R L Education: 708 books
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Art and Creative Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2002
Explore effective ways to teach creative writing using art with an experienced writing teacher whose classroom is in a museum, not a school. You will learn ways to involve and motivate students by using artwork, games, formula poems, and other specific writing exercises. From painting to decorative...
Teaching and Learning
A Model for Academic and Social Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Learners are multi-faceted, unique people. Discovering the whole individual is incumbent upon realizing the teaching/learning environments, common social and societal realities, and belief and value systems respective of academic and socio-societal factors that establish who one is as a learner and...
The Aptitude Myth
How an Ancient Belief Came to Undermine Children’s Learning Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The Aptitude Myth addresses the decline in American children’s mastery of critical school subjects. It contends that a contributing cause for this decline derives from many Americans’ ways of thinking about children’s learning: They believe that school performance is determined very largely...
Action Research for Teacher Candidates
Using Classroom Data to Enhance Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Teachers are the single most important element in helping every child succeed in school. Action Research for Teacher Candidates has been written in the hopes of equipping teachers-in-training with the skills needed for action research: a process that leads to focused, effective, and responsive strategies...
The Teacher's Gradebook
Strategies for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2002
In The Teacher's Gradebook, Barry Raebeck, a practicing secondary school English teacher, shares the grading strategies that he uses so successfully with his own students. Ample discussion is given to not only grading techniques, but also to other important issues surrounding the philosophy and ethics...
A Complete Guide to Rubrics
Assessment Made Easy for Teachers, K-College
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
This book takes a developmental perspective at the use of scoring rubrics to assess student work. Citing developmental characteristics of each age, the author presents examples and adaptations of assessment rubrics on a variety of subjects for teachers from kindergarten through adult/college. After...
The 12 Laws of Urban School Leadership
A Principal's Guide for Initiating Effective Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
The 12 Laws of Urban School Leadership was written to give urban school principals strategies for successfully implementing change, and achieving systemic reforms. The book also gives aspiring and novice principals a window into the real issues that affect the prinicpalship, and the circumstances...
Teaching History with Big Ideas
Cases of Ambitious Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
In the case studies that make up the bulk of this book, middle and high school history teachers describe the decisions and plans and the problems and possibilities they encountered as they ratcheted up their instruction through the use of big ideas. Framing a teaching unit around a question such as...
The Teacher Portfolio
A Strategy for Professional Development and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1998
Follow three very different teachers through the process of creating a reflective teacher portfolio. This book covers all the basics of portfolios. Chapters cover each of the standard parts of a portfolio—Introduction, Influences, Instruction, Individualization, and Integration—and explore how...
Remembering What's Important
Priorities of School Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
In Remembering What's Important: Priorities of School Leadership, Charles A. Bonnici addresses several issues facing school leaders through strategies supported by real-life examples and anecdotes. The issues addressed include questions such as: What is the most urgent issue faced by a new school...
Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve
Profiles of Programs Helping All Students to Learn
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve compares the academic achievements of students in the United States to those of students in other countries. Examining fundamental questions and educational issues, James Deneen identifies what all students should learn and discusses what American students...
Connecting with Students
Strategies for Building Rapport with Urban Learners
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Connecting with Students: Strategies for Building Rapport with Urban Learners focuses on how educators can efficiently establish ongoing rapport with each student through three simple steps: Seeing beyond barriers, sharing their intentions, and showing their "face". Chapter details are narrated...
by Ronald Hans Pahl
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
History does not have to be boring. Kids who are excited about history learn more. History is also far more than facts to memorize for the most recent standardized test. That is where Creative Ways to Teach the Mysteries of History comes in—to make the teaching and learning of history a powerful...
Leadership with a Conscience
Educational Leadership as a Moral Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This book identifies ten such role models whose heroic leadership behavior is analyzed in order to reveal what particular abilities and skills made them successful...