TY - BOOK TI - Helping students improve academic and social skills : : hundreds of quick, innovative strategies to ignite and deepen learning T2 - Tips for teachers SN - 9781629502939 AV - LB 1607.5 .H369 2015 PY - 2015///] CY - Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. : PB - Incentive Publications by World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company, KW - High school teaching KW - United States KW - sears KW - Middle school teaching KW - Education, Secondary KW - Middle school education KW - Common Core State Standards (Education) N1 - "IP 459-2".--Spine; "Supports teaching to CCSS and state standards"--Cover; A dynamic little handbook -- Yes! They can remember -- Students who won't, don't and can't (or think they can't) -- Boys will be boys and girls will be girls -- In celebration of differences -- Get ready, get set, study, succeed -- Oh, Savvy, and shrewd -- Banish teacher (and student) homework woes -- Assess what they really know -- Students CAN make positive choices -- Classroom management with the brain in mind N2 - This collection of academic strategies is an excellent tool for strengthening any college- and career-readiness standards and offers valuable support for Common Core State Standards. Tips for Teachers: Helping Students Improve Academic and Social Skills is a valuable mix of solid information for the teacher, strategies that work in any classroom, and tools to put in the hands of students?all designed to boost student success in many learning-related skills. Loaded with hundreds of tips, activities, and strategies, including ways to integrate technology and learning, this collection covers such topics as student engagement, increased retention of concepts, emotional coping skills, differentiated instruction, authentic assessment, classroom management (informed by brain-based learning principles), research and study skills, life skills for success, homework, and teaching to gender differences. Such useful strategies come from noted educational authors, including Sharon Faber, Cherrie Farnette, Jonathan Jones, Bill McBride, Marjorie Frank, Jill Norris, Sandra Schurr, Debbie Silver, and Rick Wormeli. --Amazon.com ER -