Joyce McLeod | Jan Fisher | Ginny Hoover
1 Key Elements -- a wonderful resource for a teacher's shelf.
Key Elements is well organized and easy to read. It addresses so many of the frequent issues that come up in a classroom from seating to planning a lesson to intervening with a student to locating resources both on and off campus. Ideas are given for meeting the needs of the teacher, students, and parents. It is obvious that the authors know education as only teachers can. What a great help this will be for new and experienced teachers. Thanks to Joyce, Ginny, and Jan for this valuable resource!
2 Classroom Management
Two of the authors, Jan Fisher and Ginny Hoover are regular posters on teachers.net. They have been unfailingly helpful with their advise in the areas of classroom management and teaching strategies. This is what led me to read their book. Their talents,, along with Joyce McLeod's, combine to make a very informative, helpful book. After 33 years in the classroom, I wasn't sure that there was anything left in these areas that I had not already been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised to learn new "tricks of the trade" to add to my repertoire. I would recommend this book to teachers-to-be, beginning teachers, and seasoned teachers alike.
3 Practical help for the classroom teacher
This is a useful guide to changing/improving the way you run your classroom, speak to your students and manage your teaching.
It revolutionised my relationship with a class that had gone feral. They and I benefited from the range of practical advice available in this book. The results of reading it are obvious in all my teaching and learning strategies. Thank goodness for such hands-on help from teachers who still work at the coal face!
