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1	Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson more books like this by Mitch Albom add to wishlist Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	What Great Teachers Do Differently: Fourteen Things That Matter Most more books like this by Todd Whitaker add to wishlist This book describes the beliefs, behaviors, attitudes, and interactions that form the fabric of life in our best classrooms and schools. It focuses on the specific things that great teachers do ... that others do not. Readers of author Todd Whitakers best-selling WHAT GREAT PRINCIPALS DO DIFFERENTLY asked him for a companion volume focusing on ... see all copies from $14.74! new only from $16.49! \| first editions
3	The Power of Our Words: Teacher Language That Helps Children Learn more books like this by Paula Denton add to wishlist Thoughtful use of language is an often-overlooked component of the teacher's repertoire. However, the words, phrases, tone, and pace used daily in the classroom have the power to help students develop self-control, build their sense of belonging, and gain skills and knowledge. In this warm and thought-provoking guide, Paula Denton offers practical ... see all copies from $12.94! new only from $23.32!
4	How to Talk So Kids Can Learn at Home and in School: What Every Parent and Teacher Needs to Know more books like this by Adele Faber, Kimberly Ann Coe (Illustrator), Elaine Mazlish add to wishlist The leading experts on parent-child communication shows parents and teachers how to motivate kids to learn and succeed in school. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Dying Animal more books like this by Philip Roth add to wishlist Philip Roth's perennial character (first introduced in THE BREAST, then appearing in THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE) David Kepesh is the narrator of THE DYING ANIMAL, which finds an aging Kepesh still obsessed with sex, still longing for young women to keep death at bay. He thinks compulsively, in erotic detail, of an affair with a Cuban student named ... see all copies from $2.38! new only from $2.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Frindle more books like this by Andrew Clements add to wishlist Imaginative Nicholas Allen stops using the word pen and instead calls that writing instrument a frindle. With Nicholas's encouragement, his friends also begin calling pens frindles. Soon, Nicholas's word is being used all over town much to the disgust of his teacher, Mrs. Granger. Illustrated with b&w drawings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.55! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Secret History more books like this by Donna Tartt add to wishlist Richard Pepen comes to the campus of Hampden College in Vermont to escape the featureless, dusty California of his childhood, and to further his studies of ancient Greek. In this tightly woven liberal arts community there are five other students of Papen's chosen subject, all of them intimidatingly remote from the rest of the student body and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	You Can't Say You Can't Play more books like this by Vivian Gussin Paley add to wishlist Kindergarten teacher Vivian Gussin Paley looks at one of the most common problems of the classroom and school--what to do when classmates isolate a child. Paley solicited children's feelings on the issue, and tells how, by establishing a non-exclusionary rule and using it for discussion, she was able to gradually change students' behavior for the ... see all copies from $3.45! new only from $11.37! \| SVS
9	View from Saturday more books like this by E L Konigsburg add to wishlist Four unlikely students are selected by their teacher, Mrs. Olinski, to form the sixth grade team for their school's Academic Bowl. During a series of competitions, the individual talents of team members Noah, Ethan, Nadia, and Julian are used to propel the team to the state championship. Meanwhile, the team's success re-instills feelings of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.03! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Landry News more books like this by Andrew Clements add to wishlist Unchallenged by the assignments given by Mr. Larson, her burned-out language arts teacher, fifth grader Cara Landry begins her own newspaper. In her very first issue, Cara writes an editorial about Mr. Larson's rather lackadaisical teaching style. After reading the editorial, Mr. Larson is motivated to once again become a caring and involved ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Professors House more books like this by Willa Cather add to wishlist When he and his wife move to a new house, Professor Godfrey St. Peter is uncomfortable with the materialistic turn his life is taking. Stubbornly, he clings to his dusty study in the old house in an attempt to hang on to his old life and values. In addition, he is finding difficulties coping with the marriages of his two daughters which have not ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.49! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	A Kiss Remembered more books like this by Sandra Brown add to wishlist When she was a high school student Shelley Browning shared one spectacular kiss with Grant Chapman, her young, charismatic, and oh-so-handsome teacher. Years have passed, but that kiss has remained one of Shelley's favorite memories--one that haunted her even through her brief, disastrous marriage to another man. Now a 26-year-old divorcee, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students more books like this by Susan M Brookhart add to wishlist Here at last is a guide that helps you always know how to give the right feedback for all kinds of assignments, in every grade level and subject area. Susan M. Brookhart covers every possible aspect of the topic, from what kinds of feedback work best, to when and how often to give feedback, to how to use oral, written, and visual feedback. Lots of ... see all copies from $4.20! new only from $8.36! \| SVS
14 view cover	Communication for the Classroom Teacher more books like this by Pamela J Cooper add to wishlist This text provides prospective and current teachers with the skills and knowledge to understand, and improve their own communication behavior as well as their students'. By combining theory and practical advice, this text focuses on the reasons for using certain communication strategies and how to implement them. Communication for the Classroom ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.87! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The History Boys: A Play more books like this by Alan Bennett add to wishlist An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke ... see all copies from $2.98! new only from $3.74! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Narcissus and Goldmund more books like this by Hermann Hesse add to wishlist A story of a spiritual quest is set in the Middle Ages. Brother Narcissus, a monk at Mariabronn Abbey, serves as an adviser to Goldmund, a student at the Abbey School. Goldmund is attracted to the monastic life, but Narcissus suggests that he is unsuited for it and urges him to pursue a life in the world. Goldmund leaves the Abbey and becomes a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.02! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Teach Me more books like this by R A Nelson add to wishlist A tall science nerd, Nine decides to take a poetry course and finds herself flirting endlessly with the young, gorgeous Mr. Mann, her teacher. As she falls deeper and deeper in love with him, she begins to detach herself from everyone else, including her best friend, Schuyler, and gradually Nine becomes an 18-year-old on the cusp of destruction. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Tuesdays with Morrie more books like this by Mitch Albom add to wishlist In early 1995, Mitch Albom -- award-winning sportswriter, NY Times bestselling author, radio talk show host, television commentator -- turned on "Nightline." There on the screen was his former college professor and mentor, Morrie Schwartz, whom Mitch had not spoken to since graduating from college and embarking on a relentless drive to succeed. In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Oleanna more books like this by David Mamet add to wishlist "An ear for reproducing everyday language has long been David Mamet's hallmark and he has now employed it to skewer the dogmatic, puritannical streak which has become commonplace on and off the campus. With Oleanna he continues an exploration of male-female conflicts begun with Sexual Perversity in Chicago in 1974. Oleanna cogently demonstrates ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $7.95! \| first editions
20 view cover	Katherine more books like this by Anchee Min add to wishlist Zebra, a woman in her late 20's, leaves a labor camp at the end of the Cultural Revolution and goes to Shanghai. Disillusioned with communism, she lives in a crowded apartment with her family, works in a factory, and goes to language school to learn English. Her teacher, an American named Katherine, possesses a joie-de-vivre that is not only ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Classroom Management Strategies: Gaining and Maintaining Students' Cooperation more books like this by James S Cangelosi add to wishlist In the Sixth Edition, the practical orientation of prior editions has been retained with its pedagogy that leads pre-service and in-service teachers to discover how to apply research-based strategies in their own classroom. Teachers are prompted to analyze, contrast, and compare the cases - leading them to develop strategies for: establishing safe ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.82! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	How to Talk So Kids Can Learn more books like this by Adele Faber, Lisa Nyberg, Ph.D., Elaine Mazlish add to wishlist Shows how to communicate with kids using a dialogue technique, and looks at the motivational and school behavioral problems that interfere with education. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.82! \| first editions
23 view cover	Week in the Woods more books like this by Andrew Clements add to wishlist Expecting to be at his new school in New Hampshire a short time before going to a prep school, Mark Chelmsley doesn't want to go camping with his class. But he realizes he could prove himself to his science teacher Mr. Maxwell, who doesn't like rich kids. When Mark is accused of something he didn't do, he runs away into the woods. Mr. Maxwell goes ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Classroom Discourse: The Language of Teaching and Learning more books like this by Courtney B Cazden add to wishlist When Courtney Cazden wrote Classroom Discourse, she provided such a cogent picture of what the research tells us about classroom language that the book quickly became a classic and shaped an entire field of study. Although other books since have addressed classroom language, none has matched Cazden's scope and vision. Now, thirteen years later, we ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.04! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Challenge to Care in Schools: An Alternative Approach to Education more books like this by Nel Noddings add to wishlist This book challenges the traditional organization of high school studies around the academic disciplines. Noddings argues that such emphasis shortchanges not only the noncollege-bound whose interests are almost ignored, but even those who are preparing for college. The latter receive schooling for the head but little for the heart and soul. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.99! \| SVS

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