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Manga High
Literacy, Identity, and Coming of Age in an Urban High School
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Based on a four-year study, Manga High explores the convergence of literacy, creativity, social development, and personal identity in one of New York City’s largest high schools.
Since 2004, students at Martin Luther King, Jr., High School in Manhattan have been creating manga—Japanese...
Inspired Drama Teaching
A Practical Guide for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Inspired Drama Teaching is packed full of practical ideas to inspire your students and colleagues. This book offers tips and ideas on everything a teacher of secondary drama needs to cover, including:
• Explorative strategies, such as role play and forum-theatre
• Activities for making...
Engaging Difference
Teaching Humanities and Social Science in Multicultural Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Engaging Difference discusses how to develop strategies to engage difference that work for both students and professors in multicultural classrooms. The contributions to this volume discuss specific pedagogical techniques (for example, the use of novels, web resources, and personal narratives) and...
Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children's Literature
Mirrors, Windows, and Doors
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
"Children’s literature is a contested terrain, as is multicultural education. Taken together, they pose a formidable challenge to both classroom teachers and academics…. Rather than deny the inherent conflicts and tensions in the field, in Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children’s Literature:...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Teaching Caribbean Poetry will inform and inspire readers with a love for, and understanding of, the dynamic world of Caribbean poetry. This unique volume sets out to enable secondary English teachers and their students to engage with a wide range of poetry, past and present; to understand how histories...
Building and Restoring Respectful Relationships in Schools
A Guide to Using Restorative Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Implementing 'Restorative Practice' in schools can offer powerful and effective methods of promoting harmonious relationships and resolving conflict. Restorative Practice helps disruptive pupils to take responsibility for their actions, understand the consequences of their behaviour and apologise...
Critical Thinking
An Exploration of Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In this book, Jennifer Moon explores and clarifies critical thinking and provides practical guidance for improving student learning and supporting the teaching process.
Key themes covered include:
different views of and approaches to critical thinking with an emphasis on a practical basis...
L2 Writing in Secondary Classrooms
Student Experiences, Academic Issues, and Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Second language writers and the teaching of writing at the secondary level have received little attention compared with other skills such as reading. Addressing this gap, this volume uniquely looks at both adolescent L2 writing and the preparation of secondary teachers to work with this population...
Mapping Applied Linguistics
A Guide for Students and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Mapping Applied Linguistics: A guide for students and practitioners, second edition, provides a newly updated, wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics. This innovative book maps the diverse and constantly expanding range of theories, methods and issues faced by students...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
This must-have handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the field. It reviews the language education policies of Asia, encompassing 30 countries sub-divided by regions, namely East, Southeast, South and Central Asia, and considers the extent to which these are being implemented and with what effect.
The...
Culturally Proficient Education
An Asset-Based Response to Conditions of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Develop culturally proficient policies and practices that create opportunities for students of poverty!
Countering the perspective that students from poverty come to school with deficits that prevent them from learning, this resource offers educators the knowledge and skills to maximize educational...
Teaching with DBQs
Helping Students Analyze Nonfiction and Visual Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Help your students navigate complex texts in history and social studies. This book shows you how to use document-based questions, or DBQs, to build student literacy and critical thinking skills while meeting rigorous state standards and preparing students for AP exams. DBQs can be implemented year-round...
by Gladis Kersaint, Denisse R. Thompson, Mariana Petkova
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Today's mathematics classrooms increasingly include students for whom English is a second language. Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners provides readers a comprehensive understanding of both the challenges that face English language learners (ELLs) and ways in which educators might address...
Exemplary Classroom Questioning
Practices to Promote Thinking and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Exemplary Classroom Questioning describes how to organize a classroom environment that supports questioning. Marie Menna Pagliaro presents a research-based analytic approach to effective teacher practices when delivering questions and responding to students' answers and emphasizes how to teach students...