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Get Ready For University: Student Workbook: Canadian EditionGet Ready For University
Based on the original Get Yourself Ready For University: School Master Copy Edition, (see below) this new low cost workbook for students brings all the key elements of getting ready for university into a compact, inexpensive and detail filled self-help format. Students get answers to the ten most important questions about attending a Canadian university. Guidance departments provide this workbook for each Grade 12 student, or arrange a group purchase.
Get Ready For College: Student Workbook: USA EditionGet Ready For College
Based on the original Get Yourself Ready For College School Master Copy Edition, (see below) this new low cost workbook for students brings all the key elements of getting ready for college into a compact, inexpensive and detail filled self-help format. Students get answers to the ten most important questions about attending a college. Guidance departments provide this workbook for each Grade 12 student, or arrange a group purchase.
Get Yourself Ready For University: School Master Copy: Canadian EditionGet Yourself Ready For University
High school students need extensive information to make the best decisions about attending university. This self-help resource analyzes, in detail, the most important information for students preparing for university. Students get answers to the ten most important questions about university. This handbook shows students how to apply to university successfully and how to acquire the skills needed for university life.
Get Yourself Ready For College: School Master Copy: USA EditionGet Yourself Ready For College
What information is critical for high school students making decisions about attending college? This self-help resource analyzes, in detail, the most important information for students preparing for college. Students get answers to the ten most important questions about college. This handbook shows students how to apply to college successfully and how to acquire the skills needed for college life.
What Works Best: Classroom Management
What Works Best: Classroom Management
All teachers must deal with how to make the classroom function effectively and deal effectively with student disruption of learning. The resource gives teachers complete directions for dealing with 19 different ways that students cause difficulties for the teacher in the classroom.
Teacher On The Move
Teacher On The MoveTeachers who change teaching assignments within a school, change schools or change districts find unexpected challenges. Uplanned obstacles in the new classroom, school or district can make teachers less successful. This resource handbook for teachers moving into new teaching situations prepares teachers for maximum success. Checklists help teachers plan to effectively deal with difficulties and ensure their success. Any teacher moving into a new situation will repeatedly use these tools for maximum success.

How To Teach Alternative High School ProgramsHow To Teach Alternative High School Programs
Some high school students have difficulty fitting into the regular school program. To succeed, they need alternative approaches which take into account their attitudes and past school experience. This resource handbook gives teachers and school administrators detailed directions on how to set up programs for these students. Teaching tips give direction on how teachers can bring these students "on board" and create success driven classrooms.
Action Research for Teaching Excellence
Action Research for Teaching Excellence
Teachers who analyze what is happening in their classrooms know what produces better student achievement. This handbook shows teachers and principals how classroom based analysis works and how to implement it in classrooms.


Getting Students To Hand In Work, Finished and On-TimeGetting Students To Hand In Work, Finished and On-Time
Every teacher deals with students who continually miss deadlines for submitting work. Sometimes the work never appears. This handbook brings together the very best methods for changing student attitudes about getting their work in, finished and on-time.

Relationships In Schools: Making Them Work
School Relationships: Making Them WorkAn essential part of teaching is the creation of positive relations among teachers, students and parents. Although this is critical for teacher success, few teachers have received training in how to analyze the relationships that exist in their classroom. Also missing from teacher training are the ways to improve how the participants in the learning process can work together. This handbook provides teachers with a complete method for analyzing how relationships with students and parents can be improved.
Meeting The Needs of Hard-To-Serve Students
Meeting The Needs of Hard-To-Serve StudentsWhen students cannot or will not function in the regular classroom schools need to take action. Filled with insight and ideas on how to meet the needs of these very difficult students, this handbook and download software lets schools and teachers put in place programs that work.

How To Teach The Writers' Workshop
How To Teach The Writers' WorkshopThe Writers's Workshp is a highly effective way of teaching writing. This handbook gives step-by-step directions for teachers moving from the traditional teaching of writing to using the Writers' Workshop in the classroom. Four detailed units give great teaching ideas.
Drama: Getting Assessment Right: Grades 9-12
Drama: Getting Assessment RightAssessing student achievement in Drama activities and classes can be difficult. This handbook gives drama teachers a wide range of tools to assess student achievement, even in the most subjective areas of the subject. Students and parents can see the basis for the teacher's marks.

Visual Arts: Getting Assessment Right
Visual Arts: Grades 9-12: Getting Assessment RightAssessment of student achievement in visual arts can be subjective and difficult to explain to students. This handbook uses four level achievement charts for the key topics in visual arts. Students and parents see how students are assessed and what is necessary for higher achievement.

Getting It Right In History Class: Grades 9-12
Getting It Right In History ClassMany students come to history class unaware of key skills essential for success. This handbook shows students the essential skills that history teachers are looking for and describes the key information for student success.

Workplace Skills In The Classroom: School Master Copy: Grades 9-12
Workplace Skills In The ClassroomWhat is happening in class and the skills students need in the workplace are not always evident to students. This handbook gives teachers the tools to build workplace skills and show students how their classroom work results in skills for employment.
Boost Literacy: Grades 9-12
Boost Literacy SkillsWhen students reach the later grades and still have weak reading and writing skills they need help. Isolated lessons seldom work but more reading and writing in all subject areas can improve skills. This handbook gives teachers in all subject areas several tools and organizational charts to improve their students reading and writing skills. This happens during the teaching of the regular program.






International Languages: Getting Assessment Right: Grades 9-12
Foreign Language: Getting Assessment RightTeachers of International Languages have a wide range of tools in this handbook to make assessment of student achievement clear to students and parents. Student Coaching Rubrics show students exactly what they need to do for success in International Language classes.
Science: Grades 9-10: Plan, Assess, ReportScience: Grades 9-10: Plan, Assess, Report
Detailed four level achievement scales, and Student Coaching Rubrics, give teachers the tools for accurate, consistent and justifiable assessment of student achievement. Students see exactly why they receive a mark and what they need to do to improve it.


Mathematics: Grades 9-10: Getting Assessment Right
Mathematics: Grades 9-10: Getting Assessment RightThis handbook takes assessment of student achievement beyond totalling up marks from tests. Teachers use the four level achievement charts to make quick, accurate and clear judgements of student achievement. The Student Coaching Rubrics show students and parents exactly what is necessary to improve marks and move to a higher level of achievement.
Health and Physical Education: Grades 9-10: Plan, Assess, ReportHealth and Physical Education: Grades 9-10
Detailed assessment scales showing four levels of achievement make assessing student achievement in Health and Physical Education classes quick and accurate. The assessment tools help teachers come to accurate, fair and justifiable marks for students.


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