Curricula category: 1261 books
Reconceptualizing Plato’s Socrates at the Limit of Education
A Socratic Curriculum Grounded in Finite Human Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Bridging the gap between interpretations of "Third Way" Platonic scholarship and "phenomenological-ontological" scholarship, this book argues for a unique ontological-hermeneutic interpretation of Plato and Plato’s Socrates. Reconceptualizing Plato’s Socrates at the Limit of...
Doing Critical Literacy
Texts and Activities for Students and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Compelling and highly engaging, this text shows teachers at all levels how to do critical literacy in the classroom and provides models for practice that can be adapted to any context. Integrating social theory and classroom practice, it brings critical literacy to life as a socio-cultural orientation...
by John Parks Le Tellier
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2006
Using evidence-based strategies, this inspiring handbook provides principals and teachers with a catalog of practiced "moves," or actions that upgrade performance, create durable motivation, and renew energy levels.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Practitioners and students wishing to know how very young children develop an awareness of ICT will find this text invaluable.
ICT has arguably one of the biggest impacts on every-day 21st century life, so its inclusion in the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum reflects the need to encourage...
Teaching English
A Handbook for Primary and Secondary School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to teaching English in primary and secondary schools. It brings together the latest standards with authoritative guidance, ensuring that readers feel confident about how to approach their teaching. It explores the context of the subject of English...
Creating Schools That Heal
Real-Life Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Lesley Koplow’s well-examined truths uncover an image of intimacy between teacher and child sorely needed in our schools. Her ‘emotionally responsive’ teacher is the pivot for a classroom community that visibly supports and honors it’s members in the great variety of...
Teaching English Language Learners
Content and Language in Middle and Secondary Mainstream Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Teaching English Language Learners: Content and Language in Middle and Secondary Mainstream Classrooms provides a reader-friendly guide to implementing and assessing high-level, content-area instruction for English Language Learners. Beginning with an overview of second language acquisition and the...
Curriculum for High Ability Learners
Issues, Trends and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Given the increasing speed of change and the information explosion around the world, this book draws attention to the practice of teaching for conceptual understanding, which has been heralded as an effective approach within many curriculum frameworks. This book is pivotal in documenting and analyzing...
Service Learning
A Guide to Planning, Implementing, and Assessing Student Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2006
Through nine exciting service learning projects, students gain the unique opportunity for authentic learning experiences both in the classroom and in their surrounding community.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
What would the primary curriculum look like with humanities at its heart? How can cross-curricular work help children to learn more effectively?
With practical ideas on how to join up the primary curriculum, this book uses history and geography to explore different contexts and strategies for...
Reconstructing 'Education' through Mindful Attention
Positioning the Mind at the Center of Curriculum and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
This book reconstructs the idea and practice of education. Rather than conceiving of education as a process we undergo in which our minds are shaped by a social vision, Oren Ergas turns this notion of education on its head, arguing instead that we ourselves construct education. The multitude of problems...
Improvising the Curriculum
Alternatives to Scripted Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Equipped with cultural tools like cell phones, computers and video cameras, youth are called upon to improvise and construct themselves symbolically in a continuously connected world; yet new teachers and students are still expected to learn and deliver standardized, placeless forms of scripted curriculum....
The New Balanced Literacy School
Implementing Common Core
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Create a new approach to balanced literacy grounded in research-based best practices. This book infuses best practices of the new balanced literacy model through the lens of Common Core, with support on read-alouds, guided reading, language and literacy centers, word walls to language walls, independent...
Technology-Rich Teaching
Classrooms in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Information and computer technology arrived in classrooms more than three decades ago. Despite the efforts of educators and technologists, much teaching and learning has remained unchanged since it arrived. This is in contrast to the widespread adoption of computer technology in many other endeavors....