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The Classroom Behavior Manual
by
Scott Ervin
Positive student behaviors are desired outcomes, but this manual concentrates on inputs. How do you respond to difficult behavior in the moment when you know that punitive, compliance-based behavior management is so often ineffectual? What's the best way to prevent students from acting out in the first place? The path to success requires behavioral leadership, in which teachers strategically model and affirm the behaviors they want to see in students. Behavior expert Scott Ervin calls on his two decades of experience to share the most effective procedures and strategies to foster positive, prosocial student behavior that supports learning, including ways to * Organize your physical classroom to support positive classroom management. * Build positive teacher-student relationships. * Share control with students in a way that best fosters their autonomy.
Call Number: Access Online
ISBN: 9781416630807
Publication Date: 2022-02-11
Fact vs. Fiction: teaching critical thinking skills in the age of fake news
by
Jennifer LaGarde; Darren Hudgins
The advent of the 24-hour news cycle, citizen journalism and an increased reliance on social media as a trusted news source have had a profound effect not only on how we get our news, but also on how we evaluate sources of information, share that information and interact with others in online communities. When these issues are coupled with the "fake news" industry that intentionally spreads false stories designed to go viral, educators are left facing a new and challenging landscape. This book will help them address these new realities.Fact vs. Fiction provides educators with tools and resources to help students discern fact from fiction in the information they access not only at school, but on the devices they carry in their pockets and backpacks.
Call Number: Access Online
ISBN: 9781564847041
Publication Date: 2018-12-19
On Christian teaching: practicing faith in the classroom
by
David Smith
This book delves into the argument that faith has a critical role in shaping pedagogy and the learning experience. It explores education combining both theory and practice, showing how teachers of every subject and age group can be attentive to how their students are experiencing and interpreting learning and how there are myriad opportunities to design classes that are deeply rooted in Christian practices.