How to survive and thrive in the first three weeks of school / Elaine K. McEwan ; cover designer, Michael Dubowe ; production artist, Lisa Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McEwan-Adkins, Elaine K., 1941- author.

Contributor:

Dubowe, Michael, cover designer.

Miller, Lisa, artist.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teaching.

School year--Planning.

School year.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Best-selling author Elaine McEwan demonstrates how teaching routines, rubrics, and rules during the first three weeks of school leads to higher achievement through the rest of the year!

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""The Goal of This Book: With-it-Ness for All Teachers""; ""Who This Book is for""; ""What with-it-Ness is Not""; ""Overview of the Contents""; ""Special Features of This Book""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Introduction""; ""The “Big Idea� of 3 + 3 = 33""; ""How to “Coach� Motivated and Attentive Students""; ""Be Proactive""; ""Be Nonassumptive""; ""Be Assertive""; ""Be Positively Relentless""; ""The Research Support for 3 + 3 = 33""; ""Definitions You Need to Know""; ""Routines""; ""Rubrics""; ""Rules (and Rewards)""

""How the with-it Teachers Were Identified""""How with-it Teachers Teach""; ""Acronyms You Need to Know""; ""What�s Ahead?""; ""Chapter 1 - Creating Spaces for Teaching and Learning""; ""The Challenges of Creating a Supportive Learning Environment""; ""How to Allocate, Arrange, and Use Classroom Space""; ""How, Where, and with Whom Your Students Sit""; ""The First Decision: Arranging Your Furniture""; ""The Second Decision: Developing Your Default Seating Plan""; ""The Third Decision: The Placement of Individual Students""; ""With-it Teachers� Roundtable: Classroom Seating""

""What�s Ahead?""""Chapter 2 - Creating Walls That Work""; ""With-it Teachers Roundtable: Using Your Walls Wisely""; ""How with-it Teachers Use their Walls to Support Learning""; ""Use Your Walls to Teach Collaboration and Cooperation""; ""Use Your Walls to Create Communities of Learners""; ""Use Your Walls to Affirm and Celebrate the Individuality of Your Students""; ""Use Your Walls to Communicate Your Mission""; ""Use Your Walls to Build Vocabulary and Inspire Excellent Writing""; ""Use Your Walls as a Supplementary Textbook""; ""Use Your Walls as Instructional Aids""

""Use Your Walls to Teach Character""""Use Your Walls to Let Students Know What You Value""; ""Use Your Walls for Practice and Review""; ""Use Your Walls to Inspire and Motivate""; ""What�s Ahead?""; ""Chapter 3 - How to Teach the 3Rs: Routines, Rubrics, and Rules""; ""How to Maximize Academic Learning Time""; ""Time-Savers""; ""Signals That Silence Students""; ""Noise Breakers""; ""Attention Getters for off-Task Students""; ""Attention Getters for Whole-Group Instruction""; ""How to Become a with-it Teacher""; ""How With-it Teachers Teach the 3Rs""

""With-it Teachers� Roundtable: Teaching the 3Rs""""How with-it Teachers Choose Their Teaching Models""; ""How with-it Teachers Use the Teaching Moves""; ""Explaining""; ""Modeling""; ""Giving Directions""; ""Scaffolding""; ""Coaching""; ""Reminding""; ""Guiding (Practice)""; ""Attributing""; ""Constructing Meaning""; ""Motivating and Connecting""; ""Recapping""; ""Annotating""; ""Assessing""; ""Facilitating""; ""Redirecting""; ""Affirming""; ""What�s Ahead?""; ""Chapter 4 - Routines That Develop Self-Discipline""; ""Organizational Routines""

""With-it Teachers� Roundtable: Organizational Routines""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781483361178

1483361179

9781483363349

1483363341

OCLC:

923707602