Education - Curricula

Kindergarten Stories and Morning Talks, with over 125 Illustrations is an updated edition of the 1894 kindergarten story curriculum. Enlarged original text with greater line spacing makes this 2010 edition easier to read aloud to children. Cardamom Publishers has also added over 125 vintage...

Learn about Chemistry with TOPS Learning Systems. An excellent introduction to chemical analysis, even for students with no chemistry background. Follow simple flowcharts to separate mixtures, observe safe interactions between household substances, compare pH, and more. Simple and elegant.Author: Peg Nazari Marson, Ronald Jay...

Great hands-on math: assemble sequences with pennies, create art based on the Fibonacci sequence, fold clever curves, travel a Mobius strip. Go on to crack bar codes, solve puzzles, experience a generalization that turns out to be false. From limits to logarithms, build both...

This practical book enables elementary educators, classroom teachers, library media and technology specialists, and administrators to understand and implement the Big6 approach to information and technology skills learning. The Big6(TM) approach, the most widely known and used information problem-solving model, encourages information-based problem-solving and...

This book deals with large-scale or macro-level instructional design, which is referred to by other authors variously as curriculum development, course design, training system design or instructional systems design. The emphasis throughout the book is on the application of a systems approach, which implies...

The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In The Exhaustion of Difference Alberto Moreiras ponders the ramifications of this shift and draws on deconstruction, Marxian theory, philosophy, political economy, subaltern...

This unique collection considers the nature of writing groups inside and outside the academic environment. Exploring writing groups as contextual literacy events, editors Beverly J. Moss, Nels P. Highberg, and Melissa Nicolas bring together contributors to document and reflect on the various types of...

Graduate students and teachers of introductory graduate courses in curriculum have many textbooks to choose from. What is special about Fundamentals of Curriculum: Passion and Professionalism, Second Edition? Content and approach: Clear, focused, and tightly structured, this text provides essential information and resources education...

In 1969, Bill Pinar was privileged to study with Dwayne Huebner at Teachers College. In a large room with 70 others, he watched an extraordinary figure in the distance--speaking a tongue few of them grasped--whom they all found compelling. They knew they were in...

Get started with an innovative approach to teaching history that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students' lives, and meets state and national standards (grades 7-12). Now in a second edition, this popular book provides an introductory unit to help...

Teacher's Edition. The ninth-century English king Alfred the Great is perhaps best known for his military victories against the Vikings, but Asser's portrait of him also shows Alfred as a man of great personal character. In both his public and private life, Alfred sought...

TEACHER'S EDITION. What if you could learn to write well using a method that had been successful for thousands of years? Classical Quills I does just that, teaching ancient writing exercises (the progymnasmata) to grammar school students. Designed for upper-elementary students, Classical Quills I...

All you need to teach third grade spelling is included in this one book. Improving Your Spelling Skills/ Book 3 is the third in a series for first through eighth grade. It is a user-friendly workbook with exercises for daily work for the entire...

Problem-based learning online is a burgeoning area, crying out for support in all the disciplines, but particularly health, medicine, education and social care that are already advanced users of problem-based learning in higher education. This book provides highly grounded research based ways for those...

Highlighting Rita L. Irwin's significant work in the fields of curriculum studies and arts education, this collection honors her well-known contribution of a/r/tography to curriculum studies in the form of arts based educational research and, beyond this, her contributions towards understanding the inseparability of...

Addressing studying as a distinct educational concept and phenomenon in its own right, the essays in this volume consider study and studying from a range of perspectives. Countering dominant educational discourses, which place a heavy emphasis on learning and instruction, the contributors explore questions...

Jewish education is not a commodity to be acquired or taught in easily defined and understandable portions. Rather, it is an encounter with the Jewish tradition which, if done properly, can and should leave both students and teachers challenged, shaken, and deeply introspective. A...

Responsive learning and responsible learning have not been considered and utilized appropriately in the past, especially in light of the post-pandemic higher education landscape. A discussion and consideration of the different elements that make up responsive and responsible learning such as agency, agility, mindfulness,...

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: 0230110339ISBN-13: 9780230110335Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2011Pages: 273Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d

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...

Pedagogy deals with the theory and practice of learning. It studies the learning processes and how they influence and are influenced by the psychological, social and political development of the learners. It aims to study how skills and knowledge are imparted in an educational...

The approach to teaching which deals with the theory and practice of learning as well as its effects on the psychological, social and political development of learners is termed as pedagogy. Pedagogical considerations are focused on learning space, hidden curriculum, learning theories, distance learning,...

​This book examines contexts and possibilities in Aotearoa New Zealand education contexts arising from the international trend for open, flexible, innovative learning environments (ILE), specifically on the pedagogical load. The book responds to questions such as: What does it mean to teach, learn or...

Mastery learning is an instructional approach that empowers every student to progress with confidence.Using flexible pacing and targeted supports, teachers guide students through a cyclic process of preparation, demonstration, and formative feedback until there is a mutual agreement between teacher and student that the...

A new short story collection from the author of Colour-Coated Identity and Colours of Hope and Despair.A poignant series of poetry and stories. Some fictional, some autobiographical, others philosophical.Author: Bala MudalyISBN-10: 0648038653ISBN-13: 9780648038658Publisher: Tale PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2022Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

BIPOC Alliances: Building Communities and Curricula is a collection of reflective experiences that confront, challenge, and resist hegemonic academic canons. BIPOC perspectives are often scarce in scholarly academic venues and curriculum. This edited book is a curated collection of interdisciplinary, underrepresented voices, and lived...

This book discusses how Big Data could be implemented in educational settings and research, using empirical data and suggesting both best practices and areas in which to invest future research and development. It also explores: 1) the use of learning analytics to improve learning...

With increasing diversity and widening disparities in the United States and globally there are significant challenges and opportunities throughout the educational landscape. Today's educational stakeholders, particulary public school administrators and teachers, must re-envision education and collectively build equity-centered systems, structures, and practices. Confronting systemic...

The change process is immensely complex. It is a journey, not a blueprint. How we make that journey in the present should be informed by our experiences in the past. This book takes the reader through that journey, traversing the stages of initiation, design,...

Today's educators face a critical challenge that goes beyond the curriculum: they must nurture appropriate social and emotional behaviors by providing youth with the conflict-resolution and leadership skills necessary for modern life. The Leadership Program's Violence Prevention Project delivers on that need with an...

Today's educators face a critical challenge that goes beyond the curriculum: they must nurture appropriate social and emotional behaviors by providing youth with the conflict-resolution and leadership skills necessary for modern life. The Leadership Program's Violence Prevention Project delivers on that need with an...

Curriculum Windows Redux: What Curriculum Theorists Can Teach Us about Schools and Society Today is an effort by students of curriculum studies, along with their professor, to interpret and understand curriculum texts and theorists in contemporary terms. The authors explore how key books/authors from...

Curriculum Windows Redux: What Curriculum Theorists Can Teach Us about Schools and Society Today is an effort by students of curriculum studies, along with their professor, to interpret and understand curriculum texts and theorists in contemporary terms. The authors explore how key books/authors from...

The Science of Teaching Reading Trainer of Trainer(TM) Study Guide is designed to prepare the reader to pass the TExES Science of Teaching Reading 293 exam. House Bill 3, passed during the 86th Texas Legislature, established the requirement that all teacher candidates who teach...

This book advocates for a radical change in music teaching and learning methods, allowing for a break from the traditional conservatory model still in use in many classrooms. The product of twenty years of interdisciplinary work by musicians, music teachers, and psychologists, the book...

This book addresses the crucial issue of how we value and deploy the idea of "freedom" that underlies contemporary curriculum studies. Whether we are conventional curriculum thinkers who value knowledge development or favor a Deweyan, individualist orientation toward curriculum or are a critical social...

A New York Times-bestselling author looks at mathematics education in America--when it's worthwhile, and when it's not. Why do we inflict a full menu of mathematics--algebra, geometry, trigonometry, even calculus--on all young Americans, regardless of their interests or aptitudes? While Andrew Hacker has been...

This book brings together discussions about Australian arts policy and funding, outcomes of arts engagement in terms of social inclusion, well-being and education. It presents exemplars of creative programs or case studies that build capacity and lasting impact for communities in urban and regional...

The book makes an important contribution to the discourse on student experience in higher education. The book includes chapters that cover important aspects of the 21st century student experience. Chapters cover issues such as: new trends and insights on the student experience; the changing...

This workbook contains 80 pages of help your students with frequently misspelled words. This workbook is divided into twenty lessons. Each lesson has 20 challenging words and four pages to choose from. One page has nine writing activities on the toughest and easiest words,...

"What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our classrooms?" Using this question as a starting point, Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning presents a conversation between four of Shakespeare's most popular plays and our modern experience, and between teachers...

"What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our classrooms?" Using this question as a starting point, Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning presents a conversation between four of Shakespeare's most popular plays and our modern experience, and between teachers...

This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education Thoroughly explore the Cambridge International updated AS & A Level Psychology syllabus with this brand-new Student Book that embeds psychological theories, perspectives and applications within real-world contexts to maximise understanding and encourage active learning...

This book is a guide for educators on how to develop and evaluate evidence-based strategies for teaching biological experimentation to thereby improve existing and develop new curricula. It unveils the flawed assumptions made at the classroom, department, and institutional level about what students are...

During the preschool and kindergarten years, children begin spending more time engaging in physical activity and exploring new foods. Help children learn how to take care of their bodies as they build a foundation for healthy, active lives with this Fitness and Nutrition curriculum....

Reasoning about structure-reactivity and chemical processes is a key competence in chemistry. Especially in organic chemistry, students experience difficulty appropriately interpreting organic representations and reasoning about the underlying causality of organic mechanisms. As organic chemistry is often a bottleneck for students' success in their...

"This volume presents unique coverage on the topic of writing instruction and provides a guide for teacher educators, teachers, and other education stakeholders by offering a rich discussion of the issues, perspectives, and methods for writing instruction currently in use, with an added lens...

The first English translation of Schleiermacher's Art of Education, long canonical in Central and Northern Europe, this work also includes chapters from scholars of education that comment on and engage with the innovative pedagogy outlined in Schleiermacher's 1826 lecture.Author: Norm FriesenISBN-10: 1433193884ISBN-13: 9781433193880Publisher: Peter...

Today's educators face a critical challenge that goes beyond the curriculum: they must nurture appropriate social and emotional behaviors by providing youth with the conflict-resolution and leadership skills necessary for modern life. The Leadership Program's Violence Prevention Project delivers on that need with an...

Drawing on the idea of powerful knowledge, this book interrogates the epistemic quality of education in schools, in terms of what students are expected to know, make sense of and be able to do through the curriculum. In doing so the authors acknowledge the...