Education - Curricula

This robust collection of articles from Teaching Young Children offers practical guidance and tips for keeping equity at the forefront of the curriculum and classroom practices. A wide range of diverse voices from the early childhood education field provide insight on various aspects of...

Environmental education expert David Sobel joins with a variety of colleagues to share their experiences and steps for creating a successful forest kindergarten program. Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens walks you through the European roots of the concept to the recent resurgence of these...

How can today's teachers, whose classrooms are more culturally and linguistically diverse than ever before, ensure that their students achieve at high levels? How can they design units and lessons that support English learners in language development and content learning--simultaneously? Authors Amy Heineke and...

Music is a powerful means for educating citizens in a multicultural society and meeting many challenges shared by teachers across all subjects and grade levels. By celebrating heritage and promoting intercultural understandings, music can break down barriers among various ethnic, racial, cultural, and language...

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...

This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and learning for all students. Each lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop...

The pause in the traditional structure of schooling due to COVID-19 presents a unique opportunity for openness on many different levels: openness to the science of learning, openness to schoolwork centered around big ideas and authentic problems, openness to responsible assessment practices, and openness...

Think more intentionally about the play materials you choose and offer to preschoolers to enhance their development and learningAuthor: Mary Benson McMullen, Dylan BrodyISBN-10: 1938113748ISBN-13: 9781938113741Publisher: National Association for the Education of YouLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2021Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 10.79h x 8.19w x 0.32d

Pediatrician Jeanie McAfee originally created this user-friendly social curriculum for her daughter Rachel, who was diagnosed with Asperger's at age ten. Since then, it has become a staple for parents and educators. It addresses the most urgent problems facing those with Asperger's Syndrome, high-functioning...

The Eden Conspiracy is a unique book with at least four different audiences: policy makers and politicians seeking to dramatically improve the cost-effectiveness of education; educators who want to develop school programs that accelerate students' progression from school to lifetime success; community stakeholders, including...

Specifically designed with family child-care providers in mind, this booklet, sold in ten-packs, aids caregivers to observe and record a child's growth and development. Organized by age within developmental domains, it includes milestones that directly align with those in The Redleaf Family Child Care...

A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Native...

This curriculum guide is designed to help learners develop critical thinking skills from engaging in interdisciplinary activities while in the natural environment. The lessons are divided by grade level. You will find lessons for students to develop skills in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math...

Handwriting practice paper dotted for children is our first step to help the kids to upgrade their learning. Trace the letters and practice handwriting will help them very quickly. It's an old type of teaching but, it's still the best way. A useful book...

Uncover the fairy tale secrets that made the Grimms famous.By analyzing Grimms' fairy tales from a writer's perspective, you can learn how to write better fairy tales faster. In Lessons from Grimm, you'll study how the Grimms handle key elements of character, setting, plot,...

American Literature (Excellence in Literature, English 3) cultivates competent readers and writers in a self-directed, classics-focused, one year, college-prep literature and composition course for co-op, classroom, or homeschool use. The award-winning Excellence in Literature curriculum, suitable for grades 8-12, presents a feast of great...

Handwriting for beginners! This is a Handwriting Curriculum and Handwriting Practice Workbook all in one! Students will LOVE learning handwriting - because they will LEARN TO DRAW and write at the same time! A fun system to learn handwriting! Children learn to draw a...

The Creative Classroom presents an original, compelling vision of schools where teaching and learning are centered on creativity. Drawing on the latest research as well as his studies of jazz and improvised theater, Sawyer describes curricula and classroom practices that will help educators get...

Winner of the Society of Professors of Education 2024 Outstanding Book Award Despite limitations and challenges, teaching about difficult histories is an essential aspect of social studies courses and units across grade levels. This practical resource highlights stories of K-12 practitioners who have critically...

Author: Kadija Sesay, Deirdre Osborne, Joan Anim-AddoISBN-10: 1529414598ISBN-13: 9781529414592Publisher: Quercus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/2022Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.58h x 5.51w x 1.18dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 12/01/2022 pg. 124

In 1949, a small book had a big impact on education. In just over one hundred pages, Ralph W. Tyler presented the concept that curriculum should be dynamic, a program under constant evaluation and revision. Curriculum had always been thought of as a static,...

As teachers and parents, we often hear that children are the best scientists. Great science teachers tune in to children's interests and observations to create engaging and effective lessons. This focus on the innate curiosity of children, or humans overall is celebrated and used...

The Social and Emotional Curriculum for Gifted Students series provides the gifted resource specialist, regular classroom teacher, or counselor with the tools they need to help gifted students in grades 3-5 develop interpersonal skills, reflect on their often intense emotions, and express their creativity....

Innovations: The Comprehensive Infant Curriculum is a complete, interactive curriculum for infants from birth to 18 months. In addition to a wealth of activities, it includes child development theory, assessment, room arrangement, parent education and much more. The Comprehensive Infant Curriculum is a unique...

An entire year of daily plans with circle time activities, music and movement activities, suggested books, and learning center ideas. Organized around units that are two weeks long. Includes an extremely useful appendix packed with words to songs, directions to favorite games, recipes, directions...

"The best thing about college is having the privilege be yourself and fashion out your natural potentials."In Tips for College Life, author Bukky Ekine-Ogunlana draws on over a decade helping teenagers and their parents and her own experience as a college Freshman to offer...

For the littlest learners, everything is an activity--feeling a rock, trying to lick a bubble, smelling a flower, or poking sand. In Treasure-Basket Explorations: Heuristic Learning for Infants and Toddlers, teachers and caregivers of infants and toddlers will learn how these simple explorations support...

Children's early SCIENCE experiences, at school and at home, are the foundation for future science learning and comprehension--throughout the school years and life. This collection of articles from NAEYC's journal Young Children showcases exciting ways to support children's science explorations from infancy through age...

Emergent curriculum encourages early childhood educators to use creativity and flexibility as they respond to classroom challenges and children's interests. Filled with case studies and stories from toddler and preschool teachers about their experiences responding to events in their own classrooms, The Unscripted Classroom...

Finally--highly effective, field-tested lesson plans for the students in every elementary and middle school classroom who struggle with writing. The practical how-to follow-up to Graham and Harris's popular Writing Better, this book is just what K-8 educators need to advance all students' writing skills,...

Turn natural curiosity into deep, lasting learnings! Help students transform their playful wonderings into deeper questions about content--and develop the higher-level thinking skills they need for success in school and in life. In this invaluable resource you'll find simple, yet systematic ways to develop...

This timely volume provides a constructivist interpretation of developmentally appropriate curriculum in early childhood education. Rheta DeVries, one of the founders of constructivist early education, and her colleagues provide the theoretical rationale and practical advice for conducting specific activities in the classroom. Descriptive vignettes...

For classroom teachers at all levels, here is a unique collection of practical, proven-effective techniques and ready-to-use tools for managing classroom behavior and creating the positive environment that students and teachers need to promote learning. Each classroom-tested strategy is presented in a simple-to-use format...

This guide to writing compelling, memorable short stories gives you all the essentials without wasted words. It tells you how and where to get ideas, how to establish and sustain excitement, how to create live, colorful characters, and how to plot, develop and bring...

Circle Up was written for educators and community members who are determined to change the school and community culture through purposeful, intentional conversations. More importantly, the book will provide the tools necessary to create a mindset for building transformational relationships with students and adults...

Quick and easy to teach and do, these activities offer K 6 teachers engaging ways to give students rich practice in language arts. Get language arts themed ideas for all four Morning Meeting components: greeting, sharing, group activity, and morning message. Browse for activities...

Learning(R) Magazine 2020 Teachers' Choice℠ Award for Preschool winner 2019 Midwest Book Award Winner in the Education category After studying the current research on literacy learning for young children, delving into the beliefs and schools of Reggio Emilia, and discovering the Maker Movement, the...

We know that curriculum is the core of the classroom experience, but what makes a quality curriculum? How can educators be sure that what they teach is strongly aligned to the specific standards that their district or school has adopted? What kinds of lessons,...

Odds are, your state has adopted the Common Core State Standards. You know how the standards emerged, what they cover, and how they are organized. But how do you translate the new standards into practice?Enter the Core Six: six research-based, classroom-proven strategies that will...

This book of matrices with Black boys as the main character is designed to help gifted and talented education teachers leverage Black boys' identities to inform and shape how they plan and deliver curriculum and instruction and manage the multicultural, democratic, and culturally responsive...

A novel approach to STEAM learning that engages students from historically marginalized communities in culturally relevant and inclusive maker education. The growing maker movement in education has become an integral part of both STEM and STEAM learning, tapping into the natural DIY inclinations of...

Pedagogical Documentation in Early Childhood is an inspiring step-by-step guide to documenting children's ideas, questions, play, and learning in a way that enhances teachers' thinking and understanding at the same time. This book supports teachers on their journey to tell the stories behind children's...

A CALL TO ACTION: EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES THAT MATTER FOR BLACK CHILDREN Ongoing racial disparities in academic performance indicate that Black children need increased attention in after-school interventions. Dr. Perryman has dedicated her career to designing culturally relevant programs that move the discussion from failure...

Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds. Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds. Penpals Foundation 2: Workbook One allows children to consolidate the pattern-making learnt at Foundation 1 stage in preparation for letter...

This text helps current and aspiring administrators, teachers, and curriculum directors successfully restructure, enhance, and implement school K-12 curriculum. Now in its Fifth Edition, this foundational book highlights 21st century educational ideas and advocacy, while also remaining focused on tried and true strategies for...

This unit study offers many wonderful activities to use while having students read the book, but the book is not included. The entire unit also offers the ability to create a lapbook if you print out some of the pages. There are between 6...

Skill-building through potent instruction, day by day In these much-anticipated sequels to The Common Core Companion, Janiel Wagstaff and Leslie Blauman provide a collection of connected lessons and formative writing assessments that bring Monday-to-Friday clarity to the task of integrating reading and writing with...

Educators know it's important to get students to engage in "higher-order thinking." But what does higher-order thinking actually look like? And how can K-12 classroom teachers assess it across the disciplines? Author, consultant, and former classroom teacher Susan M. Brookhart answers these questions and...

A systematic introduction to the issues involved in developing, managing, and evaluating effective second and foreign language programs and teaching materials. The paperback edition provides a systematic introduction to the issues involved in developing, managing, and evaluating effective second and foreign language programs and...

Innovations: The Comprehensive Toddler Curriculum is a complete, interactive curriculum for toddlers from 18 to 36 months. In addition to a wealth of activities, it includes child development theory, assessment, room arrangement, parent education and much more. The Comprehensive Toddler Curriculum is a unique...