Curricula category: 1261 books
by Jonathan Glazzard, Neil Denby, Jayne Price
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The book is intended to give enough information and ideas for trainee teachers to approach the practical business of teaching with confidence.
The Principal as Curriculum Leader
Shaping What Is Taught and Tested
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Your best resource for curriculum leadership post-NCLB and beyond!
Put quality curriculum front and center with this classic toolkit to savvy curriculum leadership for the 21st Century. Newly revised and updated case studies, research, and state and national curriculum and leadership standards...
by Linda Feaman
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Unlock complex informational text through close reading. Use this book as a guide to teach close reading in a way that delves deeply into the text and aligns with the Common Core State Standards. Each standards-based lesson includes: ¥ Complex informational text that is grade-level appropriate. Text-dependent...
Social Science Learning in Schools
Perspective and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Social Science Learning in Schools: Perspective and Challenges locates the teaching and learning of social science within the larger perspective and aims of education. It emphasizes the need to take the teaching of social science beyond the confines of contemporary ideological debates, into the realm...
by Jane Feber
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Make reading intervention engaging and effective for striving adolescent students. Thirty-five activities focus on phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension and are aligned with the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards from the Common Core State Standards addressing...
Engaging Worlds
Core Texts and Cultural Contexts. Selected Proceedings from the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Engaging Worlds: Core Texts and Cultural Contexts asks what do we learn of texts, cultures, and the world’s dynamics when we read core texts, widely and deeply, in core-structured programs of the world’s colleges and universities? What books, what arts, what associations and institutions, what...
by William G. Brozo, Gary Moorman, Carla Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Graphic novels are an excellent medium to motivate today’s youth to become independent learners and thinkers. This practical guide shows secondary school teachers how to incorporate graphic novels into content area instruction as a tool for meeting the needs of diverse learners and achieving...
Differentiating for Success
How to Build Literacy Instruction for All Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Creating differentiated instruction is an essential—yet time-consuming—component of effective teaching. Since students learn at different paces and in different ways, some students may be able to apply a targeted comprehension skill in cognitively complex ways immediately after being taught the skill...
The Common Core Companion: Booster Lessons, Grades 3-5
Elevating Instruction Day by Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Skill-building through potent instruction, day by day
In these much-anticipated sequels to The Common Core Companion, Janiel Wagstaff and Leslie Blauman provide a collection of connected lessons and formative writing assessments that bring Monday-to-Friday clarity to the task of integrating...
by Li Jilin
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This book focuses on summarizing four elements from the classic Chinese literary theory: truth, beauty, emotion and imagination. Based on the latest findings from learning sciences and brain science, it elaborates on the reasons for creating contexts in language teaching. It also shows how the aesthetical...
Minority Students in East Asia
Government Policies, School Practices and Teacher Responses
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
In Minority Students in East Asia: Government Policies, School Practices and Teacher Responses authors discuss their research on minority students’ schooling (elementary to higher education) in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Minority students’ educational issues are...
Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Japan
Beyond lesson study
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history and current status of policy, research and practices of curriculum, classroom instruction and assessment in Japan. It outlines the mechanism of curriculum organization and the history of the National Courses of Study, and assesses the theories...
The Early Years Curriculum
A View from Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Education outdoors – in the school grounds or further afield – is widely recognised as making a valuable contribution to children’s development in all areas of the curriculum, including ‘areas of learning’ at Foundation Stage, and ‘subjects’ at Key Stage 1 and beyond.
Based on...
Individualized Child-Focused Curriculum
A Differentiated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Learn to integrate individualized curriculum into daily practice with this step-by-step guide. Using Developmental Studies, a new tool created and successfully field-tested by the author, implement a truly child-focused and individualizing curriculum, meeting each child where she or he is and ultimately...