Education - Curricula

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 volume showcases a series of chapters that elaborate on Mary Aswell Doll's contributions to the field of curriculum theory through her examination of currere as a mythopoetics. By bringing Doll's Jungian, autobiographical, and literary perspectives into conversation with emergent forms of subjective inquiry-including...

This text offers secondary ELA educators guided instructional approaches for including queer-themed young adult (YA) literature in the English language arts classroom. Each chapter spotlights the reading of one queer-themed YA novel, and offers pre-, during-, and after reading activities that guide students to...

This Alphabet Handwriting workbook will help kids to start learning to write uppercase letters, lowercase letters, words and to improve their handwriting. With 79 pages of practice, your child will develop several capacities: the motor control, self-confidence for confidently writing.The Book comes with: ✔...

Offering the overlooked but essential viewpoint of young people from low-income communities of color and their public schools, Planning Cities With Young People and Schools offers an urgently needed set of best-practice recommendations for urban planners to change the status quo and reimagine the...

Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore is a unique study in the history of education because it examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized countries - Malaysia and Singapore. Blackburn...

Rather than seeing art as a curricular extra, or a fun break from the curriculum, art in the Using Art Critically series is used, like language, as a tool and toy for learning, rethinking, and outgrowing oneself. The authors' intent is to position art...

This Handbook presents an international collection of essays examining history education past and present. Framing recent curriculum reforms in Canada and in the United States in light of a century-long debate between the relationship between theory and practice, this collection contextualizes the debate by...

The metrics presently being used to gauge student success have become outdated and irrelevant. Enrollment, persistence, and degree attainment are secondary measures, missing entirely the question of whether students are truly achieving an effective life skillset while attempting to complete degree or graduation fulfillment....

Language Arts, Primary Level (K - 3rd Grade)Goals. There are four general goals for the program: To lead children, grades Kindergarten through Third, into the habit of speaking and writing the English language correctlyTo provide drills which emphasize reproduction of many of the short...

This book examines the ways in which well-being affects educational outcomes. Using an ecological approach, the book defines what we mean by well-being and resilience in education and how this relates to policy and children and young people's rights. The book considers strategies utilised...

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...

Write a fairy tale with help from the Grimm brothers.*50 prompts: 26 Beginnings, 12 Middles, and 12 Endings *Answer Key in the back reveals the origin of the fairy tale prompt. This book is divided into three sections of prompts: Beginnings, Middles, and Endings....

Write a fairy tale with help from the Grimm brothers.*100 prompts: 34 Beginnings, 33 Middles, and 33 Endings*Answer Key in the back reveals the origin of the fairy tale prompt. This book is divided into three sections of prompts: Beginnings, Middles, and Endings. Each...

1. Comics and Hyperreality2. Reading Comics for Citizenship3. Reading Symbolism and Leadership into Comics4. Drawing Citizenship5. Drawing Symbolism and Leadership6. ConclusionAuthor: Angelo J. LetiziaISBN-10: 3030442519ISBN-13: 9783030442514Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2020Pages: 238Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.88d

Following in the steps of the socio-political turn of the discipline, Equity in Mathematics Education: Addressing a Changing World emerged as a response of the editor and the chapter authors to the enormous changes that have in the last years occurred at a global...

For citizenship education in the 21st century, globalization increasingly presents a new challenge and a new opportunity. Since the time when nationalism played a critical role in unifying new nations, nationality and citizenship have been virtually synonymous terms. As a result, the constructed symbiosis...

School Leadership for Refugees' Education examines how educational leaders shape and lead different practices to meet refugee students' educational needs, while also considering issues of equity and social justice. It presents cutting-edge theoretical understanding and rich first-hand research findings, which point out the local...

Grounded in philosophy from John Dewey and Maxine Greene, this book sheds light on difficulties and practicalities of examining culture and politics within the realm of interdisciplinary education. Providing both theoretical and concrete examples of the importance of a contemporary arts education, this book...

Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning. Volume 15 of Play & Culture Studies focuses on the special topic on Play and Curriculum, a long waited topic to many...

This book brings readers into classrooms and communities to explore critical curriculum issues in the United States throughout the twentieth century by focusing in on the voices of teachers, administrators, students, and families. Framed by an enduring question about curriculum, each chapter begins with...

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...

There is an inconsistency with urban middle school teachers' perceptions about promoting critical thinking skills within middle schools in a large metropolitan area. By implementing differentiated approaches in mathematics classes that incorporates critical thinking skills, such as modeling activities, open-ended questioning, using Bloom's taxonomy,...

This book focuses on the topic of the multiple-stakeholders that comprise the education community across the P-20 continuum. In various ways and forms, the authors of the chapters found within this book promote the importance of engaging with the diverse array of stakeholders in...

The Interdisciplinary Unit addresses the needs of primary level children, and those of their teachers, and parents, to help them cope with the challenges they face growing up today. This grade 2 book will help young children to understand and manage themselves and their...

35 cards per set, start card and finish card, full card sequences for the teacher to easily track, Sets include 3 European Countries and Capitals, 3 US States and Capitals, 3 World Countries and Capitals, 9 sets of cards.Author: James McMillan BscISBN-10: 1546568913ISBN-13: 9781546568919Publisher:...

This book on decolonising education chastises, heartens and invites academics to seriously commence academic and intellectual manumission by challenging the current toxic episteme - the Western dominant Grand Narrative that embeds, espouses and superimposes itself on others. It exhorts African scholars in particular to...

Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics-Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education results from the Joint ICMI/IASE Study Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics: Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education. Oriented to analyse the teaching of statistics in school and to recommend improvements in the training of...

This book provides classroom practice and research studies that verify Reacting to the Past (RTTP)-a student-centered, active learning pedagogy that provides college students and faculty unique teaching and learning opportunities-as a high impact practice for student learning and engagement. The overarching objective of this...

This book explores the dynamics of curriculum policy processes involved in the adoption, production and enactment of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IBPYP), accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). It addresses deficits in current literature and provides insight into and the complexities...

Cursive Handwriting Workbook for Kids: Practice makes perfect, so make sure you give children plenty of opportunities to practice their cursive handwriting skills abc workbooks for kindergarteners, workbooks for preschoolers, k workbook age 5.Very easy workbook to enhance cursive writing skills. Our Cursive Handwriting...

Cursive Handwriting Workbook for Kids: Practice makes perfect, so make sure you give children plenty of opportunities to practice their cursive handwriting skills abc workbooks for kindergarteners, workbooks for preschoolers, k workbook age 5.Very easy workbook to enhance cursive writing skills. Our Cursive Handwriting...

In education, the terms evaluation and assessment are often used interchangeably; they sometimes also are used instead of the term test. Although such use is common, it can be confusing. Successful communication with other educators is enhanced by having a firm grasp on the...

The Medical Teacher's Edition aligns with the Medical Investigation 101 Workbook. It provides answers to the questions, crosswords puzzles, and workups highlighted in the student workbook, which is itself an assessment tool aligned to Medical Investigation 101. The Teacher's Edition completes the Medical Investigation...

This volume includes essays-from the Italian American Studies Network 2014 Conference-by Mary Jo Bona, Leonardo Buonomo, Marina Camboni, Ottorino Cappelli, Margherita Ganeri, Fred Gardaphe, Paul Giordano, Donatella Izzo, Djelal Kadir, Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Giorgio Mariani, Graziella Parati, Joseph Sciorra, Anthony Julian Tamburri, Maddalena Tirabassi, and...

Practical Kindergarten is a tremendous resource that provides teachers with abundant ideas for including hands-on learning activities in their curricula while meeting academic standards. The "activity plans" describe recommended activities & variations of those activities in detail. Learning plans include how to customize activities...

Let's do more than just memorize stuff Once again, IntuitivScience represents introductory cell biology in a highly pictorial manner. Using very simple, easy-to-reproduce diagrams, students can quickly accomplish a solid understanding of the "how-and-why" of cellular reproduction. In this book, we explore how multicellular...

Formerly published by Peytral PublicationsThese creative ideas for practical activities will help pre-vocational students sustain attention, stay on task, and work independently and productively while meeting their IEP goals.Author: Beverly ThorneISBN-10: 1890455318ISBN-13: 9781890455316Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2001Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 10.78h x 8.40w x...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Joan DeanISBN-10: 1843120836ISBN-13: 9781843120834Publisher: David Fulton PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2004Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.27d

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Denis HayesISBN-10: 1843120186ISBN-13: 9781843120186Publisher: David Fulton PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2004Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.44d

Modern instruments and methodologies for implementing projects allow entrepreneurs or those responsible for promoting investment initiatives in projects to have as accurate a forecast as possible of the profitability of a new project or industrial complex.Author: Gabriel Jaime Avenda AguirreISBN-10: 1798862344ISBN-13: 9781798862346Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage:...

✅ About this Book!This is a guidebook for teachers, educators, homeschoolers, and parents who want to get started on STEM education and teaching. ✨ This Guide Includes!✔️ What is STEM?✔️ Best practices in STEM✔️ Introducing in classrooms and home✔️ Inquiry-based teaching✔️ Engineering design process✔️...

Evolution Education and the Rise of the Creationist Movement in Brazil examines how larger societal forces such as religion, media, and politics have shaped Brazil's educational landscape and impacted the teaching and learning of evolution within an increasingly polarized discourse in recent years. To...

This book on curriculum development discusses topics related to the design and development of student educational processes and material. Curriculum development consists of various categories such as prescribed courses and syllabus as well as extra-curricular activities and added material. Syllabus development practices seek to...

In Necessary Spaces: Exploring the Richness of African American Childhood in the South, Saundra Murray Nettles takes the reader on a journey into neighborhood networks of learning at different times and places. Using autobiographical accounts, Nettles discusses the informal instructional practices of community "coaches"...

In A Curriculum of Imagination in an Era of Standardization: An Imaginative Dialogue with Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire, a volume in Landscapes of Education Series Editors: William H. Schubert, University of Illinois at Chicago & Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University], Robert Lake...

This engaging and practical book will assist parents, educators and youth leaders in the intentional and explicit teaching of character. You are going to find lessons, strategies and experiential activities that will capture students' interest while facilitating the development of attitudes, beliefs and convictions...

"Deschooling the Imagination: Critical Thought as Social Practice" is, first, a book that looks at what it means to be actively engaged in developing a critical/creative mindset against the prevailing ideology of our public schools. Second, it is a book about the social/cultural relationship...

Imagine a Founding Father visiting a classroom today, or a sailor from the War of 1812, an Amish man, a 19th century pioneer, or even a Civil War veteran. Ronald Morris has spent more than 25 years bringing these characters into classrooms and inspiring...

Essentially a complete teacher's manual for the novel, this LitPlan Teacher Pack includes lesson plans and reproducible resource materials for The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. It includes: Daily Lessons, Short answer study questions, Multiple choice quiz questions, Vocabulary worksheets for each...