Curricula category: 1261 books
Preschoolers and Kindergartners Moving and Learning
A Physical Education Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
80 movement activities for preschoolers and kindergartners
Physical education is a critical part of every early childhood curriculum. Children need to move to channel their energies in creative, beneficial ways and to learn habits for lifelong health and fitness. Preschoolers and Kindergartners...
by Julie Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
This practical book offers a series of strategies for promoting learning that meets the needs and interests of Key Stage 1 pupils, ensuring that the move from the Early Years Foundation Stage to Key Stage 1 is a positive one.
by Martin Fautley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This book is about lesson planning which is an essential component of every teacher's practice.
The Colors of Learning
Integrating the Visual Arts Into the Early Childhood Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Unique in its creativity and depth of understanding, The Colors of Learning will change the way that teachers think about and react to children’s artwork. Promoting the integration of visual art into allearly childhood curriculum areas, this volume will help early childhood professionals present...
Curricular Conversations
Play is the (Missing) Thing
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The central theme of Curricular Conversations is this: Play is the thing that brings aesthetic curricular complications near educators and their students, making the lived consequences very vivid, tangible, and possible. Viewing curriculum as genuine inquiry into what is worth knowing, rather than...
Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education
Rethinking the temporal complexity of self and society
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education argues that by rethinking the way we relate to time, we can fundamentally rethink the way we conceive education. Beyond the contemporary rhetoric of acceleration, speed, urgency or slowness, this book provides an epistemological, historical and theoretical...
Curriculum Leadership
Beyond Boilerplate Standards
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Moving beyond alignment and national boilerplate standards, this book takes the position that curriculum and instruction are inseparable concepts from the institutional point of view, and presents strategies to ensure their congruency. To achieve student success it is imperative that educational leaders...
The Power of Project-Based Learning
Helping Students Develop Important Life Skills
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Project-based learning is a teaching approach that motivates and inspires students to learn and helps them to become self-directed learners over time. Students learn not only the content surrounding their projects, but also important life skills such as problem-solving, creativity, collaboration,...
by Gail McGaffigan
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
A 100-year-old, tried-and-true spelling method. Get back to the classics - Education the way it was for every great man of every generation, from our Colonial forefathers up until about the 1970’s. Then, it was replaced by “Whole Language,” a method that has reduced spelling to its current state...
Raising Literacy Achievement in High-Poverty Schools
An Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
This book shares lessons gleaned from a two-year intervention in a high-poverty school, which was highly successful in significantly narrowing the literacy achievement gap and in raising children’s motivation and engagement in literacy both inside and outside school. Kennedy argues that there is...
Graphic Girlhoods
Visualizing Education and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Drawing on a dynamic set of "graphic texts of girlhood," Elizabeth Marshall identifies the locations, cultural practices, and representational strategies through which schoolgirls experience real and metaphorical violence. How is the schoolgirl made legible through violence in graphic texts...
Toddlers Moving and Learning
A Physical Education Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
More than 50 movement activities for toddlers
Physical education is a critical part of every early childhood curriculum. Children need to move to channel their energies in creative, beneficial ways and to learn habits for lifelong health and fitness. Toddlers Moving & Learning provides...
The Ooey Gooey® Handbook
Identifying and Creating Child-Centered Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Lisa Murphy and her company, Ooey Gooey, Inc., are well-known across the early childhood field. Lisa is on the road about 300 days a year doing workshops and conferences both domestically and internationally—and she can pack auditoriums built to hold 5,000. She is an excellent promoter of her books.
The...
by James Arthur, Jon Davison, William Stow
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This timely book looks at social literacy within the revised National Curriculum which places an obligation on schools and teachers to promote social cohesion, community involvement and a sense of social responsibility among young people.
Social Literacy, Citizenship Education and the National Curriculum...