For the busy teacher on-the-run, veteran teacher Jim Burke has created The Teacher's Essential Guide series, a collection of slender, quick-read guides that offers you targeted solutions to your most pressing instructional needs: how to build motivation, use meaningful assessment to monitor student learning and assign grades, create purposeful homework, use technology in ways that enhance learning, teach essential study skills, learn breakthrough grouping strategies, and create lessons that engage all students.

Burke's solutions are based on research and his experience as a veteran teacher. Effective Instruction will help you zone in on the essentials that really matter, streamlining and simplifying your teaching while boosting student engagement and achievement.
128 pages.

Click here to download a bonus chapter by Jim Burke, which outlines 10 tips for troubleshooting instructional techniques. From homework and academic honesty, to reading and writing.

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Video Interviews with author Jim Burke!

» Part 1: Jim Burke discusses the content and format of his Teacher's Essential Guide series (3:26).

» Part 2: Jim Burke offers advice to new teachers about making a good first impression (2:51).

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