Classroom Troubleshooter: Strategies for Dealing with Marking And Paperwork, Discipline, evaluation, and Learning Through Language

The Classroom Troubleshooter provides practical, no-nonsense solutions to the problems that plague a teacher's day. This handy, easy-to-use guide incorporates a number of invaluable rubrics, checklists, templates, reference sheets, questionnaires, and student guidelines.

Included are strategies to help teachers:
• avoid being overwhelmed by paperwork and other types of "administrivia";
• mark "smart";
• anticipate, prevent, respond to, and manage a host of discipline problems;
• develop and administer evaluation instruments for projects, research, essays, and objective-style tests;
• increase student comprehension of textbooks;
• implement and mark journal writing;
• guide talk-based learning;
• reflect on how individual teachers can impact on the overall functioning of the school.