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Ron Clark
The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child
by Hyperion (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2003-04-16)

When Ron Clark walked into his fifth-grade class in rural North Carolina, he was confronted with a tremendous challenge. The children had little interest in learning, and were sorely lacking in guidance. How would he transform a group of apathetic kids into disciplined, thoughtful, and curious students? He quickly realized that they needed to learn some basic rules. Clark compiled a list of 55 lessons, and soon, his fifth-grade students-who once struggled to read at the third-grade level-were reading at the sixth-grade level . . . and loving it. What's more, they were gaining something crucial-self-respect. Those 55 lessons evolved into what Clark calls The Essential 55-guidelines for living and interacting with others The Essential 55 will prepare parents and educators to teach students the rules for life-everything from knowing how to say thank you, to acing an interview.

Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, Jane E. Pollock
Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement (ASCD)
by Prentice Hall (Paperback)

This brief book presents research on the best strategies for raising student achievement through classroom instruction. Readers will find a wealth of research evidence, statistical data, and case studies. Nine categories of instructional strategies—Identifying Similarities and Differences; Summarizing and Note Taking; Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition; Homework and Practice; Nonlinguistic Representations; Cooperative Learning; Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback; Generating and Testing Hypotheses; and Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers—that maximize student learning are introduced, along with the pertinent information to understand and synthesize each. For elementary school educators, administrators, and academic advisors and counselors.

Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis
Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement
by Stenhouse Publishers (Paperback)

Since its publication in 2000, Strategies That Work has become an indispensable resource for teachers who want to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers. In this revised and expanded edition, Stephanie and Anne have added twenty completely new comprehension lessons, extending the scope of the book and exploring the central role that activating background knowledge plays in understanding. Another major addition is the inclusion of a section on content literacy which describes how to apply comprehension strategies flexibly across the curriculum. The new edition is organized around four sections:Part I highlights what comprehension is and how to teach it, including the principles that guide practice, a review of recent research, and a new section on assessment. A new chapter, Tools for Active Literacy: The Nuts and Bolts of Comprehension Instruction, describes ways to engage students in purposeful talk through ...

Lauren Leslie, JoAnne Schudt Caldwell
Qualitative Reading Inventory-4 (4th Edition)
by Allyn & Bacon (Spiral-bound)

This easy-to-use, best-selling collection of reading materials effectively assesses reading ability at emergent though high school levels. It includes both narrative and expository passages at each grade level, questions to assess prior knowledge, and word lists. Instructors can measure comprehension by retelling passages, implicit and explicit questions, and other devices. Based on the latest reading research and in-line with No Child Left Behind Reading First components, this comprehensive inventory focuses assessment on specific questions regarding word identification, fluency, and comprehension. It also provides suggestions for intervention instruction, procedures for assessment of strategic reading, and inclusion of results in classroom portfolios. Get even more effectiveness from your QRI results with Caldwell and Leslie's book Intervention Strategies to Follow Informal Reading Inventory Assessment: So What Do I Do Now? (ISBN: 0205405584)

Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Shane R. Templeton, Francine Johnston
Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction (3rd Edition)
by Prentice Hall (Paperback)

A core text or supplement for phonics and reading methods courses. Words Their Way, Third Edition is designed to help teachers address the needs of all readers and spellers, by setting out a clear way to accomodate each student's developmental level, then providing the best methods for teaching to that level. In support of this philosophy, the authors provide more than 250 ready-to-use activities for teaching word study, spelling, vocabulary, and phonics. The text is organized by developmental sequence, and activities appropriate for each level are inclusive within each chapter. Additional word sorts and directions for games are located in the Appendix.

Paul Freire
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by Herder and Herder (Paperback)

Translation from the Portugese - classic from the Brazilian philosopher

Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley
Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (8th Edition)
by Prentice Hall (Paperback)

The habits and attitudes associated with critical thinking are transferable to consumer, medical, legal, and general ethical choices. When our surgeon says surgery is needed, it can be life sustaining to seek answers to the critical questions encouraged in Asking the Right Questions This popular book helps bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysing the things we are told and read. It gives strategies for responding to alternative points of view and will help readers develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject.

William L. Heward, Heward William L.
Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education (6th Edition)
by Prentice Hall (Hardcover)

For courses in Introduction to Special Education, Exceptionalities or Mainstreaming. For two decades, professors at more than 350 colleges and universities have relied on this comprehensive, engaging text for professional research, current practice, and trends in special education. Grounded in scholarship, yet written with the human experience in mind, this best-selling book effectively conveys the stories of teachers and children in special education. With a reorganized format, this latest edition captures the spirit of previous editions but with the necessary updates future teachers will need in the dynamic field of special education.

John A. Van de Walle
Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally
by Allyn & Bacon (Paperback)

This leading K-8 math methods text has the most coverage of the NCTM standards, the strongest coverage of middle school mathematics, and the highest student approval of any text currently available. Elementary and Middle School Mathematics provides an unparalleled depth of ideas and discussion to help students develop a real understanding of the mathematics they will teach. John Van de Walle, one of the foremost experts on how children learn mathematics, finds that 80 percent of the students who purchase this book keep it for reference when they begin their professional teaching careers. This text reflects the NCTM Principles and Standards and the benefits of constructivist-or student-centered-mathematics instruction. Moreover, it is structured for maximum flexibility, offering 24 brief, compartmentalized chapters that may be mixed and matched to fit any course or teaching approach.

Gerald Corey
Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy - Instructor's Edition
by Thomson Brooks/Cole (Hardcover)

This latest edition of Jerry Corey's best-seller helps students develop a personalized style of counseling that incorporates the thinking, feeling, and behaving dimensions of human experience. Warm, personal, and easy to understand, Corey's book covers nine contemporary theories and then demonstrates how each theory can be applied to a single case (Stan).

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