Böcker av Jim Burke

A low-tech, highly-practical planner everyone wishes for-and every teacher needsRenowned educator Jim Burke discovered that teaching at the top of your game requires low-tech, low-profile moments for picking up a pen, reflecting, and looking ahead. Maybe that's why every page of this remarkable planner feels handcrafted with Jim's wisdom on managing your time, your classes, and your life. You'll find professional development ideas to nudge you toward new practices as well as the tried and true- with yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily planning pages for setting your own personal and professional goals. Highlights include: Fill-in pages for long-range dreaming, annual unit envisioning, and short-term planning, as well as downloadable pages for daily ideas and improvisation based on students' needs Personal Professional Development (PPD) pages and essential readings to help you focus every month on pressing issues and timeless pedagogy about teaching and learning Space to help you set personal goals and reflect on them throughout the year Tools to help you plan instructional time and focus on students who need extra supportA planner is never about the lessons--it's always about the life. It's about the life and growth of teachers and students and the robust, happy development of one's days. And there's no better educator than Jim Burke to remind us of that in Teaching Better Day by Day.

Burke's poetry is unsentimental, stark in its concepts, imagery and language, yet it can also be lyrical and romantic. For the most part, his subject matter is theLimerick where he grew up and where he continues to live,but his poetry escapes any narrow confines. The poems can be provocative, playful, dramatic, and uncertain. They move between the ordinary and the metaphysical, eachwith a form to match. In reading these poems the associative process takes over to assemble a montage of an enigmatic self.- Anton Floyd

Don't spend another minute poring over the standards. Focus instead on how to teach them, using The Common Core Companion, Grades 6-8, as your one-stop guide across subjects.

Can a mere fifteen words turn today's youth into the innovative, ambitious thinkers we need? In this book, the authors distill each of these 15 powerhouse processes into a potent concision that nevertheless spans core subject areas: before, during, and after sections offer essential questions, lesson ideas, and activities.

If you're a high school teacher, no need to despair. Jim Burke has created a Common Core Companion for you, too, as your one-stop guide across subjects.