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Students become attentive, curious, and passionate about learning when they can see its relevance to their lives and when they're empowered to use that learning to solve problems that matter. Regardless of the subject or grade level you teach, you can...

Compassionate Music Teaching provides a framework for music teaching in the 21st century by outlining qualities, skills, and approaches to meet the needs of a unique and increasingly diverse generation of students. The text focuses on how six qualities...

Project-based learning is a teaching approach that motivates and inspires students to learn and helps them to become self-directed learners over time. Students learn not only the content surrounding their projects, but also important life skills such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838259242Format HardbackImprint Elvin CoachesPublisher Elvin Coaches

The possibilities of gaming for transformative and equity-driven instructional teaching practice are more robust than ever before. And yet, support for designing playful learning opportunities are too often not addressed or taught in professional...

Throughout the world there is a perceived shortage of educational leaders. Most investigations look at the issue as a problem of mathematical misalignment. This book looks at the roots of the 'succession challenge' internationally and more specifically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910949405Author Amy FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Scene by ScenePublisher Scene by Scene

A real-world action plan for educators to create personalized learning experiences Learning Personalized: The Evolution of the Contemporary Classroom provides teachers, administrators, and educational leaders with a clear and practical guide to...

Old habits die hard, particularly when they are part of the unexamined norms of schooling. In Why Are We Still Doing That?, the best-selling authors of Total Participation Techniques lead a teacher-positive, empathetic inquiry into 16 common educational...

Educators' most important work is to help students develop the intellectual and social strength of character necessary to live well in the world. The way to do this, argue authors Bena Kallick and Allison Zmuda, is to increase the say students have in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871203854Author Dr Giselle O Martin-KniepFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint ASCDPublisher ASCDWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 199mm * 9mm

Teaching controversial issues in the classroom is now more urgent and fraught than ever as we face up to rising authoritarianism, racial and economic injustice, and looming environmental disaster. Despite evidence that teaching controversy is critical,...

The Children We Teach places children at the center of music learning and teaching. What we understand about children determines how we teach them: the music learning environments we provide and decisions we make about music content and skills...

'This book provides a variety of ideas for use in the classroom, based on practical applications of the conceptual understanding of learning power... ...[It] tells the reader about the "Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory" research programme...

Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, Joanna Swann presents a radical new theory of the role and purpose of teachers. "Learning, Teaching and Education Research in the 21st Century: An Evolutionary Analysis of the Role of Teachers" draws on Karl Popper's...

Praise for The Teaching Portfolio "This new edition of a classic text has added invaluable, immediately useful material. It's a must-read for faculty, department chairs, and academic administrators." Irene W. D. Hecht, director, Department Leadership...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940753068Author Chris TribbleFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Athelstan PublicationsPublisher Athelstan PublicationsWeight(grams) 298gDimensions(mm)...

Prompted to Writeoffers help for teachers who are preparing their students for "high stakes" writing tests. This book features fifteen in-depth and reproducible lesson units to help students develop proficiency in crafting essays in all subjects,...

The Whole Person: Embodying Teaching and Learning through Lectio and Visio Divina offers readers a rich collection of voices from diverse settings that illustrates the ways in which lectio divina as a contemplative practice can transform teaching and...

The Math Curriculum for Gifted Students series:About the AuthorThe Center for Gifted Education at The College of William and Mary, a research and development center, was established in 1988 under the direction of Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska. The center...

Eurythmy is an essential part of the curriculum in Waldorf schools, and it's essential that schools and teachers support eurythmists as they develop as teachers.This concise booklet addresses the best techniques for mentoring eurythmy teachers in a...

Capitalize on the high energy that is natural to young learners! Research suggests that movement activities are an integral part of the learning process. From role plays to relays, learning is better activated when the body gets involved. Whether you're...

Issues like COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, police brutality, trade wars and cyberattacks add to the complexity of the U.S. political system. Schmidt/Shelley/Bardes' AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS TODAY, ENHANCED BRIEF 11th edition helps you make sense...

Are you struggling to get your head around John Dewey's educational pragmatism? What exactly is Jean Piaget saying about cognitive development? Maybe you're running out of time and patience making sense of Carol Dweck's mindsets? Have you reached...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892989833Author Lynn BechtelFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Responsive ClassroomPublisher Responsive ClassroomWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm)...

As societal expectations about attending college have grown, professors report increasing numbers of students who are unprepared for the rigors of postsecondary education-not just more students with learning disabilities (whose numbers have more than...

This book is about knowing when creative action is worth the risk and when it is not. This includes developing the awareness, courage, and confidence to support and take risks when it is beneficial to do so in the classroom. It also includes being able...

It's not what students know, but what they do with what they know that is important Schools are changing in response to this reality, and in Transforming Schools Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards, Bob Lenz,...

This Little Book gives you lots of new ideas around the use of fabrics, sewing and weaving. As well as producing some wonderful results, children will have enjoyable activities for developing fine motor skills, concentration and creativity, working on...

How does one teach Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, a book as controversial as it is central to the American literary canon? This collection of essays edited by James S. Leonard offers practical classroom methods for instructors dealing with the racism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904307891Author Lois Walfrid JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Hopscotch Educational Publishing Ltd.Publisher HopscotchWeight(grams) 142g

Show Your Work: A Practical Guide to Implementing the Science of Learning in the Classroom empowers educators to bridge research and real-world teaching with practical, adaptable strategies that honor teachers’ expertise and professional judgment.

Narratives of Success and Resilience of Students from Refugee Backgrounds in U.S. Schools offers educators a transformative perspective on teaching students from refugee backgrounds. Through personal narratives, this book highlights the resilience,...

Beyond Thinking presents a radical idea: while thinking is the superstar of education, the pervasive crisis of student mental health and chronic teacher stress proves we must learn to go beyond thinking to find well-being and wisdom. This book offers an...

Rediscover your passion for teaching and build the resilience to thrive in today's challenging classroom Becoming the Teacher I Needed by Jere Chang (known as "Ms. Chang") offers a candid roadmap for educators struggling with burnout, disillusionment,...

A practical, classroom-focused guide for trainee secondary teachers on how to synthesise the Learning Sciences for classroom teaching. How do teachers use the Learning Sciences in secondary classrooms to deliver the curriculum, every day? The real art...

A practical, classroom-focused guide for trainee secondary teachers on how to synthesise the Learning Sciences for classroom teaching. How do teachers use the Learning Sciences in secondary classrooms to deliver the curriculum, every day? The real art...

This book presents a model of transformative, empowering and critically oriented language teacher education to prepare English teachers to implement Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT). GELT's importance to learners' needs for communication in the...

Trust in public institutions has been on the wane since the 1960's. While local schools have consistently enjoyed greater levels of trust than other public institutions, the recent political climate is contributing to significant challenges for school...

This open access book provides practical and theoretical perspectives for thinking about and promoting activism in language teaching and language teacher education.Featuring work from a range of global contexts, this edited volume showcases the...