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The Environmental Toolkit for Teachers First Steps to Sustainability


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English | ISBN: 1441153012 | 2014 | 192 pages | EPUB | 1463 KB
The Environmental Toolkit for Teachers is the essential guide to reducing your school’s ecological footprint and creating and embedding a sustainability ethos. Whether you are a teacher eager to make your classroom a more eco-friendly environment or a head teacher who wants to set up a whole school project, there are practical strategies and activities in this book for you.

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Photographic Elicitation and Narration in Teachers Education and Development


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English | ISBN: 3031201639 | 2023 | 225 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This open access book discusses the functionality of the use of the language of photography in teachers’ initial and ongoing training. It analyzes the nature of photography as a representation system, facilitating inquiry and reflection on its practice for teachers and evocating on theories and beliefs that may guide their work in classrooms. Photography is used to represent symbolically and affectively possible contradictions in teaching activities or the inconsistencies between planned teaching tasks and the educational purposes pursued. Resolving these conflicts is one of the ways to promote professional development. This book also describes photo-elicitation and photographic storytelling as work procedures. By analyzing the contributions of these techniques, the development of teachers is improved.

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Humor in the Classroom A Guide for Language Teachers and Educational Researchers


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2015 | 222 Pages | ISBN: 0415640539 | PDF | 2 MB
Humor in the Classroom provides practical, research-based answers to questions that educational researchers and language teachers might have about the social and cognitive benefits that humor and language play afford in classroom discourse and additional language learning. The book considers the ways in which humor, language play, and creativity can construct new possibilities for classroom identity, critique prevailing norms, and reconfigure particular relations of power. Humor in the Classroom encourages educational researchers and language teachers to take a fresh look at the workings of humor in today’s linguistically diverse classrooms and makes the argument for its role in building a stronger foundation for studies of classroom discourse, theories of additional language development, and approaches to language pedagogy.

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Artificial Intelligence in Schools A Guide for Teachers, Administrators, and Technology Leaders (PDF)


Free Download Varun Arora, "Artificial Intelligence in Schools: A Guide for Teachers, Administrators, and Technology Leaders"
English | ISBN: 1032009055 | 2021 | 236 pages | PDF | 21 MB
Artificial Intelligence in Schools is the first book to explore the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a tool to enhance K-12 instruction and administration. Every industry and sector will be drastically affected by the presence of artificial intelligence, and schooling is no exception! Written for the in-service community―leaders, administrators, coaches, and teachers alike―this is your one-stop opportunity to make sure you don’t fall behind the fast pace and promising innovations of today’s most advanced learning technology. Author Varun Arora presents AI as a problem-solving tool for teaching and learning, exploring its potential and application in real-world school contexts and in the language of educators. Covering curriculum development, feedback and scoring, student empowerment, behavioral and classroom management, college readiness, and more, the book is full of novel insights and concrete, strategic takeaways.

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Artificial Intelligence in Schools A Guide for Teachers, Administrators, and Technology Leaders (EPUB)


Free Download Varun Arora, "Artificial Intelligence in Schools: A Guide for Teachers, Administrators, and Technology Leaders"
English | ISBN: 1032009055 | 2021 | 236 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Artificial Intelligence in Schools is the first book to explore the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a tool to enhance K-12 instruction and administration. Every industry and sector will be drastically affected by the presence of artificial intelligence, and schooling is no exception! Written for the in-service community―leaders, administrators, coaches, and teachers alike―this is your one-stop opportunity to make sure you don’t fall behind the fast pace and promising innovations of today’s most advanced learning technology. Author Varun Arora presents AI as a problem-solving tool for teaching and learning, exploring its potential and application in real-world school contexts and in the language of educators. Covering curriculum development, feedback and scoring, student empowerment, behavioral and classroom management, college readiness, and more, the book is full of novel insights and concrete, strategic takeaways.

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A Handbook for Medical Teachers


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English | 2001 | pages: 223 | ISBN: 9048157420, 0792370929 | PDF | 6,1 mb
This is the extensively revised 4th edition of a popular handbook It offers a successful combination of sound educational principles, a how-to-do-it approach and an entertaining easy-to-read style, and contains numerous illustrations, examples, and pertinent cartoons. This fourth edition has been revised to reflect the major changes that continue to occur in both undergraduate and postgraduate education.

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Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt


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1996 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 0788502778 | PDF | 21 MB
Papyri problems and exercises on papyri and ostraca, work books and text books provide some of the richest evidence for the processes of education in the Roman world. This study examines how the skill of writing was taught, and how it was learned.

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What Do Great Teachers Say, 2nd Edition


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032505869 | 294 Pages | PDF (True) | 1.4 MB
Do you remember a time when you used the right words at the right moment, and they made all the difference? With the aim of helping you repeat that experience every day, this book provides hundreds of examples of what we call Great Teacher Language, a technique designed to help all teachers use words to transform student behavior and parent relationships. In their years of working at the K-12 levels, educators Hal Holloman and Peggy H. Yates have identified the exact phrases and key words you can use in your classroom to address inappropriate outbursts, a lack of respect and cooperation, student conflict, and more. Great Teacher Language will enable you to transform student behavior, parent relationships, and your classroom culture.

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More Teacher Misery Nutjob Teachers, Torturous Training, & Even More Bullshit


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English | 2018 | ISBN: 0578421070 | EPUB | pages: 270 | 5.1 mb
More Teacher Misery is the second volume in the Teacher Misery series! In More Teacher Misery Morris tackles even more of the hilarious, unbelievable and completely absurd experiences of teachers around the country. With topics such as pointless professional development where the author learned how to make bird noises, insanely incompetent teachers who make the good ones look bad, the shit parades that are parent conferences, lack of discipline even for kids who attack people with weapons, outrageous parent requests such as checking the size and color of a teenager’s poop, this follow-up to the wildly popular memoir Teacher Misery does not disappoint! Think the stories in Teacher Misery were crazy? Just wait till you read More Teacher Misery!Morris opens up about the comical misery that has become the teaching profession-giving a voice to teachers everywhere.- Parent HeraldOne of the funniest teacher books you’ll ever read! -Bored TeachersThe stories that Morris tells about the school system are riveting. The antics and violence and outright stupidity that she and other teachers have had to endure are outright insane – some of it is so crazy it’s almost unbelievable. -Mission IncompleteA must read for every single human being in this world, from teachers to parents, students, administrators, lawyers, doctors, just name it. Let me be honest, nonfiction kind of book is not my cup of tea, but this book is simply amazing, hilarious, keep surprising me non stop! -Jessica’s Book BlogThis one is just the most hilarious and heart-breaking ever! Laugh out loud funny! -Teachers Are TerrificHer stories are so ridiculous, that a non-educator might actually believe they’re fabricated. Unfortunately, those of us who are on the inside know it’s all too real. Her stories are laugh out loud funny, touching, and at times, maddening. -Having a Mom MomentThis book is a great read and a real eye-opener. -Carpe LibrumI recommend this book for many reasons. Morris is a great writer who is funny and entertaining. She is above all honest with her interpretation and the things that she sees around her. I liked the variation in text and material. Overall, this books needs to be spread around the country. She isn’t the only person that feels this way. There are thousands of other people out there like her and their voices need to be heard. -The Next Book on my ListThis book was a HILARIOUS read! -The Simply Organized TeacherI dare you not to laugh out loud! -Robin O’Bryant, New York Times bestselling author of Ketchup is a Vegetable and Other Lies Moms Tell Themselves Jane is a gifted storyteller, you will chuckle and you will sig. The perfect gift for your kid’s teacher or a teacher friend! -Joyce Kaufman, EdD, Host of The Joyce Kaufman Show, Newstalk 850 WFTL Jane Morris gives us a beautifully written exposé about the worst sides of today’s students, parents and school administrators. -Bruce Tulgan, bestselling author of Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Manage the Millenials Jane Morris lifts the curtain on the horror teachers in our country face every day. -Laurie Notaro, New York Times bestselling author of The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club "The stories Morris tells are unbelievable and yet, I’m positive they’re true. -Jen Mann, New York Times bestselling author of People I Want to Punch in the Throat Morris dishes on the truth about trying to teach in this culture and it is hilarious, informative, and insightful. -Stefanie Wilder Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay A compelling answer to anyone thoughtless enough to assert that teachers have it easy. -John Owens, author of Confessions of a Bad Teacher As funny as it is shocking. -Librarything This is one of the best books I’ve ever read! -Kathryn Raaker, host of Let’s Just Talk Radio

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