Curricula category: 1261 books
Closing the Gap between Risk and Resilience
How Struggling Learners Can Cope with the Common Core State Standards
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Although there has been considerable interest and concern surrounding the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, there is almost no information regarding best practices for getting at-risk students to attempt the rigor embraced by the Standards. This text offers lesson plans, realistic...
Comprehensive Literacy Basics
An Anthology by Capstone Professional
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Teaching English language arts at grades K-5 is both a science and an art. Educators must teach literacy skills and content with best practices, while also keeping focus on each student’s individual needs. They are challenged to monitor students working independently while also conducting small group...
Read, Discuss, and Learn
Using Literacy Groups to Student Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Literacy groups promote discussion and learning through the exploration of text, but many educators are hesitant to adopt them. For current and future secondary teachers, administrators, and curriculum directors, Read, Discuss, and Learn provides support and guidance so educators can confidently involve...
Developments in Engineering Education Standards
Advanced Curriculum Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Engineering education methods and standards are important features of engineering programs that should be carefully designed both to provide students and stakeholders with valuable, active, integrated learning experiences, and to provide a vehicle for assessing program outcomes. With the driving force...
Educating for Wisdom and Compassion
Creating Conditions for Timeless Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2005
Essential principles of timeless learning include attention, contemplation, connection, participation, and responsibility; helping students achieve a sense of purpose; and improving alertness and mental health.
by John P. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Originally published in 1988, The Holistic Curriculum addresses the problem of fragmentation in education through a connected curriculum of integrative approaches to teaching and learning. John P. Miller, author of more than seventeen books on holistic education, discusses the theoretical foundations...
by Norman Eng
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
How do I write a syllabus? What kind of tone should it set? Isn't there a template I can just use? These are some of the questions many professors—especially if you're NEW—want answered. You just want the specifics, minus the jargon. A syllabus that captivates students and gets them excited about...
Literacy Projects for Student-Centered Classrooms
Tips and Lessons to Engage Students
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2007
Meets NCTE and IRA standards, offers guidelines for using the student-centered approach to literacy instruction, and presents four long-term research projects that encourage teamwork and creativity.
by Linda E. Reksten
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
The author examines five Title I schools that overcame significant challenges to sustain student achievement and presents principles for building a culture of high standards and expectations.
by Jere Brophy, Janet Alleman
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Drawing on interview data, the authors describe K-3 students' knowledge and thinking about basic aspects of the social world that are addressed in the elementary social studies curriculum. The interviews focused on human activities relating to nine cultural universals that are commonly addressed in...
by Phil Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Considering the wider yet critically important issues that students are likely to face during their teaching placement.
Implementing Intensive Interaction in Schools
Guidance for Practitioners, Managers and Co-ordinators
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Pedagogies and Curriculums to (Re)imagine Public Education
Transnational Tales of Hope and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
This book discusses current market-based educational discourses and how they have undermined the notion of “the public” in public education by allowing private visions of education to define the public democratic imagination. Against this discouraging background, this text embraces Freire’s...
Achieving your Award in Education and Training
The Comprehensive Course Companion (Special Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
PROBABLY THE ONLY DEDICATED TEXTBOOK YOU WILL EVER NEED FOR THE AWARD IN EDUCATION AND TRAINING
This textbook covers the three units of the Award in Education and Training. These are as follows:
Understanding Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships in...