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Affirming Students' Right to their Own Language
Bridging Language Policies and Pedagogical Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
A Co-publication of the National Council of Teachers of English and Routledge.
How can teachers make sound pedagogical decisions and advocate for educational policies that best serve the needs of students in today’s diverse classrooms? What is the pedagogical value of providing culturally...
Teacher Tenure
An Analysis of the Critical Elements
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The purpose of the book is not to further debate the pros and cons of teacher tenure. Rather it examines the critical elements to better prepare teachers for the tenure application and the tenure decision makers to make better informed evaluation. Teacher Tenure: An Analysis of the Critical Elements...
by Abigail Mann
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Stressed? Overworked? Drowning in marking? This book has it covered. In order to secure the best possible outcomes for your pupils, you must look after your own wellbeing, and Live Well, Teach Well is jam-packed with 90 practical ideas and strategies to help you do just that.
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by Jerry Wyant
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
What is a teacher?
A teacher plays a key role in molding today’s children into tomorrow’s citizens and leaders.
A teacher finds ways to inspire different people who have different abilities, different needs, different life experiences; all without having the ability to choose which students to...
Hidden Dangers
Subtle Signs of Failing Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The Hidden Dangers in our schools have grown and intensified over the last few years; so much so that I was compelled to write a second edition to Hidden Dangers: Subtle Signs of Failing Schools. Our schools are complex places; each with its own unique climate, administration, faculty, students, parents...
The Educated Person
Toward a New Paradigm for Liberal Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Liberal education has long been a fascination for scholars in a variety of disciplines and is closely associated with the idea of the educated person. Seen at one time as a matter for colleges and universities, over the years it has become central to the debate surrounding general education in high...
by David Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The 2nd edition of David Dunn's best-selling How to be an Outstanding Primary School Teacher, now updated to reflect changes in teaching initiatives and educational policy, including valuable new content on using technology in the primary classroom.
This book features lots of easy-to-introduce...
Positively Smarter
Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Positively Smarter brings together seven principles for connecting the science of neuroplasticity to practical strategies for enhancing the synergy of happiness, achievement, and physical well-being. Moving beyond common myths, the text builds an evidence-based paradigm to empower readers to take...
Engaging Worlds
Core Texts and Cultural Contexts. Selected Proceedings from the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Engaging Worlds: Core Texts and Cultural Contexts asks what do we learn of texts, cultures, and the world’s dynamics when we read core texts, widely and deeply, in core-structured programs of the world’s colleges and universities? What books, what arts, what associations and institutions, what...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
How should the Holocaust be taught in schools, and to what end? What role should religious education play in recounting and remembering this human catastrophe? How has the nature and purpose of religious education changed and developed over time? What contribution should religious education make to...
by Brandon Sugar
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This book will set you on the right track to becoming a better version of yourself. Based on life experiences from an Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran, Brandon Sugar shares powerful advice to empower you to achieve your goals.
by Zhu Yongxin
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
The most comprehensive work on China’s education reform available--from one of the nation’s most influential figures in education
In Advice on the Education of China, Zhu Yongxin explores points of view from both educational researchers and government officials and policymakers, thus providing...
Teaching with the Screen
Pedagogy, Agency, and Media Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Teaching with the Screen explores the forms that pedagogy takes as teachers and students engage with the screens of popular culture. By necessity, these forms of instruction challenge traditional notions of what constitutes education. Spotlighting the visual, spatial, and relational aspects of media-based...
The Anthropology of Education Policy
Ethnographic Inquiries into Policy as Sociocultural Process
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Advancing a rapidly growing field of social science inquiry—the anthropology of policy—this volume extends and solidifies this body of work, focusing on education policy. Its goal is to examine timely issues in education policy from a critical anthropological, ethnographic, and comparative perspective,...