Curricula category: 1261 books
Learning, the Hardest Job You'll Ever Love!
Helpful Ideas for Students and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Learning, the Hardest Job You'll Ever Love is a collage of ideas designed for eighth through twelfth grade students and their parents to have better relationships with one another and with the entire school community, to help and support their communities in different ways, and to appreciate the value...
Enhancing the Professional Practice of Music Teachers
101 Tips that Principals Want Music Teachers to Know and Do
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
If you want to improve your professional performance and set yourself apart from your colleagues-in any discipline-these tips are for you. If you desire anything less than achieving the very best, you won't want this book. Rather than addressing research and theory about music education or the 'how-tos'...
by Mortimer J. Adler
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Paideia is a holistic approach to life-long learning with roots in ancient Greece.
The Paideia Program is based on the belief that the human species is defined by its capacity and desire for learning. The program itself argues for a public education that is at once more rigorous and more accessible.
Books to Build On
A Grade-By-Grade Resource Guide for Parents and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
The invaluable grade-by-grade guide (kindergarten—sixth) is designed to help parents and teachers select some of the best books for children.
Books to Build On recommends:
• for kindergartners, lively collections of poetry and stories, such as The Children’s Aesop, and imaginative...
by Ms Emily Gopaul
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Art lessons offer children a new way to explore the world around them, and is another means by which they can express their ideas and process their thoughts.
Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics: Teaching Primary Art and Design extends the National Curriculum requirements for art and design and provides...
What They Didn't Teach You in American History Class
The Second Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
For the average person, most of the American history that he or she knows comes from facts taught to them in school to prepare them for their state mandated tests. That's not the fault of their teachers who were just carrying out the directives of their employers. But it's also a fact that a great...
Education Forward
Moving Schools into the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Too often, we think of school as a fixed-rail path we all have to follow: teachers teach, students learn, exams are taken, futures set. That's how it's been since the introduction of compulsory schooling in the 19th century.
But parents, teachers and corporations around the world are now voicing...
Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts
Helping Students Develop Inner Strength, Resilience, and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts is the first practical teacher resource to provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of developing strong spirits and caring young people. It is focused on middle years’ students but most lessons can be adapted for older and younger students as well. This resource...
Connecting the Dots in World History, A Teacher's Literacy Based Curriculum
From the Mongol Empire to the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In his previously written articles and books, Chris Edwards has argued that Teaching should be considered a field that is separate from both the field of Education and from the content area fields. Teaching is a field which synthesizes content and method for classroom application. All of the other...
Reauthorizing No Child Left Behind
Facts and Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Studies suggest that the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001's goal of 100 percent of U.S. students proficient in reading and mathematics by 2014 will not be met. The authors recommend more-uniform state academic standards and teacher requirements and broader measures of student learning, including more subjects and tests of higher-thinking and problem-solving skills.
by William F. Pinar
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
This primer for teachers (prospective and practicing) asks readers to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, to construct their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to become "educated" in the present moment.
Curriculum theory...
Between Hope and Despair
Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2000
At the end of a century of unfathomable suffering, societies are facing anew the question of how events that shock, resist assimilation, and evoke contradictory and complex responses should be remembered. Between Hope and Despair specifically examines the pedagogical problem of how remembrance is...
by Ralph M McInerny
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A powerful essay on the pursuit of wisdom, with recommendations for further reading.
A Student’s Guide to Philosophy examines these questions: Who is a philosopher? Can philosophical thought be avoided? What have philosophers written over the ages? And why should we care? In this critical...
Mathematics Miseducation
The Case Against a Tired Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2005
Author and veteran teacher Derek Stolp has come to the conclusion that learning mathematics is of no real consequence for the vast majority of our children. This stance flies in the face of the conventional wisdom held among political leaders, business people, teachers, and parents that mathematics...