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Anderson, Mike – ASCD, 2010
While there are already loads of books about how to deal with stress and take care of your health, at last here's one that takes into account a teacher's heavy workload and busy lifestyle. The author, an experienced teacher himself, avoids the blithe simplicity of typical "self-help" books to give you factual evidence, realistic steps, and…
Descriptors: Teaching Load, Teaching (Occupation), Stress Variables, Stress Management
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Somers, Margaret L. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Explains how a student volunteer can improve teachers' productivity, efficiency, and teaching skills. Presents a description of job responsibilities.(EL)
Descriptors: College English, English Instruction, Student Role, Student Volunteers
Matthews, Dorothy, Ed. – Illinois English Bulletin, 1986
Containing 14 essays from teachers at the high school and college levels, this journal issue addresses the problem of the overburdened English teacher, describing the nature of the overload but also offering practical help. The beginning article describes the enormity of the total English teaching load, including the heavy load of grading papers,…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Enrichment Activities, Extracurricular Activities, School Activities
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Wolff, Mary Anne – Educational Leadership, 1986
Recommends the frame of reference method in helping students learn to recognize bias in the questions an author asks, the evidence gathered, and the conclusions drawn. Describes a high school writing-anthropology unit on the Kung San society. Discusses the potentials, problems, and school-linked constraints in using frame of reference models. (IW)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Bias, Classroom Techniques, Critical Reading