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Mentoring New Teachers


Free Download Mentoring New Teachers By Hal Portner
2008 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 1412960088 | EPUB | 1 MB
A comprehensive guide for developing successful mentors!In the latest edition of this bestseller, the author draws upon research, experience, and insights to provide an overview of essential mentoring behaviors. Packed with strategies, exercises, and resources, this book examines four critical mentoring functions and gives school leaders, mentors, and staff developers the tools to create a dynamic mentoring program or revitalize an existing one. Features and topics new to this edition include:Classroom observation methods and instrumentsTeacher mentor standards based on the NBPTS Core PropositionsApproaches to mentoring the nontraditional new teacherA guide for careerlong professional development

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3-Minute Tips for Teachers A Toolbox of Ideas for Teachers to Use the Entire School Year


Free Download 3-Minute Tips for Teachers: A Toolbox of Ideas for Teachers to Use the Entire School Year By Heather Garcia, Michelle Lindsey
2022 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 147586406X | PDF | 1 MB
This key resource for all teachers offers must-have advice to help them navigate the entireschool year through efficient, stand-alone, easy to use chapters filled with accessible, practicaladvice from veteran teachers to help make the entire school year easier.While reading this indispensable guide, teachers will:- Access tips efficiently through the stand-alone, easy to use chapters, filled with practicaladvice from veteran teachers, which can each be read in under 3 minutes.- Receive guidance to increase professional growth, practice self-care, and boost creativeenergy in the classroom from the beginning of the school year to the end.- Engage with practical, teacher-tested advice targeted towards effective teaching andbest practices that can be used in various situations.- Navigate the chapters in any order, based on professional development needs andpersonal and professional goals.- Inspires discussion topics for peer mentor teacher meetings, PLC groups, book studies,staff and department meetings, and new teacher trainings.- Build confidence through time-tested, realistic advice to navigate anticipated challengesand triumphs as a pre-service or veteran teachers.

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3-Minute Tips for Teachers A Toolbox of Ideas for Teachers to Use the Entire School Year


Free Download 3-Minute Tips for Teachers: A Toolbox of Ideas for Teachers to Use the Entire School Year By Heather Garcia, Michelle Lindsey
2022 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 1475864078 | EPUB | 1 MB
This key resource for all teachers offers must-have advice to help them navigate the entireschool year through efficient, stand-alone, easy to use chapters filled with accessible, practicaladvice from veteran teachers to help make the entire school year easier.While reading this indispensable guide, teachers will:- Access tips efficiently through the stand-alone, easy to use chapters, filled with practicaladvice from veteran teachers, which can each be read in under 3 minutes.- Receive guidance to increase professional growth, practice self-care, and boost creativeenergy in the classroom from the beginning of the school year to the end.- Engage with practical, teacher-tested advice targeted towards effective teaching andbest practices that can be used in various situations.- Navigate the chapters in any order, based on professional development needs andpersonal and professional goals.- Inspires discussion topics for peer mentor teacher meetings, PLC groups, book studies,staff and department meetings, and new teacher trainings.- Build confidence through time-tested, realistic advice to navigate anticipated challengesand triumphs as a pre-service or veteran teachers.

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All My Relations Living with Animals As Teachers and Healers


Free Download All My Relations: Living with Animals As Teachers and Healers by Susan Chernak McElroy
English | October 7, 2004 | ISBN: 1577314301 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 1.4 MB
Susan Chernak McElroy has long believed that animals offer solace as well as lessons in living to anyone willing to listen. In her bestseller Animals As Teachers and Healers, she told others’ stories of the healing power of animals. In this book, she tells her own stories.

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Pedagogies of With-ness Students, Teachers, Voice and Agency


Free Download Linda Hogg, "Pedagogies of With-ness: Students, Teachers, Voice and Agency"
English | ISBN: 1975503082 | 2020 | 220 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Across the globe, students are speaking up, walking out, and marching for social and ecological justice. Despite deficit discourses about students, youth are using their voice and agency to call forth a better world. Will educators respond to this call to stand with students in relational solidarity as co-constructors of a new tomorrow? What is possible when teachers and students engage together in new ways? Pedagogies of With-ness: Students, Teachers, Voice and Agency offers insight into the transformative possibilities of education when enacted as the art of being with. Driven by student voices and their experiences of marginalization, this text takes a clear ethical stance. It asserts that students are both capable and competent. Taking a narrative approach, this book honors academic work that is rooted in educational practice. Expanding beyond traditional conceptions of student voice, chapters engage in meditations on three themes: identity, pedagogy, and partnership. This book is an exploration of

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Classroom Interaction for Language Teachers


Free Download Steve Walsh, "Classroom Interaction for Language Teachers "
English | ISBN: 1942223471 | 2015 | 46 pages | EPUB | 756 KB
In any classroom, it is through language interaction that students are able to acquire knowledge, develop skills, and understand communication. Classroom Interaction for Language Teachers takes a look at the complex relationship between language, interaction, and learning to help teachers have a fuller understanding of interaction and, in doing so, promote a fuller understanding of their effectiveness as teachers. This easy-to-follow guide uses authentic classroom transcripts and provides practical strategies to help both teachers and learners develop the interactional competence to create more engaged, dynamic classrooms and more active, attentive learners.

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