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Across the Water
Teaching Irish Music and Dance at Home and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Immerse students in the music traditions of the Irish, one of North America's largest ethnic populations. Across the Water: Teaching Irish Music and Dance at Home and Abroad gives general music teachers the tools to introduce the music and dance of Ireland while respecting the music's cultural origins....
Using Experiential Learning in the Classroom
Practical Ideas for All Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2005
While research and common sense tells us that experiential learning is more effective than the more traditional process of information assimilation (where teachers lecture, test, and grade), high school, college, and university teachers continue to use paper-and-pencil tests as their primary grading...
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...
Kaleidoscope of Cultures
A Celebration of Multicultural Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
A rich collection of the best offerings from the 2006 and 2008 National Symposiums on Multicultural Music, Kaleidoscope of Cultures is full of resources, references, lesson plans, and ethnic music. In addition to lively speeches, engaging workshops (including making ethnic instruments), and reviews...
Whole Child, Whole School
Applying Theory to Practice in a Community School
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
This book provides a unique examination on the ways in which educating the whole child in the community school serves to ameliorate the conditions of poverty and obstacles to learning faced by students. Using a case study approach the book will highlight the successful journey of one school that transformed...
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...
Teaching Reading in the Middle School
Common Core and More
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
More than 670,000 middle school teachers (grades 6-8) are responsible for educating nearly 13 million students in public and private schools. Thousands more teachers join these ranks annually, especially in the South and West, where ethnic populations are ballooning. Teachers and administrators seek...
Teaching Middle School Language Arts
Incorporating Twenty-first Century Literacies
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Teaching Middle School Language Arts is the first book on teaching middle school language arts for multiple intelligences and related 21st century literacies in technologically and ethnically diverse communities. More than 670,000 middle school teachers (grades six through eight) are responsible for...
Avoiding the Demise of Democracy
A Cautionary Tale for Teachers and Principals
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In the seventies, countries lauded American education as one of the best systems in the world. Then came the accountability movement. What was measured was what counted. Those who measured low were punished. Those who measured high were rewarded. With measurements came the loss of emphasis on the...
Working for Kids
Educational Leadership as Inquiry and Invention
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Much of the current discourse on improving school leadership, and particularly the performance of principals, is misguided. There is much too much emphasis on evaluation and standards as determined by policy makers and professors and not nearly enough attention to how one provides performance-driven...
by Ellie Lowder
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Whether employers are self-administering their 403(b) plans, or are using a Third Party Administrator (TPA), the in depth information in this book will provide a guide to the regulations, and the tools needed to correctly operate the plan. Busy School Business Officials can use this guide with payroll...
Agency through Teacher Education
Reflection, Community, and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Agency through Teacher Education: Reflection, Community, and Learning addresses the ways that agency functions for those involved in twenty-first-century teacher education. This book, commissioned by the Association of Teacher Educators, relies on the voices of teacher education candidates, in-service...
Social Studies for Young Children
Preschool and Primary Curriculum Anchor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Social studies is at the heart of content in education and takes on society's best hopes for helping children become good citizens and winners in the global economy. In its comprehensive scope, Social Studies for Young Children: Preschool and Primary Curriculum Anchor fulfills the promise of social...
by Frank Withrow, Harvey Long, Gary Marx
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
This 112-page publication, Preparing Schools and School Systems for the 21st Century, presents characteristics of schools and school systems capable of preparing students for a global knowledge/information age. Order copies of this publication for board members, administrative team, staff, and community...