Curricula category: 1261 books
Excellence in Education
The Making of Great Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
A thorough examination of the characteristics of a high- performing school, written by Sir Cyril Taylor (Chairman of the Specialist Schools Trust) and Conor Ryan (senior adviser to Tony Blair on Education).
Civil Rights, Culture Wars
The Fight over a Mississippi Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Just as Mississippi whites in the 1950s and 1960s had fought to maintain school segregation, they battled in the 1970s to control the school curriculum. Educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracial...
Early Elementary Children Moving and Learning
A Physical Education Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
More than 100 movement activities for early elementary children
Physical education is a critical part of every early childhood curriculum. Children need to move to channel their energies in creative, beneficial ways and to learn habits for lifelong health and fitness. Early Elementary Children...
Succeeding with English Language Learners
A Guide for Beginning Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
Novice teachers can apply best practices for a successful ELL classroom experience!
New teachers face a special challenge when their first assignment is teaching English language learners. This resource combines teacher induction and mentoring principles with basic ESL and EFL techniques...
Serve and Learn
Implementing and Evaluating Service-learning in Middle and High Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
This volume makes two important contributions: First, it provides a framework grounded in theory and best professional practice that middle and high school teachers, their students, and community partners can use to design, implement, and evaluate service-learning projects that address authentic community...
Curriculum Theory
Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The Second Edition of Curriculum Theory: Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns by Michael Stephen Schiro presents a clear, unbiased, and rigorous description of the major curriculum philosophies that have influenced educators and schooling over the last century. The author analyzes four educational...
Against Common Sense
Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The phrase "teaching for social justice" is often used, but not always explained. What does it look like to teach for social justice? What are the implications for anti-oppressive teaching across different areas of the curriculum? Drawing on his own experiences teaching diverse grades and...
Curriculum Models for the 21st Century
Using Learning Technologies in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Changing student profiles and the increasing availability of mainstream and specialized learning technologies are stretching the traditional face-to-face models of teaching and learning in higher education. Institutions, too, are facing far-reaching systemic changes which are placing strains on existing...
by David A. Squires
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Full of field-tested implementation tools, this comprehensive handbook shows how schools and districts can use the Balanced Curriculum process to put their schools on the track to success.
by Joel J. Lerner, Eugene Don
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?
Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline...
by Camilia Sadik
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
How to Teach Phonics - Teachers' Guide can be used by teachers and parents of K-12, adult learners, dyslexic persons who can read but cannot spell, and advanced ESL students. Teaching phonics means teaching which letter or combination of letters to choose when spelling every English sound in every English...
War in Kanawha County
School Textbook Protest in West Virginia in 1974
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
In 1974, the Board of Education in Kanawha County West Virginia introduced a set of new textbooks into the standard curriculum. These textbooks contained offensive language, compared Bible stories to well-known myths and fables, and also, in the opinion of some citizens, lacked the basic ideals of...
Drama Lesson Plans for Busy Teachers Book One
Drama Lesson Plans for Busy Teachers, #1
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
‘Pick up and teach it’ drama sessions
I want to enable the teaching of creative subjects in an accessible, flexible and down-to-earth way. When I started teaching I noticed that there were hardly any ‘pick up and teach it’ drama session plans available, and so set out to create my own....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
The empirically based Parallel Curriculum Modelshows teachers how to create meaningful, emotive, and engaging curriculum that challenges all learners according to their interests and abilities.