Create an attitude of gratitude in your classroom. Students use this chip set to drop appreciations on teammates and classmates. Appreciations include simple feel-good phrases such as: "You are awesome!," and sentence starters for students to create specific praisers such as, "Thanks a million for…."

Respect! Responsibility! Integrity! Honesty! How do you develop these valued character traits? In this book of questions, you will find hundreds of questions, quotations, and dilemmas to explore and develop character. Use quotations by famous folks as a springboard for writing and discussing, such as the following by Anne Frank: "The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. Why is your character ultimately your own responsibility?" Use dilemmas to have students evaluate their own values and behaviors: "If someone doesn't treat you with the respect you deserve, would you treat them with the respect they don't deserve? Why or why not?" And have students examine their own traits and those of others with provocative questions such as: "Are there ever situations where it is best to say something you don't believe?" Questions are provided in convenient reproducible question card format, perfect for the engaging cooperative questioning activities provided. 160 pages.

Boost your students’ Emotional Intelligence with this SmartCard. In this colorful 11" x 17" quick-reference card, you will find everything you need to get started with emotional intelligence. It includes an understandable synopsis of valuable information you’ll be “happy” to know about including the origin of EQ, Emotional Intelligence defined, the 5 dimensions of EQ, the rationale for building students’ EQ and the most important implications for teachers. Inside, the 5 dimensions are described in detail, and practical classroom suggestions are provided. On the back, you will find 17 emotion activity ideas that you can use with the hundreds of emotions listed from A to Z! You and your students will be ecstatic, elated, empowered, enthralled, excited, exhilarated, and exuberant when as you explore the world of emotions with this little gem.

Build team communication skills with these phrases and sentence starters your students can use during their cooperative interactions. Includes 6 posters: Praising, Paraphrasing, Disagreeing Politely, Requesting Help, Appreciating, Hello & Goodbye.

Based on the success of the original Talking Teamwork poster set, Kagan now offers more phrases and sentence starters to improve communication skills. The 6 posters in this set are: Encouragement, Keeping on Task, Coaching, Offering Help, Reaching Consensus, and Processing. The sentence starters and expressions in this set will boost your students’ communication skills and help them make teamwork a success.

Teambuilding activities are a great way to build positive student interactions and pave the way to successful teamwork on academic content. Teambuilding is a snap with these ready-to-copy question cards. Each team receives their own set of questions cards. Teammates ask and respond to questions they love to talk about. Question topics include: What Would You Do If?, Hobbies, Should Kids?, Getting Acquainted, and many more. There are 20 sets of 20 questions totaling 400 - plenty of content for quick and easy teambuilding activities all year around. Question cards are also great for classbuilding, energizers, and brain breaks. 176 pages.