Education - Curricula

Each Puzzle Pack contains a variety of puzzles, worksheets, and games to reinforce important content like characters' names, places, symbols, and important details as well as vocabulary words within the text. Includes: Crosswords - Word Searches - Matching - Fill In The Blanks -...

Each Puzzle Pack contains a variety of puzzles, worksheets, and games to reinforce important content like characters' names, places, symbols, and important details as well as vocabulary words within the text. Includes: Crosswords - Word Searches - Matching - Fill In The Blanks -...

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

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

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

What does the secondary school library media specialist need to know about technology in the twenty-first century? This book answers the question with a wealth of practical information. Doggett explores the pros and cons of using technology in the schools and describes how it...

Award-winning educator Joe Crawford describes how to use Power Standards to build an effective standards-based curriculum and integrate them into instruction to achieve student success.Author: Joe CrawfordISBN-10: 1412991161ISBN-13: 9781412991162Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/11/2011Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.50d

This series is fully endorsed by Cambridge International to support the full syllabus for examination from 2023. Develop algorithmic and computational thinking and programming skills with further practise questions and activities. This Workbook provides additional support with practical exam-style questions for Cambridge IGCSE(TM) and...

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Re-narrating the story of Noah and Schreber, William F. Pinar's new book offers a compelling interpretation of race relations in education. In his signature style, Pinar argues that race is a patriarchal production and a gendered contract between father and son.Author: W. PinarISBN-10: 1349532428ISBN-13:...

Owens provides a historical analysis of the ideological movements and reform efforts leading to the Common Core State Standards, beginning with conservative criticism of public schools in the 1930s and culminating in a convergence of the political right and left in efforts to systemically...

Curriculum Studies in India examines Indian scholars in dialogue regarding their intellectual life histories and subjective investments in their field. With chapter introductions by William Pinar, scholars explore their intellectual history and present circumstances of curriculum studies in India, emphasized by their own engagement...

What goes on in a classroom? can mean "Are teachers imparting knowledge that will raise test scores?" or it can mean much more. In this series of essays, Block addresses the nature of the classroom as a place for encounter and engagements: with curriculum...

Digital Online Culture, Identity and Schooling in the Twenty-First Century provides a cultural, ideological critique of identity construction in the context of virtualization. Kimberly Rosenfeld explores the growing number of people who no longer reside in one physical reality but live, work, and play...

Carter and Pickett explore how educators and families can teach peace education through youth literature and literacy development. Showing how to assess, choose, and make use of literature that can be used to teach both literacy and peace education, they walk through individual methods:...

2013 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice ReviewKumar asks in this volume: Since characteristic features of human consciousness - fear, conditioning, and fragmentation - work against the educational experience, how can we re-imagine curriculum as a space for meditative inquiry and allow it to provide...

Packed with critical analysis and real-life examples, this book explores how children's video games can cultivate learning. Lacasa takes several commercial video games and shows how they can be used both in and out of the classroom to teach initiative and problem-solving, encourage creativity,...

This volume identifies, problematizes, and discusses issues specific to the design of educational programs for teacher candidates from working class, ethnic- and language-minority, and immigrant backgrounds, taking as its starting point the distinctive, complex perspectives that these candidates bring to the university classroom.Author: Gay...

The politicians and pastors who revised the Texas social studies standards made worldwide headlines. Politics and the History Curriculum sets the debate over the Texas standards within a broad context of politics, religion, media, and education, providing a clear analysis of these events and...

By the late eighteenth century, universities in England and Germany had lost their sense of purpose. The romantics then presented them with a new one, a new Idea of a university. In Germany, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and others stressed that universities must teach more...

Based on research conducted in a three year, mixed-method, multi-site National Science Foundation, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program Project, this book offers a comprehensive look into how engineering department culture and climate impacts the successful retention of female and minority college...

This book considers how interdisciplinary conversation, critique, and collaboration enrich and transform humanities and social science education for those teaching and studying traditional Americanist fields.Author: A. PinnISBN-10: 134937881XISBN-13: 9781349378814Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2010Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.65d

Marxist thinking can offer a critical understanding of education in an international context. Jones tackles these issues from a variety of angles and perspectives, taking advantage of recent theoretical innovations in Marxist analysis as well as the personal experiences of educational practitioners with Marxist...

Federal and state funding agencies have invested billions of dollars into secondary STEM (Science, Technology, Education, Mathematics) educational reform over the past decade. This volume addresses the interplay of external and internal variables associated with school reform and how this dynamic has impacted many...

Two persistent dilemmas haunt school reform: curriculum politics and classroom constancy. Both undermined the 1960s' new social studies, a dynamic reform movement centered on inquiry, issues, and social activism. Dramatic academic freedom controversies ended reform and led to a conservative restoration. On one side...

This collection, comprised of chapters focused on the intellectual histories and present circumstances of curriculum studies in Brazil, is Pinar's summary of exchanges (occurring over a two-year period) between the authors and members of an International Panel (scholars working in Finland, South Africa, the...

This book provides a new approach to curriculum development. It combines past with present schooling needs by drawing on Western historical traditions in the philosophy of education and contempary designs for specific student groups.Author: Donald K. SharpesISBN-10: 1138967165ISBN-13: 9781138967168Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2016Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Imagining Time and Space in Universities presents critical theorizations of time and space to analyze discourses and practices of globalization and internationalization. As both dimensions have been understood in separate and hierarchical modes limited attention is given to cultural meanings embedded in these institutional...

Newell compares the fundamental assumptions of five major worldviews of education and their implications for classroom practice, incorporating history and case studies and posing questions about the limits and benefits of employing each today.Author: T. NewellISBN-10: 1137398019ISBN-13: 9781137398017Publisher: Palgrave PivotLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2014Pages: 159Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Scholars from three continents collaborate to create a truly global understanding of curriculum in the world's most populous country. This book discusses major topics in curriculum studies in China and shows how Chinese scholars understand their field's history, circumstances, and place in a globalized...

In order to determine how history education can be harnessed to reduce conflict attitudes and intentions and create a culture of peace, this book examines how history curricula and textbooks shape the identities of their students through their portrayals of ingroup and outgroup identity,...

Carter and Pickett explore how educators and families can teach peace education through youth literature and literacy development. Showing how to assess, choose, and make use of literature that can be used to teach both literacy and peace education, they walk through individual methods:...

In this essential guide for educators, Fay Adams offers a comprehensive overview of the elementary school curriculum, covering topics such as reading, writing, mathematics, and social studies. With a focus on best practices and effective teaching methods, this book is an invaluable resource for...

The latest edition of this annual grants directory features over 2,700 funding opportunities from more than 1,500 sponsors--including U.S. and foreign foundations, corporations, government agencies, and other organizations--listed here for elementary schools, school districts, educators, adult education programs, alternative education programs, and PreK-12 educational...

Information and Communication Technologies in Real-Life Learning presents the results of an International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) working conference held December 2004 in Melbourne, Australia. The working conference was organized by IFIP Working Group 3.2 (Informatics and ICT in Higher Education) and IFIP...

What is leadership? Can it be taught, or is it an inborn quality? How does a young person, in the controlled environment of home, school, and peer groups, learn to be a leader in a way that relates to the larger context of community...

By joining bodies of research in media theory, cultural studies, and critical pedagogy, Developing Media Literacy in Cyberspace offers a vision of learning that values social empowerment over technical skills. An inquiry into the existence and range of models equipped to cultivate critical teaching...

Science education varies across cultures, influenced by factors like educational philosophy, societal values, economic conditions, and historical contexts. Cross-cultural comparisons of science education offer valuable insights into how different countries approach the teaching of scientific concepts and skills, as well as the outcomes they...

Boldly Black: Afrocentric Workbook Series is a thoughtfully designed educational resource for educators, parents, and caregivers passionate about integrating Black history and culture into their students' academic journeys. This workbook series provides a unique blend of historical exploration and skill-building exercises, ensuring students can...

This volume explores concepts and theories of food literacy to understand the interdisciplinary paradigms, perspectives, and emerging discourses in and beyond formal educational contexts in the Global South, specifically South Asia. In doing so, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of existing literature on...

Since the dawn of time, tribal and community elders, religious leaders, philosophers, parents, and teachers have been instructing the next generation through stories. Stories help us to identify more with the content and see its value. Stories make learning fun. Anyone who has ever...

This easy-to-use guide to curriculum mapping and instructional planning for K-8 student-centered classrooms blends standards, rubrics, interdisciplinary units, and a "Teacher's Tool Chest" for successful learning.Author: Michelle A. Langa, Janice L. YostISBN-10: 1412914949ISBN-13: 9781412914949Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/19/2006Pages: 136Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 11.30h x 8.61w...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...