Description: Problem-based learning online is a burgeoning area, crying out for support in all the disciplines, but particularly health, medicine, education and social care that are already advanced users of probl...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field is comprised of essays that delineate the genesis and evolution of the thought and work of pionee...
Author: Flynn, Kathleen, / Hill, Jane, Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As more and more English language learners (ELLs) are included in mainstream classrooms, what can we do to ensure that they understand academic content and develop their English language skills? To an...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A volume in Studies in the History of Education Series Editor: Karen L. Riley, Auburn University at Montgomery This book is designed to be used at a master's level for a degree in curriculum and instr...
Author: Null, Wesley Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Curriculum: From Theory to Practice introduces readers to curriculum theory and how it relates to classroom practice. Wesley Null provides a unique organization of the curriculum field into five tradi...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A volume in Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue Series Editors: David J. Flinders, Indiana University Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and C...
Author: Morris, Marla Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Uses the Holocaust to raise issues of memory and representation; argues that history is the systematization of memory. Examines the way the Holocaust gets represented in historical texts and in novels...
Author: Richards,Jack C. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This text provides a systematic introduction to the issues involved in planning, developing, and managing effective language programs. The paperback edition provides a systematic introduction to the ...
Author: Tomlinson, Carol Ann / Eidson, Caroline Cunningham Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is the first in a new series from Carol Ann Tomlinson and Caroline Cunningham Eidson exploring how real teachers incorporate differentiation principles and strategies throughout an entire in...
Author: Tomlinson, Carol, Ann / Strickland, Cindy, A. Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Join Carol Ann Tomlinson and Cindy A. Strickland in the continuing exploration of how real teachers incorporate differentiation principles and strategies throughout an entire instructional unit. Focus...
Author: Tomlinson, Carol Ann / Eidson, Caroline Cunningham Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Join Carol Ann Tomlinson and Caroline Cunningham Eidson in their continuing exploration of how real teachers incorporate differentiation principles and strategies throughout an entire instructional un...
Author: Hess, Frederick M. Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What if it's the system that's the problem? What if the key to breakthrough school improvement is not mandating new solutions built on an elusive combination of the right standards, pedagogy, and asse...
Author: Young, Paul G. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education Format: Adobe PDF
Description: If you want to improve your professional performance and set yourself apart from your colleagues-in any discipline-these tips are for you. If you desire anything less than achieving the very best, you...
Author: Palmer, Joy Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: While the importance of learning to develop as a society in sustainable ways has become a major political concern around the world, schools have been slow to express this priority in formal curricula....
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mission Statement: The book series, entitled "Research in Curriculum and Instruction", will focus on a) considerations of curriculum practices at school, district, state, and federal levels, b) relati...
Author: Niaz, Mansoor Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Nature of Science is highly topical among science teacher educators and researchers. Increasingly, it is a mandated topic in state curriculum documents. This book draws together recent resea...
Description: The Nature of Science is highly topical among science teacher educators and researchers. Increasingly, it is a mandated topic in state curriculum documents. This book draws together recent resea...
Description: Curriculum maps are among the simplest yet most effective tools for improving teaching and learning. Because they require people to draw explicit connections between content, skills, and assessment me...
Author: Tomlinson, Carol, Ann / McTighe, Jay Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Teachers struggle every day to bring quality instruction to their students. Beset by lists of content standards and accompanying "high-stakes" accountability tests, many educators sense that both teac...
Author: Buchheim, Charles Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: I believe this book is a timely manuscript that will be of benefit to teachers and other professionals in the educational field. I see it as a weekly workbook. There are many exciting things about t...
Author: Rennie, Léonie J. / Venville, Grady / Wallace, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: As the third millennium progresses, we are faced with increasing pressures relating to climate change and the sustainability of life on Earth. Concerned citizens are realizing that the responsibility ...
Author: Rennie, Léonie J. / Venville, Grady / Wallace, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As the third millennium progresses, we are faced with increasing pressures relating to climate change and the sustainability of life on Earth. Concerned citizens are realizing that the responsibility ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What skills are required of secondary student physical education teachers? What are the key areas that these student teachers need to understand? How can current challenges be addressed by these stud...
Description: Literacy is the foundation for success in all secondary school courses. If you're a middle or high school administrator, chances are you're looking for a truly effective way to help all your students ...
Author: Brown, John L. Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Thousands of educators worldwide are already using Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe's Understanding by Design (UbD) as a framework for designing curriculum units, performance assessments, and instruction...
Author: Solomon, Yvette Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The concept of mathematical literacy is central to the book in that it emphasizes a view of mathematics as a social practice and of mathematical learning as situated learning.
Description: Why do so many learners, even those who are successful, feel that they are outsiders in the world of mathematics? Taking the central importance of language in the development of mathematical understan...
Author: Morgan, Candia Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This accessible and thought-provoking book considers what beginning teachers need to know about learning, teaching, assessment, curriculum, and professional development, in the context of teaching mat...
Author: Drake, Susan / Burns, Rebecca Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Many schools under pressure to meet new standards of learning mistakenly believe that they must adopt a narrow curriculum that imposes strict boundaries on what students are taught. In this book, Susa...
Author: Drake, Pat / Heath, Linda Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In trying to juggle the various priorities of doctoral study, many individuals struggle. From gathering data, preparing papers and organising projects, to the less obvious difficulties of time managem...
Author: Reid, William A. Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this far-reaching discussion of curriculum and liberal education, William A. Reid compares curriculum making to the idea of "pursuit." Like justice, Reid argues that curriculum is not som...
Author: Fisher, Lisa A. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Literacy groups promote discussion and learning through the exploration of text, but many educators are hesitant to adopt them. For current and future secondary teachers, administrators, and curriculu...
Author: Laidlaw, Linda Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The premise of this book is that written texts and literacy processes are developed within a complex "weave" of particular contexts, or ecologies, and the unique particularity of the learner's experie...
Author: Willis, M.D., Judith, Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The first book for K-12 educators written by an author who is both a neurologist and a classroom teacher Drawing on her neurology expertise and classroom experience, author Judy Willis examined ...
Author: Schmoker, Mike, Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: According to author Mike Schmoker, there is a yawning gap between the most well-known essential practices and the reality of most classrooms. This gap persists despite the hard, often heroic work done...
Author: Raymond, Carole Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Addresses the needs of teachers faced with the increase in litigation and cases of educational malpractice. The book provides a framework for safe practice, examines the process of litigation, offers ...
Author: Clarke, Edward, H. Publisher: Wildside Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The demand for a second edition of this book in little more than a week after the publication of the first indicates the interest which the public take in the relation of Sex to Education, and justifi...
Author: Manvell, Elizabeth Cervini Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Not every teacher loves history and the same can be said about students. It doesn't have to be that way. People love a good story. History is a collection of stories that trace the path people, famous...
Author: Steinberg, Shirley / Kincheloe, Joe Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This text directly focuses on student empowerment through meaningful research. It makes explicit the relationship between teaching method, classroom practice, and the production of knowledge.
Author: Carr, Judy F. / Harris, Douglas E. Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How do you reshape the local curriculum to incorporate local, state, and national standards? Succeeding with Standards: Linking Curriculum, Assessment, and Action Planning offers a practical, school-t...
Author: Phillips, Graham Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Every year the UK A-level results bring a tide of questions about their quality and standard. One option already available to schools and students is the baccalaureate system. Covering national and in...
Author: Erlauer, Laura Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Did you know that the best time to learn something new is during the first two hours after you wake up and the last two hours before you go to sleep? Did you know that stressing key points in color c...
Author: Young, Michael F. D. Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this important new book the author looks back on the 'knowing question'. What knowledge is selected to be validated as school knowledge, or as part of the curriculum, and why is it selected? Lookin...
