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This comprehensive handbook delves into curriculum praxis, human development, and cognition within the contexts of the STEAM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, arts/architecture, and mathematics). Cutting-edge research will help educators...

The World Today Series: East & Southeast Asia 2025-2026 provides historical background on East & Southeast Asia to help readers gain a thorough understanding of contemporary developments in this region. Broad introductory chapters are followed by...

An innovative text that approaches complex concepts with relative ease and simplicity, this new work by internationally-known Graziella Tonfoni takes the reader on an architectural excursion that is the metaphorical representation of the components of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783347352605Author Gilles RouxFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint tredition GmbHPublisher tredition GmbHWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The Encyclopedia of Middle Grades Education provides a comprehensive overview of the field. This publication includes seven anchor essays (5000 words) that cover the following topics: the history of the middle school movement; academically excellent...

Best known as author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), if not also as mother of Frankenstein's author Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft survived domestic violence and unusual independent womanhood to write engaging letters, fiction,...

Maria Montessori's work and thinking form a unique legacy to current educational thinking and practice. In this text, Marion O'Donnell explores the key themes of her philosophy of education and explores the relevance of Montessori practices today. In a...

The 3rd edition of The ESL Writer's Handbook continues to be a valuable resource that offers non-native English speakers, particularly international students, a foundation in the basics of the academic writing genre they need to succeed in high school or...

From Simon & Schuster, Zero to Lazy Eight is Alexander Humez's exploration into the romance of numbers fit with free-forming essays related to folklore, idioms, and mathematical diversions.A collection of essays blending elements of linguistics and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578479439Author Daniel KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint DknjPublisher DknjWeight(grams) 821gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 19mm

This study provides a qualitative exploration of juvenile biographies of women, a genre defined here as a book dealing with the whole or partial life of an individual and reviewed as nonfiction for readers in elementary, middle, or junior high school...

Substance abuse is one of higher education's worst problems not only in terms of financial but also human cost. Drawing upon current theory and research, this handbook arrives at practical solutions to these problems. While there are divergent models of...

Here is a handbook that will guide each reader through ten chapters that include models, tools, and exercises to develop collaborative leadership. The Courage to Lead is written by two successful school principals that have provided practical lessons and...

The goal of the MLA Basic Manual Series is to present definitive discussion on specific aspects of the music library profession, but this third volume in the series is a bit atypical. Although it focuses uniquely on instruction in the music library,...

One picture that often comes to mind when one thinks of Torah study is a group of bearded men clad in long black coats and hats huddled around a table piled high with texts. Women do not appear in this image; if anywhere, they are in the kitchen...

Full of valuable tips and commentary that will help music teachers effectively assess the music skills of their students. One of MENC's popular Spotlight series comprising articles first published in the state MEA journals.Book InformationISBN...

Excellence in Teaching and Learning is a collaborative effort among education scholars that addresses the theory, practice, and policy gaps that have plagued classrooms for a long time. Divided into three parts, it focuses on practical strategies for...

Endless material is available to teachers and teacher educators on topics related to the techniques of teaching, but very little connects the theories of education and the challenges of daily teaching practice in the classroom. Educators are often...

This book gathers articles from state journals that give music teachers ideas on how to include special needs students, discusses why special learners benefit from music education, offers suggestions for dealing with specific types of special needs...

The Study of the American School Superintendency, 2000 is the ninth 10-Year Study of the American School Superintendent commissioned by AASA. This 174-page reference work on the superintendency is the largest and most comprehensive look at the men and...

The scholarship of this book is based upon the personal experience of author Benjamin Lee Wren, who taught 'World Civilization' for six years at the high school level and 35 years at the university level. The book stresses that 'World Civilization'...

College student personnel work was born during a period of reform in the United States; it was and remains today a unique American invention. To understand this peculiar phenomenon, it is helpful to consider the historical and cultural climate in which...

Radical young adult fiction can be edgy and raw, which is why young adults who read it find it to be very relevant to their lives. Teens struggling with issues in today's society can often recognize themselves and identify their problems in the fictional...

This resource is as much a tribute to its editors and contributors, a cadre of champions who have made the study of this underrepresented group their lifework, as it is a testament to their unwavering respect for the young inquiring mind. Continuing the...

Global competition for human capital, organizational relevance, money, and success is increasingly denominated in the currency of knowledge, yet knowledge in most organizations is often treated as proprietary or information technology issues...

Contrary to some of the nation's most prominent newspapers, politicians and educational administrators, and the evening news, there is absolutely nothing simplistic and straightforward about the current movement to uniform public school students in the...

This book is a crystallization of author Chong Ho Yu's contemplation on the meaning of quantitative methods from the perspectives of history and the philosophy of science. Emphasizing the importance of a data analyst 'always knowing where the numbers...

Containing nearly one thousand individual ideas and bits of advice for teaching, Ideas for Librarians Who Teach is tailored primarily to librarians, but most of the suggestions put forth can be applied to anyone who will be getting up in front of a group...

Bernan Press proudly presents the sixteenth edition of Employment, Hours, and Earnings: States and Areas, 2022. A special addition to Bernan Press Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data, this...

James L. Conro's study on best practices used by teachers features real-life classroom examples, do's and don'ts of classroom management, critical components of teaching and learning, and observations of successful teachers in action. The Faculty Parking...

Educational Change: From Traditional Education to Learning Communities outlines the transition of curriculum and instruction as well as classroom discipline historically. Various discipline approaches are described that vary in their applications in...

This update of the 1997 edition continues to provide useful information on how to find curriculum materials and how to organize them for efficient access. It is a useful resource for curriculum materials librarians in academic libraries, school library...

Because research suggests that the key to substantial educational reform is the displacement of didactic strategies by a more personalized approach to teaching, the need for an affective emphasis in teaching is implicated. In Affective Teaching, Lynne...

The exercises in this manual are a collection of classroom exercises based on Kiswahili misingi ya kusema, kusoma, na kuandika by Thomas J. Hinnebusch and Sara Mirza (University Press of America, 1979.) Each lesson contains grammar exercises, question...

Much has been theorized about the positive correlation between formal education and the change in women's social and legal status. In 2000, however, a United Nations report on gender discrimination indicated that bias was overwhelmingly due to...

As a means of documenting teacher growth and development, Primer to Developing a Successful Pre-Service Teacher Portfolio serves as an invitation to the portfolio world, for pre-service teachers. Authors James Takona and Roberta Wilburn provide a...

A penetrating analysis of the theories of those educators who have shaped and determined the structure, the policies and the practices of American education. Originally published in 1976 by Longman.Book InformationISBN 9780819161246Author Henry J...

What does performance-based assessment in teacher education mean? How can colleges and schools of education bring together faculty across programs and within programs to develop and implement a performance-based assessment program for their candidates?...

The Middle East is a region in search of itself and the outcome of this struggle will profoundly impact America and the world. But what are Middle Easterners searching for and why has that search been mired in conflict and strife in recent times? Most...

There are many books that provide advice and booktalks for adults who work with children and teens. However, Something to Talk About: Creative Booktalking for Adults is the first book to focus solely on adults. Working as Fiction Specialists in a public...