Curricula category: 1261 books
Inventions of Teaching
A Genealogy
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2004
Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy is a powerful examination of current metaphors for and synonyms of teaching. It offers an account of the varied and conflicting influences and conceptual commitments that have contributed to contemporary vocabularies--and that are in some ways maintained by those...
Instructional Coaches and the Instructional Leadership Team
A Guide for School-Building Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Supercharge school improvement with instructional coaches!
How can coaches seamlessly integrate themselves into the fabric of a school and help teachers improve their practice from day one? This unique companion provides an inside look at the day-to-day work of an instructional coach and offers...
Curriculum Development
A Guide for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Curriculum and curriculum issues are at the heart of current debates about schooling, pedagogy and learning. This book will enable practitioners, scholars and academics to understand how to re-design or to suggest changes to curriculum structure, shape and content. Grounded in theory and philosophy,...
by Linda Dacey
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Developed in conjunction with Lesley University, this engaging resource for fourth grade provides effective, research-based strategies to help teachers differentiate problem solving in the classroom. It includes: 50 leveled math problems (150 problems total), an overview of the problem-solving process,...
by Leah C. Tolbert
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Looking for a better way? Well here it is! This book is so practical it is scary. Really! Whether you are a first year teacher, seasoned teacher, an administrator or still in college trying to decide if the education route is for you, this book works. The author gives clearly detailed ideas guiding...
Whitewashing War
Historical Myth, Corporate Textbooks, and Possibilities for Democratic Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Whitewashing War explores perhaps the most critical issue social studies educators presently face: How do we teach our students about war? In this timely book, Christopher Leahey investigates how the political struggles over the social studies curriculum, the corporate domination of the textbook...
Rebooting Social Studies
Strategies for Reimagining History Classes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Those facts. Those dates. Those four walls. Those still and petrified fossils of traditional history courses. Sure, it's history, but do we have to turn to tradition for guidance? Let's make it worth the students time. Let's give them something to take beyond their high school experience. Let's reboot...
Blending Instruction with Technology
A Blueprint for Teachers to Create Unique, Engaging, and Effective Learning Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Blending Instruction with Technology is a book that offers educators guidelines and solutions for implementing blended learning in today’s classrooms. There has been a strong push by many communities, schools and educators to move to a 1:1 environment. However, once there…
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
At the forefront of current digital literacy studies in education, this handbook uniquely systematizes emerging interdisciplinary themes, new knowledge, and insightful theoretical contributions to the field. Written by well-known scholars from around the world, it closely attends to the digitalization...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This volume provides an exploration of the manifold ways pedagogy is enacted in cultural studies practice. Pedagogy in the book comes to stand as far more than simply the "art of teaching"; contributors explore how pedagogy defines and shapes their practice as cultural studies scholars. Chapters variously...
by Gwen Schroth, Paul Terry, Anita M. Pankake
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1997
School administrators must constantly evaluate and refine school scheduling for optimum student and teacher performance. This book is for school administrators who need appropriate management techniques for scheduling students into classes. All parts of the puzzle are presented so the administrator...
Language Across the Curriculum & CLIL in English as an Additional Language (EAL) Contexts
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book will be of interest to a broad readership, regardless of whether they have a background in sociolinguistics, functional linguistics or genre theories. It presents an accessible “meta-language” (i.e. a language for talking about language) that is workable and usable for teachers and...
Teaching English Language 16-19
A Comprehensive Guide for Teachers of AS and A Level English Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
This unique guide to teaching English Language empowers teachers to lead a successful course that will encourage students to be independent and analytical linguists. Covering all areas of linguistic investigation across different exam board specifications and rooted in theoretical perspectives, this...
Geography
Teaching School Subjects 11-19
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2005
When Geography specialists decide they want to teach, it can be a daunting prospect to enter a real classroom, no matter how much subject knowledge they already possess. Geography: Teaching School Subjects 11-19 puts the subject into perspective and shows new teachers and student teachers how to...