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The most dominant motivation and reward for most teachers lies in the development and growth of their students. This impact on the lives of students sustains the teaching time and effort made. Today, this is becoming ever more difficult due to student attitudes about learning, increasing class size, additional responsibilities, additional paperwork, and administrative decisions that undermine feelings of competence and efficacy among teachers. The Giving Book promotes caring, valuing, and cooperating. It is a gentle, loving, and usable book of classroom-activity ideas and suggestions. It does not contain a model for teaching, learning, or doing, but it has the elements of many models. Packed with activities that ask students to explore how they can better appreciate and cooperate with one another, this book is perfect for teaching teamwork. For example, in "Cooperative Structures," a construction team uses gumdrops and toothpicks to create triangles, while an observation team discusses examples of cooperation, shared leadership, and sharing. This book was written on the premise that student attitudes and behaviors do affect what is learned, how it is learned, and to what extent anything is learned. Grades 4-8
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