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Can I Be in Your Class? is available internationally, including through these booksellers:

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Rowman and Littlefield Education

The Social Studies Helper is available worldwide, including the folllowing booksellers:

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Can I Be in Your Class?: Real Education Reform to Motivate Secondary Students (Rowman and Littlefield Education)

With education reform in the forefront of societal issues, virtually everyone is seeking methods to augment students’ academic performance. Yet, real reform begins in individual classrooms, where the difference between the ordinary teacher and the extraordinary lies not in the content they teach, but in the manner and atmosphere in which they teach it.

Can I Be In Your Class? offers secondary teachers tips and techniques to invigorate instruction and create an atmosphere conducive to active learning and extraordinary teaching. Reforming education classroom by classroom, this book supports sustained academic achievement while making education engaging for students.

Each chapter opens with an illustrative anecdote and highlights a different educational area. A worksheet of self-assessment exercises concludes each chapter, guiding teachers to individualize and implement the suggested improvements in their classrooms.

Designed to support both the novice and veteran educator, the best practices offered in this book help teachers to make education a dynamic experience that addresses the whole child and boosts academic progress. As a result, other students will ask, “Can I be in your class?”

The Social Studies Helper: Creative Assignments for Exam Success (Rowman and Littlefield Education)

A standards-based resource for high school social studies teachers, The Social Studies Helper easily integrates technology and content. The creative projects and activities offered — with differentiation for gifted, regular, and special education students — enhance lessons and spark student interest, while simultaneously building skills needed to prepare students for standardized exams.

Covering each of the traditionally required social studies courses in separate chapters — as well as a couple of electives — each project has a handout and a corresponding rubric, both of which are ready for distribution to your students. Moreover, based on the upper levels of Bloom’s taxonomy, each assignment has an overview with step-by-step procedures.

All of the assignments are labeled, so you'll know which ones are intended for groups and which are individual assignments. Plus, each indicates whether it's a motivating activity or project to begin a lesson or unit, a building activity or project to link concepts, or a culminating activity or project that will enable you to assess learning outcomes.

Busy teachers and those just seeking new ideas now have activities and projects instantly available and ready for use. Creating assignments need no longer be on your “to do” list!