Education - Curricula

This book contributes to the innovation of writing education and research globally by providing crucial insights into how the structures and aims of literacy curricula vary internationally. It examines how nine education systems across five continents represent 'good writing' in curricula that shape students'...

This volume presents a mix of translations of classical and modern papers from the German Didaktik tradition, newly prepared essays by German scholars and practitioners writing from within the tradition, and interpretive essays by U.S. scholars. It brings this tradition, which virtually dominated German...

This book focuses on discourses of globalisation in comparative education research and the politics of education reforms. It analyses and evaluates the shifts in methodological approaches to globalisation and education reforms, as reflected in comparative education research and their impact on education policy and...

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education is the first authoritative reference work to provide an international analysis of the relationship between power, knowledge, education, and schooling. Rather than focusing solely on questions of how we teach efficiently and effectively, contributors to this volume...

This book offers clear guidance for facilitating curriculum improvement at the building level. It includes real-life scenarios that principals encounter, accompanied by strategies to help schools sustain focus on student learning and continuous organizational development. It is aimed at current and prospective administrators looking...

Lead children to literacy and learning along the garden path with books and activities designed to spark interest and imagination. Each of these 45 lessons focuses on a specific book about gardening and offers related activities-such as reading, writing, poetry, word play, music, dancing,...

Your students' comprehension--and writing--abilities will soar with this big collection of no-prep, task cards that teach all about figurative language! Each reproducible card contains a high-interest mini-passage and five key questions to hone must-know skills--in just ten minutes a day. Cards provide guided support...

Teaching for Black Lives grows directly out of the movement for Black lives. We recognize that anti-Black racism constructs Black people, and Blackness generally, as not counting as human life. Throughout this book, we provide resources and demonstrate how teachers connect curriculum to young...

Add this set of 100 text cards to your classroom routine and watch students' comprehension abilities skyrocket! Each reproducible card contains a high-interest mini-passage and five key questions to hone must-know inference skills--in just 10 minutes a day. Cards provide guided support to help...

The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units offers instructional modules on the basic concepts and elements of Understanding by Design (UbD), the "backward design" approach used by thousands of educators to create curriculum units and assessments that focus on developing students' understanding...

Winner of the 2015 Brain Child Award from Tillywig & Toy Media Awards Use loose parts to spark children's creativity and innovation Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play....

ASCD Bestseller! Wiggins and McTighe provide an expanded array of practical tools and strategies for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that lead students at all grade levels to genuine understanding.How do you know when students understand? Can you design learning experiences that make it...

This book presents the Transformational Indigenous Praxis Model (TIPM), an innovative framework for promoting critical consciousness toward decolonization efforts among educators. The TIPM challenges readers to examine how even the most well-intentioned educators are complicit in reproducing ethnic stereotypes, racist actions, deficit-based ideology, and...

Teach your students how to think like scientists. This book shows you practical ways to incorporate science thinking in your classroom using simple "Thinking Tasks" that you can insert into any lesson. What is science thinking and how can you possibly teach and assess...

Writing to Teach; Writing to Learn in Higher Education is a comprehensive guide for professors seeking to integrate writing-across-the-curriculum principles into their pedagogy. Through the exploration of theory and practice, treating both pre-writing techniques and classical rhetorical patterns as heuristics, Leist outlines the process...

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies addresses the central question of Curriculum Studies as: What is worthwhile? Writ large, Curriculum Studies pertains to what human beings should know, need, experience, do, be, become, overcome, contribute, share, wonder, imagine, invent, and improve. While the Encyclopedia...

Parents use music in family life to accomplish practical tasks, make relational connections, and guide their children's musical development. Parenting Musically portrays the musicking of eight diverse Cleveland-area families in home, school, and community settings. Themes from interviews focused on the families' hopes and...

Have you paid thousands of dollars for a teacher preparation program that left you feeling uneducated in the area of classroom management? Are you nervous about how to control your class on the first day of student teaching? Are you discouraged because the first...

Writing to Teach; Writing to Learn in Secondary Schools is a comprehensive guide for high school teachers who want to use writing as a teaching tool in any discipline. This user-friendly and hands-on book provides instructional materials for generating and structuring writing, guidance for...

Offering a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general, this book provides multiple suggestions for how to revive wonder in adults (teachers and curriculum makers) and how to keep wonder alive in children. Its aim is to show that adequate...

Teachers and librarians will find this one-volume reference guide an indispensable tool for identifying anthologies and poem collections that have particular appeal to young adult readers. Comprised of two main components, this resource features an annotated bibliography of 198 poetry volumes, and a thematic...

FREE SAMPLE and more info at naturestudycollective.comEasy-To-Implement Nature Study LessonsDesigned for homeschoolers, co-op groups, and traditional classes, each activity helps students observe and discover for themselves through a firsthand experience with nature. With scientific information, diagrams, and journaling prompts, this book inspires a love...

Literacy education has historically characterized mass media as manipulative towards young people who, as a result, are in need of close-reading "skills." By contrast, Pop Culture and Power treats literacy as a dynamic practice, shaped by its social and cultural context. It develops a...

Drawing from studies with pre- and in-service teachers in Quebec, Smallest Circles First looks at how teacher agency engages with the educational calls to action from Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Using drama education and theatre, Smallest Circles First explores how the classroom can...

The go-to textbook for everything you need to know about play! Covering ages 0-8, this book explores what play is, why it matters and where and how play happens. Taking you from start to finish on your course, it helps you: Think critically about...

For young people, the space of the drama classroom can be a space for deep learning as they struggle across difference to create something together with common purpose. Collaborating across institutions, theatres, and community spaces, the research in Hope in a Collapsing World mobilizes...

Clear, Relevant, Evidence-Based Guidance to Support Early Childhood Educators Spring 2022 Academic's Choice Awards Smart Book Winner. Developmentally appropriate practice is the foundation on which quality early learning is built. The fourth edition of this classic, influential text addresses developmentally appropriate practice within the...

With lots of examples and color images, this resource is both a foundational text and a practical guidebook for bringing contemporary art into elementary and middle school classrooms as a way to make learning joyful and meaningful for all learners. Marshall shows how asking...

Are you in control of your teaching, or is teaching in control of you?Many middle school ELA teachers face similar frustrations: nights and weekends consumed with lesson planning and grading; no time to create meaningful, engaging lessons; and the struggle to squeeze all the...

Rigorous Curriculum Design ("RCD") presents a carefully sequenced, hands-on model for educators and curriculum designers. The RCD model has proven to be effective in school districts across the US, and it serves as a road map so that educators may design a progression of...

Anti-bias education begins with you! Become a skilled anti-bias teacher with this practical guidance to confronting and eliminating barriers.Author: Louise Derman-Sparks, Julie Olsen EdwardsISBN-10: 1938113578ISBN-13: 9781938113574Publisher: National Association for the Education of YouLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2020Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.30w x 0.50d

Peter Wood argues against the flawed interpretation of history found in the New York Times' 1619 Project and asserts that the true origins of American self-government were enshrined in the Mayflower Compact in 1620. "1620 is a dispassionate, clear reminder that the best in...

"This book digs into curriculum delivery theory, curriculum delivery in planning, implementation & management during and post COVID-19, investigating curriculum delivery options by assessment and alternative assessment during and post COVID-19 with the goal to improve the quality of planning, implementation, and management of...

This book concentrates on the deep historical, political, and institutional relationships between art, education, and excess. Going beyond field specific discourses of art history, art criticism, philosophy, and aesthetics, it explores how the concept of excess has been important and enduring from antiquity through...

Essentially a complete teacher's manual for the novel, this LitPlan Teacher Pack includes lesson plans and reproducible resource materials for Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. It includes: Daily Lessons, Short answer study questions, Multiple choice quiz questions, Vocabulary worksheets for each reading assignment, 3...

The lessons on demand series is designed to provide ready to use resources for novel study. In this book you will find key vocabulary, student organizer pages, and assessments. This guide is divided into two sections. Section one is the teacher section which consists...

This important book is the result of a study of school curriculum undertaken by a joint committee of the University of Toronto and the Board of Education for the City of Toronto. Three sub-committees, dealing with English, Social Science, and Physical Science, here present...

Studio Thinking 3 is a new edition of a now-classic text, a research-based account of teaching and learning in high school studio arts classes. It poses a framework that identifies eight habits of mind taught in visual arts and four studio structures by which...

Divine Form Drawing: pre-writing activities through Vaishnava storiesOur child's mind will quickly wander if they are not fully absorbed in whichever task they are set to; suddenly it feels as if our efforts to teach a child become a chore, or worse a battle....

Course Syllabi in Faculties of Educationproblematizes one of the least researched phenomena in teacher education, the design of course syllabi, using critical and decolonial approaches. This book looks at the struggles that scholars, policy makers, and educators from a diverse range of countries including...

Challenging conventional ways of thinking about school reforms and teacher education, this book analyses how the "knowledge systems" which organize how teachers' observe, supervise, and evaluate children produces norms that have the effect of excluding children who are poor and of color. Building on...

If your child is struggling with social science, then this book is for you; the short book includes over 100 activities. This subject comes from the book "Fourth Grade Social Science (For Home School or Extra Practice)"; it more thoroughly covers more fourth grade...

Now in its 3rd edition, Better Learning Through Structured Teaching is the definitive guide to the gradual release of responsibility--an instructional framework any teacher can use to help students to be more successful and self-directed learners.To gradually release responsibility is to equip students with...

"Essential reading for teachers, education administrators, and policymakers alike." --STARRED Library Journal The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's...

Weave high-level questions into your teaching practices.Author: Janis Strasser, Lisa Mufson BressonISBN-10: 1938113306ISBN-13: 9781938113307Publisher: National Association for the Education of YouLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2017Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.40d

Find inspiration to intentionally develop and implement meaningful, developmentally appropriate observation and assessment practices to build responsive, joyful classrooms.Author: Holly BohartISBN-10: 1938113349ISBN-13: 9781938113345Publisher: National Association for the Education of YouLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2018Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 10.40h x 8.30w x 0.40d

Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniques The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low-floor, high-ceiling tasks that will help you do just...

Give students the strategies they need to determine the meaning of new words encountered in text without turning to a dictionary! Each reproducible card contains a high-interest mini-passage and five key questions to hone this must-know skill--in just ten minutes a day. Cards provide...

Help your students become active learners with the classroom-tested graphic organizers in this valuable resource. Includes 50 ready-to-go templates, student samples, and step-by-step directions. The organizers are perfect for notetaking, planning, presentation, and review. You'll find organizers for reading, writing, math, social studies, and...

Based on more than ten years of research, All Students Can Succeed presents a comprehensive review of research related to Direct Instruction (DI), a highly structured method of teaching based on the assumption that all students can learn if given appropriate instruction. The authors...