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Classrooms that SPARK!

Providing Practical User-Friendly Resources for Busy Teachers

Classrooms that SPARK! (2nd edition)
(soft cover)
ISBN#: 978-0-470-49727-2
432 pages
$29.95

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"Recharge and Revive Your Teaching"

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Light the fire of learning in your classroom with ideas from Inspiring Teachers!

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Book Description
This is the ultimate guide for teachers who want to maintain their passion for teaching.

Classroom teachers, whether it's their first year or their 10th, need to light the fires of learning, fan the flames, and keep burning bright year in and year out. All teachers need new ideas to keep their classrooms organized, their students engaged and motivated, and their lesson plans sharp.

Classrooms that Spark (Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Imprint; ISBN: 978-0-470-49727-2; March 2010) is a comprehensive guide for new and veteran teachers, chock full of interesting tips and strategies on a wide range of essential topics--like how to get organized, manage your class, engage your students, plan lessons, and create a learner-centered classroom. Emma S. McDonald and Dyan M. Hershman are veteran classroom teachers and founders of Inspiring Teachers. They are active educational consultants who mentor teachers around the world and lead workshops on various topics including classroom management and discipline, student motivation, the brain-based classroom, and new-teacher orientation and induction.

Classrooms that Spark offers encouraging messages in a conversational style that will help you nurture the spark of learning in your classroom. This complete resource includes a wealth of strategies, ready-to-implement ideas, reproducible forms, and real-life classroom vignettes. Winner of the Teacher's Choice Award for the first edition, this completely revised edition is full of classroom-tested tools on essential topics like:

Keeping organized: how to manage your electronic files, your papers, and your binders
Setting-up your digital classroom: classroom blogs, Wiki space, and Twitter
Terrific activities to boost student engagement and motivation
Getting parents involved and excited with newsletters, emails, and a classroom Web site

Winner of the 2006 Teacher's Choice Award!

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