Curricula category: 1261 books

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Learning in Depth

A Simple Innovation That Can Transform Schooling

by Kieran Egan
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011

For generations, schools have aimed to introduce students to a broad range of topics through curriculum that ensure that they will at least have some acquaintance with most areas of human knowledge by the time they graduate. Yet such broad knowledge can’t help but be somewhat superficial—and,...
Cover of Handbook of Research on Building, Growing, and Sustaining Quality E-Learning Programs
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016

As e-learning has evolved into a global change agent in higher education, it has become more diverse in its form and applications. Now that many institutions have implemented e-learning programs as part of their course offerings, it is essential for these institutions to fully grasp how best to facilitate...
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by Ramon Mata-Toledo, Pauline K Cushman
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2000

Standard SQL guarantees that no matter what the database implementation, the features of the language will be applicable across all platforms. Over 200 completely solved problems plus 200 supplementary problems reinforce students’ understanding and skills. Features the syntax used by the most important...
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Imagination and the Engaged Learner

Cognitive Tools for the Classroom

by Kieran Egan, Judson Gillian
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Students’ imaginations are often considered as something that might be engaged after the hard work of learning has been done. Countering such beliefs, Egan and Judson show that the imagination—one of the great workhorses of learning—can be used to make all learning and all teaching...
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Children's Books for Grown-Up Teachers

Reading and Writing Curriculum Theory

by Peter Appelbaum
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017

Teachers and prospective teachers read children's books, but that reading is often done as a "teacher" – that is, as planning for instruction – rather than as a "reader" engaged with the text. Children’s Books for Grown-Up Teachers models the kind of thinking about teaching...
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Using the Brain to Spell

Effective Strategies for All Levels

by Sally E. Burkhardt
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010

This book offers practical advice to teachers unsure of how to teach spelling. Filled with student-centered wisdom, Burkhardt grounds her methods in both theory and practice, providing logical rules and hands-on exercises to keep students actively engaged.
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Beyond Learning by Doing

Theoretical Currents in Experiential Education

by Jay W. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012

What is experiential education? What are its theoretical roots? Where does this approach come from? Offering a fresh and distinctive take, this book is about going beyond "learning by doing" through an exploration of its underlying theoretical currents. As an increasingly popular pedagogical...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009

What comes after the reconceptualization of curriculum studies? What is the contribution of the next wave of curriculum scholars? Comprehensive and on the cutting edge, this Handbook speaks to these questions and extends the conversation on present and future directions in curriculum studies through...
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by Steven Katz, Lisa Ain Dack, Dr. John Malloy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017

Jump start your roles as “learning leader” and “lead learner!” ** ** Designed for leaders to learn and lead within the “middle space” between the seemingly opposing dynamics of district expectations and practitioner experience, this book advances the concept of the school...
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Qualitative Research

Challenging the Orthodoxies in Standard Academic Discourse(s)

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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009

"I commend and celebrate the editors and authors for a remarkable book that engages the reader’s imagination, heart, mind, spirit, and body. Out of creative and courageous commitments to challenging orthodoxies by living and writing research that is personal, political, and poetic, these scholars...
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Gender Diversity and LGBTQ Inclusion in K-12 Schools

A Guide to Supporting Students, Changing Lives

by Sharon Verner Chappell, Karyl E. Ketchum, Lisa Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018

This exploration of effective practices to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) and gender-diverse students in elementary, middle, and high school contexts focuses on curriculum, pedagogy, and school environment. Narratives and artwork from the field are framed by sociocultural...
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by Randall Curren, Charles Dorn
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018

Should schools attempt to cultivate patriotism? If so, why? And what conception of patriotism should drive those efforts? Is patriotism essential to preserving national unity, sustaining vigorous commitment to just institutions, or motivating national service? Are the hazards of patriotism so great...
Cover of INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: INDIRECT INSTRUCTIONS IN YOUR LESSONS
by Yuen Teng Chang, Anis Liyana Abd Latif, Nur Liyana Mohd Nazli
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015

As there are many categories of instructional strategies, this e-book focuses on indirect instruction. Indirect instruction is mainly student- centred and emphasizes on allowing students to get involved throughout a lesson by observing thus seeking their own meaning of the lesson.In this e-book, the methods of indirect instruction that can be used in class will be discussed and explored.
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Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8

Teaching Kids to Succeed

by Debbie Thompson Silver
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012

A fresh approach to getting kids to work smarter and better, not just harder Award-winning teacher and best-selling author Debbie Silver addresses the relationship between student motivation and risking failure, calling failure a temporary “glitch” that provides valuable learning opportunities....
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