How children fail

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Lenore Sandel

In this book 100 dynamic educators share some words that are important to them and what those words mean for teaching--here are the ideas that can start a teacher's day or stimulate new ideas for class activities. According to the book, each educator was asked to select a term that reflected an important idea for teaching; the terms appear in alphabetical order so it is easy to locate them. A recurring theme in the book is the need for teachers to see their personal strengths and skills as important contributions to their teaching. The following terms are addressed in the book: Adaptive; Age-Appropriate; Balance; Balanced Perspective; The Basics; Bonding; Caring; Collaboration; Community; Compassion; Cooperation; Crystallizing; Culturally Responsive Pedagogy; Curiosity; To Discover; Discussion; Ebullience; Emergent; Empathy; Encouraging; Energy; Engage; Enthusiasm; Ethical; Facilitator; Family Literacy; Flexibility; Formative Assessment; Friendship; A Good Teacher; Guide; Heart; Hidden; Honesty; Hope; Imagination; Imitative; Immersion; Incendiary; Inquiry; Inspiring; Integrity; Juggler; Kidwatching; Kindness; Laughter; Learner; Listener; Love; Metamorphosis; Motivation; Musing; "Obuchenie" (Russian); Open; Openness; Optimistic; Option; Partner; Passion; Performer; Perseverance; Perseverance and Reflection; Reflection; Respect; Rhetoric; Scholar Ethos; Self-Expression and Imagination; Self-Knowledge; Self-Renewal; Sensibility; Sensitivity; Spiritual Pedagogy; Struggle; Subversion; Support; Teach; Theory; Total Involvement and Total Commitment; Trust; Turbulence; Versatility; Vision; Visionary; Worldliness; and Yes and Solitude. (NKA).

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L. Todd Rose with Katherine Ellison

In the seventh grade, Todd Rose was suspended--not for the first time--for throwing stink bombs at the blackboard. At eighteen, he was a high school dropout, stocking shelves at a department store. Today, Rose is a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His book illuminates the struggles of millions of bright young children--and their frustrated parents and teachers--who are stuck in a one-size-fits-all school system that fails to approach the student as an individual. Rose shares his own journey from troubled childhood to Harvard, integrating cutting-edge research in neuroscience and psychology along with advances in the field of education, to ultimately provide a roadmap for parents and teachers of kids who are the casualties of America's school system.--From publisher description.

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Linda Metcalf

Step by step, Counseling Toward Solutions shows how to help individual students begin their own change process by noticing when a problem does not occur rather than focusing on the problem or what caused it. This approach - called Solution-Focused Brief Therapy - is often used by private counselors and therapists and is now being applied in the schools with great success.

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Anita Woolfolk

A text to provide beginning teachers with the tools and inspiration to become masters of their profession. Includes examples, lesson segments, case studies, and practical ideas from experienced teachers.