How to Meet Standards, Motivate Students, and Still Enjoy Teaching! - Barbara P. Benson

`How to Meet Standards, Motivate Students, and Still Enjoy Teaching! is a truly outstanding, practical resource that should be in every educator's professional library. It succeeds beautifully with the complex challenge of defining a classroom in which standards come alive for teachers and students in a 'doable' manner' - From the Foreword by Spence Rogers, Founder and Director Peak Learning Sysems
Most states in the USA have adopted some form of standards and accountability into their systems, but few teachers understand how to model their classrooms to prepare their students to thrive in this new educational environment. In this book the author offers teachers the tools they need to build the standards-based classroom.
Rather than throwing away all their valuable techniques and experience, teachers learn to synthesize the best of what they already know and do with current and emerging research on learning and learners. The four components of the standards-based classroom will help teachers plan lessons, assess student work, and create a community of learning that meets the standards that have been set for their students.