Full name: Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains

Author: LouAnne Johnson Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Education, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780787974718 9780470903742 0787974714 0470903740

From seating plans to Shakespeare, Teaching Outside the Box offers practical strategies that will help both new teachers and seasoned veterans create dynamic classroom environments where students enjoy learning and teachers enjoy teaching. This indispensable book is filled with no-nonsense advice, checklists, and handouts as well as A step-by-step plan to make the first week of school a success Approaches for creating a positive discipline plan Methods for motivating students, especially reluctant readers Strategies for successful classroom management Suggestions for creating and grading student portfolios Similar books: Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire by Rafe Esquith There Are No Shortcuts by Rafe Esquith The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol Other People's Children by Lisa Delpit Marva Collins' Way by Marva Collins The First Days of School by Harry K. Wong Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder Radical Reflections by Mem Fox The way it spozed to be by James Herndon A Different Kind of Teacher by John Taylor Gatto Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto The End of Education by Neil Postman Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis The Reading Zone by Nancie Atwell The Art of Teaching Reading by Lucy McCormick Calkins The Art of Teaching Writing by Lucy McCormick Calkins In the Middle by Nancie Atwell Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning by Douglas Wilson