Successful communications with students, parents, and staff can be absolutely key to prospering as a teacher - and so to retaining good teachers. This program helps build communication skills and helps new teachers grow as professionals. Viewers see how to establish good relationships with children by getting to know their students and by creating a climate of mutual respect. See how a good attitude, sharing in responsibilities, and attending meetings...

This program shows a wealth of strategies to use in the classroom to engage all students and to increase student achievement. Vivid classroom scenes incorporate current research to show how to structure and pace a solid lesson, including modeling, role-playing, teaching a new skill, providing feedback and practice, assigning homework, and using assessments. Viewers will be able to use strategies such as questioning and problem based learning to deepen...

How can we teach today's students to write with clarity, passion, and purpose? How can we move all students, even those who struggle or are reluctant, forward in their skills as writers? In Improving Adolescent Writers, Kelly Gallagher invites you into his classroom for an in-depth look at ways to successfully answer these questions, and more. Through a variety of methods, modeling, mid-process assessment, small-group conferring, grammar and editing...

Shows how to organize and manage materials, time, and activities to maximize learning and provides specific teaching actions and plans that contribute to productive independent work.

Make the most of the evaluation process by taking charge of the story of your practice and keeping the focus on student learning. With her own examples and helpful downloadable forms, Jennifer Ansbach shows you how to build a yearlong Professional Development Journal that: aligns to your evaluation system; boosts your professional growth; deepens student learning; and actually makes your evaluation a productive two-way conversation. You'll be prepared...