Awards: 2004 Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Award

This slipcase collection of 10 compact volumes offers a complete training curriculum for teachers that covers all required essentials for teacher induction, mentoring, and support programmes. The collection can be used for teacher certification and re-certification programmes as well as for fast-track alternative certification programmes. Additional highlights embedded within each individual volume include assessment pre-tests and post-tests; resources; and content about urban learners, making this training programme ideal for preparing highly qualified teachers for today's challenging classrooms, particularly in urban areas.

Each of these 10 essential books may be purchased individually, and the entire collection can also be accompanied by a Training Manual that allows instructors and staff developers to offer comprehensive teacher training that meets the requirements of the No Child Left Behind legislation. Individual works cover "What Every Teacher Should Know About . . ."

(1) Diverse Learners-research-based approaches to working with diverse learners

(2) Student Motivation-steps teachers can take to motivate and challenge students

(3) Learning, Memory, and the Brain-a holistic approach to student learning

(4) Instructional Planning-long and short-term goals for lesson planning

(5) Effective Teaching Strategies-a bag of teaching tools for the written, taught, and assessed curriculum

(6) Classroom Management and Discipline-effective tools to minimize or prevent the most common discipline problems

(7) Student Assessment-and the implications of standards-based instruction in the classroom

(8) Special Learners-effective tools to help students with special needs achieve school success

(9) Media and Technology-media that work for each of the student modalities

(10)The Profession and Politics of Teaching-effective partnerships with parents, teaching peers, mentor teachers, administrators, and teacher organizations.

About The Author:
Donna Walker Tileston has served education as a leader in teaching, administration, research, writing, software development, and national consulting for the past thirty years. She has been responsible for curriculum development, management, technology, finance, grants management, public relations, and drug abuse prevention programs. For the past twenty-five years, she has been actively involved in brain research, including research on factors that inhibit learning or increase the brain’s ability to put information into long-term memory.

Tileston’s ten-book collection What Every Teacher Should Know (Corwin Press 2003) received the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing by the Association of Educational Publishers. Other Corwin press titles include What Every Parent Should Know About Schools, Standards, and High-Stakes Tests (2005), Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2005), and Strategies for Teaching Differently (1998). Tileston has presented extensively at local, state, national, and international conferences, notably at The Hague in November 2005 and in Prague during March 2006.