Curricula category: 1261 books
by Graham Tyrer
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
As Ofsted says, Literacy is a shared responsibility across the curriculum in secondary schools. But for subject teachers and school leaders outside of the English department, this can seem a daunting task. 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Literacy Across the Curriculum contains all sorts of strategies...
Extreme Writing
Discovering the Writer in Every Student
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
In recent years, educators have become increasingly concerned about the writing skills of students in elementary, middle, and high school. They wonder what can be done to build proper writing skills, particularly in a generation of students who may consider text messaging to be the only writing a...
Becoming a History Teacher
Sustaining Practices in Historical Thinking and Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
A revolution in history education is propelling historical thinking and knowing to the forefront of history and social studies education in North America and beyond. Teachers, teacher education programs, schools, and ministries of education across Canada are all among those embracing the idea that...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
As new trends emerge in the realm of education, instructors are faced with the task of continuing development in order to stay up to date on the latest teaching methodologies for both virtual and face-to-face education. Facilitating In-Service Teacher Training for Professional Development is a pivotal...
Smart future. Teaching, Digital Media and Inclusion
Teaching, Digital Media and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
This book deals simultaneously with three issues: educational technology in the school, the relationship between education, research and companies and the professional development of teachers. In respect of these three themes this volume may be considered as a research report, a case study and a working hypothesis.
Critical Multiculturalism
Theory and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Critical multiculturalism has emerged over the last decade as a direct challenge to liberal or benevolent forms of multicultural education. By integrating and advancing various critical theoretical threads such as anti-racist education, critical race theory, and critical pedagogy, critical multiculturalism...
by Andrea S. Libresco, Jeannette Balantic, Mary Battenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
With the amount of time and resources allocated to teaching social studies being significantly reduced, social studies lessons need to be incorporated into other subjects. Notable Books, Notable Lessons: Putting Social Studies Back in the K–8 Curriculum offers the tools to teach students social...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Underrepresentation of minorities is present in the field of engineering, both in education and practice. As in every profession, diversity and inclusion needs to be incorporated in order to provide the same opportunities for all people. Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Engineering Majors and...
Education and Social Dynamics
A Multilevel Analysis of Curriculum Change in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Education and Social Dynamics offers a new approach to analyzing curriculum change by investigating the entanglement of education and society in markedly heterogeneous Turkey, which has recently witnessed nation-wide curriculum reforms. While the new curriculum has attempted to homogenize all Turkish...
Music, Education, and Diversity
Bridging Cultures and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book provides important insights for educators in music, the arts, and other subjects on the role that music can play in the curriculum as a powerful bridge to cultural understanding. The author documents key ideas and practices that have influenced current music education, particularly through...
Strong Arts, Strong Schools
The Promising Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the Arts in American Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1996
In this elegantly written, passionately argued book, Fowler presents a convincing case for teaching the arts to all children. He argues that, far from a luxury, the arts are a vitally important part of our society and our schools. Highlighting the crucial effect of the arts on learning, this volume...
Starting Inquiry-based Science in the Early Years
Look, talk, think and do
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Young children are intuitive scientists. This book builds on their inherent curiosity and problem solving as they move forward in their scientific thinking. Science develops from early beginnings and a solid foundation in the early years is essential for their future learning and engagement with the...
Expanding Curriculum Theory
Dis/positions and Lines of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Expanding Curriculum Theory, Second Edition carries through the major focus of the original volume—to reflect on the influence of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of "lines of flight" and its application to curriculum theorizing. What is different is that the lines of flight have since...
The Transformation of Academic Health Centers
Meeting the Challenges of Healthcare’s Changing Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
The Transformation of Academic Health Centers: The Institutional Challenge to Improve Health and Well-Being in Healthcare’s Changing Landscape presents the direct knowledge and vision of accomplished academic leaders whose unique positions as managers of some of the most complex academic and business...