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Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities
Japanese Returnees Betwixt Two Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
This book examines the changing linguistic and cultural identities of bilingual students through the narratives of four Japanese returnees (kikokushijo) as they spent their adolescent years in North America and then returned to Japan to attend university.
As adolescents, these students were...
Talent Development for English Language Learners
Identifying and Developing Potential
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Talent Development for English Language Learners offers concrete guidance to teachers, schools, and administrators seeking to maximize the potential of all of their students. Each chapter will focus thematically on an issue relevant to developing the talents and potential of gifted English language...
by Molly Potter
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Essential for busy secondary form tutors, this book will inspire form time ideas that are constructive, exciting, yet take little preparation!
Activities include community builders, PSHE related topics, creative thinking activities and a variety of active learning techniques to engage your...
Portraits of Everyday Literacy for Social Justice
Reframing the Debate for Families and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Based on an ethnographic study involving three families who live on a Midlands council housing estate, this book presents portraits of everyday lives - and the literacy practices that are part of them - as a way to explore the complex relationship between literacy and social justice. Each portrait...
Restorative Approaches to Conflict in Schools
Interdisciplinary perspectives on whole school approaches to managing relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Drawing on recent international developments in criminal justice, Restorative Approaches to Conflict in Schools highlights the long-term ineffectiveness of punitive models of discipline in education contexts and examines an alternative approach, underpinned by the principles of restorative justice....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Accelerating and Extending Literacy for Diverse Students addresses the need to equip teachers with the best research and practices to ensure they become dedicated to not just teaching, but knowing and reaching diverse learners. How teachers can create a culturally responsive environment that can identify...
Community Engagement Best Practices Across the Disciplines
Applying Course Content to Community Needs
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book is a reference to administrators and educators at institutions of higher learning who are thinking about taking serious steps to link their educational mission to helping their surrounding communities. Various best practices across the disciplines in higher education about integrating community...
Educating Chinese–Heritage Students in the Global–Local Nexus
Identities, Challenges, and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Weaving together a richly diverse range of student voices, perspectives, and insights, this collection of studies from around the world offers the educational community a better understanding of K-12 and adult Chinese–heritage students’ languages, cultures, identities, motivations, achievements,...
by William Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
It is the purpose of this book to examine the ever-changing meaning of the term “liberal arts” and to trace its development from antiquity to the present. In doing so, the text will compare and contrast the values of such an education with the other important objective of schools and colleges,...
Distance Education Environments and Emerging Software Systems
New Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
The Internet has become one of the most important and most used media for communication and learning, as it allows for the creation of interactive and collaborative environments, whose contents and resources can be shared with a limitless number of users. The explosion of the Internet in the past decade...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Modern technology has enhanced many aspects of life, including classroom education. By offering virtual learning experiences, educational systems can become more efficient and effective at teaching the student population. Multilingual Writing and Pedagogical Cooperation in Virtual Learning Environments...
Behavior and Classroom Management in the Multicultural Classroom
Proactive, Active, and Reactive Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Addressing the increasing number of culturally and linguistically diverse students in today’s schools, Behavior and Classroom Management in the Multicultural Classroom, by Terry L. Shepherd and Diana Linn, provides general and special education teachers with the knowledge, skills, and strategies...
by Dr. Alison L. Bailey, Margaret Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Because content and language learning go hand in hand
New content standards integrate content and language in ways prior standards have never done. That’s why it’s so critically important that teachers attend to both content and language development when introducing new subject matter,...
Relational Discipline
Strategies for InYourFace Kids (Revised 2nd Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
This exciting work offers an entirely new way to address the discipline problems that have become so common in our public schools! Dr. Bender's emphasis on relationships as the basis of all effective discipline has now been widely recognized as cutting edge within the field, and this book presents...