Curricula category: 1261 books
Whole Novels for the Whole Class
A Student-Centered Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Work with students at all levels to help them read novels
Whole Novels is a practical, field-tested guide to implementing a student-centered literature program that promotes critical thinking and literary understanding through the study of novels with middle school students. Rather than using...
High-Impact Instruction
A Framework for Great Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Small changes can lead to big results!
Best-selling author Jim Knight presents the high-leverage strategies that make the biggest difference in student learning. Featuring checklists, numerous observation tools, and online videos of teachers implementing the practices, this revolutionary book...
Results
The Key to Continuous School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1999
How do you know if your school is improving? Do you know what really works in reading programs...in writing...in math...in science? How do we measure what works? What about teaching to the test--or to the vast array of standards being mandated? How do we effectively use cooperative learning--and direct...
Loose Parts
Inspiring Play in Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Use loose parts to spark children's creativity and innovation
Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play. Alluring and captivating, they capture children's curiosity, give free reign to...
Infants and Toddlers at Work
Using Reggio-Inspired Materials to Support Brain Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book contains a wealth of practical and specific activities and materials to use with infants and toddlers to enhance growth and development. Writing in the accessible style that her readers appreciate, Ann Lewin-Benham looks at current research from the neurosciences to show what teachers and...
Baby Steps to STEM
Infant and Toddler Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Activities
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Innately curious, infants and toddlers love to explore, investigate, and discover—making the earliest years a perfect time to begin teaching the foundations of STEM. This book defines what science, technology, engineering, and math education looks like for this age group, and why it is so vital...
Transforming Schools
Creativity, Critical Reflection, Communication, Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Transforming Schools demonstrates how transformation is no longer an option in teaching and learning - it has become a necessity. Changes in the way we work and the challenges of issues such as climate change, poverty and migration mean that teaching and learning need to alter to incorporate capacities...
Engaged Learning in the Academy
Challenges and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Moore asks the question of whether and under what conditions experience constitutes a legitimate source of knowledge and learning in higher education. Drawing on theory and research, the book addresses three types of challenges and opportunities facing experiential educators: the epistemological, the pedagogical, and the institutional.
Understanding How Students Learn
A Guide for Instructional Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005
In this overview of educational research, the authors provide guiding principles for developing a learner-centered approach that enables all students to learn at high levels.
Unequal By Design
High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Unequal By Design critically examines high-stakes standardized testing in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively affected by such testing. This thoughtful analysis traces standardized testing’s origins in the Eugenics and Social Efficiency...
Deliberation in the Classroom
Fostering Critical Thinking, Community, and Citizenship in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
From the first appearance of the National Issues Forums in 1982, teachers have recognized the usefulness of both the NIF issue guides and the process of framing issues for deliberation as models for the role and work of citizens in a democracy. In 2006, the foundation began a series of learning exchanges—known...
Music, Sound, and Vibration
Music and Science Integrated Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Through engaging assignments, this integrated curriculum course design introduces the physics of sound and music, with the exploration of musical styles and their biological effect, along with the newer disciplines of Music Therapy and Sound & Vibrational Healing. While the course is designed for grades...
Visual Knowing
Connecting Art and Ideas Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2005
Through lesson planning ideas, key words, resources, and visual thinking questions, this innovative resource demonstrates how visual arts can be used to teach across all subject areas.