Teaching Resources

Books by author and speaker Carol Cummings

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Teaching Makes a Difference (3rd edition)
While many factors influence student learning, researchers have concluded that teachers make the biggest difference. In fact, the effectiveness of the teacher is more predictive of student academic growth than socioeconomic level, class size and heterogeneity, or race. This book is filled with practical strategies to assist teachers in making instructional decisions that prove that teaching makes a difference.
  • Selecting standards
  • Teaching to standards
  • Monitoring
  • Memory
  • Motivation
  • Active participation
  • Lesson planning
Managing to Teach (3rd edition) -- A Guide to Classroom Management. Practical strategies to assist teachers in managing a classroom. Includes many useful teacher reproducible forms.
  • Teach self-management skills
  • Improve work habits
  • Minimize misbehavior
  • Maximize learning time
  • Encourage cooperation
  • Increase motivation

Managing a Diverse Classroom
Practical strategies to assist teachers in providing a developmental curriculum for a classroom of diverse learners

  • Ideas based on what children need to learn to read and write
  • Ideas for learning centers to provide opportunities for children to make choices, experiment, and solve problems
  • Ideas to help teachers authentically assess students at work on a daily basis
  • Ideas to measure student growth against developmental milestones

Managing A Cooperative Classroom
Research underscores the need to provide inter and intrapersonal skills during a child's first ten years. This is an appeal and guide to providing a better balance in the classroom between students working alone and working in a social group setting.

  • How to form teams
  • How to teach social skills
  • Sample student worksheets and lesson plans

Peering In On Peers
Step-by-step manual for coaching teachers
  • How to collect and label notes
  • How to analyze lessons
  • How to use a teaching map
  • Tips for planning and conducting a conference

Plan To Teach

  • Formats for daily planning, weekly planning, and individual lesson planning
  • Programs to assist setting up your routines and work requirements
  • A letter for substitute teachers
  • Lots of timely teaching tips

Weekly (top illustration)

or Daily (lower illustration)

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