Methods category: 10193 books
by Wendy Conklin
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Help your students become 21st century thinkers! Developed for grades 3-5, this resource provides teachers with strategies to build every student's mastery of high-level thinking skills, promote active learning, and encourage students to analyze, evaluate, and create. Model lessons are provided as...
by Jodene Lynn Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
The Last Stop on Market Street: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides lesson plans and activities for this award-winning literary work. This valuable resource guides teachers with ways to add more rigor with complex literature. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the text with...
History 5–11
A Guide for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Now in its third edition, History 5-11 aims to make teaching about the past exciting and stimulating for both teachers and children. Focusing on the English National Curriculum for History (2013), and with an emphasis on the importance of learning about the past through the processes of historical...
Informal Learning and Field Trips
Engaging Students in Standards-Based Experiences across the K?5 Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Turn every field trip into a high-quality learning experience!
What youngster isn't excited at the prospect of taking a field trip? Enthusiastic students present teachers with the ideal scenario for creating meaningful out-of-the-classroom encounters and giving students the building blocks...
Making Citizens
Transforming Civic Learning for Diverse Social Studies Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Can social studies classrooms be effective "makers" of citizens if much of what occurs in these classrooms does little to prepare young people to participate in the civic and political life of our democracy? Making Citizens illustrates how social studies can recapture its civic purpose through...
Ditch That Homework
Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
In Ditch That Homework, Matt Miller and Alice Keeler discuss the pros and cons of homework, why teachers assign it, and what life could look like without it. As they evaluate the research and share parent and teacher insights, the authors offer a convincing case for ditching homework and replacing it with more effective and personalized learning methods.
Ditch That Textbook
Free Your Teaching and Revolutionize Your Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Textbooks are symbols of centuries-old education. They’re often outdated as soon as they hit students’ desks. Acting “by the textbook” implies compliance and a lack of creativity. It’s time to ditch those textbooks—and those textbook assumptions about learning! In Ditch That Textbook,...
"The Brain Controls Everything"
Children's Ideas About the Body
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book explores a study of how and under what circumstances children’s ideas about the body change over the period of two school years, Primary 1 and 2 (6 and 7 years old), in a ‘normal’ classroom setting in an Icelandic primary school. The focus is on children’s ideas about the structure,...
The Essentials of Mathematics, K-6
Effective Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment (Priorities in Practice)
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
Using national and state standards to guide your math program is just a start. You still have to decide how to apply the standards in your curriculum, determine when students should learn different content, and decide which programs and textbooks will help you make math come alive in the classroom....
Literacy Learning Clubs in Grades 4-8
Engaging Students across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Literacy learning clubs are highly motivating small-group collaborations that can improve tweens' and teens' academic achievement, support their social-emotional development, and increase their enjoyment of reading and writing. This book explains the research basis for the author's approach and offers...
by Ian Menter
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Trainees and school-based practitioners are being encouraged to engage more with evidence-based teaching methods. Teachers are now more responsible for the outcomes of their own practice and are charged with sourcing ‘best practice’ solutions in their pedagogical approaches. And schools are moving...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
This volume focuses specifically on narrative inquiry as a means to interrogate research questions in music education, offering music education researchers indispensible information on the use of qualitative research methods, particularly narrative, as appropriate and acceptable means of conducting...
by Virginia Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Kiddie English is a practical, hands-on guide to teaching English to young children. The ideas and resources in this book will help EFL teachers in kindergartens and primary schools around the world to be effective, creative and satisfied. This Teachers Book edition is intended for educators leading...
Partners in Literacy
A Writing Center Model for Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Partners in Literacy describes the process, research, relationships, and theories that guided a three-year partnership between the Purdue University Writing Lab and two community organizations in Lafayette, Indiana: the Lafayette Adult Resource Academy and WorkOne Express. This partnership resulted...