Education - Curricula

Time in Education: Intertwined Dimensions and Theoretical Possibilities is part of the Garn Press Women Scholars Series. It explores the intersection of literacy and the construct of time within education through the scholarship of Catherine Compton-Lilly, who highlights the complexity of studying learning. In...

This book explores "making" in the school curriculum in a period in which the ability to create and respond to digital artifacts is key and focuses on makerspaces in educational settings. Combining the arts with design to give a fuller picture of the engagement...

This book explores "making" in the school curriculum in a period in which the ability to create and respond to digital artifacts is key and focuses on makerspaces in educational settings. Combining the arts with design to give a fuller picture of the engagement...

A critical and accessible text, this book provides a foundation for translanguaging theory and practice with educating emergent bilingual students. The product of the internationally renowned and trailblazing City University of New York-New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals (CUNY-NYSIEB), this book draws on...

The lives of middle school students are dynamic, and their needs and desires are always evolving. They experience more complicated lives as influences of the broader society including popular media and technology, immigration and cultural diversity, amplified political divisiveness, and bullying effect their daily...

An Integrated Play-Based Curriculum for Young Children, Second Edition explores how to integrate play across the curriculum, helping teachers develop their early childhood curriculum using developmentally and culturally appropriate practice. Distinguished author Olivia N. Saracho offers a theoretical framework for understanding the origins of...

An Integrated Play-Based Curriculum for Young Children, Second Edition explores how to integrate play across the curriculum, helping teachers develop their early childhood curriculum using developmentally and culturally appropriate practice. Distinguished author Olivia N. Saracho offers a theoretical framework for understanding the origins of...

The Waseca Biomes Curriculum Guide maps out how to integrate traditional Montessori lessons and Waseca Biomes lessons and materials. The guide begins with the beginning: the birth of the Universe. It moves through cosmic education and on to the exploration of Earth in the...

What is a child? The concept of childhood is so familiar that we tend to assume its universality. However, the meaning of childhood is always being negotiated, not only by the imaginations of adults, but also by nations, markets, history and children themselves. Yet,...

This open access book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation of schools and school systems in order to...

A major audience for this book is the instructional designer or a person interested in fulfilling that role. The contents guide an individual or a planning team who are designing an instructional unit or a complete instructional program.Author: Jerrold E. KempISBN-10: 1681239760ISBN-13: 9781681239767Publisher: Information...

This open access book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students to gain the necessary breath of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. It examines how national governments transform education systems to provide...

Learning to Connect explores how two different teacher education programs-No Excuses Teacher Residency and Progressive Teacher Residency-attempt to prepare preservice teachers for meaningful relationships with students, especially across racial and cultural differences.Author: Victoria Theisen-HomerISBN-10: 1475855427ISBN-13: 9781475855425Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2020Pages: 242Format: HardcoverWeight:...

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2012!Critical Curriculum Studies offers a novel framework for thinking about how curriculum relates to students' understanding of the world around them. Wayne Au brings together curriculum theory, critical educational studies, and feminist standpoint theory with practical examples of teaching...

Aotearoa New Zealand's early childhood curriculum framework, Te Whāriki, was recognised internationally as an innovative and far-sighted early childhood curriculum policy text when first published in 1996. In 2017 New Zealand's Ministry of Education released a 'refreshed' version of the framework that aimed to...

A well-documented case for how integrated, holistic, and democratic education can actually be achieved.Author: Bertram C. BruceISBN-10: 1475851197ISBN-13: 9781475851199Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2020Pages: 194Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Choice 11/01/2020

Teach Meaningful includes examples from across grade levels and subject areas to help teachers design curriculum. It provides exercises teachers can use to write and assess curriculum that results in valued outcomes, and protocols that help groups of teachers work together toward more cohesive...

The Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery is often presented as an exciting adventure story of discovery, friendship, and patriotism. However, this same period in U.S. history can be understood quite differently when viewed through an anticolonial lens and the Doctrine of Discovery. How...

Our pupils' success will be defined by their ability to read fluently and skilfully. But despite universal acceptance of reading's vital importance, the reading gap in our classroom remains, and it is linked to an array of factors, such as parental wealth, education and...

This book began as a deep discussion among administrators, teachers, researchers, teacher educators, and educational consultants concerned about the critical reduction of play, engaged learning opportunities, and intellectually stimulating experiences in classrooms for toddlers through the primary grades. This group made a pact to...

Australian education policy for the past 40 years has been heading in the wrong direction and is entirely unsuitable for preparing young people for the 21st century. Exaggeration? Sadly not. For a teacher, there is nothing more exhilarating than encouraging young people to realise...

Problem-based learning (PBL) has been deployed as a student-centered instructional approach and curriculum design in a wide range of academic fields across the world. The majority of educational research to date has focused on knowledge-based outcomes addressing why PBL is useful. Researchers of PBL...

This book will be of interest to a broad readership, regardless of whether they have a background in sociolinguistics, functional linguistics or genre theories. It presents an accessible "meta-language" (i.e. a language for talking about language) that is workable and usable for teachers and...

Attempting fonnally to evaluate something involves the evaluator coming to grips with a number of abstract concepts such as value, merit, worth, growth, criteria, standards, objectives, needs, nonns, client, audience, validity, reliability, objectivity, practical significance, accountability, improvement, process, pro- duct, fonnative, summative, costs, impact,...

The Second Edition of this practical and comprehensive resource offers a multitude of ways to incorporate literature into teaching and learning across a range of disciplines. Future and practicing teachers, librarians, instructional coaches, and school leaders can implement the ideas within this text to...

-NO NEED TO MAKE ANY COPIES - SAVE MONEY -PERFECT for elementary school substitute teachers -HUNDREDS of standards-based activities for K - 5-SPECIFIC skill focus and easy to follow-EXCITING, as well as fun-STEP-BY-STEP instructions for the teacherAuthor: L. LeeISBN-10: 1549598414ISBN-13: 9781549598418Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

STEAM education can be described in two ways. One model emphasizes the arts and is not as concerned about the accuracy of the STEM fields. In the second model, STEM content is the prevailing force with a focus on accuracy, and the arts are...

1. Introduction2. Not Just Novels: The Pedagogical Possibilities of the Graphic Narrative3. Understanding Rhetoric, Understanding Genre: A Rhetorical Genre Studies Approached Writing Course 4. Writing Through Comics5. Teaching the History and Theory of American Comics: 20th Century Graphic Novels as a Complex Literary Genre6....

This book offers a moral rather than instrumental notion of university education whilst locating the university within society. It reflects a balancing of the instrumentalization of higher education as a mode of employment training and enhances the notion of the students' well-being being at...

This book explores the philosophical, ideological and practical dimensions of curriculum using an intercultural lens. It is cross-cultural, comparative and inclusive, with each chapter featuring case studies from a minimum of three countries across different continents. By using the same methods of data collection...

This book offers a moral rather than instrumental notion of university education whilst locating the university within society. It reflects a balancing of the instrumentalization of higher education as a mode of employment training and enhances the notion of the students' well-being being at...

This book convincingly argues that effective culturally responsive pedagogies require teachers to firstly undertake a critical deconstruction of Self in relation to and with the Other; and secondly, to take into account how power affects the socio-political, cultural and historical contexts in which the...

In this volume teacher educators explicitly and implicitly share their visions for the purposes, experiences, and commitments necessary for social studies teacher preparation in the twenty-first century. It is divided into six sections where authors reconsider: 1) purposes, 2) course curricula, 3) collaboration with...

This book analyzes the murals and texts of the Dunhuang Grottoes, one of the most famous sites of cultural heritage on the Silk Road in Northwest China, from an educational perspective. The Dunhuang Grottoes are well-known in the world for their stunning beauty and...

The Classics, Unit 1, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, is a multi-level, interdisciplinary thematic unit developed for children in grades 3-6, centering around classic literature. Covering all subjects except math, this study guide is designed for children who enjoy an active learning environment. Perfect...

This work is the brain-child of our individual and collective research work teaching over the years. The book contains eight chapters ranging from meaning, types, scope of school curriculum, curriculum development process, curriculum innovation and change, curriculum implementation and instruction. Others include instructional materials...

On Being a Teacher links teaching to the unique human characteristics that each person possesses. Written with the preservice, beginning, and veteran teacher in mind, the authors help educators discover their own special traits that make them superlative teachers. This book covers: Research-based teaching...

Musi-Matics! has also successfully been used in college classes for elementary education and music education methods courses. This book guides teachers and future teachers through the lesson planning process and through arts-integration concepts.Author: Karin K. NolanISBN-10: 157886979XISBN-13: 9781578869794Publisher: R & L EducationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/16/2009Pages:...

Co-published by MENC: The National Association for Music EducationAuthor: The National Association for Music EducaISBN-10: 1578867304ISBN-13: 9781578867301Publisher: R & L EducationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2007Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.95h x 6.35w x 0.36dReview Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 275

Authors Lynn Settlow and Margarita Jacovino offer teachers and specialists something unique_they define phonemic awareness in simple language and put to rest any confusion between phonemic awareness and phonics.Author: Lynn Settlow, Margarita JacovinoISBN-10: 1578861535ISBN-13: 9781578861538Publisher: R & L EducationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2004Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize:...

Darlene Wilson details methods for promoting an atmosphere in which students not only succeed academically but are eager to do their best, while concentrating on the basic values of respect, responsibility, consideration, and sensitivity. Wilson's path allows teachers to maintain excellence in academic achievement...

An overview of a comprehensive band program with a detailed listing of the specific concepts and skills and the performance level at which each is normally introduced and reinforced.Author: The National Association for Music EducaISBN-10: 1565450043ISBN-13: 9781565450042Publisher: R & L EducationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1991Pages: 72Format:...

Take the pressure off your busy schedule with these standards-based library lessons! Quick and easy to implement, these proven 20-minute instructional lessons, organized by grade level, equip you with everything you need to effectively teach library and information literacy skills to students in kindergarten...

At Plain and not so Plain Academy we believe that learning at home should be an enjoyable time between you and your child. Not something that they dread because they have hundreds of repetition problems to do over and over again. Plain and not...

At Plain and not so Plain Academy we believe that learning at home should be an enjoyable time between you and your child. Not something that they dread because they have hundreds of repetition problems to do over and over again. Plain and not...

At Plain and not so Plain Academy we believe that learning at home should be an enjoyable time between you and your child. Not something that they dread because they have hundreds of repetition problems to do over and over again. Plain and not...

Welcome to the Medical Investigation 101 Workbook. This workbook aligns with and supplements the material from Medical Investigation 101. It provides opportunities to reinforce and measure your learning from each chapter. The more medical terminology you master, and the more you understand about medical...

At Plain and not so Plain Academy we believe that learning at home should be an enjoyable time between you and your child. Not something that they dread because they have hundreds of repetition problems to do over and over again. Plain and not...

Winner of the 2017 NAGC Curriculum Studies AwardSpace, Structure, and Story integrates Earth and space science with science fiction and nonfiction texts, poetry, and art. This unit, developed by Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth, is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and...

The Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program: Nonfiction targets reading comprehension skills in high-ability learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic understanding to critical analyses of texts using a field-tested method developed by the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary....