Curricula category: 1261 books
More than Magnets, Standards Edition
Science Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Take the uncertainty out of teaching science to children with this comprehensive curriculum framework that aligns with early learning standards. Enjoy over 100 interactive activities guaranteed to encourage children to explore their world. Each activity includes background scientific information for...
Writing Studio Pedagogy
Space, Place, and Rhetoric in Collaborative Environments
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Writing Studio Pedagogy (WSP) breaks from the tradition of teaching and responding to writing in traditional ways and moves the teaching and learning experience off the page and into engaging spaces in multiple ways, which can enhance the composing process. Through this collection, scholars interested...
Young Citizens of the World
Teaching Elementary Social Studies through Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Young Citizens of the World takes a clear stance: Social studies is about citizenship education that is informed, deliberative, and activist—citizenship not only as a noun, something one studies, but as a verb, something one DOES. Its holistic, multicultural approach is based on this clear curricular...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This collection of papers surveys key aspects of the curriculum, investigates the present situation and discusses what improvements need to be made. It is contributed by teachers, educational advisers and researchers and ranges across a variety of different institutional teaching settings and a variety...
Finding Voice
Introductory Lessons to Teach Reading and Writing of Complex Text
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Finding Voice, written by Nancy Dean with Natalie Danaher, is a foundational book for elementary students and teachers that addresses close reading of complex text through understanding and practicing the elements of voice. The book is a collection of classroom lessons that cover the tools authors use...
Emergent Teaching
A Path of Creativity, Significance, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Emergent Teaching inspires teachers to teach with more spontaneity and creativity within an educational environment that is highly constrained. It demonstrates, through descriptive stories, creative strategies and provides an intellectual foundation for emergent teaching. The authors show how teachers...
Chinese Elementary Education System Reform in Rural, Pastoral, Ethnic, and Private Schools
Six Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book introduces Chinese educational reforms and developments rolled out in the year 2014, examining them from both macro and micro perspectives and pursuing a mixed-methods approach.
This book depicts the current landscape of the Chinese education system and institutions on different educational...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Educational strategies have evolved over the years due to research breakthroughs and the application of technology. By using the latest learning innovations, curriculum and instructional design can be enhanced and strengthened. Also, as learners move away from traditional scholarly media and toward...
by June Heller, Carol Turkington
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2001
One of the areas of study students find most difficult to master--and are most fearful of--is math. Yet the core math skills acquired in the first four years of school form the basis of all future academic success. Get Ready for Standardized Tests, the first and only grade-specific test prep series,...
Shaping Academia for the Public Good
Critical Reflections on the CHSRF/CIHR Chair Program
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
With increasing demands for evidence-based decision-making, the academic community must be ready to train researchers who can reduce the gap between health care research and practice. One program dedicated to promoting such training is the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF, now the...
Meeting the Standards in Secondary Science
A Guide to the ITT NC
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
This practical, comprehensive and accessible book will prove invaluable for students on secondary initial teacher training courses, PGCE students, lecturers on science education programmes and newly qualified secondary teachers.
It provides:
the pedagogical knowledge needed to teach science...
Building Students' Historical Literacies
Learning to Read and Reason with Historical Texts and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
How can teachers incorporate the richness of historical resources into classrooms in ways that are true to the discipline of history and are pedagogically sound? This book explores the notion of historical literacy, adopts a research-supported stance on literacy processes, and promotes the integration...
National Identity and Educational Reform
Contested Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
National identity in Moldova remains contested despite repeated attempts by governments, historians, and educators to cultivate a shared sense of national belonging through the development of history textbooks. Concern over professional status and distrust of the government’s motivations halted...
Social Studies as New Literacies in a Global Society
Relational Cosmopolitanism in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
This book reconceptualizes social studies teaching and learning in ways that will help prepare students to live in "new times" – prepared for new forms of labor in the post-industrial economy, equipped to handle new and emerging technologies and function in the new media age, and prepared...