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Addressing the Needs of All Learners in the Era of Changing Standards
Helping Our Most Vulnerable Students Succeed through Teaching Flexibility, Innovation, and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
The new standards were written to address the harsh realities for poor performance of American students across all grades levels, k-12. According to NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) data, more than 60% of our students in grades 4, 8, and 12 are not proficient readers and the United...
On Being a Teacher
The Human Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
On Being a Teacher links teaching to the unique human characteristics that each person possesses. Written with the preservice, beginning, and veteran teacher in mind, the authors help educators discover their own special traits that make them superlative teachers. This book covers:
Research-based...
Improving Test Scores in Five Easy Steps
The Silver Bullet
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
The chapters in this book outline a plan that, if followed, will improve test scores in any school district. The amount of improvement is determined by various variables, including present level of achievement, previous implementation of some of these concepts, the level of implementation, the vision...
by Hazel Pennell, Anne West
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
There is greater pressure for schools to meet certain levels of pupil achievement now more than ever before. Teachers and policy-makers are looking for ways to ensure pupils are not underachieving, and to do this must have some understanding of the causes of underachievement.
This timely book...
Working in the Reggio Way
A Beginner's Guide for American Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Provides an introduction to the progressive educational approaches of Reggio Emilia, Italy Newsweek devoted 1991 cover story to Reggio Emilia preschools For teachers of infants through early elementary Reggio-inspired teaching is characterized by parental involvement, teachers as learners, long-term...
School Climate and Culture vis-à-vis Student Learning
Keys to Collaborative Problem Solving and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
The purpose of School Climate and Culture vis-à-vis Student Learning is to describe a reform that improves test scores, reduces dropouts and decreases bullying behavior. There are six areas that must be improved in order to accomplish this purpose. These six areas are the following: discipline, basic...
The Evolution of Teaching
A Guidebook to the Advancement of Teaching, Teacher Education, and Happier Careers for Early Career Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The Evolution of Teaching invites teachers to rethink what teachers and schools do. The need to rethink the role of teachers is driven by an abundance of data showing that teachers are increasingly unhappy with their work. Most critically, they feel a loss of control over their work and their profession...
Understanding Poverty in the Classroom
Changing Perceptions for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
People who live in poverty consider life in different ways than those who have adequate basic resources. Many educators tend to see the world through their middle-class worldview. Because of this, they do not understand these significant and often rational differences. They may misinterpret behavior...
More than a Curriculum
Education for Peace and Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Exploring the field of peace education, the bulk of the book analyzes and critically evaluates contemporary schools and universities. Providing some successful and notsosuccessful alternative school and university projects and experiments, the book proposes peace and development education as a life...
Is Everyone Really Equal?
An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the new edition of the award-winning guide to social justice education.
Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource...
The Wrong Kind of Different
Challenging the Meaning of Diversity in American Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can multiculturalism go wrong? Through extensive interviews conducted in a large Midwestern district, Antonia Randolph explores how teachers perceive students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and the unintended consequences of a kind of “colorblind multiculturalism.” She...
Critical Pedagogies of Consumption
Living and Learning in the Shadow of the "Shopocalypse"
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
"Utopian in theme and implication, this book shows how the practices of critical, interpretive inquiry can help change the world in positive ways…. This is the promise, the hope, and the agenda that is offered."--Norman K. Denzin, From the Foreword
"Its focus on learning, education...
Languages of Education
Protestant Legacies, National Identities, and Global Aspirations
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
In this landmark contribution to the study of the formation of the modern school, Daniel Tröhler applies one of the most recognized methods of historical research to an analysis of the "language" of the academic discipline of education. Arguing the value of looking at languages rather than...
by Douglas Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Educational planning should be based on realistic assumptions concerning the children that enter our classrooms. We must recognize that they are a diverse group and that a one-size-fits-all approach in not going to work very well for many students. The notion that all children can live up to a single...