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The Quality Assignment Routine
$25.00Add to cartView CartPlan, present, and evaluate assignments that students understand and value
Assignments take up a large share of every school day, yet students often do not understand what an assignment asks of them, why it matters, or how it will be judged. The Quality Assignment Routine gives teachers a clear, research-tested process for designing assignments that are meaningful, explaining them so every student knows what to do, and evaluating the results together with students.
What the routine helps teachers do
- Plan quality assignments using the Quality Assignment Planning Sheet, so each assignment has a clear purpose and connects to what students are learning
- Present assignments explicitly so students understand the task, the steps, and the expectations before they begin
- Evaluate assignments with students so feedback becomes part of learning rather than just a grade
What the routine teaches students
- REACT: a memory device students use to get ready for an assignment
- PACE: a memory device students use to check their own work before turning it in
The manual also describes two applications of the routine: Assignment Expert Teams and Personal Choice Assignments.
Built on research
In research studies, teachers who used the routine showed significantly more planning, presentation, and evaluation practices than when they did not use it and than a comparison group. In middle school classrooms (grades 6 to 8), both teachers and students were significantly more satisfied with their assignments.
Who it is for
Teachers in upper elementary, middle school, high school, and college classrooms, including classrooms with academically diverse learners and students with learning disabilities.
By Joyce A. Rademacher, Donald D. Deshler, Jean B. Schumaker, and B. Keith Lenz. Part of the Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Content Enhancement Series. Originally published by Edge Enterprises, Inc.
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Humor is an Attitude-Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh Your Way Out
$20.00Add to cartView CartIn this warm-hearted, practical book, Jim Bob Solsbery offers the kind of advice most of us have needed since that day we stopped laughing a lot. Jim Bob reminds us that "Humor Is An Attitude," with a series of memorable anecdotes, real-life examples and pithy quotes.
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Classroom Management Training Resource Manual (book)
200+ pages. WE DO NOT SELL THIS RESOURCE MANUAL TO THE GENERAL TEACHING PUBLIC. It is given to participants of our classroom management seminars, and at our on-site trainings conducted in schools and districts. This Resource Manual provides cutting edge ideas, strategies, tips, and techniques which will forever increase your teaching time, student on-task time, and reduce stress for you and your students. Our innovative strategies establish optimal learning environments. You will go way beyond discipline to create a program that will change your students’ behavior.
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Teach-To’s: 100 Behavior Lesson Plans and Essential Advice (book)
$49.95Add to cartView Cart100 BEHAVIORAL LESSON PLANS AND ESSENTIAL ADVICE. Every educator knows that curriculum and discipline go hand in hand. We easily prepare academic lesson plans – BUT – what about behavioral lesson plans. This book provides 100 behavioral lesson plans for educators (no need to recreate the wheel – it’s been done for you!). The most useful behavior lessons are included which will save educator’s valuable time and energy and which will help your students to know the expectations of your classroom.
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Encouragement, Empowerment, and Excellence in Every Classroom (book)
$29.95Add to cartView CartHaving trained tens of thousands of teachers who teach hundreds of thousands of students, we know that children and adolescents can and will be responsible for their own behavior and for their own learning, but these skills must be taught first. That’s why we have been tirelessly promoting it for over twenty-seven years! This book focuses on proven strategies for teaching important skills to students, evaluating their successes, and certainly focuses on the art of delivering effective consequences when all else fails. Special techniques are outlined for preventing discipline problems and dealing effectively with those that do occur.
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Encouragement, Empowerment, and Excellence in Every Classroom (Audio Book)
$49.95Add to cartView CartHaving trained tens of thousands of teachers who teach hundreds of thousands of students, we know that children and adolescents can and will be responsible for their own behavior and for their own learning, but these skills must be taught first. That’s why we have been tirelessly promoting it for over twenty-seven years! This audiobook focuses on proven strategies for teaching important skills to students, evaluating their successes, and certainly focuses on the art of delivering effective consequences when all else fails. Special techniques are outlined for preventing discipline problems and dealing effectively with those that do occur.
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Unconditional Positive Regard (book)
$49.95Add to cartView CartRelationships are at the heart of high-performing classrooms, and unconditional positive regard (UPR) is a key strategy used to develop strong, positive relationships. Bringing UPR into classrooms and schools will give teachers more time to teach and students more time to learn. The authors demonstrate how to build a classroom full of respect, empathic understanding, compassion, fairness, trust, patience, and self-control that are all key components of UPR and necessary for authentic, culturally responsive classrooms. The authors also provide doable strategies and activities to implement and nurture each of these components so the teachers can bring unconditional positive regard into their classrooms and the wider school community to enjoy high-performing classrooms.
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Encouragement, Empowerment, and Excellence in Every Classroom (DVD)
$199.95Add to cartView CartThis DVD includes: All of the Self-Control strategies you have learned, which will help you “remain calm and respond right” every time. All of the seminar philosophy and strategies, which will help set you and your children up for peak performance. All of the rapport building philosophy and strategies which will help you establish connections with all children, even children who challenge, and which always pay big dividends to the classroom teacher. Also, classroom arrangement ideas! All of the seminar philosophy and strategies which will guarantee that you “stay out of the tornado” and never again find yourself giving multiple warnings and repeated requests. “All of the critically important “what if’s” asked by teachers from around America, and answered by a master educator.
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Safety and Security Habits for Educators (book)
$49.95Add to cartView CartLearn how to use strategies and habits described within this valuable volume to increase your safety and security readiness as well as to greatly improve your survival chances during critical incidents that could occur at your school or on your own personal time in your home or in public places.
Author, Eric Combs, examines the human psyche under stress, history and types of threats against schools, and strategies and habits to employ while creating a safer school campus WITHOUT creating a fearful place that looks more like a prison that a place of learning.
Eric identifies common threats to your own personal physical security as well as threats to you emanating from the digital world, and he offers you strategies and habits to reduce the possibility of you becoming a victim in either of these arenas.
