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Instruction. It’s what teachers were hired to do—teach! This book takes decades of research on how to teach effectively and shows in detail how to put it into practice in the classroom with lesson planning, instruction, assessment, and evaluation. Harry and Rosemary Wong are known for breaking down the research and showing how to easily apply it in the classroom. The content covers K-12 grade levels and all subject areas. Detailed examples, illustrations, photos, and templates are shown in this full color book. Fifty QR codes are scattered throughout the book to extend the learning. This book is a companion book to the best-seller, THE First Days of School, that highlights the three characteristics of an effective teacher: 1. Classroom Management, 2. Positive Expectations, and 3. Instruction. This book on Instruction has twenty-two chapters in an easy-to-read format. It covers Instruction in depth showing how to implement it consistently to produce achievement for ALL students.
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Harry K. Wong has authored more than forty publications including the best-selling book ever in education, THE First Days of School. He has been credited with transforming schools and turning around the lives of hundreds of thousands educators for immediate success in their schools and classrooms. He has been called “Mr. Practicality” for his common sense, research-based, no cost approach to managing a classroom for high level student success.Because of his achievements, Harry has been awarded the Horace Mann Outstanding Educator Award, Upton Sinclair Award, Outstanding Secondary Teacher Award, the Science Teacher Achievement Recognition Award, the Outstanding Biology Teacher Award, and the Valley Forge Teacher’s Medal. He’s been the subject of a story in Reader’s Digest and was given the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Teachers Hall of Fame. He’s been called the “Rock Star of Education.” He is a former secondary science teacher and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Rosemary. They form an unstoppable team as new teacher advocates, motivational speakers, and inspirational leaders. Colleagues have described them as connectors, angels, gurus, encouragers, cheerleaders, and rock stars who are enthusiastic, down-to-earth, patient, kind, giving, and real. Above all else, they are teachers—always have been, always will be. They have devoted their lives to creating effective teachers for the students of the world. Rosemary T. Wong is the CEO of Harry K. Wong Publications and the driving force behind the development of the company’s educational books and tools aimed at improving the effectiveness of teachers. She is the co-author of THE First Days of School, THE Classroom Management Book, and numerous journal articles. Her talents as a producer and director are showcased in a multi-award-winning video series and a cutting-edge online course, THE Classroom Management Course. She has presented at conferences around the world.Her classroom experience include teaching in grades one through eight, in a self-contained gifted and talented program, opening up a media center in a middle school, as well as serving as the student activities director. Her success in the classroom led to her being chosen as the first teacher selected as a mentor teacher in her school district in California.Rosemary’s professional honors include the Upton Sinclair Award, the Distinguished Alumnus Awards from Southeastern Louisiana University and Louisiana State University, the Silicon Valley Distinguished Woman’s Award, the Silicon Valley Woman of Influence Award, and a special commendation from the Jefferson Parish School Board in recognition of her exemplary career as a professional educator and as a philanthropist.Profits from the sale of the book, THE First Days of School, fund The First Days of School Foundation. The nonprofit has built and funds the 960 student Wong Mean Reth Learning Campus in the remote jungles of Cambodia. Her work in education along with her many non-profit activities have earned her recognition and respect from around the world.
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