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1. Sticky Teaching and Learning: How to Make Your Students Remember What You Teach Them
The goal of every lesson is to get students to remember what they have learned but, of course, it’s trickier than it seems. Author Caroline Bentley-Davies points out potential stumbling blocks and gives teachers simple strategies for overcoming them.
2. Comment se faire des amis et influencer les autres
L’auteur vous dévoile trois techniques fondamentales pour influencer les autres, six recettes infaillibles pour gagner leur sympathie, douze façons de les rallier à votre point de vue, neuf moyens pour modifier leur attitude sans les irriter, ni les offenser, et une méthode efficace pour devenir un bon leadeur.
3. Visible Maths: Using Representations and Structure to Enhance Mathematics Teaching in Schools
This book explores the strengths and weaknesses of math lessons ranging from whole numbers to algebraic manipulations, so that primary and secondary teachers can thoughtfully choose which way to present these representations to students.
4. All Other Duties as Assigned: The Assistant Principal’s Critical Role in Supporting Schools Inside and Out
Taking on a role in school leadership can be daunting! This book, written by an assistant principal, looks at current research and practice that those new to the role can use to become a stellar vice principal.
5. Engaging Diverse Learners in the Mathematics Classroom: A Functional Language Awareness Approach for Middle and High School Educators
Using a functional-language awareness approach, the authors show teachers how small adjustments to language used in math class can have a big effect on student achievement.
6. Math Games with Bad Drawings: 75 ¼ Simple, Challenging, Go-Anywhere Games — and Why They Matter
A brilliant collection of math games that require nothing more than paper, pens and a handful of coins. Author Ben Orlin provides “tasting notes” for each game as well as an explanation for why this game matters. A great way to get students to see the fun in math!
7. Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction
This is one of the newest entries in the “Words Their Way” series. Readers will discover a teacher-directed, child-centered plan for vocabulary growth and spelling development.
8. Stencil graffiti : tout savoir sur le pochoir urbain
Tout, vous saurez tout sur le graffiti! Ce livre aborde l’art urbain d’une manière originale, à l’image de cet art totalement libre.
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Will Langille
They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up by Eternity Martis. It’s a great memoir by a woman of colour about her experience in a London, Ontario university. A great read for teachers about the covert (and overt) racism that can find its ways into our schools.
Heather Snethun
There’s No Such Thing As Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom’s Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids by Linda Åkeson McGurk. It focuses on the value of spending time outdoors. It’s an enjoyable read that uses anecdotes backed by science.
Shelley Ferris Knott
I just read a Canadian novel called Lost on Brier Island by Jo Ann Yhard. Great read. Otherwise, still rereading the classics such as Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
Amrit Rai Nannan
Potlatch for Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony by Sara Florence Davidson and Robert Davidson. It explores the nine principles of learning through ceremony from the Haida people.
Spencer Wenzel
The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More
Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud and Ned Johnson. I found this book very useful, to help support my students and promote a sense of responsibility for their learning. The main idea is that kids need to learn how to make choices and fail sometimes, and how parents and teachers can support their children and students through this.
