Curricula category: 1261 books
Over-Tested and Under-Prepared
Using Competency Based Learning to Transform Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The curriculum-driven instructional model has been the standard method of teaching for more than a century, but it is consistently failing to produce well-educated citizens and lifelong learners. Pressured by standardized testing and rigid pacing guidelines, teachers are forced to cover too much content...
Understanding Rhetoric
A Student Guide with Samples and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
A Book of Student Writing from Rhetoric and Composition People avoid writing because of the fear and anxiety they have about writing. Prior to attending Penn State and taking a Rhetoric and Composition class, I was one of those people. Depending on the style and the way the material is presented,...
Studying and Learning in a High-Stakes World
Making Tests Work for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Designed to help middle and high school teachers, as well as students new to the rigor of college, Studying and Learning in a High Stakes World incorporates test preparation into classrooms without asking teachers to “teach to the test.” Instead, it enables teachers to focus on course content...
Curriculum Design and Classroom Management
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Educational pedagogy is a diverse field of study, one that all educators should be aware of and fluent in so that their classrooms may succeed. Curriculum Design and Classroom Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications presents cutting-edge research on the development and implementation...
Teaching Children's Literature
It's Critical!
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Inviting multiple ways of critically engaging with literature, this text offers a fresh perspective on how to integrate children’s literature into and across the curriculum in effective, purposeful ways. Structured around three "mantras" that build on each other—Enjoy; Dig deeply; Take...
To Think
In Language, Learning and Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Liminal Spaces and Call for Praxis(ing) follows the theme of the Curriculum & Pedagogy conference that highlighted issues of power, privilege, and supremacy across timelines and borders. This volume comprises of an interconnected mosaic of theoretical research and praxis. Facing the current and future...
Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6-12 Classrooms
A Layered Literacies Approach to Multimodal Meaning Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6-12 Classrooms introduces a model of "layered literacies" as a framework for describing and illustrating how students’ digital experiences can inform educational methods. Through the lens of layered literacies, educators can envision opportunities...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The majority of adult learners are looking to attain their desired academic credentials within the shortest amount of time possible. By implementing competency-based programs, learners are accelerated through their designed program or course. The Handbook of Research on Competency-Based Education in...
Collecting for the Curriculum: The Common Core and Beyond
The Common Core and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
If you're a librarian charged with collecting curriculum materials and children's literature to support the Common Core State Standards, then this book—the only one that offers explicit advice on collection development in curriculum collections—is for you.
• Draws on current research...
Case Studies in Curriculum Change
Great Britain and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
One of the educationist’s major concerns today is to find effective ways of translating new goals for the curriculum into classroom practices. American and British contributions analyse curriculum change as it actually occurs, with people, institutions and constraints of time and money acknowledged...
Tune Up Your Teaching and Turn on Student Learning
Move from Common to Transformed Teaching and Learning in Your Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Teachers want their students to think, learn, and understand. Some teachers are more successful than others in achieving those goals. * What do teachers who achieve those goals do differently than those who don't? * What can new teachers do to help support students progress toward those goals without...
by Susan M. Brookhart
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Educators know it's important to get students to engage in "higher-order thinking." But what does higher-order thinking actually look like? And how can K–12 classroom teachers assess it across the disciplines? Author, consultant, and former classroom teacher Susan M. Brookhart answers...
by Franc Potter
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
There is still great uncertainty in the teaching profession regarding the effective delivery of ICT. This introductory book provides both trainee and practising teachers with a clear understanding of the ICT National Curriculum and how to teach it.Combining extensive practical advice with a critical discussion of the key theoretical issues, the boo