Let Me Count the Ways: Practical Innovations for Jewish Teachers

Let Me Count the Ways: Practical Innovations for Jewish Teachers

Let Me Count the Ways: Practical Innovations for Jewish Teachers

Let Me Count the Ways: Practical Innovations for Jewish Teachers

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Overview

Over the last three years, Carol Starin has written a column for the Torah Aura Bulletin Board. These suggestions for teachers and educators are organized by topic and offer thousands of ideas for classroom management, holiday celebrations, lesson planning, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780933873971
Publisher: Torah Aura Productions
Publication date: 01/28/1999
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword

A First Thing: Five Secret Tales of Jewish Teaching8

Sixty-five Things About Planning
  -Five Things to Do Before the First Day12
  -Five Things I Wish I Had Done at the Beginning of the Year13
  -Five Challenges for the Second Day of Class15
  -Five Reasons to Stand by the Door17
  -Five Things to Do in the First Fifteen Minutes19
  -Five Things to Include in Your First-Day Plan21
  -Five Things You Should See When You Walk into a Classroom22
  -Five Things Teachers Should Keep in Their Trunks23
  -Five Ways to Create Community in the Classroom25
  -Five Things You Can Do to Energize and Recapture Your Classroom for the Rest of the Year 27
  -Five Great Year-End Activities29
  -Five Things to Do on the Last Day of School30
  -Five Things You Can Do to Extend Learning into the Summer32

Forty-five Things About School-to-Home Communications
  -Five Reasons to Send a Letter Home at the Beginning of the Year36
  -Five Tips for Effective Parent-Teacher Conferences38
  -Five Key Points to Keep in Mind When Writing Progress Reports and Five Tips about Progress Reports39
  -Report Cards: Five Tips for Writing Meaningful Comments41
  -Five Ways to Enlist Parents� Help in the Classroom43
  -When Children Have Two Homes45
  -When Children Have Two Homes II: Dealing with Two Families47
  -When Children Have Two Homes III: Five Technical Issues49
  -A Death in the Family: Five Questions for When Your Student Loses a Family Member51

Fifty-three Things About Lesson Planning
  -Five Thoughts About Lesson Planning56
  -Five Ways to Begin a Lesson57
  -Great Beginnings: Five Objectives�Five Set Inductions59
  -Five Great Ways to End a Lesson61
  -Transitions: Opportunities�Not Wasted Time63
  -Five Kinds of Seatwork That Make a Difference65
  -Eight Ways to Help Students Retain What They�re Learning67
  -Five Ways to Help You Think about Your Own Teaching69
  -Two Sets of Five Ways to Know if You�ve Had a Successful Day71

Thirty-seven Things About Classroom Management
  -Five Ways to Get Kids to Line Up74
  -Carol�s Ten Least Effective Management Techniques75
  -Twelve of Jim Fay�s Twenty-three Quick and Easy Classroom Interventions77
  -Five Reflections on the Privilege of Working with a Madrikh or Madrikhah79
  -Five Ways to Use Madrikhim in Your Classroom81

Forty-six Things Effective Teachers Do
  -What�s in a Question? Six Levels from Bloom 84
  -Five Questioning Do�s and Don�ts86
  -Five Strategies for Dealing with Students� Answers87
  -Five Thoughts about Praising89
  -Five Meaningful Ways to Praise91
  -Five Ways to Handle Student Absences93
  -Five Things to Include in Your Sub Folder when the Teacher is Absent95
  -Five Strategies to Increase Active Participation in the Learning Process97
  -Five Strategies for Giving Effective Directions98

Tools of the Trade: Seventy-five Things to Keep Up Your Sleeve
  -Five Ways To Create Bulletin Boards If You Don�t Have Any (or If What You Have Is Inadequate)102
  -Five Great Party Ideas103
  -Five Ways to Use the News in Your Classroom105
  -Five Things to Consider When Planning a Field Trip106
  -Five Field Trip Ideas107
  -Five Categories of Guest Speakers for Your Classroom108
  -Five Things to Do to Use Videos Effectively109
  -Five Great Classroom Book Projects111
  -Five Ways to Use Jewish Books113
  -Five Great Ways to Teach and Learn with the Jewish Internet114
  -Flashcards: Five Activitives119
  -Five Great Classroom Projects121
  -Five Great Tzedakah Projects123
  -One Project: Five Stories124
  -Five Ways to Celebrate the Accomplishments of Jewish Women125

Seventy-five Things for Holiday Celebrations
  -Five Jewish Calendar Activities128
  -Five More Jewish Calendar Activities130
  -Rosh ha-Shanah/Yom Kippur Activity: Five Projects for Beginning the New Year132
  -Five Great Hanukkah Party Ideas134
  -Five Purim Activities for Your Classroom136
  -Ten Classroom Pesah Projects138
  -Seven More Pesah Projects139
  -Five Ways to Help Your Students Enhance Their Sedarim.141
  -Five Pesah Activities for the Early Childhood Classroom143
  -Five (Really Eleven) Pesah Ideas for Home and School (or From School to Home)145
  -Five Prince of Egypt Study Guides147
  -Seven Ways (and Many Resources) to Help Commemorate Yom ha-Shoah148
  -Five (Plus One) Projects for Yom ha-Atzma�ut150

Forty Ways to Enrich the Teacher in You
  -Interviewing: Five Types of Questions Principals Should Ask Teachers 154
  -Five Considerations When Interviewing for a Jewish Teaching Position156
  -Five Books Recommended by Teachers for Teachers 158
  -Three Sets of Five Great and Small Things to Honor Your Teachers159
  -Five Things an Educator Should Do Over the Summer161
  -Five Things You Can Do to Enrich Yourself Over the Summer162

Forty-one Things About Using Torah Aura Materials
  -Six Ways to Use Bim Bam and C.Ha164
  -Five Ways to Use Now I Know My Alef-Bet166
  -Five Ways to Use the Alef Celebration Lessons167
  -Five Ways to Use the Posters for Now I Know My Alef-Bet and Marilyn Price & Friends Present the Alphabet from Alef to Tav168
  -Five Ways to Use the Now I Know My Alef Bet Wall Posters169
  -Five Ways to Use the Alef Parent Education Folders171
  -Five Ways to Use Jewish Values from Alef to Tav Stories in Your Classroom172
  -Five Ways to use Marilyn Price & Friends Present the Alphabet from Alef to Tav in Your Classroom173
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