future secondary education might look like. By telling the story of his own odyssey, Sizer gives shape to a much-needed agenda for improving our high schools. (Available Now)
The Whole Spectrum of Social, Motor and Sensory Games: Using Every Child's Natural Love of Play to Enhance Key Skills and Promote Inclusion (By Barbara Sher). Play is increasingly recognized by neuroscientists and educators as a vital component in brain development, academic success and learning social skills. In this inspiring and useful resource, Barbara Sher provides step-by-step directions for how to use children's natural interests at different stages of their development to help them develop a wealth of sensory motor and social skills. All the games have also been designed to provide plenty of joyful opportunities for encouraging inclusion. (Available Now)
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child (By Donalyn Miller, Foreword by Jeff Anderson). Known for her popular blog, The Book Whisperer, Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. Miller's unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets that make reading a chore. Instead, she helps students navigate the world of literature and gives them time to read books they pick out themselves. Her love of books and teaching is both infectious and inspiring. The book includes a dynamite list of recommended "kid lit" that helps parents and teachers find the books that students really like to read. (Available Now)
Teacherpreneurs: Innovative Teachers Who Lead But Don't Leave (By Barnett Berry, Ann Byrd and Alan Wieder). This book is about "teacherpreneurs"—highly accomplished classroom teachers who blur the lines of distinction between those who teach in schools and those who lead them. These teacherpreneurs embody the concept that teachers can teach as well as lead the transformation of teaching and learning. It’s about empowering expert teachers who can buoy the image of teaching and enforce standards among their ranks while all along making sure that their colleagues as well as education policymakers and the public know what works best for students. (Available September 2013)
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Mike Onorato, Wiley, http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-397743.html, 201-748-6361, [email protected]
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