Elementary category: 2214 books
Enhancing Practice through Classroom Research
A teacher's guide to professional development
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Enhancing Practice through Classroom Research is an accessible introduction to understanding and improving teaching and learning through a process of reflection, research and action. Written by teachers for teachers, it offers a straightforward guide to classroom research and considers issues central...
by Kristy Stark
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Set third graders up for success using this must-have resource! Based on today's standards, the activities in this book are designed to develop students' skills in reading, word study, language, writing, mathematics, social studies, and science. It also features fun, yet challenging, critical-thinking...
by Jodene Lynn Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Build the foundational skills that all first graders need using this engaging resource! Based on today's standards, the activities in this book are designed to develop students' skills in reading, word study, language, writing, mathematics, social studies, and science. It also features fun, yet challenging,...
Disrupting Early Childhood Education Research
Imagining New Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Recent and increasing efforts to standardize young children’s academic performance have shifted the emphases of education toward normative practices and away from qualitative, substantive intentions. Connection to human experience, compassion for societal ailments, and the joys of learning are straining...
by Elaine M. Bukowiecki, Marlene P. Correia
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
This book presents a myriad of instructional techniques and critical literacy strategies while serving as a professional resource for inservice and preservice primary-grade teachers as they include informational texts in their classrooms. In each of the nine chapters, there is a particular topic that...
Planning Process Drama
Enriching teaching and learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Process drama is now firmly established, internationally, as a powerful and dynamic pedagogy. This clear and accessible book provides a practical, step-by-step guide to the planning of process drama. Grounded in theory and illustrated in practice, it identifies and explains the principles of planning...
by Denis Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2006
Presenting a balance of theoretical insight and practical advice, this text is a clear and accessible guide to the key issues relating to primary education. Alphabetically arranged and fully cross-referenced to ensure ease of use, entries include both curriculum specific terms, as well as those that...
by Pat Hollingbery
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Thinking skills are a key feature of learning. These brilliant titles in the series will help you develop intellectual skills in children, such as reasoning and enquiry, information processing, creative thinking and evaluation skills. The ability to think effectively and to use ICT competently are two...
Spotlight on Spelling
A Teacher's Toolkit of Instant Spelling Activities
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Spotlight on Spelling offers teachers a wide variety of topics and activities to stimulate, engage, challenge, entertain and extend all pupils’ spelling skills.
This extremely practical resource provides busy teachers and teaching assistants with a collection of worksheets that can be used...
Onwards and Upwards
Supporting the transition to Key Stage One
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
How can teachers ensure that the transition from the Early Years Foundation Stage to Key Stage One is a positive experience for children? What are the issues for children, parents and teachers and how should teachers respond to these? This book introduces the concept of transition and identifies the key problem areas for children and adults fo
Active Assessment for Science
Thinking, Learning and Assessment in Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Using a highly creative approach, this book explains in detail how assessment, thinking and learning can be integrated in science lessons.
Early Childhood Education for Muslim Children
Rationales and practices in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Early Childhood Education for Muslim Children foregrounds the marginalised perspective of Muslim children aged three to five and examines how they are cared for and educated in centre-based provision in two provinces in post-apartheid South Africa. Both theological and social science perspectives...
The Teacher's Reflective Practice Handbook
Becoming an Extended Professional through Capturing Evidence-Informed Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
What do we mean by reflective practice?
What does it involve?
How can it help you develop as a teacher?
The Teacher’s Reflective Practice Handbook is an essential source of advice, guidance and ideas for both student and practising teachers. Helping you to translate pedagogical...
by Jo Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2008
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