Hacking Classroom Management
Utah English Teacher of the Year and sought-after speaker Mike Roberts brings you 10 quick and easy classroom management hacks that will make your classroom the place to be for all your students. He shows you how to create an amazing learning environment that actually makes discipline, rules and consequences obsolete, no matter if you're a new teacher or a 30-year veteran teacher.
Teachers they make movies about are innovative, engaging, and beloved
Hacking Classroom Management is about putting the F word--FUN--into your teaching, and Mike Roberts shows you how to do this, while meeting your standards and teaching your curriculum.
Hacking Classroom Management shows you how to
Build lasting relationships with your students
Maximize teaching time
Reduce behavior issues
Enhance student ownership
Improve parental involvement
Chasing Greatness: 26.2 Ways Teaching is Like Running a Marathon
After twenty years of teaching and more than fifty marathons, Mike Roberts is still chasing greatness. Now, he shares his experiences, while showing you, teacher and/or marathoner, how to run the most enriching race of your life.
Chasing Greatness helps teachers and runners:
Commit to excellence
Overcome stress
Set goals
Find balance
Overcome the desire to quit
Learn from the best teachers and runners
A Utah English Teacher of the Year and a finisher of over 50 marathons, Mike Roberts is connected to some internationally-recognized educators and runners. He punctuates each “mile” of Chasing Greatness with a teacher/runner profile, in which these renowned authorities answer hard questions that bear out the strategies that Roberts shares.
The New Science Teacher’s Handbook
By reading The New Science Teacher s Handbook, you will learn 12 specific steps that will help you on your way to becoming a skilled classroom teacher. The authors make each chapter both helpful and fun to read by including: The Story actual experiences that happened within one of the authors classrooms. As the authors note, these true stories demonstrate that even those who go on to write books on best practices in the classroom didn't start off as perfect educators. The Moral what the authors learned from the story. Steps for Success multiple solutions you can choose from to fit your concerns and school environment. What Does Success Look Like? how the classroom looks after implementing the steps for success. Resources you can turn to if you want to explore each topic in more detail. The book addresses areas that are often underrepresented, if not completely ignored, by prevalent science methods pedagogy textbooks. Whether you are on your way to becoming a science teacher or a teacher in your early years, the authors write, we feel confident the ideas presented here will help you become the teacher you’ve always wanted to be.