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Now regarded as a classic, Boys in White is of vital interest to medical educators and sociologists.By daily interviews and observations in classes, wards, laboratories, and operating theaters, the team of sociologists who carried out this firsthand research have not only captured the worries, cynicism, and basic idealism of medical students.

"Building a Character," the second volume in Stanislavski's acclaimed trilogy, continues the total immersion in technique and class scenarios begun in "An Actor Prepares."

"""It's Alive and Kicking!"" offers you real-life problems for students in your math classes, with a twist. Math the way it ought to be, tough, fun... and a little weird. This book is even funnier than ""It's Alive!"" Need we say more? Grades 3-9

This companion to the original 20 Ideas offers additional innovative activities and lessons for teaching gifted students at the secondary level. This book is packed with great, engaging ideas for the gifted and talented classroom, sure to excite and challenge your students.Grades 5-12

"Enliven your classroom with motivating and innovative activities that encourage critical and creative thinking skills. Exciting lessons developed by master teachers of gifted children across the nation, these diverse activities have been proven to work with gifted and talented students in secondary school. Grades 5-12

The Reel Classroom: An Introduction to Film Studies and Filmmaking presents an educator-facilitated curriculum that focuses on a variety of aspects concerning the appreciation of film and the filmmaking process. With a goal to turn "movie day" into a teaching and learning opportunity¿rather than a virtual day off for students¿this book will

This text provides teachers with a user-friendly field-tested guide to teaching one of the truly great American novels. Designed pragmatically with the AP English Literature exam as an end goal, includes dozens of ready-to-use assignments, prompts, quizzes, rubrics, and lesson plans, all aiding students' ultimate success.

Advanced Placement Classroom: Lord of the Flies takes a fresh approach to a school classic by offering an abundance of student-centered classroom ideas. Grades 9-12

Electing the President is a motivating, hands-on simulation that lets students experience the exciting process of electing the President and Vice President of the United States.

Julius Caesar allows teachers to take a fresh approach to one of Shakespeare's most famous plays by moving beyond basic history and memorization of quotes.Grades 7-12

King Lear is a user-friendly guide to teaching one of Shakespeare's classic plays and includes field-tested and proven methods for assigning daily interpretive readings, leading intriguing seminar discussions, and connecting the play to modern-day poetry and social media platforms, plus many more resources for enhancing the study of Shakespe

The Interactive Discovery-Based Units for High-Ability Learners, for grades 6-8, provide teachers with opportunities to use exciting and challenging units in their classrooms. These engaging curriculum units culminate in authentic performance platforms that provide students with open-ended opportunities to demonstrate academic understanding. Each book in the series contains tiered lessons that teachers can easily modify to meet individual students' needs. "Ecopolis" has students run their own government to learn about issues including scarcity, resource allocation, needs vs. wants, opportunity costs, entrepreneurship, and global interdependence.

Real-Life Science Mysteries puts an exciting new spin on scientific thinking by profiling real-life scientists, showing students in grades 5-8 ways they can use science in their everyday lives.Grades 5-8

"Part of Prufrock Press' Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education, "Developing Leadership Potential in Gifted Students" offers practical advice for helping gifted students develop their leadership potential."

Advanced Placement Classroom: Macbeth is a teacher-friendly resource for using one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies in the Advanced Placement classroom. Students will examine the play critically and analytically, review the historical events surrounding its development, and discuss the societal implications of the play. Grades 7-

Advanced Placement Classroom: A Midsummer Night's Dream takes students inside Shakespeare's well-loved comedy, by providing teachers and students with a detailed overview of the play, along with interesting and challenging activities geared for the advanced language arts student. Grades 7-12

Move beyond the norm in your math classroom and challenge students to think critically with "More Math Puzzles and Patterns for Kids," a new companion book to the popular Math Puzzles and Patterns for Kids. This book contains more of students' favorite puzzles and patterns, as well as a few new ones for students to explore.

Looking for innovative, successful, and engaging units to use in your gifted elementary classroom or pull-out program? Look no further than "Units of Instruction," the latest in Prufrock Press' collection of easy-to-apply units for the classroom. Developed by seasoned teachers in the field of gifted education, the five in-depth units of study in this book cover everything from elementary geometry, to a study of slavery, to the inclusion of a media unit in the social studies curriculum. Worksheets, handouts, answer keys, and teacher guides are included with every lesson, making this book an efficient, easy-to-use part of classroom instruction. Students in grade 2-8 will enjoy taking part in these engaging and interesting units, as they practice their math, science, language arts, and social studies skills in these interdisciplinary studies. Engage your students and capture their interest-include in-depth study in your gifted classroom with "Units of Instruction"!

Five different problem-solving strategies are carefully taught with introductory lessons and practice lessons for each strategy. Following the lessons, a variety of problems are presented that students can solve by applying the strategies they have learned. This is the perfect supplement to any primary math program.Grades 2-4

These success-proven exercises provide daily practice in various areas of math. There are 10 problems per page that reinforce and facilitate conceptual understanding in number sense, math reasoning, computation, time, money, measurement, geometry, probability, graphing, fractions, and decimals. The exercises systematically provide students opportunities to get practice in the most important math objectives each week and provide the teacher with immediate, easy-to-administer feedback of students' mastery. This workbook can be used as a warm-up, homework, or as a diagnostic tool for the teacher, parent, or administrator. The individual pages can be used to diagnose weak areas and provide opportunities to facilitate the student's full understanding of concepts. Students are challenged and consistently exposed to a variety of concepts in all objective areas. Each book spirals in level of difficulty and continues to encourage students to think about math in real-life situations.

These challenging questions are thought provoking and provide daily practice for students in various areas of math. The exercises systematically provide students opportunities to get practice in the most important math objectives each week and provide the teacher with immediate feedback on the students' mastery.Grade 3

"Go beyond the regular curriculum with these units to challenge your more able intermediate grade math students. The four topics covered in this book are permutations and combinations, tesselations, line drawings, and graphing. Enliven your classroom with these motivating extention activities that expand your students' views of mathematics. Grades 4-6

Capture students' attention and challenge their intellectual talents with this first-rate series. These imaginative puzzles are fun for students and great for sharpening their deductive reasoning skills and strengthening their ability to sort through information and make connections. Grades 6-8

Capture students' attention and challenge their intellectual talents with this first-rate series. These imaginative puzzles are fun for students and great for sharpening their deductive reasoning skills and strengthening their ability to sort through information and make connections. Grades 6-8

An emphasis on creative thinking skills in the classroom necessitates providing students with open-ended assignments and encouragement as they search for new answers. Unlike typical textbook questions that have a given right answer, creative questioning and thinking assumes that there may not be one right answer, but many possibilities. "Primarily Creativity" bubbles over with ideas to spark creative talent in young students. Get creative juices flowing with lessons in eight areas of creativity including: curiosity, fluency, originality, imagination, awareness, flexibility, elaboration, and perseverance.Each section includes an explanation on the skill, questions that foster this type of thinking, a list of tasks, and several attractive, reproducible worksheets. This comprehensive text provides an enjoyable, balanced introduction to creative thinking.

Object Oriented Data Analysis (OODA) provides a useful general framework for the consideration of many types of Complex Data. It is deliberately intended to be particularly useful in the analysis of data in complicated situations which are typically not easily represented as an unconstrained matrix of numbers.