Let Me Count The Ways, Volume 2: Practical Innovations For Jewish Teachers

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Over the last three years, Carol Starin has written a column for the Torah Aura Bulletin Board. These suggestions for teachers and educators are organized by topic and offer thousands of ideas for classroom management, holiday celebrations, lesson planning, and more. Table of Contents A First Thing: Five Secret Tales of Jewish Teaching Sixty-five Things About Planning Five Things to Do Before the First Day Five Things I Wish I Had Done at the Beginning of the Year Five Challenges for the Second Day of Class Five Reasons to Stand by the Door Five Things to Do in the First Fifteen Minutes Five Things to Include in Your First-Day Plan Five Things You Should See When You Walk into a Classroom Five Things Teachers Should Keep in Their Trunks Five Ways to Create Community in the Classroom Five Things You Can Do to Energize and Recapture Your Classroom for the Rest of the Year Five Great Year-End Activities Five Things to Do on the Last Day of School Five Things You Can Do to Extend Learning into the Summer Forty-five Things About School-to-Home Communications Five Reasons to Send a Letter Home at the Beginning of the Year Five Tips for Effective Parent-Teacher Conferences Five Key Points to Keep in Mind When Writing Progress Reports and Five Tips about Progress Reports Report Cards: Five Tips for Writing Meaningful Comments Five Ways to Enlist Parents Help in the Classroom When Children Have Two Homes When Children Have Two Homes II: Dealing with Two Families When Children Have Two Homes III: Five Technical Issues A Death in the Family: Five Questions for When Your Student Loses a Family Member Fifty-three Things About Lesson Planning Five Thoughts About Lesson Planning Five Ways to Begin a Lesson Great Beginnings: Five Objectives Five Set Inductions Five Great Ways to End a Lesson Transitions: Opportunities Not Wasted Time Five Kinds of Seatwork That Make a Difference6 Also available: Let Me Count the Ways: Practical Innovations for Jewish Teachers - ISBN 0933873972 How to Be a Jewish Teacher: An Invitation to Make a Difference - ISBN 0933873190 Torah Aura Productions publishes books for Jewish schools and families that help celebrate our heritage and our faith. We have over 25 years of experience as the leading creator of high quality educational materials that enable Jewish children to become empowered Jewish adults. Our books guide and enhance the Jewish knowledge, spirituality and identity of children and their families, and our innovative tools bring Judaism alive in synagogues, Hebrew schools, and day schools. Torah Aura Productions was founded in 1981 by a group of innovative Jewish educators who looked out at the field of Jewish education and found materials that were shallow and dull. They started a company to create new tools for families and teachers that would be exciting and meaningful. For more than two decades, Torah Aura has revolutionized the way Jewish schools enable their students to become empowered Jewish adults, and has helped families make Judaism a meaningful presence in their homes. Some of the areas we publish in: - Torah and Bible - Talmud - Jewish teaching - Jewish parenting - Jewish ethics and values - Jewish holidays - the Jewish lifecycle - Israel - Hebrew - Jewish prayer Torah Aura Productions: Making success in Jewish education an achievable reality.

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