Excel For Teachers

Addressing a classroom teacher's need to simultaneous manage a classroom full of students, meet state mandated assessment standards for students, and track students' performance against a rubric, this overview of Excel shows how to put its features to use immediately in a classroom. Tracking attendance, grades, and books in the school library, creating reports to share with parents at parent-teacher conference time, and teaching basic charting concepts in a mathematics class are among the possible uses of Excel covered in this guide.

The essential how-to for teachers at all grade levels, this book is filled with specific, classroom-tested templates and techniques that teachers need most.

Humberto Barreto shows professors how to teach macroeconomic models and incorporate data using Microsoft Excel® with free files and videos.

This activity book is created to accommodate teachers who would like to utilise Microsoft Excel spreadsheet application with their middle school curriculum. Each lab is student-friendly and requires no prior knowledge or experiences with Excel. The lessons in this book are presented more or less in order of complexity. This will help you choose which lessons to use first. For example, you may choose to start with formulas. If you and your class has had experiences with spreadsheets you may start the later lessons that uses formulas. Each lesson has an accompanying template on the CD-ROM, as well as a completed example. Templates are beneficial for two very important reasons. First, they supply you with useful documents that you may not want to create on your own. You then begin to understand how they are put together and can begin to create your own.

Covers how to effectively use Microsoft Excel using examples of real-world business problems.

Are we adequately preparing students for life beyond school doors? Schools teach students not to be competitive and never to fail. Yet in the real world, people compete for jobs, and they often fail many times before reaching success. In this thought-provoking book, authors Johnson and Sessions describe 20 skills that are overlooked in schools and in educational standards but that are crucial to real-world success. They describe how you can develop these skills in your students, no matter what subject area or grade level you teach. You’ll learn how to promote leadership; allow competition; encourage meaningful engagement; help students find their voice; incorporate edutainment and pop culture; motivate towards excellence hold students accountable and responsible; foster perseverance and the ability to learn from failure; teach effective communication; and much more! Each chapter includes insightful research, thought-provoking stories, and practical strategies that you can take back to your own classroom.