"While mathematicians describe mathematics as playful, beautiful, creative, and captivating, many students describe math class as boring, stressful, useless, and humiliating. In Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had, Tracy Zager helps teachers close this gap by making math class more like mathematics. Tracy spent years with highly skilled math teachers in a diverse range of settings and grades. You'll find this book jam-packed with new thinking...

Career Errors: Straight Talk about the Steps and Missteps of Career Development examines the career development encounters that people experience across their life-span. The book begins with a comprehensive examination of the career development process and why these eight phases must be understood in order for career satisfaction and success to be achieved. This analysis is followed by a meticulous treatment of 27 things active members of the workforce...

"This guide for flight instructors (CFIs) presents lesson plans in the form of scenario-based maneuver briefings. A rich resource for active instructors, these lesson plans are also helpful to CFI applicants preparing their own materials. This fourth edition incorporates critical information previously published in Train Like You Fly: A Flight Instructor's Guide to Scenario-Based Training, as well as current best practices and tried and true advice...

Visual learning systems is an educational science publisher who's mission is to reignite a passion for teaching and learning science. Specifically designed for and customized to the curriculum of primary through to introductory college science courses, these series explore key topics on the life of vertebrates and helps instructors to teach challenging concepts. The films, and accompanying teacher materials, are a great asset for teachers and teachers...

"Curriculum So White explores how racism in K-12 classrooms is not the result of individual teachers' ignorance, but rather is symptomatic of the permanence of racism in education"--Provided by publisher Picower examines the relationship between individual teachers' racial beliefs and the curriculum they choose. She argues that what teachers choose to teach often represents their personal ways of thinking about race. Picower dissects examples of...

"This book focuses on encouragement for teachers paired with actionable strategies that can be used to improve areas of struggle such as classroom management, student engagement, student relationships, lack of planning time, and more. Most college education programs do not adequately prepare teachers for the realities of the classroom and teachers are left feeling overwhelmed and disillusioned as a result. This book will offer support to teachers...

Writing lesson plans is often considered busywork, but it can be a useful path for discovering what's important about artmaking and teaching. This book shows teachers how to slow down, breathe, and linger over the process of unit and lesson plan writing to uncover how much this process can support them professionally, creatively, and personally. The user-friendly text offers guidance for selecting an art project for the unit and then zooms into

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This book guides the cooperating teacher through the final stage of successfully hosting a student teacher. It answers many questions about the evaluation process, the final conference, and the elements of the letter of recommendation. It also addresses problematic situations that may arise and provides an awareness of legal aspects associated with the student teaching phase. These key points will help you to more effectively fulfill your supervisory...

"Play is crucial in adulthood because it fosters adaptiveness, creativity, role rehearsal, and mind-body integration. Just like children, when adults engage in play and creative endeavors, they can find that childlike center that cultivates happiness and joy. They will be equipped to work with children, design effective curricula, understand children and increase empathy, create playful leadership opportunities, and make significant changes to their...

Closing the Gap is an ISTE book series designed to reflect the contributions of multiple stakeholders seeking to ensure that digital equity is achieved on campuses, in classrooms, and throughout education. In this series, authors Nicol R. Howard, Sarah Thomas, and Regina Schaffer offer historical and philosophical insights while exploring challenges and solutions unique to teacher preparation programs, pre-service and in-service teachers, and instructional...