Instructor′s Notebook: How to Apply TPR For Best Results Ramiro reveals secrets about Total Physical Response(TM) (known worldwide as TPR), that he discovered during 28 years of teaching Spanish to students of all ages, including adults. That stunning success inspired his students to honor him with awards of The Most Remembered Teacher and Outstanding Teacher of the Year. Ramiro guides you step by step with TPR lessons you can use in any language to keep students engaged day after day. Many games, dialogues, and even tests are included. You will love his book, and the companion book, Instructor's Notebook: TPR Homework Exercises. When language teachers asked Ramiro for more, he produced The Graphics Book in your choice of English, Spanish, French or German. The game that his students asked to play over and over is Ramiro's TPR Bingo. For a solid understanding of the powerful linguistic tool of TPR, Ramiro recommends you use his books and games after you have read James J. Asher's classic book, Learning Another Language Through Actions, now in its 7th edition. Ramiro Garcia earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in Spanish, and a master's degree in Linguistics from San Jose State University in San Jose, California. For 28 years, he successfully applied the Total Physical Response(TM) approach in teaching Spanish at Prospect High School in Saratoga, California, where he also served for 13 years as chairman of the language department. The students selected Ramiro Garcia as their Outstanding Teacher of the Year, and the following year, he was honored by the students as The Most Remembered Teacher. He has taught Spanish also at De Anza College and for adults in night classes. Ramiro has also organized and guided tours of students to Mexico, Hawaii, and Europe. Be sure to checkout Ramiro Garcia's The Graphics Book, TPR Bingo, and Instructor's Notebook: TPR Homework Exercises.

This First Year Teacher Notebook provides an in-depth exploration of the essential content and skills all new teachers need as they begin the journey of becoming an effective master teacher. This resource is organized around 10 foundational content areas such as, classroom management, that all teachers need to master and is infused with Gingers passion for teachers and teaching. The content and processes are based on current induction research, effective teaching for learning practices, and Gingers extensive experience with new teachers and mentors. It can be used as a stand-alone resource, workshop manual, or classroom textbook.

Having the capacity to benefit from emotions, rather than being paralyzed by them, offers people the opportunity to navigate difficulties, while being able to face life, relationships, and themselves with courage, grace, and strength. In The Skills System Instructor's Guide, author Julie F. Brown provides a curriculum for helping people improve emotion regulation capacities, which allows the person to actively participate in both joyful and challenging aspects of life. The guide presents nine simple, user-friendly adaptive coping skills effective for individuals of diverse learning abilities. Based on Dialectic Behavior Therapy principles, the Skills System helps people of all ages learn to effectively regulate emotions, thoughts, and actions to reach personal goals. PRAISE FOR The Skills System Instructor's Guide In this instructor's guide, Julie Brown provides a clear step-by-step introduction to the emotion regulation skills curriculum that she has developed over the course of two decades of work with individuals with learning challenges and emotional difficulties. Brown succeeds admirably where few others have even dared to set foot. Complex emotion regulation challenges are broken down into manageable problems using a series of steps that people of many different skill levels can apply for themselves. At once simple and sophisticated, this guide is a must for anyone who works with, or cares for, someone with emotion regulation difficulties. James J. Gross, PhD, professor of psychology, Stanford University; editor, Handbook of Emotion Regulation This practical Skills Training Handbook fills a critical need of providing Dialectical Behavior Therapy based techniques and related treatment procedures to individuals with emotional and intellectual challenges. KUDOS Julie Brown. Donald Meichenbaum, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Research Director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention Miami, Florida Purchase this book and you will return to it again and again. The Skills System offers a concise, ultra-pragmatic skills training approach with comprehensive, step-by-step curriculum materials, great for teaching emotion regulation to learners of all abilities. Both experienced and novice skills trainers will love her tool kit of teaching strategies! Dr. Kelly Koerner, PhD, Evidence-Based Practice Institute, Seattle; editor, Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Clinical Practice: Applications across Disorders and Settings