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Do you really understand what teaching British values is all about?
Are british values woven into the fabric of your teaching? Are you
confident that you are meeting Ofsted requirements in relation to
British values? This book provides you with a simple, manageable
framework to help you reflect on, improve and deeply embed British
values in your classroom. It provides clear, accurate government
definitions, and helps you ensure your classroom practices are
inclusive, non-prejudicial and address cultural diversity within
your school context. The text also enables you to understand and
implement the Prevent strategy for safeguarding your learners.
Designed to be read over a week, the book is divided into seven
concise and practical chapters detailing clear strategies, how they
might be applied, with links to relevant underpinning laws or
theories.
With the aim to help teachers design and deliver instruction around
world films featuring child protagonists, Cultivating Creativity
through World Films guides readers to understand the importance of
fostering creativity in the lives of youth. It is expected that by
teaching students about world films through the eyes of characters
that resemble them, they will gain insight into cultures that might
be otherwise unknown to them and learn to analyze what they see.
Teachers can use these films to examine and reflect on differences
and commonalities rooted in culture, social class, gender,
language, religion, etc., through guided questions for class
discussion. The framework of this book is conceived to help
teachers develop students' ability to evaluate, analyze, synthesize
and interpret. The proposed activities seek to incite reflection
and creativity in students, and can be used as a model for teachers
in designing future lessons on other films.
This Open Access book is about the development of a common
understanding of environmental citizenship. It conceptualizes and
frames environmental citizenship taking an educational perspective.
Organized in four complementary parts, the book first explains the
political, economic and societal dimensions of the concept. Next,
it examines environmental citizenship as a psychological concept
with a specific focus on knowledge, values, beliefs and attitudes.
It then explores environmental citizenship within the context of
environmental education and education for sustainability. It
elaborates responsible environmental behaviour, youth activism and
education for sustainability through the lens of environmental
citizenship. Finally, it discusses the concept within the context
of different educational levels, such as primary and secondary
education in formal and non-formal settings. Environmental
citizenship is a key factor in sustainability, green and cycle
economy, and low-carbon society, and an important aspect in
addressing global environmental problems. It has been an
influential concept in many different arenas such as economy,
policy, philosophy, and organizational marketing. In the field of
education, the concept could be better exploited and established,
however. Education and, especially, environmental discourses in
science education have a great deal to contribute to the adoption
and promotion of environmental citizenship.
Giving students opportunities to read like mathematicians as they
explore content has the potential to move their thinking and
understandings in monumental ways. Each chapter presented in this
volume provides readers with approaches and activities for pairing
a young adult novel with specific mathematics concepts. Chapters
include several instructional activities for before, during, and
after reading as well as extension activities that move beyond the
text as students continue to develop mathematical literacy.
Civics Education in Contentious Times: Working with Teachers to
Create Locally-Specific Curricula in a Post-Truth World is a
longitudinal research study that focuses on the collaboration
between a researcher and elementary teachers to design and
implement locally-specific civics curriculum in a predominately
Latinx-serving Title I school. William Toledo details how the
design team wrote and taught this curricular unit in the midst of
contentious socio-political contexts and how themes from these
greater contexts entered classrooms, along with proposing
conceptual frameworks for teaching civic perspective-taking in
these instances.
* Helps teachers/leaders incorporate social justice themes and
lessons into their curriculum; aligns well with CCSS * Written
practically and accessibly to make it easy for readers to engage
with * Features ready to use rubrics and assignment sheets as well
as access to digital resources.
Brainball:Teaching Inquiry and Social Studies as a Team Sport is an
attempt to clarify that not only is social studies a game, but that
it is one of the most useful and powerful games that teachers and
students will ever play. Games are the doing of theory, and maybe
it would be a good idea to start doing social studies in every
social studies classroom.
* Helps teachers/leaders incorporate social justice themes and
lessons into their curriculum; aligns well with CCSS * Written
practically and accessibly to make it easy for readers to engage
with * Features ready to use rubrics and assignment sheets as well
as access to digital resources.
This book compares the current status of democracy in selected
Eastern European countries. The focus is on young people's
attitudes towards and experiences of democracy, including active
political engagement. In many of these countries, democracy has
been hard-won and may well need to be defended again in the future.
The contributors collectively reflect on young adults exercising
their civic rights and how they can influence the political system
at both formal and informal levels. The chapters present different
issues that arise in unique contexts but overall reflect the
changing status of democracy and its effects on young people's
citizenship activity and education. The volume compares
perspectives of three groups of Eastern European countries with
different traditions and past histories of democracy and
citizenship: Central European countries (Poland, Czech, Hungary);
Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia); and post-soviet
republics (Ukraine, Moldova). These countries differ in the status
given to democracy, citizenship action traditions and education. At
the same time, many countries have experienced recent turbulence
related to democracy and different kinds of actions by young
people. Comparing them leads to conclusions about omissions made in
current citizenship education provision and what needs to be done
for a better understanding of the needs of citizenship education in
these difficult times. This volume will be of interest to students
and scholars in citizenship and civic education, sociology,
political science and Eastern European Studies.
What makes the Life orientation Today course unique? Language
appropriate to South African learners across the board, key words
explained and included in a glossary; physical education content
includes fun activities and playful games; physical education
includes emphasis on holistic well-being, including healthy
lifestyle habits and relaxation exercises; full-colour throughout,
including illustrations and modern, relevant photographs; the
situations included in case studies and activities appreciate and
acknowledge everyday South African realities, with attention to
cultural and racial diversity as well as positive gender
representation. Trust Today to be up-to-date and fresh for the
classroom; opportunities for revision, exam practice and assessment
throughout; develops language skills alongside subject knowledge;
all content is fully CAPS-compliant; your easy-to-use complete
classroom solution! Today, for successful teaching tomorrow.
A Primer for Teaching Digital History is a guide for college and
high school teachers who are teaching digital history for the first
time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their
pedagogy. It can also serve those who are training future teachers
to prepare their own syllabi, as well as teachers who want to
incorporate digital history into their history courses. Offering
design principles for approaching digital history that represent
the possibilities that digital research and scholarship can take,
Jennifer Guiliano outlines potential strategies and methods for
building syllabi and curricula. Taking readers through the process
of selecting data, identifying learning outcomes, and determining
which tools students will use in the classroom, Guiliano outlines
popular research methods including digital source criticism, text
analysis, and visualization. She also discusses digital archives,
exhibits, and collections as well as audiovisual and mixed-media
narratives such as short documentaries, podcasts, and multimodal
storytelling. Throughout, Guiliano illuminates how digital history
can enhance understandings of not just what histories are told but
how they are told and who has access to them.
Meet Bo and Zop, two scouts from the Omega Quadrant, on a mission
to monitor Earth. Their job is to find out all about us Earthlings,
to see if we are friendly enough for a visit from the aliens of
Omegatron. Bo doesn't think so, he doesn't seem to understand us at
all! Can Zop show Bo what it means to be an Earthling? Explore PSHE
themes in a fun and interesting way with this lively series.
** Shortlisted for the Little Rebels Children's Book Award! **
As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic pencil that she could use to redraw reality. She would use it for good; to give gifts to her family, to erase the smell from the rubbish dump near her house. (And to sleep an extra hour in the morning.)
As she grew older, Malala wished for bigger and bigger things. She saw a world that needed fixing. And even if she never found a magic pencil, Malala realized that she could still work hard every day to make her wishes come true.
This beautifully illustrated picture book tells Malala's story, in her own words, for a younger audience and shows them the worldview that allowed her to hold on to hope and to make her voice heard even in the most difficult of times.
This is a vital resource for any teacher or administrator looking
to help students tackle issues of race, class, gender, religion,
and cultural background. Authors Martha Caldwell and Oman Frame,
both lifelong educators, offer a series of teaching strategies
designed to encourage conversation and personal reflection,
enabling students to think creatively, rather than stereotypically,
about difference. Using the Transformational Inquiry method, your
students will learn to explore their own identities, share stories
and thoughts with their peers, learn more through reading and
research, and ultimately take personal and collaborative action to
affect social change in their communities. This second edition's
updates include new research throughout, as well as additional
lessons on gender and sexuality. The lesson plans and handouts
throughout the book are appropriate for middle and high school
classes and are easy to implement into your own curriculum.
This book discusses the importance of teaching fundamental economic
concepts as part of the middle school social science curriculum in
India. It examines the status of economics in Indian schools and
the issues faced in teaching it at the middle school level and
emphasizes the need for increasing the economic literacy of
students. It offers valuable recommendations to curriculum planners
and educators to help them bolster economics education in Indian
schools. The author presents an extensive curriculum framework with
the intention of developing intellectual and social skills in
students. The book also features classroom-tested lessons, content
guidelines, and a comprehensive teaching plan for grades 6, 7 and
8. A crucial contribution to the study of school education in
India, this book will be of interest to teachers, students and
researchers of education, economics education and economics. It
will also be useful for policy planners, professional economists,
administrators, school boards and research institutions.
Helps to develop knowledge of authentic instructional methods (such
as role playing, inquiry, and values clarification) that are
applicable to ESS. Provides a comprehensive view of social studies
that encourages reader awareness of and appreciation for their
emotional and social identities. Provides readers with the context
for social studies teaching, offers explanations of current content
topics, and presents authentic instructional strategies for
classroom use.
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Cogento
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T Hu; Illustrated by Thomas Hurlimann; Contributions by Dawkins Richard
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