A "Brain Friendly" approach to teaching. Connie Messina shares her skills to answer why students are not learning as they could - joyfully, effortlessly and with permanence and creativity. By: Connie Messina School Counseling, Educator Resource Book Excerpts - Published: Jalmar Press, 2003- ISBN: 1-931061-23-8- Pages: 122- Size: 8.5 X 11 Reviews / Endorsements Foreign Rights Description No Reviews or Endorsements at this time. Languages Sold:  All languages available. In the age of the sound-bite, students and educators want lessons that are easy, enjoyable, and effective.  This book meets all three criteria while creatively teaching self-awareness, communication, and problem-solving skills that work.  Successful presenters know that they need to quickly capture and hold the attention of audiences through joyful, active learning.  The author offers answers to why students are not learning as they could-joyfully, effortlessly, and with permanence and … [Read more...]

  By: Alexis Cunningham School Counseling, Educator Resource, Family Care   - Published: Pub Date: 2000, Jalmar Press- ISBN: 1-880396-88-2- Pages: 48 Reviews / Endorsements Foreign Rights Description No reviews or endorsements at this time. Languages Sold: All available Sensitively told through words and pictures, this book provides children a gentle and loving explanation of the feelings they experience when they lose someone they love, and practical ways of processing those feelings so that healing can occur. A special section for adults provides ideas for how to talk to children about loss and grief, along with loving, practical healing activities. Ages 3-13 Author Biography:   … [Read more...]

  By: Jan and Steve Speisman School Counseling, Educator Resource   - Published: 2004, Jalmar Press- ISBN:  9781564990525- Pages: 144 Reviews / Endorsements Foreign Rights Description No reviews or endorsements at this time. Languages Sold: All available Emotional intelligence and brain-based learning theories are applied in a simple format. Through the use of the 4 Es—Engagement, Enactment, Evaluation, Empowerment—Emotivational learning occurs. It powerfully engages the learner in the process of retaining learning and provides student-tested strategies for personalized study skills development. This book is for students, teachers, counselors, and parents who want to change the cycle of underachievement and failure. Author Biography:   … [Read more...]

  By: Dr. Michele Borba School Administrator Resource, School Counseling  - Published: 1993, Jalmar Press- ISBN: 1-880396-04-1- Pages: 336 Reviews / Endorsements Foreign Rights Description No reviews or endorsements at this time. Languages Sold: All available This is the administrator’s bible for enhancing staff esteem, with dozens of research-based activities to build cohesiveness and collegiality. Author Biography:   … [Read more...]

  By: Naomi Drew School Counseling, Educator Resource   - Published: 1995, Jalmar Press- ISBN: 1-880396-42-4- Pages: 272 Reviews / Endorsements Foreign Rights Description No reviews or endorsements at this time. Languages Sold:  German, Portuguese Shows you how to promote peacemaking and problem-solving skills across the curriculum. Filled with in-depth, hands-on activities, blackline masters, program evaluation forms, scripts, role plays and more it fosters a deep understanding in students of win-win guidelines. Also includes an effective peer-mediation program with forms, training guide, script, and group role plays. A rich resource Author Biography:   … [Read more...]

  By: Melodie Wenz-Gross et al School Counseling, Educator Resource   - Published: 2002, Jalmar Press- ISBN: 1-931061-34-3- Pages: 154 Reviews / Endorsements Foreign Rights Description No reviews or endorsements at this time. Languages Sold: All languages available Research conducted at the University of Massachusetts showed that students experience increased stress during transition into middle school, not only in academics, but in their relationships with peers and teachers. These easy-to-use lessons promote successful transition for all students by developing positive study and time management skills, effective communication skills, anger management, problem solving, the use of appropriate social support, and the regular use of stress management techniques. Ages 10-14 Author Biography:   … [Read more...]

A K-6 Activity Guide on How to Create one and How to Keep It! By: Naomi Drew Teachers, School Counselors Book Excerpts - Published: Jalmar Press, 1999- ISBN: 1-880396-61-0- Pages: 192- Size: 8 1/2 x 11 Reviews / Endorsements Foreign Rights Description No endorsments at this time Languages Sold: All language rights available This inspiring, practical, and highly usable activity book shows how to crate peaceful, productive classrooms from the first day of school.  Teach students respect, acceptance, and conflict resolution skills while improving their writing and language skills—important with today’s emphasis on academics and accountability. The Peaceful Classroom in Action will show you how to: -create a peaceful classroom from the first day of school -build a climate of respect -help kids resolve conflicts -maintain an atmosphere of peacefulness throughout the year -teach all of your students, even your most difficult, how to be … [Read more...]

  By: Amie R. Chalberg School Counselors, School Psychologists, Social Workers, After-School Leaders   - Published: November, 2010  Jalmar Press- ISBN: 9781931061407- Pages: 150 Reviews / Endorsements Foreign Rights Description No reviews or endorsements at this time. Languages Sold:  All Languages Available Counselors, Teachers, Occupational Therapists, and activity leaders will have just as much fun teaching these lessons as their students do experiencing them! These activities appeal to a child's sense of adventure and need to move by utilizing five active learning strategies to present the concepts: Movement, Visualization, Application of the Senses, and Novel/Unique Connections. Appropriate for children Pre-K through 3rd grade, lessons can presented in either a forty-five minute to sixty minute block, or two sessions of thirty minutes or less. Each lesson is comprised of two parts. First, an introduction, which presents the lesson concept … [Read more...]

  By: Alvyn and Margaret Freed Self Help, Family Care   - Published: 1977, Jalmar Press- ISBN: 0-915190-09-5- Pages: 112 Reviews / Endorsements Foreign Rights Description No reviews or endorsements at this time. Languages Sold: Serbian These classic books have helped hundreds of thousands of children and their parents relate to each other and to understand their intrinsic worth as human beings. TA for Tots is geared to ages Pre-K to 3 and TA for Kids relates to grades 4 through 6. Each builds and strengthens self-esteem, esteem of others, personal and social responsibility, critical thinking, and independent judgment on an age-appropriate level. Author Biography:   … [Read more...]

  By: Alvyn Freed, Ph.D. Self Help, Family Care   - Published: 1991, Jalmar Press- ISBN: 0-915190-73-7- Pages: 144 Reviews / Endorsements Foreign Rights Description No reviews or endorsements at this time. Languages Sold: Serbian These classic books have helped hundreds of thousands of children and their parents relate to each other and to understand their intrinsic worth as human beings. TA for Tots is geared to ages Pre-K to 3 and TA for Kids relates to grades 4 through 6. Each builds and strengthens self-esteem, esteem of others, personal and social responsibility, critical thinking, and independent judgment on an age-appropriate level. Author Biography:   … [Read more...]

  By: Alexis Cunningham School Counseling, Educator Resource, Family Care   - Published: 2001, Jalmar Press- ISBN: 1-931061-12-2- Pages: 48 Reviews / Endorsements Foreign Rights Description No reviews or endorsements at this time. Languages Sold: All languages available This book offers teenagers a look into the challenges facing them after the death of a significant person in their life. It’s intention is to be compassionate and honest about the depression, anger, sadness and confusion that follow loss, and it offers poignant and simple suggestions to help students process and heal a wounded heart. Ages 14 and up Author Biography:   … [Read more...]

A Right Brain Approach to Learning   By: Barbara Meister-Vitale Educators Resource, School Counseling, Whole Brain Learning   - Published: 1982, Jalmar Press- ISBN: 0-915190-35-4- Pages: 144 Reviews / Endorsements Foreign Rights Description No reviews or endorsements at this time. Languages Sold:  Croatian, Thailand Provides 65 practical, easy-to-follow lessons to develop the right-brain tendencies of children. These dramatically effective ideas and activities have helped thousands with learning difficulties. Includes an easy to administer screening checklist to determine hemisphere dominance; engaging, instructional activities that draw on the intuitive, non-verbal abilities of the right brain; and a list of skills associated with each brain hemisphere and more. All Ages Author Biography:   … [Read more...]