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Ron Nash – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024
Having observed and coached in hundreds of K-12 classrooms since 1994, Ron Nash has come to a few conclusions about what makes teachers tick and classrooms click. The best teachers attend to those seemingly little things that cost nothing, even as they create classroom climates where students can't wait to walk through the door every day. The big…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Frey, Nancy – Guilford Publications, 2010
This popular guide offers a wealth of innovative, research-based strategies for making K-12 classrooms the best learning environments they can be. Easy-to-implement best practices are presented for establishing a classroom management plan, organizing procedures and materials, building a respectful community, fostering peer collaboration, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Reprography, Teaching Guides, Writing Skills
Jensen, Eric – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2005
This completely revised and updated ASCD best-seller is loaded with ideas for how to improve student achievement and create a more effective classroom by applying brain research to your teaching. Renowned author and educator Eric Jensen translates the latest scientific findings into effective instructional strategies, including: (1) Why to start…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Brain, Personal Narratives, Classroom Design
Kottler, Ellen; Kottler, Jeffrey A.; Kottler, Cary J. – 1998
This book presents practical strategies to help secondary teachers succeed in their first year of teaching. The 16 chapters include the following: (1) Learning Your Way Around the School (getting oriented, making friends, learning rules and traditions, meeting others); (2) Organizing Your Room (taking inventory and assessing flow, movement, space,…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Classroom Design, Classroom Techniques
Dragan, Pat Barrett – 2003
This book presents a step-by-step guide to creating a smoothly functioning, literacy-rich first-grade classroom. It helps teachers do such things as bond with their new classes, create happy and cohesive environments, develop students' organizational skills and self-control, keep students motivated, integrate children's literature and the arts…
Descriptors: Art Education, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Bruening, William H. – 1975
Presenting models based on the philosophies of Carl Rogers, John Dewey, Erich Fromm, and Jean-Paul Sartre, this paper proposes a philosophical approach to education and concludes with pragmatic suggestions concerning teaching based on a fully-functioning-person model. The fully-functioning person is characterized as being open to experience,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Design