Elementary category: 2214 books
When Pre-K Comes to School
Policy, Partnerships, and the Early Childhood Education Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When Pre-K Comes to School traces what happens—for institutions and teachers—when a school district and community ECE centers partner to provide public pre-K. Wilinski examines policy implementation across diverse sites—a private part-day preschool, a corporate childcare center,...
Crafting Critical Stories
Toward Pedagogies and Methodologies of Collaboration, Inclusion, and Voice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Critical storytelling, a rich form of culturally relevant, critical pedagogy, has gained great urgency in a world of standardization. Crafting Critical Stories asks how social justice scholars and educators narrate, craft, and explore critical stories as a tool for culturally relevant, critical pedagogy....
Classroom Struggle
Organizing Elementary School Teaching in the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
During the institutionalization of mass schooling in the 19th century, teaching large groups of children became both a necessity and a matter of regulation. For officials and inspectors the systematization of classroom interactions was important for effective results. However, while systematization...
Educating Young Children With and Without Exceptionalities
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Early childhood education (ECE) has always been intertwined with the use of developmentally appropriate practice (DAP). To support excellence in ECE, it is critical how the knowledge about individual children and child development principles combined with the knowledge of effective early learning...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Visual Data in Science Education builds upon previous work done by the editors to bring some definition to the meaning of visual data as it relates to education, and highlighted the breadth of types and uses of visual data across the major academic disciplines. In this book, the editors have brought...
by Lee Gabor
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
Lee Gabor, M.Ed., is a national award winning educator. In August of 2002, she became a teacher at Silberstein Elementary School, Dallas ISD, Dallas, Texas. She had owned and operated her own business for 25 years before being drafted to teach. During the first week in the classroom of her Title 1...
STEAM Makers
Fostering Creativity and Innovation in the Elementary Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Build the essential 4—creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking!
Go beyond theory and learn how to systematically integrate STEAM and Maker spaces that prepare students for real-world experiences. This engaging resource outlines step-by-step processes to help anyone...
Innovative Approaches to Educational Leadership
Selected Cases
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Of late, leadership has come to include individuals in elementary, secondary and tertiary institutions who do not necessarily carry leadership titles. Faculty in preK-16 institutions, along with other staff and community people, have increasingly begun to take on leadership responsibilities as shared...
Cultural Journeys
Multicultural Literature for Elementary and Middle School Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
As multicultural education is becoming integral to the core curriculum, teachers often implement this aspect into their courses through literature. However, standards and criteria to teach and promote active discussion about this literature are sparse. Cultural Journeys introduces pre-service and...
by Jake D Yarish
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
What Do Honeybees Do? is an educational picture book that is designed for the elementary school age child, but is for children of all ages and anyone who is interested in the amazing honeybee.
It is a book that introduces the fundamentals of the hive, the honeybee and the work that honeybees...
Engaging Students in Academic Literacies
Genre-based Pedagogy for K-5 Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
The Common Core State Standards require schools to include writing in a variety of genres across the disciplines. Engaging Students in Academic Literacies provides specific information to plan and carry out genre-based writing instruction in English for K-5 students within various content areas. Informed...
Imagination and Literacy
A Teacher's Search for the Heart of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In her newest book, teacher researcher and bestselling author Karen Gallas investigates imagination in the classroom to understand its function in literacy learning. Using rich examples from her elementary classrooms, she proposes that imagination is a central, but untapped, component of learning...
by Mike Artell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The author writes a wonderful story. The illustrator creates incredible images. But what can educators bring to their read-alouds? Do the read-alouds ROCK? The fact is, every read-aloud is a performance. And every aspect of a read-aloud performance informs a child's understanding and appreciation of...
Diversity Awareness for K-6 Teachers
An Approach to Learning and Understanding our World
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Diversity Awareness for K-6 Teachers – An Approach to Learning and Understanding Our World is a guide appropriate for elementary teachers and university level preservice teachers. The themes are relevant to today’s world and include age-appropriate activities designed to increase student participation...