The Tireless Teacher Toolkit: 51 Mini Lessons for Language Arts Teachers to Keep Students Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking Until the Bell Rings

by Roseanne Cheng

The school year has just begun. Everything is going great. And then, one day, it hits you—there are fifteen minutes left in this class period, and you have nothing to teach.

Have no fear! This book is here to help you out.

The Tireless Teacher Toolkit is a book of 51 mini-lessons for language arts teachers that will get you through the classroom doldrums no matter how daunting they may seem. From reading poetry to interviewing classmates to analyzing philosophers to putting on TED Talks, the activities within will keep your students occupied and having fun, with very little budget or prep time. Most important, they’ll help them learn—even if they don’t realize that’s what’s happening.

So when that bell ring is torturous minutes away, don’t worry! This toolkit has your (and your students’) back.

168 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 12, 2019

About the author

Finalist: Best YA Fiction, International Book Awards
Finalist: Best Pre-Teen Fiction, National Indie Excellence Awards

Reviews

[Walkuli · Rating 5 out of 5]

Use every minute in the classroom

Ms. Cheng provides useful ideas for filling time at the end of planned instruction in the secondary classroom. These “lessons” require little to no prep, and likely will engage students in such a way that learning will transpire, and they won't even notice it. I interact with our high school's in-house suspension students weekly. I plan to build up my “toolkit” (as described in the book), and to use Cheng’s ideas with these very reluctant students.