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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Many can now conclude that utilizing educational technologies can be considered the primary tools to inspire students to learn. Combining these technologies with the best teaching and learning practices can engage in creativity and imagination in the engineering field. Using Technology Tools to Innovate...
Dyslexia Included
A Whole School Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This practical book provides teachers with techniques and suggestions to help dyslexic pupils. Written by a team of experienced practitioners who work in a specialist school, it offers clear guidance and tried and tested strategies to help those who need support in this area.
The book addresses...
Toward a More Visual Literacy
Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Technology and multimodal texts must be included as part of the literacies we teach in 21st century schools. Implementing multiple modes of literacy requires that teachers shift their focus toward multiple genres and modes of text. This shift to the visual requires that teachers consider how students...
Young Adult Literature and the Digital World
Textual Engagement Through Visual Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
This book considers the practical intersection between digital media and young adult texts. In these books, teachers and teacher educators offer practical examples for engaging students with crafting critical responses to young adult literature through digital spaces. It examines how teachers can...
Language, Literacy, and Learning in the STEM Disciplines
How Language Counts for English Learners
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
With a focus on what mathematics and science educators need to know about academic language used in the STEM disciplines, this book critically synthesizes the current knowledge base on language challenges inherent to learning mathematics and science, with particular attention to the unique issues...
Empowering Educators
Proven Principles and Successful Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Educators cannot empower their students without being empowered themselves. This book presents a number of proven principles and successful strategies that have been demonstrated by rigorous research to be effective in assisting teachers to carry out their fundamental mission of helping their students to achieve significant learning outcomes.
Metasystems Learning Design of Open Textbooks
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Universal access to high-quality education plays an important role in the building of peace, sustainable social and economic development, and intercultural dialogue. Providing research on the quality and understanding of open education allows for successful learning strategies and educational sustainability....
Global to Local Curriculum Policy Processes
The Enactment of the International Baccalaureate in Remote International Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This book explores the dynamics of curriculum policy processes involved in the adoption, production and enactment of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IBPYP), accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). It addresses deficits in current literature and provides...
An Awkward Echo
Matthew Arnold and John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Matthew Arnold, 19th century English poet, literary critic and school inspector, felt that each age had to determine that philosophy that was most adequate to its own concerns and contexts. This study looks at the influence that Matthew Arnold had on John Dewey and attempts to fashion a philosophy of...
by Marcia S. Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can you enhance the quality and effectiveness of instruction in both the content areas and in writing? By integrating content in both social studies and science with the strategies of writing that are so important for students to master as they craft nonfiction. This book shows teachers how to use...
Kids Can Think
Philosophical Challenges for the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Kids Can Think aims to bring the richness of philosophical thinking into the classroom. It invites teachers to think about the value of such thinking in the modern world, where children have to understand and evaluate ever more complex and challenging ideas. This book includes simple, practical ideas...
by Edna Tan, Angela Calabrese Barton, Erin Turner
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Math and science hold powerful places in contemporary society, setting the foundations for entry into some of the most robust and highest-paying industries. However, effective math and science education is not equally available to all students, with some of the poorest students—those who would benefit...
by Markham May, Sue Warr
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This book offers guidance and ideas on how to make creative arts and media teaching relevant, stimulating and above all creative.
by N/A WEBSTER, N/A MISRA
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This handy textbook offers a one-stop compendium on teaching the extensive range of primary foundation subjects.