Effective classroom procedures reduce disruptions and discipline problems, and maximize learning. Expectations are clear and the class is a safe place where everyone knows how to behave. In this SmartCard, you will find time-honored classroom procedures. Start the year off right. Discover quick tips for roll-taking. Manage classroom supplies like a pro. Maintain an acceptable noise level. And keep students orderly when going places. Learn veteran strategies to establish and maintain a smooth-running class.

Signals are simple, nonverbal messages, such as hand or body gestures between the teacher and students. Classroom signals communicate volumes without saying one word. Use signals to manage your students. Use signals to relay instructions. Have your students communicate with you via signals to avoid disruptions. Signals save you time and energy, and improve the lines of communication in your classroom. This SmartCard offers dozens of popular classroom signals, steps for establishing signals in your classroom, and ideas for developing your own signal system.

Make the most of your teaching day with well-sequenced, well-established daily routines. Predictable routines create order in the classroom. We reduce students’ anxiety and establish a sense of security when students know the class schedule and sequence of classroom procedures. Discover tips to create or improve your daily routines. Optimize your learning environment by balancing routine with novelty. Set your morning routine on autopilot. Create a brain-friendly daily sequence of instruction time, snacks, breaks, lunch, and recess to maximize learning and minimize discipline problems.

Teaching: The profession that makes all other professions possible! "As teachers we have the world's most important job!" "I teach: I create a better tomorrow." Turn the page of this attractive, colorful desk calendar and brighten each day with a fresh inspirational quote or affirmation. Includes quotes by Einstein, Mother Teresa, Thoreau, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci. Works every year!

You drag and drop these ready-made PowerPoint? slides into any presentation. Bingo: Instant inspiration! Use quotes to inspire your audience. John Dewey's on education. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s on character. Henry Ford's on positive attitude. 23 topics. Over 100 ready-made beautifully illustrated PowerPoint slides on teaching, learning, and leadership. The perfect quote is yours at a click of your mouse. The quotes are conveniently broken into sections so it is quick and easy to search by topic. Plus you receive all the quotes in an integrated slideshow. Motivate and educate with wise words from the sages of all ages!

Included in this tri-fold SmartCard are 28 of Kagan’s very best cooperative learning structures. With these structures, you won’t have to worry if your cooperative learning lessons respect the principles known to increase student achievement and improve social relations. These simple, yet powerful structures always work because the basic principles are built in! The structures are easy-to-learn, easy-to-use, fun, and engaging. Students love them. Achievement increases. Let them work for you.

Here they are! Kagan’s best structures for developing your students’ multiple intelligences are on this tri-fold SmartCard. You’ll find strategies that develop all eight intelligences. There are 30 structures in all, each illustrated with a brief description of the structure. These structures correspond to the structures taught in the world-famous Kagan 5-Day MI Institute. A terrific, quick reference card for simple, yet powerful teaching tools to stimulate and develop your students’ many ways of being smart. Includes a dot-chart to see at a glance which structures to use to develop each intelligence.

Each poster set includes six, extra large, 17” x 22”, colorful posters that illustrate Kagan’s most popular structures. Kagan-approved steps for each structure are prominently displayed—a great visual reminder for you and your students. Decorate your classroom, create a structures bulletin board, or hang them on a poster rack to pull up the structure you’re using. Teaching Kagan Structures to your students has never been easier! Includes: 1) Mix-Pair-Share, 2) RallyCoach, 3) RallyRobin, 4) RoundRobin, 5) Think-Write-RoundRobin, 6) Timed-Pair-Share.

Each poster set includes six, extra large, 17” x 22”, colorful posters that illustrate Kagan’s most popular structures. Kagan-approved steps for each structure are prominently displayed—a great visual reminder for you and your students. Decorate your classroom, create a structures bulletin board, or hang them on a poster rack to pull up the structure you’re using. Teaching Kagan Structures to your students has never been easier! Includes: 1) All Write RoundRobin, 2) Both Record RallyRobin, 3) Fan-N-Pick, 4)Instant Star, 5) Quiz-Quiz-Trade, 6) Stand Up–Hand Up–Pair Up.

Each poster set includes six, extra large, 17” x 22”, colorful posters that illustrate Kagan’s most popular structures. Kagan-approved steps for each structure are prominently displayed—a great visual reminder for you and your students. Decorate your classroom, create a structures bulletin board, or hang them on a poster rack to pull up the structure you’re using. Teaching Kagan Structures to your students has never been easier! Includes: 1) Inside-Outside Circle, 2) Jot Thoughts, 3) RallyTable, 4) RoundTable, 5) Simultaneous RallyTable, 6) Simultaneous RoundTable.

Each poster set includes six, extra large, 17” x 22”, colorful posters that illustrate Kagan’s most popular structures. Kagan-approved steps for each structure are prominently displayed—a great visual reminder for you and your students. Decorate your classroom, create a structures bulletin board, or hang them on a poster rack to pull up the structure you’re using. Teaching Kagan Structures to your students has never been easier! Includes: 1) Find-the-Fiction, 2) Match Mine, 3) Numbered Heads Together, 4) One Stray, 5) Spend-A-Buck, 6) Talking Chips.

Each poster set includes six, extra large, 17” x 22”, colorful posters that illustrate Kagan’s most popular structures. Kagan-approved steps for each structure are prominently displayed—a great visual reminder for you and your students. Decorate your classroom, create a structures bulletin board, or hang them on a poster rack to pull up the structure you’re using. Teaching Kagan Structures to your students has never been easier! Includes: 1) Carousel Feedback, 2) Find Someone Who, 3) Pairs Compare, 4) Sage-N-Scribe, 5) Showdown, 6) Team Up!.