"New teachers will love this step-by-step approach to setting up and managing a classroom while nurturing a community of eager and cooperative learners. The authors also provide a plethora of practical classroom activities for both new and seasoned teachers."—Catherine Hernandez, Second-Grade TeacherDetroit Public Schools, MI"Proficient teachers are key to the future of education. This book is a great resource to help new teachers make their first year a ...

Offering an alternative approach to standardization and data-driven mandates, this book puts children at the center of planning your curriculum. Rather than a prescriptive curriculum, by using The Thinking Lens® protocol, teachers can translate educational theories into concrete ideas for working with children and families. Learn to create a welcoming classroom culture, develop routines for self-regulation, and use Learning Stories to enhance experiences for the children in your care....

This hands-on book offers teachers a much-needed resource that will help maximize learning for English Language Learners (ELLs). How to Teach English Language Learners draws on two wide-ranging teacher quality studies and profiles eight educators who have achieved exceptional results with their ELL students. Through highly readable portraits, the authors take readers into these teachers' classrooms, illustrating richly what it is they do differently that yields such great results ...

Do you wish To Communicate With People Effectively, Avoid Conflicts and Get What You Want From Life?...It's not only about what you say, but also about WHY, WHEN and HOW you say it.Almost everything we want in life involves other people. Whether you want a better social life, a promotion at work, or a good romantic relationship, it all depends on the way you communicate.Lack of communication skills is exactl...

Speed read people, master body language, and detect liesIs it possible to analyze people without them saying a word? Yes, it is.Imagine you going to a party, a business meeting, or you just meeting someone new. In less than a minute you know if they're stressed, overwhelmed, or happy. You know how they feel about you and every other person around.This could be your new REALITY!It's e...

An inspiring and practical guide to creating a larger vision in early child care, this popular professional development tool has been thoroughly revised and offers a concrete framework for organizing an early childhood center director's ideas and work. Updated and expanded, it reflects new requirements and initiatives for center directors and addresses topics including cultivating a vision, developing "systems thinking" for management roles, implementing principles and strategies for mento...

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In English and Spanish there are words that appear to be long-lost siblings, or as I call them, Spanish Twins. They are either identical or very similar from language to language. The great thing about these words is that they already exist in your day-to-day conversations on the jobsite. As you’ll see in this book, these Twins are the building blocks to learning Spanish and becoming a better manager and leader. Spanish Twins will start you on the path to a safer, bilingual jobsite. Before...

In Chapter 1, I outline why the message should be the central focus around which the learning of grammar and vocabulary takes place. I will suggest that this helps the learner to produce more actual language and less possible language.In Chapter 2, I explore the difference between language that is produced consciously and language that is produced spontaneously. I will argue for a massive increase in memory-based learning activities that involve matching meaning directly with messa...

Enhance your professional development and partner with children and families to improve learning experiences in a range of early childhood settings and programs.Learn how to integrate the Learning Stories approach and teacher inquiry groups to promote authentic assessment to inform instruction, and foster collegial team building and collaboration. The writing of Learning Stories integrated within the professional development process of teacher inquiry, documentatio...

How can teachers of Latino English language learners actively engage their students' families in helping ELLs succeed in school? In this powerful book, David Campos, Rocio Delgado, and Mary Esther Soto Huerta provide guidance and resources to help teachers communicate and collaborate with the families of Latino ELLs.Reaching Out to Latino Families of English Language Learners includes practical tips and tools, including reproducible form letters in English and Spanish, tha...

This module introduces Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS), an input-based language teaching method. TPRS provides a framework for teaching classes completely in the target language—even those at the beginner level. Through the steps of establishing meaning, creating a story that is acted out live in class, and reading, students understand and use the target language to communicate right away. Research shows that over time TPRS creates fluent speakers who excel bot...