Education - Curricula

Modern fairy tales and retellings are more popular than ever.If you've tried your hand at writing one but still feel you're missing something, take a step back and learn writing techniques from the Brothers Grimm.This companion workbook to Lessons from Grimm: How to Write...

This Homeschool Hours Log planner is a great way to record and will help you track your student homeschooling time. It's a perfect way to plan for and document any law requirements for home school. Each interior page includes space to record: Student Name...

An essential resource for district, school, and program leaders who supervise, evaluate, or otherwise support World Language programs, this book provides clear, practical guidance on leading an exemplary K-12 World Language program. No matter whether you speak the language, the effective approaches in this...

Buoyancy - it's an interesting word that relates to floating. It's the quality that helps things stay above the waterline, whether it is an ocean-going super-tanker or a child holding its breath to stay afloat. Human buoyancy is like it. Stress, pressure, adversity, and...

The media landscape has changed, and children and adolescents now face a tsunami of entertainment and information. How they sort through this may have significant effects on their education and their health. We've called on some of the world's media experts to discuss what...

Teaching Ethics through Literature provides in-depth understanding of a new and exciting shift in the fields of English education, Literature, Language Arts, and Literacy through exploring their connections with ethics. The book pioneers an approach to integrating ethics in the teaching of literature. This...

Teaching Ethics through Literature provides in-depth understanding of a new and exciting shift in the fields of English education, Literature, Language Arts, and Literacy through exploring their connections with ethics. The book pioneers an approach to integrating ethics in the teaching of literature. This...

The aim of this book is to support and inspire teachers to contribute to much-needed processes of sustainable development and to develop teaching practices and professional identities that allow them to cope with the specificity of sustainability issues and, in particular, with the teaching...

Social Studies for Primary Schools deals with three themes, our home, community, and our school. This workbook complements The Bahamas Ministry of Education curriculum. The simple language and the engaging graphics is excellent for young children.Author: Cynthia O. SmithISBN-10: 151530048XISBN-13: 9781515300489Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

World Literature, the fifth volume of the Excellence in Literature curriculum, is designed to cultivate not only a love for great literature, but also college-ready writing skills and deep cultural literacy. Students work with unabridged great classics (purchased separately), including novels, short stories, poems,...

This book shares the experiences of the Monash University and La Trobe University libraries in Melbourne, Australia, regarding the paths taken to transform and reposition these libraries within their institutions. The book showcases the respective frameworks used to enhance library skill development programs and...

This textbook provides real world examples of how disciplinary literacy can incorporate gamified learning opportunities in elementary classrooms (grades K-5 or ages 5-11). It also presents concrete examples of how to seamlessly integrate literacy within other subjects in engaging and unique ways. Furthermore, this...

Students often learn better on their feet than in their seats, and this powerful book helps you make the most of that in the classroom. Authors Brad Johnson and Melody Jones show that with COVID-19 leading to more inactivity, more schools cutting PE, and...

This book examines a ubiquitous, yet under-researched, area of language education, i.e., language teachers' use of curriculum materials. It particularly focuses on EFL teachers' use of prescribed curriculum materials in higher education in Mainland China and presents a qualitative, multi-case study involving four Chinese...

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Gary (Deputy Principal Highlands Jones, Edward (Principal and Chief Exec SallisISBN-10: 0749434953ISBN-13: 9780749434953Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2001Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.36h x 6.06w x 0.49d

Revised edition by David Wheway, of the ever popular Kickstart Music series. Pick up and play! Whether you want to spend 10 minutes or two hours on music, Kickstart Music Early Years is a complete activity pack for under-fives. Bursting with inspiring music ideas,...

This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically...

Within the context of recent, and ongoing, plural pandemics such as COVID-19 up/ending lives, social and racial chaos and catastrophe, political pressures, and economic convulsions, The Kaleidoscope of Lived Curricula: Learning Through a Confluence of Crises offers a journey through a collection of scholarly...

Faculty and students confront persistent racial, economic, and social inequities in higher education locally, nationally, and globally. To counter these inequities, there has been a recent focus on universities providing an inclusive curriculum that serves the needs of students from a wide range of...

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,...

Author: Susan Anstey, Alison Burch, Lucy CooperISBN-10: 000849312XISBN-13: 9780008493127Publisher: CollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/30/2022Pages: 304Format: Paperback

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 book provides relevant empirical research findings and evidence-based pedagogy in the area of trauma informed classroom instruction for professionals who want to improve their understanding of working with children and adolescents in classrooms through a trauma-informed lens"--Author: Carianne BernadowskiISBN-10: 1799874737ISBN-13: 9781799874737Publisher: Information Science...

This edited book provides ready-to-use engaging curriculum units for an integrated approach to teaching English language arts and U.S. history in grades 4-12. The purpose is to promote social justice and activism while building critical literacies students need in the 21st Century. Through implementing...

This edition brings Dewey's educational theory into sharp focus, framing his two classic works by frank assessments, past and present, of the practical applications of Dewey's ideas. In addition to a substantial introduction in which Philip W. Jackson explains why more of Dewey's ideas...

A complete curriculum about the anatomy and physiology of (animal) cells designed for ages 10 to 16. The first half of the book is a 100-page student section with ten chapters that are written in a lively and engaging style, with occasional inserts of...

Education for SustainableDevelopment in the Caribbean: Pedagogy, Processes and Practices offers a unique perspective on educational approaches to creating asustainable world. Lorna Down and Therese Ferguson complement their theoreticaldiscussions with practical, "real world" engagements. Case studies and currentresearch ground teaching and learning for sustainability...

Classroom teachers often feel pressure to choose between using standards-based lessons and activities that engage their students' creativity and encourage personal expression. In Jump Write In , however, the experienced writer-teachers from WritersCorps offer numerous exercises that do both: build key standards-based writing skills...

Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of...

Inviting multiple ways of critically engaging with literature, this text offers a fresh perspective on how to integrate children's literature into and across the curriculum in effective, purposeful ways. Structured around three "mantras" that build on each other--Enjoy; Dig deeply; Take action--the book is...

The rapid changes in the composition of school-age youth around the world have catalyzed a growing concern about how to address children's mental health and education. Grounded in this increasingly global perspective, The International Handbook of Consultation in Educational Settings is designed to provide...

Place-based Curriculum Design provides pre-service and practicing teachers both the rationale and tools to create and integrate meaningful, place-based learning experiences for students. Practical, classroom-based curricular examples illustrate how teachers can engage the local and still be accountable to the existing demands of federal,...

Winner of Honorable Mention for the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book AwardThis book examines the history of ethnic minorities particularly Chicano/as and Latino/as--in the field of composition and rhetoric; the connections between composition and major US historical movements toward inclusiveness...

Grammar Galaxy: Red Star (Volume 4) is a complete language arts curriculum for elementary students (fifth graders or students who have completed Yellow Star or its equivalent).Short, comical stories teach concepts in a memorable way. Students discover the havoc that ensues when the evil...

At the heart of Rudolf Steiner's Waldorf curriculum is the belief that a child from age seven to fourteen recapitulates the intellectual and cultural development that humanity as a whole passes through over time. Until now, the exact scheme of how the Waldorf literature...

The Nashoba's "I SEE" workbook is designed to gradually increase a child's ability to describe what he or she sees by first isolating, and then building upon, straightforward attributes such as size, color, shape, and texture. By viewing the environment as a series of...

Refuting the myths that black youth are unable to excel at academics and are limited to careers in professional sports, rap music, or drug dealing, this motivational book aims to engage teens by bridging the gap between school and hip hop culture. Topics such...

Creative teaching ideas, compelling classroom narratives, and hands-on examples show how teachers can promote the values of community, justice, and equality while building academic skills. A great resource for new and veteran K-12 teachers, as well as teacher education and staff development programs.Author: Wayne...

High-stakes tests, school violence, and frenetic schedules can make for a stress-filled classroom. But you can maintain a purposeful and supportive learning environment at all times with the comprehensive approach from this book. Discover classroom-proven practices for every grade level and subject: Link your...

In Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum, Warren A. Nord and Charles C. Haynes chart a middle course in our culture wars over religion and public education--one that builds on a developing national consensus among educational and religious leaders. While it is not proper...

How is a compelling, exemplary curriculum created in schools in spite of the pressures to implement a standardized one? In this book, teachers and principals share their experiences with emergent curriculum, and with the creative practices they've developed in urban classrooms kindergarten to 3rd...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of humanistic approaches to science? approaches that connect students to broader human concerns in their everyday life and culture. Glen Aikenhead, an expert in the field of culturally sensitive science education, summarizes major worldwide historical findings, focuses on...

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is an exciting and suspenseful book about Nobody Owens, a boy orphaned when his family is murdered. To keep him safe from the man who killed his family, Nobody is taken in by the residents of the local...

Recent worldwide education policy has reinvented teachers as agents of change and professional development of the school curriculum. Academic literature has analyzed changes in how teacher professionalism is conceived in policy and in practice but Teacher Agency provides a fresh perspective on the issue,...

Showcasing cutting-edge findings on adolescent literacy teaching and learning, this unique handbook is grounded in the realities of students' daily lives. It highlights research methods and instructional approaches that capitalize on adolescents' interests, knowledge, and new literacies. Attention is given to how race, gender,...

This book provides teachers, librarians, and education methods professors with strategies, lesson plans, and activities that enable them to use literature as a springboard to social studies thematic instruction. With the amount of time and resources allocated to teaching social studies being significantly reduced,...