From seating plans to Shakespeare, "Teaching Outside the Box" offers practical strategies that will help both new teachers and seasoned veterans create dynamic classroom environments where students enjoy learning and teachers enjoy teaching. This indispensable book is filled with no-nonsense advice, checklists, and handouts as well as: a step-by ...
An inner-city teacher at Parkmont High School, and former Marine, shares anecdotes about the various creative devices she used to get her students to learn.
No child needs to--or wants to--fail at school; most problems in the classroom can be solved by the right combination of patience, understanding, attentiveness, and discipline. In this book, the author of the bestselling "My Posse Don't Do Homework"--and the inspiration for the Michelle Pfeiffer character in the movie "Dangerous Minds"--covers ...
This is the sequel to the book and film version of "My Posse Don't Do Homework." An autobiographical story of a dedicated teacher, LouAnne Johnson, who made a commitment keeping high-risk students in school. Although the book is mostly to do with boys, this is a compelling account of the struggles she faced: drugs, violence, teen pregnancies, ...
The author of MY POSSE DON'T DO HOMEWORK (which inspired the movie DANGEROUS MINDS) presents her thoughts on how to fix the American educational system. In addition to addressing such topics as ADHD, class size, and standardized tests, Johnson presents a set of rules that she believes can improve any school--among them "All Congress members must ...
This is the sequel to the book and film version of "My Posse Don't Do Homework." An autobiographical story of a dedicated teacher, LouAnne Johnson, who made a commitment keeping high-risk students in school. Although the book is mostly to do with boys, this is a compelling account of the struggles she faced: drugs, violence, teen pregnancies, ...
This is an inspiring account of one teacher's dedication to turning around a group of students that had been pigeonholed as hopeless. Young, idealistic, and eager to help her students learn, LouAnne Johnson called upon her humor, ingenuity, and Marine training, to turn this formerly neglected group of kids into proud and successful students, as ...
This story of how LouAnne Johnson bullied and bribed "the class from Hell" - 34 inner-city sophomores - into caring about school. And if that didn't work, the pretty, petite ex-marine told them she'd been trained to kill with her bare hands.
Gripping, thought-provoking, and hopeful, this YA debut by the author of "Dangerous Minds" is a rare and inspiring story about one teen's determination to fight his circumstances and shape his own destiny.
Not since Private Benjamin has a woman served her country with such side-splitting, good-natured humor. From basic training to advanced insanity, the Navy has never been seen like this--not until LouAnne Johnson signed up. First she gets mad. Then she gets even. Martin's.
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