Bøger af Susan Gingras Fitzell M Ed

This book offers a unique approach to helping ourselves and our children break free from negative cultural and media conditioning that creates aggression and conflict. Covering pre-K through twelfth grade, it presents five essential components necessary for an effective conflict education curriculum that is developmentally appropriate, and explores key issues including raising a peaceful male child in a violent world; the effect of media violence on children; school bullies; dating violence; and empowering adolescent girls to refuse the role of the "victim."

Give students the priceless gifts of empowerment, accountability, and motivationLearn how to give students the priceless gifts of empowerment, accountability, and the motivation to tackle any learning challenge and CHOOSE SUCCESS. Filled with practical strategies you can use today. Get the answers to these motivational questions, and more: How do I motivate the unmotivated? How can I empower students to reach their goals? What are the best strategies to promote motivation? How can I make homework fun? Teachers - Explore practical, researched based strategies and implement what you learn in your classes tomorrow!Parents - Discover how to motivate your child or teen to believe in themselves and choose strategies that work for how your child learns. Empower your children to reach their goals and make homework fun!

Your Guide to Finding and Using the Best Web Sites, Apps and Innovations in Your Classroom Even if you have just one mobile device (iPod(R), iPad(R), Tablet, Smart Phone) in your classroom, discover ways to provide fabulous learning opportunities for your students. This simple and easy guide provides valuable tips for finding, downloading and using the latest and best apps to compliment your curriculum. Every single web site, app and cross-platform innovation in this book has been researched, downloaded, and tested to save you time and energy. This book will help you stay current with the technology that is shaping the future of effective instruction to reach all students, including students with special needs, autism, learning disabilities as well as English language learners. Author and internationally recognized presenter Susan Fitzell provides specific web site and app analysis for different applications including: - Apps that support student and teacher organization - Accessibility apps for students with language and functional disabilities - The best note-taking apps - Apps that support using visuals to reach all learners - non-linguistic representation - Using music, video and other teaching strategies with a new tech-twist - Exceptional apps for English, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies - Apps for higher level thinking This collection of technology solutions to support best-practice teaching strategies is the best place to start when searching for the right tools to use in your classroom or for your student.

This book, co-written by a college student and an educational consultant, presents practical, research-based, study and test-taking strategies to teenagers from the perspective of a fellow teenager. Written for middle school through college age students, there is no other book or guide on the market that actually teaches adolescents "how" to learn and study using multiple intelligences, learning styles, and brain based strategies, as this book does.

Doing homework has never been this much fun! If you are a parent or guardian, or a teacher or counselor that works with parents, this book will shed valuable light on the reasons why learning strategies that work for one student might not work for another. By developing an understanding of the many ways in which we learn, you and your child will take an important step toward creating an educational environment that can include everyone, regardless of the area in which his or her natural abilities may lie. Looking for answers? This book is a veritable goldmine of practical information, resources, and tools for the parents and caregivers of students of any age and is chock-full of illustrations, examples, and innovative techniques, including: Customizing learning activities according to multiple intelligences and the student's personal learning style and establishing the ideal environment in which to focus on homework tasks. Simple exercises for fortifying the connection between mind and body and increasing mental alertness. A plethora of memorization techniques, based on the particular type of stimulus to which the student most responds. Practical suggestions to aid students in methodically approaching their writing assignments and increasing their comprehension in reading assignments. Resources for organizing the seemingly unruly amount of paperwork and learning implements that confront every student.

Doing homework has never been this much fun! If you are a parent or guardian, or a teacher or counselor that works with parents, this book will shed valuable light on the reasons why learning strategies that work for one student might not work for another. By developing an understanding of the many ways in which we learn, you and your child will take an important step toward creating an educational environment that can include everyone, regardless of the area in which his or her natural abilities may lie. Looking for answers? This book is a veritable goldmine of practical information, resources, and tools for the parents and caregivers of students of any age and is chock-full of illustrations, examples, and innovative techniques, including: Customizing learning activities according to multiple intelligences and the student's personal learning style and establishing the ideal environment in which to focus on homework tasks. Simple exercises for fortifying the connection between mind and body and increasing mental alertness. A plethora of memorization techniques, based on the particular type of stimulus to which the student most responds. Practical suggestions to aid students in methodically approaching their writing assignments and increasing their comprehension in reading assignments. Resources for organizing the seemingly unruly amount of paperwork and learning implements that confront every student.

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