Five examples are used to show how a teacher can help pupils recognize their own self worth. (MT)

A consulting teacher can be most effective in working with mildly handicapped students by training the regular class teachers and support staff to use a problem solving technique in determining intervention. Actively modeling the skills in actual classroom settings is very important. (CL)

Stresses the importance of teacher awareness in helping children cope with divorce. Curriculum activities which present different life-styles and situations are suggested. (Author/DB)

Tips to break the tension and make parent-teacher conferences productive are offered. A reproducible page with suggestions for parents entitled "How To Get the Most Out of Parent-Teacher Conferences" is included. (MT)

Teachers in the school setting need to emphasize quality handwriting across the curriculum. Quality handwriting means that the written content is easy to read in either manuscript or cursive form. Handwriting achievement can be assessed, but not compared to the precision of assessing basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.…

Discusses what teachers must know to help children cope with loss (death, divorce, and moving), explaining that for most children, loss and fear go together, and noting that it is often the teacher who first identifies how difficult a loss is for a child. A sidebar presents tips on dealing with loss in the classroom (being attentive, sensitive,…

Ways that teachers can prepare themselves for a class with a mainstreamed disabled student are described, including obtaining information about the specific disability, visiting the child and parents at home, reflecting upon personal attitudes about disabilities, setting up for a wheelchair user, working with visually- or hearing-impaired…

This book explains the importance of teaching science to children and presents a theoretical framework on how to teach it. Science education is analyzed from two perspectives, teaching and learning. Contents include: (1) "Teaching Science 5-12: Why and How"; (2) "The Goals of Science Education"; (3) "Children Learning"; (4) "Children's Ideas"; (5)…

Examines professional concerns related to improving children's knowledge of language, determining what knowledge children bring to a learning environment, and promoting children's joy of learning. (RL)

Dedicated to all teachers, this book of poems seeks to capture the voice of the classroom teacher and to remind them of the power inherent in the art of teaching other human beings, the calling to which they have dedicated their lives. The book is broadly divided into "Act One--The Children" and "Act Two--The Staff," with a…

By providing children with both the tools to learn basic facts and access to facts not yet learned, teachers give children the freedom to attend to the meaning of algorithms and word problems, which play an important role in the application of mathematics in daily life. (MP)

Reflects on what it is like to be a writer and how others might help the writer. (HOD)

Suicidal behavior in children aged 6 to 12 years is considered in terms of incidence, risk factors, ego functions, and implications for educators. (SB)

A model for the demonstration of empathy by teachers, based on interviews with emotionally disturbed youngsters, is described. It is suggested that verbalization of understanding is not the complete process and that at least four interactive modalities are used by teachers to express empathy with a disturbed child. (Author)

A summary of research on humor that has practical implications for those who work with children. (Author/MP)