Teacher Toolbooks
~All Inclusive Unit Guides~
Suppose you had all year with nothing to do... ...but research every topic, define every term, find maps, write mini-lectures, invent creative lessons, dream up and assessment for each topic, plus write hundreds of social studies test questions for "The Grand Exam." Well, that's exactly what we've done! Teacher Toolbooks provide a general knowledge base, student-centered activities and assessments, plus “The Grand Exam” to assess what your students have actually learned.
Based on Bloom's Taxonomy, our Toolbooks are all you need to shape your students future and see amazing results on end of year tests.
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Predicting the Past
~10 Minute Daily Warmups~
Imagine, opening your class with: “Once upon a time . . .”
Read about a famous person and then predict what happens to him or her.
Each person’s life story is a lesson in character education!
True stories about real men and women who helped shape U.S. and World History.
Diversity – stories of famous people from Asia, Africa, Latin America.
Fascinating – most of the stories describe the famous person’s childhood.
Predicting – students predict what happens to him/her as an adult!
Inspiring – how each person struggled against tremendous odds.
Entertaining – human interest stories you will find nowhere else.
Memorable – people who made history faced tough decisions.
Tests – these are the famous people who show up on standardized tests.
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Test Books
~Reporoducible books of thousands of test questions.~
Maybe . . .
You missed one or two terms thanks to an assembly or snow day.
The sickly student was absent the day you covered it.
The foreign student can read English better than hearing it.
The skateboarders and hiphoppers actually learn best by trial and error.
The right-brainers need to see (and feel) the whole shebang.
The left-brainers take this test and finally come to appreciate the logic of
history. Whichever . . .
The lovely folks who wrote your state test
Using Bloom’s taxonomy, each of the hundreds of terms can be asked in six different
ways. For this reason, we provide thousands of questions for review and great ways to incorporate them in everyday practice!
The result?
Students get the necessary practice.
A long-term investment . . .
You will use this testbook for YEARS to come.
Our best to you on the day of the state test,
The folks at Performance Education
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Instructional Posters and Maps
At first the statement just annoyed her. She was a good teacher and she knew it. She spent hours preparing student centered activities. But the more she thought about what he had told her the more she was inclined to think that maybe he had a point. "Mrs. Brown, your walls are bare . . . they don't teach." the principal said during her annual review.
Her walls were bare. But so what, just because she had never been an arts and crafts, beautiful bulletin board type, she was still a good teacher. She preferred to spend her time reading and dreaming up activities to help her students understand complex historical issues.
That summer she went to a "New to Teaching Geography" clinic at one of the state's teacher colleges. It was when she realized that she had been staring at a poster in the lecture hall for at least ten minutes - she concluded her principal had been right! Her walls were bare and they didn't teach. The realization came during a session that she found particularly boring. The presentation was good, she just wasn't in to the subject. But she learned so much during that hour just by studying a poster that mapped the world based on country population (she later learned it was a cartogram she had been studying).
Instantly, Mrs. Brown made it her mission to find great posters for her classroom. Eventually, she began to develop her own - where should couldn't find any good representations of what she wanted her students to learn. Today, we are pleased to offer the best of what Mrs. Brown found and created in our poster line. See our posters.
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