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"This book is a fascinating addition to the literature on school leadership. It is based on the real-life experience of a long-serving school principal and is a must-read for prospective and serving school leaders and academics everywhere." (Aine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936137374Author Page KeeleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint National Science Teachers AssociationPublisher National Science Teachers...

This is the newest book in the bestselling Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series. Like the first edition of volume 1, this book helps pinpoint what your students know (or think they know) so you can monitor their learning and adjust your teaching...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890318497Author Velma Childs BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Ewings Publishing LLCPublisher Ewings Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

In the past several years, we have witnessed unprecedented political, racial, economic, and health-related ruptures in society. The resulting turmoil has had an inevitable and negative impact on students, teachers, the profession of education, and...

Why do we teach EU politics? What should EU politics students learn? What are the practical approaches and techniques to teaching EU politics? In response to these questions, Teaching European Union Politics analyses the interdisciplinary nature of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472039777Author Silvia PessoaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

This is a comprehensive guide for higher education professionals engaged in student support, advising or personal tutoring roles. It covers a range of key topics relating to tutoring in the HE landscape including definitions, pedagogy, coaching, core...

History Fairs are becoming more and more popular as a means of integrating research skills with the history curriculum. Kosty's handbook is appropriate for teachers of middle and high school students (grades 6-12) and provides clear instructions for...

Read Creative Teaching for All as an antidote to rapidly growing pressures for quick and easy teacher results, and constant evaluations. Employ creative ideas to resist teaching to the (usually factual) test, and to the many choking rules, standards,...

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Provides information and guidelines for music educators so that they can be better prepared to structure classroom environments that truly engage students in thinking musically. Emphasizes research-based techniques for instructing young people.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561643622Author Edwina RaffaFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm)...

Presents key ideas and practical suggestions for implementing the music standards through performance. Based on a Northwestern University Music Education Leadership Seminar.Book InformationISBN 9781565451186Author Bennett ReimerFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Literacy is the foundation for learning. In a digital world it is important that the learner understand how to critically analyze sources of information. In a paper and print world we have editorial boards, peer reviews, and other ways to validate...

Whether you are a teacher, librarian, childcare provider or parent, you will find in this wonderfully presented handbook a wellspring of ideas and information on the art of storytelling to and with pre-school and school-age children. Provides ideas and...

What is the best strategy for beginning a discussion with an irate parent? How can a teacher enforce anti-tardy rules when the school offers little or no support? Why is cursive handwriting useful in today's computerized world? How should teachers notify...

Teaching activities books are wonderful resources for providing ideas to teachers to enliven their lessons and help their students connect to the curriculum. However, these books can be difficult to locate, and often, even when you do find them it is...

Web-Based Instruction details how faculty members can design web-based and web-assisted instructional delivery approaches to provide students with the opportunity to learn anytime and anyplace. It stresses the paradigm shift in using technology as an...

Awareness to Citizenship, guides environmental educators, teachers, and parents, through the process of helping children to learn about the environment, respect living things, examine issues, make decisions, think critically, and become actively engaged...

Student Ownership details a specific set of strategies used by a case study school to effectively triple the school's number of college and/or career ready students over a two year period. The school moved from the bottom 5 percent in the state in...

Inspire and involve your adolescent students in active music-making with this second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music. A practical and accessible resource, fourteen chapters lay out pedagogically sound...

This book offers a careful look at how we came to have our traditional education system, and how it met the needs of a different time. By looking back at the past we can take on the task of change without casting blame, but with understanding. We will...

Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic...

Three policy innovations at the heart of this book - the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), new Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR), and data driven instruction (DDI) provide a timely opportunity to join school and district improvement and...

The Common Core in Grades K-3 is the second in a series of comprehensive tools to tap into the vast flow of recently published books for children and teens, offering recommendations of exemplary titles for use in the classroom. Currency meets authority,...

Based on the teaching experience of author David Boers, and supported by literature and research in the field, Lost and Found shares successful ways of developing a classroom in which learning can occur to a meaningful degree. Boers offers multiple...

The New K-12 Classroom: Teaching Reading and Language Arts in a Digital World is an anthology for current and future K-12 teachers that focuses on the importance of using educational technology in the classroom.The second edition features seven units and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890318503Author Velma Childs BellFormat HardbackPage Count 82Imprint Ewings Publishing LLCPublisher Ewings Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

In this edited book sponsored by the ATE Diversity Committee, we invited teacher educators to engage in critical dialogue and reflection around theories, issues, complexities, and challenges of antiracist teacher education and to exchange critical ideas...

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...

Here is an extensive integrated unit of study focused on that common and familiar insect-the cricket. In this edition, teachers are given a complete guide and reproducible worksheets for elementary and middle school students. With over 30 different...

The Strategies for Teaching series helps music teachers implement the K-12 National Music Education Standards and MENC: The National Association for Music Education's prekindergarten standards. Strategies for Teaching High School General Music features:...

Invested Stayers: How Teachers Thrive in Challenging Times features chapters co-authored by PK-12 teachers and postsecondary teacher educators from across the U.S. that reflect how they persist, remain, and thrive in the teaching profession. Premised on...

Complete the Agenda in Higher Education: Challenge Beliefs about Student Success is a bold call to action to do more than just improve college completion rates. This book is for community college board members, administrators, faculty and staff who also...

Teaching, like many service professions, requires the appropriate interpersonal skills. Although academic expertise is, and always will be, the foundation of instruction, educators must be able to translate their knowledge both affectively and...

Would you rather people saw you as open or closed minded? The answer should be obvious. Why is it then that we tend to allow our legacy systems in education to be closed, when they clearly don't enable the same level of performance as open ones. This...

Teaching that Matters invites principals and teachers to make changes that will allow all students to succeed. Thoms urges administrators and teachers to reconsider traditional practices in light of today's media-driven culture and digitally wired...

This book includes both a description and a discussion of the methods used by Kanriye Fujima, a member of the Fujima school of Japan, to teach Nihon Buyon to primarily Japanese-Americans. Sellers-Young discusses Fujima's life as a teacher in three...

Many educator preparation programs have a teacher reflection component and/or model; however, the current available literature provides little information regarding reflection's impact on teacher performance and student learning. Reflectivity and...