Curricula category: 1261 books
by Linda Pound
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
How can early years practitioners help young children to become not only numerate but aspiring mathematicians who love numbers, shapes and mathematical comparisons?
The introduction of the Foundation Stage has led to practitioners seeking ways to teach maths which are more in line with the...
Service Learning in Grades K-8
Experiential Learning That Builds Character and Motivation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2005
The author examines the beneficial effects of service learning, offers examples of curriculum-based and community-based projects, and explains how to start a successful program.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Current conventions in school evaluation focus on accountability, control and compliance. New Zealand offers a distinctive, systemic alternative to school self-evaluation, with developmental and negotiated approaches ingrained throughout the education system, from school inspection to major government...
The Clarity Series: Creating Passionate Learners
Engaging Today's Students for Tomorrow's World
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
**Increase student engagement and decrease dropouts. **
Student engagement is a defining factor for student success. However, a lack of consensus on the definition of “engagement” makes this difficult.
But it can be made easier with a common engagement literacy – a simple understanding...
Teaching STEM in the Early Years
Activities for Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
This book is for preschool, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten classroom teachers.
This book can be course adopted in preschool and kindergarten curriculum instruction and early education methods courses in math and science.
In recent years, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and...
Discovering Nature with Young Children
Part of the Young Scientist Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
Project funded by the National Science Foundation. No Child Left Behind national education legislation has science standards as a requirement, so teachers of young children will be interested. Field tested activities
Mothering a Bodied Curriculum
Emplacement, Desire, Affect
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
This collection considers how embodiment, mothering, and curriculum theory are related to practices in education that silence, conceal, and limit gendered, raced, and sexual maternal bodies. Advancing a new understanding of the maternal body, it argues for a 'bodied curriculum' – a practice that...
Teaching As A Reflective Practice
The German Didaktik Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This volume presents a mix of translations of classical and modern papers from the German Didaktik tradition, newly prepared essays by German scholars and practitioners writing from within the tradition, and interpretive essays by U.S. scholars. It brings this tradition, which virtually dominated...
by Raja Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
But, in the recent years it has been noticed that a very large majority of the students, without reading the original texts, rely on the guide books or notes prepared by their teachers or others. This is definitely not a healthy habit because students do pass their exams with the help of such notes;...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Education in the 21st century is shifting focus from accessing and sharing information to designing active and collaborative learning environments which foster student engagement and critical thinking skills. Active learning features a hands-on, activity-based teaching approach during which students...
How to Fade Like Griffin
Barbercation for Today's Barber
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
“Because a barber’s service should far exceed the mere act of cutting hair.”
"How to Fade Like Griffin" is a comprehensive look into the history, philosophy, and modern day opinions of today’s barbers. Written by nine-year Master Barber/Master Barber Educator, Kendrick...
Extreme Curriculum Makeover
A Hands-On Guide for a Learner-Centered Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
At a time where the tipping point for education seems to be a perpetually delayed expectation, despite widespread consensus and shared awareness to reform school practice for a completely new paradigm, change can actually be initiated in the real life school setting, by means of strategic curriculum...
by Scholastic UK
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Make the most out of the revised Early Years Foundation Stage Framework. This statutory Framework was revised in 2014 to reflect changes around Safeguarding and Welfare. This is the first full printed copy of the revised Framework including all guidance and areas of learning and development, including the early learning goals.
Celebrating Intellectual Curiosity
Kindergarten through College Scholarship and Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Celebrating Intellectual Curiosity: Kindergarten Through College Scholarship and Research broadens the perspective on academic pursuits. Curiosity needs to be cultivated at all school levels. All formats of scholarship and research contribute to increased human understanding.
The criteria for evaluating...