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Get Ready For University: Student Workbook: Canadian Edition![]() 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 Edition![]() 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 Edition![]() 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 Edition![]() 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 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 Teachers
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 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 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. |
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Getting
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 An 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. |
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Meeting The Needs of Hard-To-Serve Students
When
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 The 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. |
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Drama:
Getting Assessment Right: Grades 9-12 Assessing 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 Assessment 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. |
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Getting
It Right In History Class: Grades 9-12 Many 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 What 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. |
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Boost
Literacy: Grades 9-12 When 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 Teachers 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. |
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Science:
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 This 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. |
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Health and Physical Education:
Grades 9-10: Plan, Assess, Report![]() 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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