Curricula category: 1261 books
Teachable Moments
Tales of Triumph and Lessons Gone Awry
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Teachable Moments will look at various pieces of the vocation of what it means to be a teacher in our school buildings today - through all of the most impactful reforms on the fabric of American education. As administrators, we see the push for the need to create data tables and pie charts in an attempt...
Higher Education and Sustainable Development
A model for curriculum renewal
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Responding to the global and unprecedented challenge of capacity building for twenty-first century life, this book is a practical guide for tertiary education institutions to quickly and effectively renew the curriculum towards education for sustainable development.
The book begins by exploring...
Internationalizing Curriculum Studies
Histories, Environments, and Critiques
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
This book seeks to understand how to internationalize curriculum without imperializing or imposing the old, colonial, and so-called first-world conceptualizations of education, teaching, and learning. The collection draws on the groundbreaking work of Dwayne Huebner in order to invite scholars into...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Although Web-based technologies have fundamentally changed human interaction and behavior in many ways, they have not yet had a considerable impact on theory and practice in education. Encouraging open communication about the opportunities, challenges, and potential issues introduced by new methods in...
by KM Zafari
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
A comprehensive lesson plan aligned with the Common Core Standards for Reading: Literature for grades 9-12 (10 classroom hours).
CCS: RL: 9-10.1 – 10.10
CCS: RL: 11-12.1 – 12.10
Follows the Madeline Hunter format.
Includes:
-Duration
-Objective/Purpose
-Standards
-Concepts...
Multimodal Approaches to Research and Pedagogy
Recognition, Resources, and Access
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
This book brings together social semiotics, cultural studies, multiliteracies, and other approaches in order to theorize very different learning environments, giving visibility to the modal effect in a range of disciplines. It highlights the ideological nature of discursive practices, examines questions...
Thinking through Writing
Guidelines for Planning Learner-Centered Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Thinking through Writing demonstrates that thinking skills are taught best through writing. All parts of the brain and all types of learning styles are used in writing activities, simultaneously developing thinking skills. These skills are invaluable in linking student experience and new information,...
Better Lesson Plans, Better Lessons
Practical Strategies for Planning from Standards
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
In today’s high-stakes world, ready-made lessons and teacher’s guides are no longer enough to guarantee achievement. The best way to help students succeed is through deliberate and careful lesson planning focused on the end result of increasing student achievement. Whether you are a new teacher...
by MRS Rachel Orr
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Differentiation is a key part of the curriculum, but can be a divisive subject among teachers. In 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Differentiation, experienced teacher Rachel Orr provides guidance on using differentiation to make learning engaging, empowering, investigative, explorative, and open ended;...
The Knowledge Gap
The hidden cause of America's broken education system--and how to fix it
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty.
It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress...
by John Butcher
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2004
Developing Effective 16-19 Teaching Skills aims to enhance the competence of student- teachers in secondary schools and FE college as they confront sixteen to nineteen teaching for the first time. Based around the new standards set out in Qualifying to Teach and the Fento standards, the book will...
by Kent Freeland
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1994
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Global Pedagogies
Schooling for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Global Pedagogies: Schooling for the Future, which is the twelfth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in comparative education research with reference to globalisation, educational policy and...
Differentiated Instructional Design for Multicultural Environments
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Modern technology is creating new challenges for teachers to keep up with today’s education and advancing teaching styles. The development of a differentiated curriculum is necessary and needed particularly for a diversified group of students. Differentiated Instructional Design for Multicultural...