English as Second Language(ESL) & Languages Other Than English (LOTE)
Your ESL and foreign language students will be talking right away! Students love this rich array of cooperative learning games, lessons and activities. You will promote language acquisition through a communicative approach. The book includes sect...
Character and Personal Development
Help your students develop character virtues! In this SmartCard, you will find the answers to some frequently asked questions relating to character education: What is character education? Why should schools teach for character? Shouldn't parents ...
Discipline and Management
Signals are simple, nonverbal messages, such as hand or body gestures between the teacher and students. Classroom signals communicate volumes without saying one word. Use signals to manage your students. Use signals to relay instructions. Have yo...
Discipline and Management
Develop students' responsibility and self-esteem by empowering them with important duties in the classroom. Save time and energy by enlisting students' help to perform essential classroom management tasks. Student jobs are terrific management too...
Discipline and Management
Make cooperative projects more fun and run more smoothly with roles. Avoid "hogs" and "logs" during open-ended team discussions. Develop students' teamwork skills and repertoire of social competencies. This SmartCard presents the 12 most essentia...
Boosting Communication and Building Classroom Community
Boost your students' communication skills. Build interpersonal relations. Transform your class into a more caring community. Do it all with gambits —functional phrase that empower students to say just the right thing. Whether they're saying...
Cooperative Learning
Included in this SmartCard are 28 of Kagan's very best cooperative learning structures. With these structures, you won't have to worry if your cooperative learning lessons respect the principles known to increase student achievement and improve s...
Meet your students' unique learning needs with a differentiated approach to teaching. This SmartCard addresses common questions about Differentiated Instruction, outlines the many ways in which students differ, and provides practical tips for man...
Graphic Organisers and Mind Maps
Transform your classroom into a visual think tank with graphic organisers! This colourful SmartCard describes the rationale for using graphic organisers, provides ideas and activities across the curriculum, and illustrates over 30 graphic organis...
Graphic Organisers and Mind Maps
Mind mapping is a fast and fun way for students to take visual notes and for you to present concepts to students. Use mind mapping in your class to foster creativity, boost comprehension and retention of what you teach, and simultaneously engage ...
Higher Level Thinking
Skyrocket critical and creative questions in your classroom with carefully crafted questions. One of the most frequent and important thing teachers do is ask questions. In fact, teachers ask up to hundreds of questions per day. This easy-referenc...
Higher Level Thinking
Use the hundreds of open-ended higher-level thinking questions to venture beyond the basic facts in social studies. Topics including: Culture, Current Events, Explorers, Government, Historical Characters, Historical Events and more! - includes intriguing questions for the most popular social studies topics and themes including: Culture, Current Events, Explorers, Government, Historical Characters, Historical Events and more! Questions are provided ...