Helps teachers and parents support their children with special needs, as they cope with their unique challenges, while also teaching the children the values and discipline they need to lead happy and fulfilling lives.

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...

Build foundation skills for developing classroom management that works! Valuable ideas on how to set up a classroom physically - and vary the set-up according to different age groups or content to be conveyed - are vividly displayed. How to establish classroom routines, maintain discipline, and deal with transitions are covered. Practical and immediately applicable advice for managing today's classrooms in a positive way, for diverse students, is...

"Mindful awareness practices to help teachers recognize and regulate emotional reactivity in their classrooms. Teaching is one of the most rewarding professions, but also one of the most demanding. This book offers simple, ready-to-use, and evidence-proven mindfulness techniques to help educators manage the stresses of the classroom, cultivate an exceptional learning environment, and revitalize both their teaching and their students' knowledge acquisition....

"In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young "troublemakers," challenging the ways we identify and understand so-called problem children. Time and again, we make seemingly endless efforts to moderate, punish, and even medicate our children, when we should instead be concerned with transforming the very nature of our institutions, systems, and structures, large and small. Through...

"College still looks like it did a century ago, with instructors delivering lectures to silent halls of students. Yet the science of education shows unambiguously that active learning is more effective. The New Classroom details the evidence and offers hands-on guidance for teachers in every discipline and institution, so that students can excel"-- "College instruction is stuck in the past. If a time traveler from a century ago arrived on today's...