Education - Curricula

Fran Rutherford's two-volume Ancient Rome (Student Book and Teacher's Guide) provides an ideal course for parents who homeschool high school students and for teachers of secondary education who wish to introduce their students to the great books of Western Civilization, "the best that has...

Children ages 4-7 who know their alphabet will learn to read quickly with this step-by-step beginning reading series.Broden Books thoroughly modern and unique approach exploits the child's natural love of stories by teaching him or her to sound out words in vibrantly illustrated tales...

With more than 180,000 copies in print, the first volume of Rethinking Our Classrooms broke new ground, providing teachers with hands-on ways to promote values of community, justice, and equality -- and build students' academic skills. This companion volume continues in that tradition, presenting...

Spilling over with good, clean fun: watch simple liquids heap, roll, creep, and soak as you investigate cohesion, adhesion, surface tension and capillary action. Model the hydrogen bonds that hold water together. Separate ink with chromatography, study oil slick rainbows and interference patterns.Author: Peg...

TOPS Learning Systems, Balancing 04. Can you balance on one foot? (Impossible if the side of your foot is pressed against the wall.) Can you balance a card on a pin? (Easy if you curve the card so its center of gravity is located...

Differentiated instruction at its hands-on best. Students fold, cut and tape two simply elegant (and accurate ) paper beam balances included in this book. Activity sheets prompt kids to use one balance to make quick sense of arithmetic functions and algebraic equations, and the...

Time pendulums, count cycles, measure lengths, graph data, predict frequency, calculate ratios, and even discover the square root of two. Couple pendulums with a rubber band to watch the energy flow back and forth. Join four pendulums with a raft of heavy books and...

Meters, liters and grams are all tied to the same physical reference: a water cube that measures 1 centimeter on each side. We want your students to appreciate this elegant simplicity. So we have developed a parallel measuring system based on sugar cubes. (Purchase...

A compilation of analytical essays by noted music educators, the book explores the importance of these methods in today's curriculum, providing ideas and teaching strategies to adapt these methods for use in the classroom.Author: Polly CarderISBN-10: 0940796775ISBN-13: 9780940796775Publisher: R & L EducationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1990Pages:...

Share your colleagues' experience and over 400 ideas organized in eight categories - a "professional workshop in a book." Improve skills and manage your library media/technology center more efficiently. This new compilation of hints and ideas is drawn from the Shop Talk column in...

This work goes beyond the basics of classroom management to consider the path of both teacher and student toward authentic intellectual maturity and spiritual growth. It provides a framework for stripping away the external and personal pressures that bleed intellectual content out of classroom...

100 Writing Remedies is the only workbook/reference that shows students how to debug faulty writing and improve their communication skills. With it, your students can benefit from the same professional instruction other writers receive when attending seminars by Edmond H. Weiss. Writing must never...

This wonderful resource book for Steiner-Waldorf class teachers offers ideas for planning, shaping and developing lessons for Classes 1 to 8. Taking the Waldorf curriculum as its basis, and without being restrictive or prescriptive, this book comes out of a teachers' working group and...

At the end of a century of unfathomable suffering, societies are facing anew the question of how events that shock, resist assimilation, and evoke contradictory and complex responses should be remembered. Between Hope and Despair specifically examines the pedagogical problem of how remembrance is...

Time-strapped educators wonder whether partnering with teacher-librarians will realistically improve students' scores, but studies show that collaboration improves overall effectiveness in increasing students' reading comprehension. Moreillon, a veteran teacher-librarian, updates Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension to draw on cutting-edge research in instructional strategies,...

While campus engagement with the local community is generally viewed in a positive light, in reality these collaborations are more complex. Presenting a variety of contemporary models and frameworks for community engagement, this book is distinguished by its unique emphasis on campus-community partnerships from...

Offering an accessible entry into curriculum theory, this book defines and contextualizes key concepts for novice and experienced students. Leading scholars in curriculum studies provide short anchor texts that introduce, define, and situate contemporary curriculum theory constructs. Each anchor text is followed by two...

Since his early days at the University of California, Berkeley, when he was fired for refusing to sign a loyalty oath during the Red Scare, Charles Muscatine has been a dedicated teacher and higher education reformer. Upon his reinstatement at Berkeley, he founded "Strawberry...

With increasing urgency, parents, educators, politicians, and businesspeople are asking: What can be done to raise American public schools to world-class standards? Supertest tells the story of the IB and its introduction to a steadily increasing number of American schools. The IB (International Baccalaureate)...

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...

In this second edition of her bestseller, Christine Sleeter and new coauthor Judith Flores Carmona show how educators can learn to teach rich, academically rigorous, multicultural curricula within a standards-based environment. The authors have meticulously updated each chapter to address current changes in education...

In his seventh and most visionary book, internationally renowned educator and futurist Marc Prensky presents a compelling alternative--based on applying students' passion to real, world-improving projects--to how and what we teach our children. What education should be about, says Prensky, is improving the world...

This book contains a wealth of practical and specific activities and materials to use with infants and toddlers to enhance growth and development. Writing in the accessible style that her readers appreciate, Ann Lewin-Benham looks at current research from the neurosciences to show what...

"Polished, clear, insightful, and meaningful.... This volume amounts to nothing less than a complete rethinking of what progressive education can be at its best and how education can be reconceptualized as one of the central practices of a genuinely democratic and sustainable society.... It...

Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy is a powerful examination of current metaphors for and synonyms of teaching. It offers an account of the varied and conflicting influences and conceptual commitments that have contributed to contemporary vocabularies--and that are in some ways maintained by those...

This volume brings together internationally known researchers representing different theoretical perspectives on students' self-regulation of learning. Diverse theories on how students become self-regulated learners are compared in terms of their conceptual origins, scientific form, research productivity, and pedagogical effectiveness. This is the only comprehensive...

Problem solving has always been a fundamental element of mathematics. This innovative book challenges the perception that solving a problem is merely a means to an end. Focusing on problem solving as a subject in its own right, the contributors present a broad range...

This book presents an overview of seventeen forms of inquiry used in curriculum research in education. Conventional disciplinary forms of inquiry, such as philosophical, historical, and scientific, are described, as well as more recently acknowledged forms such as ethnographic, aesthetic, narrative, phenomenological, and hermeneutic....

This is the long-awaited update on the bestselling book that offers a practical, accessible reference manual for faculty in any discipline. This new edition contains up-to-date information on technology as well as expanding on the ideas and strategies presented in the first edition. It...

Mentoring At-Risk Students through the Hidden Curriculum of Higher Education reveals how the institutional culture and social networks of universities influence the academic success of underrepresented students. This book is based on a qualitative study that integrates a sociological and higher education theoretical framework...

Student's Edition. Hot Ice introduces drama to students involved in classical and/or Christian education (grades 7 to 12). Using primary sources, Hot Ice, Level 2, surveys the reintroduction of theatre into Europe in the High Middle Ages, explains the explosive influence of the Renaissance,...

Student's Edition. Figures of speech are an essential part of classical rhetoric, yet they are difficult to acquire without practice. Trope Trafficking: Figures of Speech for Classical and Christian Schools provides instruction in and opportunities to practice the various figures of speech that were...

This edition of World Affairs in Foreign Films, 2nd edition is written for high school and college students as well as for adults of all ages. 14 films from around the world offer insights into fascinating countries and cultures. We are all visual learners...

This curriculum is to be used with, A Children's Book On Bishop Richard Allen: A Nonviolent Journey, and highlights some of the ways that teachers and parents can extend learning for students. The activities include many subject areas. Language Arts topics include: Reading, Writing,...

In this increasingly flattened world, learning to think critically about global affairs is of utmost importance. Students need to learn how local and global affairs are interdependent; they need to be able to identify shared interests and to collaborate with others across national borders....

Practical guidance for spearheading curriculum development and change This comprehensive guide walks principals through the curriculum development and renewal process with encouragement, hitting the hard issues of doing more with less, integrating technology, creating a culture of improvement, and improving student outcomes. The authors...

"F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said that the test of a ′first rate intelligence′ is ′the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind and still retain the ability to function.′In this book, his magnum opus, artist and scholar Graeme Sullivan shows us a...

A student-centered classroom management approach that guides elementary teachers in leading their students and managing the classroom Elementary Classroom Management: A Student-Centered Approach to Leading and Learning provides the information and resources that teachers need to design a classroom management system that incorporates the...

Use the Schoolwide Enrichment Model to support enriching learning opportunities for all learners and to develop students′ talent, raise achievement, honor diversity, and foster a growth-oriented staff.Author: Joseph S. RenzulliISBN-10: 1412953804ISBN-13: 9781412953801Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2007Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 10.87h x 8.51w x 0.46d

This updated resource offers ten models that allow teachers to work together to create learner-centered classrooms by grouping elements from various content areas into a coherent, standards-based curriculum.Author: Robin J. Fogarty, Brian Mitchell PeteISBN-10: 1412938899ISBN-13: 9781412938891Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2009Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 10.80h...

Through nine exciting service learning projects, students gain the unique opportunity for authentic learning experiences both in the classroom and in their surrounding community. Author: Sally BermanISBN-10: 1412936721ISBN-13: 9781412936729Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/06/2006Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.73lbsSize: 11.26h x 8.56w x 0.72dReview Citation(s): Reference and...

Replete with strategies, examples, and reproducibles, this guide is invaluable for any teacher who wants to boost student achievement in writing for any subject or grade level!Author: Kathy Tuchman GlassISBN-10: 1412904560ISBN-13: 9781412904568Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/09/2004Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 10.82h x 8.40w x 0.56d

Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 The Pedagogical Concept of Student-Centered Learning in the Context of European Higher Education ReformsChapter 3 Constructivist Foundations and Common Design Principles of Student-Centered Learning EnvironmentsChapter 4 Empirical Education Research on the Effectiveness and Quality of Learning and InstructionChapter 5 Multiple...

This book offers research-based models of exemplary practice for educators at all grade levels, from primary school to university, who want to integrate human rights education into their classrooms. It includes ten examples of projects that have been effectively implemented in classrooms: two from...

This work examines the impoverished image of life presupposed by the legacy of transcendent and representational thinking that continues to frame the limits of curricular thought. Analyzing the ways in which modern institutions colonize desire and overdetermine the life of its subject, this book...

Participatory Creativity: Introducing Access and Equity to the Creative Classroom presents a systems-based approach to examining creativity in education that aims to make participating in invention and innovation accessible to all students. Moving beyond the gifted-versus-ungifted debate present in many of today's classrooms, the...

Looking closely at what happens when translanguaging is actively taken up to teach emergent bilingual students across different contexts, this book focuses on how it is already happening in classrooms as well as how it can be implemented as a pedagogical orientation. It extends...

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) has been adapted, adopted, and taken up in a diversity of ways in science education since the concept was introduced in the mid-1980s. Now that it is so well embedded within the language of teaching and learning, research and knowledge...

Serious Play is a comprehensive account of the possibilities and challenges of teaching and learning with digital games in primary and secondary schools. Based on an original research project, the book explores digital games' capacity to engage and challenge, present complex representations and experiences,...

This primer for prospective and practicing teachers asks students to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, reflect on their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to educate, and to become educated in the...