New Releases by Jim Burke

The Teacher''s Essential Guide to Content Area Writing leads the reader through Burke''s teaching strategies, which draw from a combination of research and Jim''s own experience as a public school teacher. He includes invaluable techniques to improve student writing as well as strategies to simply prompt students to write. Burke features several of his students'' writing samples enabling the reader to review the outcome of his instructional techniques. For use with Grades 6�12.

With everything teachers need to make the most of every day, this planner includes room for on-the-go notes, ample space for long- and short-term professional reflection, and 12-month weekly and monthly planners with dates and helpful worksheets and forms that maximize efficiency. Consumable.

For the busy teacher on-the-run, veteran teacher Jim Burke has created The Teacher''s Essential Guide series, a collection of slender, quick-read guides that offers you targeted solutions to your most pressing instructional needs: how to build motivation, use meaningful assessment to monitor student learning and assign grades, create purposeful homework, use technology in ways that enhance learning, teach essential study skills, learn breakthrough grouping strategies, and create lessons that engage all students. Burke''s solutions are based on research and his experience as a veteran teacher. Effective Instruction will help you zone in on the essentials that really matter, streamlining and simplifying your teaching while boosting student engagement and achievement. For use with Grades 612.

Burke offers classroom teachers concise, effective solutions to the most common instructional challenges they face. These solutions are based on a combination of research and the author''s own experience as a public school teacher who gets up every morning and works with his own students.

Jim Burke''s Teacher''s Daybook was an instant hit, helping tens of thousands of educators stay organized, professional, and sane. But all along, Jim has been collecting suggestions on how to improve the Daybook''s usability, and now he''s combined your feedback with some new ideas of his own to create the ultimate tool for managing your time. Using The Teacher''s Daybook, 2007 - 2008 is like having Jim down the hall for daily professional development, and this revised edition has more of everything: more room for on-the-go notes during your daily activities more space for long- and short-term professional reflection and planning more options for organizing yourself, your job, and your life more helpful worksheets and forms that maximize your efficiency. Even the Daybook''s companion website (books.heinemann.com/daybook) features more resources to help you every day. ) features more resources to help you every day. Each day you spend in a classroom offers numerous chances for professional growth. Let Jim Burke guide you in organizing your time so that you can make the most out of both your professional and personal life.

50 Essential Lessons is the result of the lessons Jim Burke learned while asking himself how to teach his students the skills they needed to succeed in school and in the larger world. Anchored in standards shared by a range of national literacy documents, these lessons focus on the core cognitive and personal skills-reading, writing, speaking and listening, taking notes, taking tests, and managing oneself-required on state tests and college entrance exams. Whether used to enhance your English Language Arts curriculum or as a stand-alone resource, 50 Essential Lessons will help you teach your students the academic essentials. Components: 50 Essential Lessons (book of lessons) presents 50 standards-based lessons organized around the cognitive and personal skills students need for success in school and beyond. Tools and Texts for 50 Essential Lessons provides a bank of teaching tools and lesson-related readings in a clear, reproducible format. Tools for 50 Essential Lessons CD-ROM organizes the charts, forms, and other teaching tools in an electronic format that is easy to scan and print. Key Features Lesson preview notes situate the lesson into your English Language Arts curriculum and provide the information needed to jump in and get started. The Teach section of each lesson offers Jim''s teaching demonstration, chronicling his teaching moves and language in a model lesson. The Assess and Extend section of each lesson lists strategies for reinforcing or extending student learning and plans to help you tailor the lesson to the needs of your particular students.

Joy''s questions and Jim''s responses evoke in us an appreciation for what it means to do the work called teaching with the "living intensity of soul." May such soulful teaching flourish among us: here is a book that can help it be so. - Parker Palmer and Sam Intrator Every new teacher needs a mentor, someone smart, experienced, compassionate, and reliable to give advice, share strategies, and lend a supportive ear. What if every new English teacher could have one the nation''s most-recognized master teachers as their mentor? Now they can. Letters to a New Teacher is the chance of a professional lifetime, an opportunity to read the letters and emails Jim Burke exchanged with novice teacher Joy Krajicek - letters in which Jim opens his practice, his mind, and his heart to guide Joy through her first year in the classroom. Jim fields the whole gamut of questions - from typical classroom-management matters to challenging instructional situations to sensitive topics like the boundaries of student-teacher relationships. His answers open the classroom experience up for novices to understand how to organize their space and time, how to plan instruction yet maintain flexibility, how to communicate effectively with the two-hundred personalities they encounter each day, and how to maintain professionalism under pressure. As gentle, humorous, and supportive as they are practical, Jim''s responses to Joy''s questions are immediately useful and are presented in chronological order. From August through June, you''ll watch as her questions become increasingly complex and see how Jim''s answers build upon one another to create a considered, consistent, and disciplined way of thinking about the teaching of English. Start a your career the right way. Read Letters to a New Teacher and put the thoughts of a master mentor to work in your classroom. Or give Letters to a New Teacher to a novice so they can discover a wellspring of ideas, a source for emotional sustenance, and a buoy for their spirits during difficult moments.

Jim Burke''s Teacher''s Daybook was an instant hit, helping tens of thousands of educators stay organized, professional, and sane. But all along, Jim has been collecting suggestions on how to improve the Daybook''s usability, and now he''s combined your feedback with some new ideas of his own to create the ultimate tool for managing your time.Using The Teacher''s Daybook, 2006-2007 is like having Jim down the hall for daily professional development, and this revised edition has more of everything: more room for on-the-go notes during your daily activities more space for long- and short-term professional reflection and planning more options for organizing yourself, your job, and your life more helpful worksheets and forms that maximize your efficiency.Even the Daybook''s companion website () features more resources to help you every day. Each day you spend in a classroom offers numerous chances for professional growth. Let Jim Burke guide you in organizing your time so that you can make the most out of both your professional and personal life.

Master teacher, planner, and organizer Jim Burke has created a daybook for teachers thats much more than a calendar. Its a reference and professional development resource equivalent to having Jim down the hall for daily help in planning.

Burke examines academic success initiatives around the country, identifying their key components, then detailing how their practices apply to ACCESS, a program for struggling students he began five years ago at Burlingame High School.

With each annual version of the Daybook, you can create a smart archive of your teaching career, enabling you to thoughtfully plan, revise, and improve each year.

What effective learners do to succeed in school and how you can help all of your students achieve similar results.

This book is designed to be read on the run-between periods, while planning, even while teaching-to make every minute count in your classroom, to help you work smarter and more effectively.

This book covers the entire English curriculum, from basic reading and writing to digital literacy, media literacy, and integrated instruction.

Master teacher, planner, and organizer Jim Burke has created a daybook for teachers thats much more than a calendar. Its a reference and professional development resource equivalent to having Jim down the hall for daily help in planning.

Master teacher, planner, and organizer Jim Burke has created a daybook for teachers thats much more than a calendar. Its a reference and professional development resource equivalent to having Jim down the hall for daily help in planning.

Provides graphic organizers that range from annotations and literature circle notes to Venn diagrams and vocabulary squares. Each graphic organizer comes with: Background information and theoretical foundations, different ways to use each tool to help students read, write, speak, and think better, a range of note-taking strategies to help students succeed in all academic classes, student samples, including many from Jim''s ACCESS (Academic Success) program for struggling students who want to succeed.

Reading Reminders features Jim Burke''s 100 best techniques for teaching reading, complete with tools and techniques on how to implement them.

Sometimes, English asks us to juggle so much so fast that teachers wonder how they can possibly do it all, let alone do it well. Jim Burke shows us how with this guide to teaching the entire English curriculum - covering everything from basic reading and writing to digital literacy, media literacy and integrated instruction.