Elementary category: 2214 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This textbook provides a wide-ranging overview of everything you will need to know to prepare you for initial teacher training and your early career in the primary classroom.
Covering practical issues including planning, assessment and classroom organisation, and thought-provoking topics such...
de-testing and de-grading schools
Authentic Alternatives to Accountability and Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A century of education and education reform, along with more than three decades of high-stakes testing and accountability, reveals a disturbing paradox: education has a steadfast commitment to testing and grading. This commitment persists despite ample research, theory, and philosophy revealing the...
Coaching Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom
A Practical Guide for 7-14
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Coaching Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom is a practical resource to help Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 teachers explore and understand a range of concepts, principles and techniques gathered under the term ‘emotional intelligence’, and the way that this powerfully influences pupils’ behaviour...
Place, Being, Resonance
A Critical Ecohermeneutic Approach to Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
How do we begin to move beyond a use-relation with «natural resources» towards resonance with a deeply interrelated ecology? Place, Being, Resonance brings insights from the hermeneutic tradition, ecopoetics and indigenous epistemologies of place to bear on education in a world of ecological emergency....
Shifting the Kaleidoscope
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Educators Insights on Culture Shock, Identity and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This book examines culture shock and reverse culture shock as valuable learning experiences for educators working in increasingly culturally diverse environments. Although these phenomena are often cast as illnesses to be avoided, this study suggests that both types of shock can help educators develop...
by Denis Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Unique in its field, the Encyclopedia of Primary Education brings together a wide-ranging body of information relating to current educational practice in a single indispensable volume. This book provides a series of descriptions, definitions and explanations that engage with important practical and...
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education
Critical Questions, New Imaginaries and Social Activism: A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education is a foundational text, which presents contemporary theories and debates about early education and child care in many nations. The authors selected are leading contributors in discussions about critical early childhood studies over the past twenty...
The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation
Achieving Excellence for All
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
This book is the ultimate guide to differentiation in early years, schools and further education settings by Sue Cowley, bestselling author of Getting the Buggers to Behave. It offers over 90 practical and time-saving strategies for effective differentiation in every classroom.
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by Fred Sedgwick
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
"We believe that every young person should experience the world beyond the classroom as an essential part of learning and personal development, whatever their age, ability or circumstances. Learning outside the classroom is about raising achievement through an organised, powerful approach to...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Dieser Band dokumentiert eine Reihe von Beiträgen der XIX. Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz Bildungsreform und Lehrerausbildung zum Thema Bildungswissenschaft auf der Suche nach globaler Identität, die vom Ministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft der Republik Litauen, der Litauischen...
Creative Approaches to Improving Participation
Giving learners a say
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Introducing creativity to the classroom is a concern for teachers, governments and future employers around the world, and there has been a drive to make experiences at school more exciting, relevant, challenging and dynamic for all young people, ensuring they leave education able to contribute to...
Curriculum
Decanonizing the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Curriculum: Decanonizing the Field is a fresh and innovative collection that is concerned with the totalitarian Western Eurocentric cult that has dominated the field of curriculum studies. Contributors to this volume challenge dominant and counter-dominant curriculum positions of the Western Eurocentric...
Learning through Digital Game Design and Building in a Participatory Culture
An Enactivist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book discusses topics concerning digital game-based learning focusing on learning-by-game-building and Web 2.0. Grounded in the new theoretical perspective of enactivism, this book shows how such an approach can help students gain deep understanding of subjects such as mathematics and history,...
Mentoring Preservice Teachers Through Practice
A Framework for Coaching with CARE
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Supporting and challenging cooperating teachers to grow in their mentoring and coaching practices with preservice teachers and also in their own work as classroom teachers, this practical guide presents and illustrates the Coaching with CARE model—a framework for reflection and action that helps...