Curricula category: 1261 books
Fixing Instruction
Resolving Major Issues with a Core Body of Knowledge for Critical Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
A professional core includes a common language of practice, foundation principles and skills, and related standards. Such a core is present in the medical, engineering, and legal professions. Instructionally, it is not present in the teaching profession. There is no core foundation for critical instruction....
Inquiry-Based Early Learning Environments
Creating, Supporting, and Collaborating
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
What does it mean to inquire? Grownups would say it means to question, to search for information, or to finding out about a topic of interest. For children in an early childhood classroom, the definition is no different. From the time of their birth, children want to know how the world works and actively...
Succeeding With Struggling Students
A Planning Resource for Raising Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
This innovative resource presents program planning tools that can be customized for local school and district needs in planning effective interventions to benefit struggling students.
by Ingrid Chalufour, Karen Worth
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2005
The trainer’s guide serves as an indispensable handbook for trainers and administrators interested in introducing staff to the Exploring Water with Young Children curriculum—from planning to implementation. From exploring sinking and floating to using books to extend science learning, seven basic...
The Home Education Handbook
A comprehensive and practical guide to educating children at home
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
'Home-educators want to provide a high quality learning experience for their children and this handbook is an excellent resource for making this aspiration a reality' - Dr Adam Boddison, Chief Executive of National Association of Special Educational Needs
If you are thinking of home educating...
Educating for Citizenship and Social Justice
Practices for Community Engagement at Research Universities
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In this edited volume, authors explore the ways in which departments, programs, and centers at public research universities are working to better engage students in the work of citizenship and social justice. The chapters in this book illuminate the possibilities and challenges for developing community...
Talking Science
Language and Learning in Science Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
This book is about the fundamental nature of talk in school science. Language as a formal system provides resources for conducting everyday affairs, including the doing of science. And while writing science is one aspect, talking science may in fact constitute a much more important means by which...
by Gail McGaffigan
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
A 100-year-old, tried-and-true spelling method. Get back to the classics - Education the way it was for every great man of every generation, from our Colonial forefathers up until about the 1970’s. Then, it was replaced by “Whole Language,” a method that has reduced spelling to its current state...
by Gloria Callaway, Mary Kear
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Covers the contribution of arts to children's learning from Art and Design, Design for Technology to Drama and Music. The book also looks at the state of the arts in primary schools, and includes an evaluation of the relationships between the arts and those moral, spiritual, cultural and social values...
La Educación Física y el deporte en la edad escolar
El giro reflexivo en la enseñanza
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Como el título lo indica, un aspecto clave de la propuesta es la perspectiva reflexiva, planteada a veces con foco en la propia materia para apelar a la reformulación de sus fines, sus medios o sus principios disciplinarios, otras veces dirigida al docente, considerado como un sujeto capacitado...
Writing Instruction for English Learners
A Focus on Genre
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Focusing on narrative, expository, and persuasive writing and poetry, this guide provides strategies and tools to facilitate writing development for English learners in Grades 2–8.
Teaching in Eden
Lessons from Cedar Point
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Teaching in Eden provides any teacher with powerful and virtually free tools that he or she can use to alter the fundamental nature of the educational experience. The tools are simple instructional devices that require only a teacher's time, and the courage to break out of the existing constraints to discover and assemble the elements of an ideal instructional environment.
Pre-Primary Education in Nigeria
Methods for Effective Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
This book, PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: METHODS FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING, adopts an integrated approach to understanding and teaching pre-primary school children. Though not so common in Nigeria, this approach is practiced in countries around the world and it yields the highest dividends...
Becoming Young Thinkers
Deep Project Work in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Continuing the exploration of project work in the author’s bestselling book, Young Investigators, Second Edition, this book is designed for preschool through primary grade teachers who know how to do project work but are ready to move to the next level. Focusing on how children become young...