Elementary category: 2214 books
by Colleen Kessler
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Teachers spend hundreds of their own dollars on classroom materials every year. From basic supplies to resources for improving their lessons and engaging their students, their hard-earned money is poured back into their jobs. "Free Resources for Elementary Teachers" can help ease the strain...
Multiple Intelligences in the Elementary Classroom
A Teacher's Toolkit
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book will help teachers design effective curriculum for their students with diverse learning abilities. The authors have created a guided process to apply MI theory to the elementary school classroom. The five “pathways” or approaches examined—Exploration, Bridging, Understanding, Authentic...
Bridging the Gap
A Parent's Guide to Elementary Education in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Finally! The go-to guide that parents have been asking for.
Bridging the Gap: A Parent's Guide to Elementary Education in the 21st Century** was truly written out of necessity.**
The goal of this guide is to you give some real and direct information about how education works...
Relearning Mathematics
A Challenge for Prospective Elementary School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
This book is grounded in the author’s experiences of teaching mathematics for prospective elementary school teachers and conducting research on their understanding of mathematical concepts. It is a reflection on practice and an attempt to cope with a double challenge: that of a teacher, in helping...
Early Language Learning
A Model for Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
The aim of this volume is to provide a detailed description of the process of initiating, maintaining and assessing a top quality elementary school foreign language program and to assist planners by providing them with a workable model. The book describes the successes and challenges of the Georgia...
Narrative Inquiry in Early Childhood and Elementary School
Learning to Teach, Teaching Well
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
As top-down educational reform policies at local and national levels increasingly isolate teachers from their own professional and instructional agency, and stultify children’s passion for learning, new techniques are needed for understanding and transforming educational practices. Narrative Inquiry...
New York City's Best Public Pre-K and Elementary Schools
A Parents' Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Completely revised with new profiles of more than 150 elementary schools and pre-kindergarten programs! For nearly 2 decades, parents have looked to Clara Hemphill to help them find a good public school for their child. This Fourth Edition features all-new reviews of more than 150 of the city’s...
Your First Year As an Elementary School Teacher
Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Real Solutions and Advice from the Teaching Trenches
Many begin teaching because of a desire to make a difference. But faced with everyday challenges of the classroom, this idealism is often lost. The fact is, teaching is not easy. While there are many personal rewards, teachers must satisfy many...
Schooling the Next Generation
Creating Success in Urban Elementary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Public schools are among the most important institutions in North American communities, especially in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods. At their best, they enable students to overcome challenges like poverty by providing vital literacy and numeracy skills. At their worst, they condemn students to...
by John I. Goodlad, Robert H. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since its first publication in 1959, The Nongraded Elementary School has become a classic in school reform literature. This reissue includes a retrospective introduction on what happened to nongraded alternatives in the aftermath of “Sputnik” educational reforms, what is occurring amid the current...
Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School
A Cognitive and Cultural Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
A practical methods text that prepares teachers to engage their students in rich science learning experiences
Featuring an increased emphasis on the way today's changing science and technology is shaping our culture, this Second Edition of Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School provides...
History and Imagination
Reenactments for Elementary Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012
In History and Imagination, elementary school social studies teachers will learn how to help their students break down the walls of their schools, more personally engage with history, and define democratic citizenship. By collaborating together in meaningful investigations into the past and reenacting...
MORE Best Practices for Elementary Classrooms
What Award-Winning Teachers Do
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
In this sequel to Randi Stone's Best Classroom Practices, award-winning elementary teachers showcase their best strategies for classroom management, instruction, involving parents, and making inclusion work.
The Ambitious Elementary School
Its Conception, Design, and Implications for Educational Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The challenge of overcoming educational inequality in the United States can sometimes appear overwhelming, and great controversy exists as to whether or not elementary schools are up to the task, whether they can ameliorate existing social inequalities and initiate opportunities for economic and civic...