Education - Curricula

Forget waiting for the district, state, or national test to find out how your instruction impacts student outcomes. If you are ready to -- rethink how you plan lessons and measure student learning outcomes this planning guide is for you. Did you ever wonder...

Risk-taking is foundational to the structure and goals of higher education. Encouraging students to consider new, diverse, even uncomfortable ideas is needed to develop a critically informed view of the world and establish one's own values and beliefs. Yet, students and parents are increasingly...

The Common Core State Standards initiated major changes for language arts teachers, particularly the emphasis on "informational text." Language arts teachers were asked to shift attention toward informational texts without taking away from the teaching of literature. Teachers, however, need to incorporate nonfiction in...

At a time where the tipping point for education seems to be a perpetually delayed expectation, despite widespread consensus and shared awareness to reform school practice for a completely new paradigm, change can actually be initiated in the real life school setting, by means...

Defying Standardization pierces the veil of misinformation surrounding the push to standardize the curriculum expectations for 56 million public school children. It provides a high energy, passionate, and, well-researched argument of what curriculum should and can be to facilitate the development of unstandardized skills...

Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence offers an example of a different approach to national curriculum development. It combines what are claimed to be the best features of top-down and bottom-up approaches to curriculum development, and provides an indication of the broad qualities that school education...

With the integration of technology into education systems, our society has begun to embrace the new approaches we have taken towards transforming traditional learning environments into active learning through questions, collaboration, and discussions. Promoting Active Learning through the Flipped Classroom Model focuses on an...

Over 50 discussion questions and activities, and 300 questions, fill this comprehensive workbook. The book covers science, math and social science for fith grade. If you are homeschooling (or if you are just trying to get extra practice for your child), then you already...

Over 50 discussion questions and activities, and 50 quiz questions, fill this comprehensive social science book. The book covers the following topics: Important People in American History, Geography, Economics, Civics (Government Personal / Local), Civics (American Government & Symbols), American History: Holidays If you...

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...

Over 100 discussion questions and activities, and 200 questions, fill this comprehensive social science book. The book covers the following topics: The Gold Rush, California Missions, Pioneers, Natural Disasters, African-American Poetry, The Pony Express, The Transcontinental Railroad, Famous Americans, Animal Migration, Native Americans, Pre-Columbian...

Internationalization in the Classroom focuses on what it means to internationalize K-12 and higher education classrooms. Through a yearlong study, the authors developed methods of internationalizing curricula, pedagogy, and assessments to explore how globalizing a classroom can impact positively students. The educators featured in...

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...

LOOK NO FARTHER Every session is here, every quiet practice question and a HOST of test-taking strategies you will learn and practice. YOU can improve your score - in just a few short weeks. During the course you will have: - 12 Topic Sessions...

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...

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...

This comprehensive handbook--which includes action plans, ready-to-use charts, rubrics, and real-world examples--shows educators how to design a curriculum that meets today′s performance and assessment goals.Author: Richard A. ZagranskiISBN-10: 1412955718ISBN-13: 9781412955713Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2007Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.61w x 0.66d

This comprehensive text helps prepare pre-service and in-service teachers to build and sustain family, school, and community partnerships that are vital to student success. Focusing on grades preK-8, and with a particular emphasis on diverse families and learners, this book helps teachers to overcome...

Grounded in research and practice, this resource shows elementary teachers how to use formative assessment to build students′ language and literacy skills across the curriculum.Author: Alison L. BaileyISBN-10: 1412949084ISBN-13: 9781412949088Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2008Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.90h x 7.04w x 0.53d

Use this team-centered approach to directly enhance teaching and learning in your school! First introduced in Japan, lesson study has gained enthusiastic advocates in US educational circles as a powerful, collaborative approach. This "how-to" guide leads a beginning team through the lesson study cycle...

Essential principles of timeless learning include attention, contemplation, connection, participation, and responsibility; helping students achieve a sense of purpose; and improving alertness and mental health.Author: John P. MillerISBN-10: 1412917042ISBN-13: 9781412917049Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/2005Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.10w x 0.44d

Featuring updated strategies for fitting special education into frameworks created by standards and assessments, this indispensable resource shows teachers how to achieve expected results with all students. Author: Victor NoletISBN-10: 1412916496ISBN-13: 9781412916493Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2005Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.40d

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: 1412914957ISBN-13: 9781412914956Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2006Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 10.96h x 8.48w...

Use the Constructivist Learning Design (CLD) six-step planning framework to engage students in constructivist learning events that meet standards-based outcomes.Author: George W. Gagnon, Michelle CollayISBN-10: 1412909562ISBN-13: 9781412909563Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2005Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 11.12h x 8.26w x 0.57d

Knowledge comes from thinking with, from and through things, not just about them. We get to know the world around us from the inside of our being in it. Drawing on the fields of anthropology, art, architecture and education, this book addresses what knowing...

Comprised of chapters written by established Canadian curriculum scholars as well as junior scholars and graduate students, this collection of essays provoke readers to imagine the different ways in which educational researchers can engage the narrative inquiry within the broader field of curriculum studies.Author:...

Drawing on a wide variety of traditions and methods in historical studies, from the humanities and social sciences both, this volume considers the questions, methods, goals, and frameworks historians of education from a wide variety of countries use to create the study of the...

This book brings together a group of top international scholars who consider Pedagogy of Critique, Revolutionary Pedagogy and Radical Critical Pedagogy as forms of praxis to examine the paradoxical roles of schooling in reproducing and legitimizing large-scale structural inequalities.Author: S. Macrine, P. McLaren, D....

Assembles essays addressing the recurring question of the 'subject, ' understood both as human person and school subject, thereby elaborating the subjective and disciplinary character of curriculum studiesAuthor: W. PinarISBN-10: 134929277XISBN-13: 9781349292776Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2011Pages: 273Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

Recent and increasing efforts to standardize young children's academic performance have shifted the emphases of education toward normative practices and away from qualitative, substantive intentions. Connection to human experience, compassion for societal ailments, and the joys of learning are straining under the pressure of...

Help your students improve their language skills and become stronger readers and writers. In this timely book, literacy experts Amy Benjamin and Barbara Golub offer best practices for fortifying the writer's workshop model with meaningful, relevant instruction in grammar. The book answers questions such...

Adventurous Learning interrogates the word 'adventure' and explores how elements of authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery can be incorporated into educational practices. It outlines key elements for a pedagogy of adventurous learning and provides guidelines grounded in accessible theory. Teachers of all kinds can...

This definitive look at teaching English in rural secondary schools contests current definitions and discussions of rural education, examines their ideological and cultural foundations, and presents an alternative perspective that conceptualizes rural communities as diverse, unique, and conducive to pedagogical and personal growth in...

Instructional Design for Teachers, Second Edition focuses on the instructional design (ID) process specifically for K-12 teachers. The first edition introduced a new, common-sense model of instructional design to take K-12 teachers through the ID process step by step, with a special emphasis on...

In the spirit of models of argument starting with inquiry, this book starts with a question: What might it mean to teach argument in ways that open up spaces for change-changes of mind, changes of practice and policy, changes in ways of talking and...

Universal Access Through Inclusive Instructional Design explores the ways that educators around the world reduce barriers for students with disabilities and other challenges by planning and implementing accessible, equitable, high-quality curricula. Incorporating key frameworks such as Universal Design for Learning, these dynamic contributions highlight...

Once the US was the only country in the world to offer a doctorate for studio artists,　however　the PhD in fine art disappeared after pressures established the MFA as the terminal degree for visual artists. Subsequently, the PhD in fine art emerged in the UK...

This book focuses on how to improve the teaching and learning of primary level mathematics education within resource-constrained contexts. It builds on two large numeracy projects within South Africa which speak to broader, global concerns and highlight how research and development not only enables...

Teaching Stephen King critically examines the works of Stephen King and several ways King can be incorporated into the high school and college classroom. The book is organized around three key themes: Variations of Classic Horror Tropes, Real Life Horror, and Playing with Publishing....

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...

With natural systems being exploited at an unsustainable rate, with technologies displacing the need for workers and now even professors, with print-based technologies undermining the intergenerational achievements in the areas of civil liberties and the cultural commons, it is now time for educational reformers...

Little Hands, Busy Minds, Revised Fall Edition contains a timely collection of daily art projects, math ideas, science experiments, songs, rhymes and other fun and easy-to-do activities for young children.Author: Jacqueline Salazar De LopezISBN-10: 0988417065ISBN-13: 9780988417069Publisher: Warren Publishing, IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2014Pages: 162Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize:...

This daily curriculum for young children emphasizes language experiences and social interactions. Showcased are activities that are suitable for a day, week or month. There are fun filled plans for the holidays and more.Author: Jacqueline Salazar De LopezISBN-10: 0985309482ISBN-13: 9780985309480Publisher: Warren Publishing, IncLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Human Drama Across the Curriculum is a bold educational initiative that changes the emphasis from facts to process, from ideas to thinking, from the results of peoples' lives to the lives themselves. It combines the fundamentals of systems thinking with the dramatic fabric of...

A book for anyone who is interested in reading, understanding, composing, and essentially, playing music.Taught in an easy to understand method.Unlike other music instruction books, in that, all of the components that provide a working knowledge of how to understand and play music, are...

Take a box of 15 basic materials anywhere in the world, add a few local recyclables, and teach an amazing range of hands-on science. Topics compiled from books in our popular Activity Sheet series include balancing, electricity, magnetism, pendulums, metrics, animals and plants. No...

Scrutinize the particle and wave nature of light: how it reflects, refracts, focuses; how it adds and subtracts color and splits into rainbows. Optical lab equipment usually costs big bucks. Get better results using little more than 2 ordinary hand lenses Add an extra...

A most compelling and instructive follow-up to Electricity #32, and every bit as much fun. Students employ simple techniques to discover and map interacting magnetic fields, and to graph the strength of magnetic fields over distance. They build compasses, motors, buzzers, and other ingenious...

Something to charm every child in your class: physical activity, art, story-telling, imagining. Explore how creatures blend in, defend themselves, fly away, and otherwise survive in their environments. See how crafty great education can beAuthor: Peg Nazari Marson, Ronald Jay MarsonISBN-10: 0941008509ISBN-13: 9780941008501Publisher: Tops...

Thomas P. Miller defines college English studies as literacy studies and examines how it has evolved in tandem with broader developments in literacy and the literate. He maps out \u201cfour corners\u201d of English departments: literature, language studies, teacher education, and writing studies. Miller identifies...