Curricula category: 1261 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
The SAGE Guide to Curriculum in Education integrates, summarizes, and explains, in highly accessible form, foundational knowledge and information about the field of curriculum with brief, simply written overviews for people outside of or new to the field of education. This Guide supports study, research,...
Curriculum Windows
What Curriculum Theorists of the 1960s Can Teach Us about Schools and Society Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Curriculum Windows: What Curriculum Theorists of the 1960s 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 of the 1960s in contemporary terms. The authors explore how...
I Don't Get It
Helping Students Understand What They Read
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Literacy continues to be a hot topic for educators and parents. I Don't Get It! Helping Students Understand What They Read is a practical, easy-to-use resource for classroom teachers and literacy coaches. Parents will also find the information helpful as they assist their children with homework and...
Taking Design Thinking to School
How the Technology of Design Can Transform Teachers, Learners, and Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Design thinking is a method of problem-solving that relies on a complex set of skills, processes and mindsets that help people generate novel solutions to problems. Taking Design Thinking to School: How the Technology of Design Can Transform Teachers, Learners, and Classrooms uses an action-oriented...
by Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
Updated Edition of Best Seller!
Become a more effective instructional leader with research-based information and activities.
Community College Student Success
From Boardrooms to Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Student Success: From Board Rooms to Classrooms analyzes the emerging body of scholarly research on student success in an accessible and readable way that community college leaders will find both interesting and relevant. To further illustrate the connections between research and practice, case studies...
Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice
A Way Out of No Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
A groundswell of interest has led to significant advances in understanding and using Culturally Responsive Arts Education to promote social justice and education. This landmark volume provides a theoretical orientation to these endeavors. Examining a range of efforts across different forms of art,...
Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom
Pedagogical Possibilities of Multimodal Literacy Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
This collection highlights the diverse ways comics and graphic novels are used in English and literature classrooms, whether to develop critical thinking or writing skills, paired with a more traditional text, or as literature in their own right. From fictional stories to non-fiction works such as...
Genocide Literature in Middle and Secondary Classrooms
Rhetoric, Witnessing, and Social Action in a Time of Standards and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
At the heart of this inquiry into the ethical implications of education reform on reading practices in middle and secondary classrooms, the central question is what is lost, hidden, or marginalized in the name of progress? Drawing on her own experiences as an English teacher during the No Child Left...
by Tiffany A. Koszalka, Catherine M. Sleezer, Darlene F. RussEft
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The book, Evaluator Competencies: Standards for the Practice of Evaluation, details the development and validation of evaluator competencies by the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance, and Instruction (ibstpi). Developing an understanding of the ibstpi Evaluator Competencies...
by Ralph W. Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
In 1949, a small book had a big impact on education. In just over one hundred pages, Ralph W. Tyler presented the concept that curriculum should be dynamic, a program under constant evaluation and revision. Curriculum had always been thought of as a static, set program, and in an era preoccupied with...
by Barbara R. Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Learn the most effective ways to promote student learning. This second edition of bestselling author Barbara Blackburn’s Classroom Instruction from A to Z covers a broad range of key instructional strategies to help you create more meaningful, engaging learning experiences for your students. Each...
by Barbara R. Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Learn how to increase instructional rigor so that all students can reach higher levels of learning! In this new edition of a best seller, author Barbara R. Blackburn offers practical ideas for raising expectations, increasing complexity, integrating scaffolding into instruction, creating open-ended...
by Todd Kettler
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Modern Curriculum for Gifted and Advanced Academic Students addresses the need for advanced curriculum design in an age of national standards and 21st-century learning innovations. The text and its authors work from the assumption that the most advanced learners need a qualitatively different design...