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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
Effectively use the extended class period to enhance student achievement!
Take advantage of block scheduling with this book's four-phase lesson planning framework and numerous instructional strategies to build higher-level thinking skills and increase student learning. Teachers in any subject...
From Good Intentions to Real Outcomes
Equity by Design in Learning Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The growth of online communication, media, and gaming is driving dramatic changes in how we
learn. Responding to these shifts, new forms of technology-enhanced learning and instruction, such
as personalized learning, open online courses, educational games and apps, and tools for learning
analytics,...
Supporting Readers in Secondary Schools
What every secondary teacher needs to know about teaching reading and phonics
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
**Are you a secondary school teacher who needs to know about phonics and teaching reading? Then this book is for you. **
There are lots of books on teaching phonics but most are written to support primary teachers. This book is written specifically for secondary teachers working with children who...
Instructional Agility
Responding to Assessment with Real-Time Decisions (Learn to Quickly Improve School Culture and Student Learning)
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
The true power of assessment comes when emerging results determine what comes next in student learning. This practical book empowers educators and their teams, schools, or districts to move seamlessly between instruction, formative assessment, and feedback, improving school culture more effectively...
Education for Self-transformation
Essay Form as an Educational Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing. Its purpose is to create pedagogical space in which the inner struggle of ‘lived experience’ can articulate itself in the first person. Working through...
by Richard Beach, Faythe Beauchemin
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
This book explores English language arts instruction from the perspective of language as "social actions" that students and teachers enact with and toward one another to create supportive, trusting relations between students and teachers, and among students as peers. Departing from a code-based...
Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites
20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Get Novelty Back Into The Classroom To Get Knowledge Into Students’ Brains!
In this thoroughly updated third edition of Marcia Tate’s bestseller, you’ll learn about twenty definitive brain-compatible techniques to maximize retention and minimize forgetting in learners of all ages. Tate’s...
The Active Classroom Field Book
Success Stories From the Active Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Discover what really works in the classroom through success stories from educators like you!
Expanding on the strategies in The Active Classroom, best-selling author and educational consultant Ron Nash shares the stories of teachers who have successfully implemented active teaching methods...
by Fred Sedgwick
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
"We believe that every young person should experience the world beyond the classroom as an essential part of learning and personal development, whatever their age, ability or circumstances. Learning outside the classroom is about raising achievement through an organised, powerful approach to...
Educational Interventions for Refugee Children
Theoretical Perspectives and Implementing Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
How can schools best prepare themselves to successfully educate refugee children?
By focusing on the education of refugee children, this book takes a rare look at a subject of increasing significance in current educational spheres. Highlighting the many difficulties facing refugee children, the editors...
The Data Guidebook for Teachers and Leaders
Tools for Continuous Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Are you looking for new ways to use data in the decision-making process? Are you seeking tools that provide better flow-through from data to improved student achievement? Have you ever considered including students in the data-to-improvement cycle? Schools recognize that data is an essential decision-making...
Technology, Reading and Digital Literacy
Strategies to Engage the Reluctant Reader
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
This new book offers strategies teachers can use to motivate all students, including the most reluctant, to rediscover the joys of reading, share what they’ve read and discover innovative ways of exploring new things using technology as a springboard. Learn about exciting educational websites that...
Cooperative Learning
Integrating Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
*"Gilles focuses the majority of the book on the relationship in the classroom between the individual teacher and the students. She gives teachers ammunition to overcome resistance to cooperative learning by presenting well-substantiated research on virtually every page of her book showing the...
by Sergei Abramovich
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
This book promotes the experimental mathematics approach in the context of secondary mathematics curriculum by exploring mathematical models depending on parameters that were typically considered advanced in the pre-digital education era. This approach, by drawing on the power of computers to perform...