high school teaching

A practical guide that describes available research on adolescent brain development, and provides strategies for developing students' social, emotional, and cognitive needs.

Provides practical guidelines to planning and implementing a block period schedule within the high school curriculum and offers advice on effectively teaching in a longer block of time.

The author describes the challenges and rewards of her work as a teacher and advocate for at-risk youngsters, introducing the principles and practices of her innovative educational program designed to teach tolerance through literature and writing.

A collection of anecdotes, tools, and strategies about teaching teenagers that discusses resilience, attitude, the value of education, goals, excellence, and more.

Draws from interviews with forty teenagers in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Providence, Rhode Island, to show what high school students, including ESL learners, need from their teachers; discusses familiarity, respect, trust, motivation, high expectations, discipline, and other related topics.

Describes strategies designed to help teachers create lessons that can be accommodated to the learning styles and needs of varied student populations in grades six through twelve, and includes samples of differentiated learning experiences from multiple subjects.

Wendy Kopp discusses how she created Teach for America, a program which sends talented young teachers to the neediest urban areas in the United States to educate disadvantaged children.