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spacer "Vague and general phrases...cannot provide the basis for a genuine art of education, which depends on real knowledge of the human being. It is not that such phrases are wrong, but that they are as useless as saying that all parts of a machine...

Conduct Orchestras, Not Trains "What if we understood that we can teach the important ideas and skills of the disciplines in a hundred different ways? And that students can learn them in a hundred different ways?" - Carol Ann Tomlinson How can...

This volume captures contemporary global developments in cooperative learning (CL) across varied educational contexts, levels, and disciplines. Cooperative learning is widely recognized as a pedagogical practice that promotes socialization and learning...

This book is a sequel to 101 Drama Games for Children and includes improvisational games that encourage total involvement and cooperation from participants. When used together, the two books offer instructors a wealth of possibilities for planning play...

Translate the science of learning into strategies for maximum learning impact in your classroom. The content, skills, and understandings students need to learn today are as diverse, complex, and multidimensional as the students in our classrooms. How...

"James Nottingham and Bosse Larsson offer an important and useful new addition to the ongoing conversation about mindset first introduced by Carol Dweck. Too often, theories such as mindset get reduced down to the simplest dichotomies and ideologies...

Differentiation is an approach to education in which every student's individuality and special needs are taken into account. Practical and accessible, HOW TO SUCCEED IN DIFFERENTIATION reveals the approach taken in the high-achieving Finnish education...

This book will help all academic staff in higher education (HE) develop more informed teaching and better support students as they transition to university. It explores the organisations who advise students pre-university and uncovers the myths and...

This book is a wonderful teacher resource for helping children learn to read.The Word Mastery Primer empowers teachers to organise sounds and words into families, and to invent picture-filled stories which bring the sounds of words and phonemes to life...

Tools and techniques from the trailblazers in data-based education reform Over a period of several years, Amanda Datnow and Vicki Park visited public schools with a reputation for being ahead of the pack in data-driven decision making. The results of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210873Author Paula Polk LillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 276gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefield areas, historic houses, and museums. By means of guided tours, exhibits, and signs, visitors to these areas receive a very special kind of...

Updated Edition of BestsellerMadeline Hunter's authoritative guide to effective instruction, newly updated and expanded for today's learners! "What do I teach this group of learners today?" Teachers make countless choices daily. Your own teaching...

Professional and academic writing is often seen as dull, dry, and as boring to write as it is to read. In The Work of Writing, Rankin challenges these assumptions by encouraging the professional writer to develop a strong writing voice and become fully...

In this well-illustrated book Hella Loewe describes her research and practice of working with modelling in the early years of a Steiner-Waldorf school. She describes meeting a class of mixed nationalities with social and behavioral challenges, and how...

Blended learning provides the flexibility to accommodate the varied requirements of pedagogies, disciplines and levels of course, together with the needs of a wide variety of learners. However, anyone concerned with the integration of online tutoring to...

Stories, lesson plans, and activities that explore the Earth's offerings.About the AuthorMichael J. Caduto is an award-winning author, master storyteller, poet, musician, educator, and ecologist. He has received numerous awards, including the New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943360277Author Jan K HoeghFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Marzano ResourcesPublisher Marzano ResourcesWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman welcome you to experience the writing workshop for the first time or in a new light with Welcome to Writing Workshop: Engaging Today's Students with a Model That Works. Through strategic routines, tips, resources, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604189025Author Carson Dellosa EducationImprint Carson Dellosa EducationPublisher Carson Dellosa EducationWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 470mm * 267mm...

The 'Carrying on in Key Stage 1' series supports the continuing growth and development of independent learning and practical activities, which are features of early learning. The aim is to encourage teachers in Key Stage 1 to build on the best of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609809327Author Dr. Thomas GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)...

Thanks to unprecedented advances in brain science, we know more about the brain today than ever before. But what does that science tell us about how we learn? How can we capture the power of neuroscience research so that it benefits our students?Judy...

Geneva Gay is renowned for her contributions to multicultural education, particularly as it relates to curriculum design, professional learning, and classroom instruction. Gay has made many important revisions to keep her foundational, award-winning text...

Student inquiry is an active learning process that allows students to investigate central, essential questions linked to curriculum standards and specific teaching objectives. Essential questions maybe created by the teacher or by the students, but when...

Training Manual for Behavior Technicians Working with Individuals with Autism is a practical manual and ongoing professional resource for frontline staff undergoing training to become Registered Behavior Technicians (TM) (RBT). RBT (TM) is the...

A road map for teachers who strive to be highly effective leaders in our nation's classrooms Teach For America has fought the daunting battle of educational equity for the last twenty years. Based on evidence from classrooms across the country, they've...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989151108Author Sylvia Libow MartinezFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Constructing Modern Knowledge PressPublisher Constructing Modern Knowledge...

The handwork and practical arts curriculum in Waldorf schools stimulates children's creative powers. At the same time, it establishes an aesthetic confidence by developing the child's will -- that part of us which interacts with the world, and lays the...

Support achievement in the latest syllabus (9709), for examination from 2020, with a stretching, practice-driven approach that builds the advanced skills required for Cambridge exam success and progression to further study. This new edition is fully...

This is the first in-depth, practice-focused book to explain 'spectrum theory' and its application in physical education and sports coaching. Spectrum theory identifies 11 distinct teaching styles, with decision making as a central characteristic, and...

Do you work in a school? Better Play will help you to think about how supporting play in schools can make for better relationships and for better learning. Do you think play in schools ceases to matter after the Early Years? Reading this book will remind...

The essays compiled in Poetry in Pedagogy: Intersections Across and Between the Disciplines offer praxes of poetry that cultivate a community around students, language, and writing, while presenting opportunities to engage with new texts, new textual...

A practical, educational technology resource for educators teaching remotely or in the classroom The most effective hybrid teachers are those that have a vast knowledge of instructional strategies, technologies, tools, and resources, and can...

In early childhood settings, children and teachers interact all day long. The benefits to everyone-teachers and children-are enormous when even some of those everyday interactions become intentional and purposeful Powerful Interactions! In step one of a...

This title offers a wealth of techniques and skills for creative and meaningful work. It is an attractive series for the entire primary age range. It includes CD of full colour artwork. It provides 30 activities per book, from quick and easy to longer...

Based on rapid advances in what is known about how people learn and how to teach effectively, this important book examines the core concepts and central pedagogies that should be at the heart of any teacher education program. Stemming from the results of...

Literacy is not a decontextualized drill of skills or learning just about "a book." You will highlight, ponder, and tab as you read about the design of Concept-Based literacy lessons. All students deserve the best literacy instruction-and this IS the...

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide...

Join the Revolution! Build a resilient Montessori school Montessori in Action: Building Resilient Montessori Schools delivers a practical and actionable method to provide a strong Montessori experience for all children, families and educators. The...