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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884281006Author Jeanne GehretFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Verbal Images PressPublisher Verbal Images PressWeight(grams) 122g

Based upon the research of 45 interviews conducted in Texas and Arkansas, High-Stakes Teaching presents strategies that successfully blend child-centered and test-centered teaching into one focus, creating a consistently high-quality instructional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942296102Author John Barr JrFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Litfire PublishingPublisher Litfire PublishingWeight(grams) 612g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783901679216Author Peter MazohlFormat PaperbackImprint Mag. Peter MazohlPublisher Mag. Peter MazohlWeight(grams) 372g

This is the book for ELT teachers at all levels! Packed with important and up-to-the-minute information, Effective Teachers, Effective Schools reviews how English is taught to English language students in the school systems of Australia, Canada, England...

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...

Exemplary Classroom Questioning describes how to organize a classroom environment that supports questioning. Marie Menna Pagliaro presents a research-based analytic approach to effective teacher practices when delivering questions and responding to...

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...

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...

A review of authentic assessment that provides, in addition to a thorough grounding in teh topic area, insightful thoughts on the purposes of evaluation, the nature of school planning, and the current status of efforts at school reform.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512718584Author Ellen J WindhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint WestBow PressPublisher WestBow PressWeight(grams) 340g

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...

Today's schools compartmentalize children and curriculum. Standardization dictates curricular content and assessment, narrowing the focus of classrooms and schools that serve diverse populations from varied geographical backgrounds. Against the backdrop...

Teacher effectiveness and teacher quality have become the focus of intense international attention and concern. Around the world, governments are modifying existing certification requirements or implementing value-added modeling in order to qualify...

Typically New Generation Learning Spaces (NGLS) across the international higher education sector are being designed to support a more student-centred approach to teaching, through more active and collaborative learning opportunities, often using new...

Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth and skill-building. Research shows that expressive writing can help in the development of emotional intelligence, better...

Education, according to John Dewey, should be viewed as dynamic and ongoing with direct teaching of integrated content knowledge. This volume offers readers an examination of the content areas in early childhood curriculum that honor Dewey's belief in...

Addressing the important topic of the effects of music and reading integration on students' achievements and attitudes, this book presents twenty lessons for integrating selected music and reading concepts and skills. Designed for upper-elementary music...

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...

Actual strategies (with examples) That are in place in schools throught the country illustrate practical, proven techniques for building parent involvement and commitment. Also covered are documentation concerning student classwork, parent notes,...

This text rearticulates understandings of materials-blocks of clay, sheets of paper, brushes and paints, fabrics, and plastics-to formulate new ideas about what happens when we think with materials and apply them to early childhood development and...

Based on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, this instructional guide provides explicit steps, examples, and adaptations to help educators effectively teach students how to investigate, experiment, solve problems, and deepen their understanding of...

The justification for smaller classes has traditionally been that students can receive more individual attention and be provided with a curriculum that promotes student centred learning. However, in Asia where student engagement is generally over 90% in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912533046Author Chong ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Brain & Life PublishingPublisher Brain & Life PublishingWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937257620Author Marilynn G BarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Little Acorn Associates, IncorporatedPublisher Little Acorn Associates,...

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) 295g

This book explores the use of lesson study within the context of initial teacher education. The lesson study process is broken down into its main components and these elements are discussed with references to the specific needs of practitioners,...

Mobile technologies can facilitate different kinds of learning, in a range of contexts. They can also enable innovative and powerful ways of participating in collaborative learning. This book examines the ways in which mobile technologies may contribute...

Mobile technologies can facilitate different kinds of learning, in a range of contexts. They can also enable innovative and powerful ways of participating in collaborative learning. This book examines the ways in which mobile technologies may contribute...

Between 1990 and 2010, the English language learner (ELL) population in U.S. schools grew by 80 percent. While the highest concentration of English language learners, now more commonly referred to as emergent bilinguals (EBLs) remains in the traditional...

To this point in time, teacher education has been approached in mostly insular ways because it is largely driven by state and national education policies. However, the spread of the global economy and the increased stature of international comparison...

This volume covers advances that have occurred in the thirty year existence of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT), the organization that helped transition the study of teacher thinking to the study of teachers and...

This volume of the "International Perspectives on Education and Society" series examines the relationship between HIV/AIDS and education worldwide. Much of the mystery surrounding HIV/AIDS and education lies in the fact that many factors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416619314Author Nina MorelFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint ASCDPublisher ASCDWeight(grams) 77g

Teacher retention is of utmost importance at a time when so many young teachers choose not to remain in the profession. Teachers exiting the profession cite a lack of administrative support throughout their first years in the classroom. Implementing...

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...

This book offers alternative and innovative methods to improve preservice and inservice teacher education. The book explores options in preservice education for supervisor coaching of interns completed through both traditional face-to-face and virtual...

Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth and skill-building. Research shows that expressive writing can help in the development of emotional intelligence, better...

Infused with a warm, affable tone, Making Music in Montessori is the Guide's guide to music education, providing Montessori teachers all at once a snappy, practical handbook, music theory mentor, pedagogical manual, and resource anthology. The book's...