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by Freekidstories Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
A group of social scientists asked this question to a group of four- to eight-year-olds: "What does love mean?" The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think as you read this engaging bilingual English and Traditional Chinese book to your...
by Carla Aira
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Study Guide… is a collection of notes that introduce students – and not only students – to poems, novels or plays written in English. They facilitate learning supplying the most important information about literary works and so fostering their comprehension.
The first part of the study guide...
Fun English: 10 Fast and Easy ESL Games
Teaching ESL, #8
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
These ten games serve as a starting point for your ESL career. Whether you’re just starting out for a year, or plan to teach ESL for awhile, these games will work wonders when you have nothing else to do, but still way too much time to do it in. Yep, I’m talking about the worst thing that...
Common Core Standards and Black History Month
A Thematic Guide to Black History in Literature and Informational Texts for Middle School Educators
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Black History Month is a time when all Americans celebrate the rich African American culture in our society. It was Carter G. Woodson, an African American historian, who began a weeklong celebration, called Negro History Week, in 1926 as a way to honor Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Now schools,...
The First Class
Transits of Brazilian Literature Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
What does a professor Brazilian or otherwise think and do on the first day of class, standing before a group of “foreign” students to talk about Brazilian literature? This apparently simple question that gave rise to the essays gathered in this book opens a series of other questions: Who is...
7 P’S in a Pod
A Purposeful System for Home Schooling Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
7 Ps in a Pod is a complete solution to homeschooling with success! The format outlined in the book will provide you with the tools you need to plan a full, meaningful year of school that allows you to focus on the needs of each individual child. 7 Ps in a Pod is not a cookie-cutter approach; it outlines...
Course Design for Public Health
A Competency Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Course Design for Public Health: A Competency-Based Approach is designed for public health students and practitioners. This practical book is founded on the authors’ collective classroom and field experience. The book enables a broad range of health professionals to design and deliver courses...
by P S Quick
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
These ten gymnastic lessons are designed to motivate children to develop their fundamental movement skills. They will help them to develop positive attitudes that enable them to become more confident and competent in their agility, balance and co-ordination while working alone or with others. Each lesson...
by James M. Lang
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Cheating Lessons is a guide to tackling academic dishonesty at its roots. James Lang analyzes the features of course design and classroom practice that create cheating opportunities, and empowers teachers to build more effective learning environments. Instructors who curb academic dishonesty become better educators in other ways as well.
by Rhythm Prism
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
There is a national debate about Common Core and standardized testing. However, when it comes to writing, the discussion is almost irrelevant. Whatever position may be taken on the value of Common Core and standardized testing, the goal of every writing program everywhere is the same: to develop in...
Making Makers
Kids, Tools, and the Future of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
This is a book for parents and other educators—both formal and informal, who are curious about the intersections of learning and making. Through stories, research, and data, it builds the case for why it is crucial to encourage today’s youth to be makers—to see the world as something they are...
Learning from Latino Role Models
Inspire Students through Biographies, Instructional Activities, and Creative Assignments
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Learning from Latino Role Models provides teachers with instructional resources that can be easily used in classroom settings so that they are culturally responsive to their Latino students. The book has two parts:
Part I offers 20 sets of activities designed around Latino role models, and...
Motivating and Retaining Online Students
Research-Based Strategies That Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Finally, the first research-based book of sound strategies and best practices to help instructors motivate students to complete their online courses.
Although studies support the effectiveness of learning online, students often fail to complete online courses. Some studies have found that as...
by Gregory Light
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Gregory Light and Marina Micari reject the view that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are elite disciplines restricted to a small number with innate talent. Rich in concrete advice, Making Scientists offers a new paradigm of how scientific subjects can be taught at the college level to underrepresented groups.