Secrets To Success For Science Teachers

This easy-to-read guide provides new and seasoned teachers with practical ideas, strategies, and insights to help address essential topics in effective science teaching, including emphasizing inquiry, building literacy, implementing technology, using a wide variety of science resources, and maintaining student safety.

Provides teachers with practical ideas and strategies for promoting inquiry, building literacy, implementing technology, and achieving meaningful instruction in the science classroom.

"This book isn′t just for new teachers! Even after years as a science teacher, this book gave me suggestions to use right away in my classroom." —Regina Brinker, Science Teacher Christensen Middle School, Livermore, CA Create a science classroom that fosters a creative learning community and leads to success! From successfully setting up a classroom to achieving meaningful instruction, science teachers face a variety of challenges unique to their practice every day. This easy-to-read guide provides new and seasoned teachers with practical ideas, strategies, and insights to help address essential topics in effective science teaching, including emphasizing inquiry, building literacy, implementing technology, using a wide variety of science resources, and maintaining student safety. Aligned with current science standards, this guide helps teachers streamline their efforts, organize their work, and set the stage for outstanding instruction and enthusiastic student participation. Other features include: Practical examples, snapshots of moments in the history of science, and Web references A compilation of professional development activities Checklists to rate curricula and textbooks Guidance on networking with colleagues and establishing relationships with families By leveraging this book′s rich resources, science teachers will discover how to turn their classrooms into thriving environments for learning.

This easy-to-use guide features 75 research-based strategies for teachers of students in Grades K–12. Engage your students' creativity and build their science literacy.

Make every day of your teaching count! How many times have you wished your teaching degree came with a handbook? Whether you′re a new teacher or a veteran looking for inspiring new ideas and insight, best-selling authors Jeffery and Ellen Kottler have crafted a guidebook to help you navigate the milestones, challenges, and decisions that every educator faces. Packed with stories, strategies, and activities, The Teacher′s Journey is all about building meaningful, collaborative relationships with your students and colleagues while nurturing your own passion and commitment to teaching. You′ll discover how to: Motivate disengaged students through solid interpersonal connections Communicate effectively with parents, counselors, and administrators Advance your professional growth through increased school and district involvement Understand your teaching self more deeply through reflection Build a culture of tolerance and respect in the classroom Although your contact with a student may be as brief as a single year, the impact can be felt across a lifetime. Here′s a book to help make that possible!

In this updated version of the bestseller, you will learn tangible ways to supercharge your teaching skills while avoiding the pitfalls common to beginning teachers.

Invaluable for new elementary teachers, this guide covers classroom rules and routines, instruction/assessment techniques, navigating policies and procedures, and communicating effectively with parents and colleagues.

How do you create effective STEM classrooms that energize students, help them grow into creative thinkers and collaborators, and prepare them for their futures? This practical book from expert Anne Jolly has all the answers and tools you need to get started or enhance your current program. Based on the author’s popular MiddleWeb blog of the same name, STEM by Design reveals the secrets to successful lessons in which students use science, math, and technology to solve real-world engineering design problems. You’ll learn how to: Select and adapt quality existing STEM lessons that present authentic problems, allow for creative approaches, and engage students in meaningful teamwork; Create your own student-centered STEM lessons based on the Engineering Design Process; Assess students’ understanding of basic STEM concepts, their problem-solving abilities, and their level of engagement with the material; Teach STEM in after-school programs to further build on concepts covered in class; Empower girls to aspire to careers in STEM and break down the barriers of gender bias; Tap into STEM's project-based learning style to attract and engage all students. Throughout this user-friendly book, you’ll find design tools such as checklists, activities, and assessments to aid you in developing or adapting STEM lessons. These tools, as well as additional teacher resources, are also available as free downloads from the book’s website, http://www.stem-by-design.com.