Curricula category: 1261 books
The Activist Learner
Inquiry, Literacy, and Service to Make Learning Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This dynamic book explores a variety of ways teachers can integrate service learning to enliven their classroom, meet the unique developmental needs of their students, and satisfy the next generation of standards and assessments. The authors demonstrate how inquiry-based teaching with service learning...
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
Vol. 14 #1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC), a national learned society for the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum. The field includes those working on the theory, design and evaluation of educational programs at large....
Secrets of Great Teachers
22 Strategies to Energize Middle and High School Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
You can abandon rote learning with this middle and high school teaching guide. Encouraging both students and teachers to unlock their creativity, the authors provide guidance in lesson planning and ideas for creating unconventional homework, projects and tests that are cost-free and easy to implement....
Emergent Science
Teaching science from birth to 8
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Emergent Science is essential reading for anyone involved in supporting scientific learning and development with young children aged between birth and 8. Drawing on theory, the book helps to develop the essential skills needed to understand and support science in this age range.
The book is...
Australian Intellectuals
Their strange history and pathological tendencies
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Why are Australian Intellectuals and academics so hostile to contemporary Australian life? Why do they so often hold disparaging views of their fellow Australians? This was not always the case. In the nineteenth century Australians of an intellectual disposition sought to work with their fellow Australians...
Better Feedback, Improved Lessons
A How-To Guide for Principals, Teacher Educators, and Mentors
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Good teaching does not just happen during classroom instruction. The instructional design practices teachers participate in outside of instruction can have impact on potential learning opportunities that take place during class time. Lesson planning is one of those practices that can improve a teacher’s...
by L. Robert Furman EdD
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The use of instructional technology in twenty-first-century classrooms is not a subject to be debated. Rather, it needs to be embraced as a standard practice rather than an enriching activity. In Instructional Technology Tools: A Professional Development Plan, author L. Robert Furman presents a comprehensive...
School Boards in America
A Flawed Exercise in Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
School boards spend almost $500 billion in taxpayer-provided funds, they employ more than 6 million people, offering pensions and lifetime health benefits that have helped build the obligation that has put state governments in fiscal peril. This book lifts the veil of obscurity from school boards and makes readers think about the issues.
Conflicts in Curriculum Theory
Challenging Hegemonic Epistemologies
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
This book challenges educators to be agents of change, to take history into their own hands, and to make social justice central to the educational endeavor. Paraskeva embraces a pedagogy of hope championed by Paulo Freire where people become conscious of their capacity to intervene in the world to make it less discriminatory and more humane.
Teaching English Literature 16-19
An essential guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Teaching English Literature 16 – 19 is an essential new resource that is suitable for use both as an introductory guide for those new to teaching literature and also as an aid to reflection and renewal for more experienced teachers. Using the central philosophy that students will learn best when...
Design for Learning
Reports Submitted to the Joint Committee of the Toronto Board of Education and the University of Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
This important book is the result of a study of school curriculum undertaken by a joint committee of the University of Toronto and the Board of Education for the City of Toronto. Three sub-committees, dealing with English, Social Science, and Physical Science, here present preliminary reports which...
Enhancing Personal, Social and Health Education
Challenging Practice, Changing Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Enhancing Personal, Social and Health Education offers an accessible and thought-provoking approach to developing effective practice in PSHE. The book uses case study examples to offer insights and reflections that will support practitioners developing work in their own schools.
The authors...
The Primary Curriculum Design Handbook
Preparing our Children for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Schools across the world are struggling to balance the statutory requirements of a National Curriculum with their desire to provide the wide, engaging and exciting curriculum that they know children need. Concerns about standards often lead to a narrowing of the curriculum and many schools lack the...
Learning Citizenship
Practical Teaching Strategies for Secondary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
The Citizenship curriculum aims to help young people to participate more fully in society through the development of a range of relevant skills and knowledge. This book shows how a variety of teaching strategies can be used to teach citizenship skills across a range of curriculum subjects as well...