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This book draws on both in and out of school literacy practices
with teachers and families to enhance the numeracy of early
learners. It provides highly illustrative exemplars, targeted for
learners up to approximately eight years of age whose home language
differs from the language of instruction. It identifies the
challenges faced by these learners and their families, and shares
ways of building both literacy and numeracy skills for some of the
vulnerable learners nationally and internationally. The book shares
the outcomes and strategies for teaching mathematics to early years
learners and highlights the importance of literacy practices for
learners for whom the language of instruction is different from
their home language. Readers will gain a practical sense of how to
create contexts, classrooms and practices to scaffold these
learners to build robust understandings of mathematics.
Welcome to Singapore Math--the leading math program in the world
This workbook features math practice and activities for seventh
grade students based on the Singapore Math method. Level A is
designed for the first semester and Level B is for the second. An
introduction at the front of each book explains Singapore Math and
its common problem types. Each unit has learning objectives, which
clearly define the skills to be learned in that section, and an
answer key with step-by-step worked out solutions that help
students see how to work the problems. This book is perfect for
students familiar with Singapore Math and for those who just need
extra math practice --Directly correlated to Singapore Math
textbooks, this comprehensive practice series allows learners to
practice various types of math problems while developing their
thinking and analytical skills. Learning objectives and unit
assessments are included to ensure that students obtain a thorough
understanding of each concept. Perfect as a supplement to classroom
work or as a homeschool resource, these workbooks will boost
confidence in problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
Connect students in grades 5 and up with science using Astronomy:
Our Solar System and Beyond. This 80-page book reinforces
scientific techniques. It includes teacher pages that provide quick
overviews of the lessons and student pages with Knowledge Builders
and Inquiry Investigations that can be completed individually or in
groups. The book also includes tips for lesson preparation
(materials lists, strategies, and alternative methods of
instruction), a glossary, an inquiry investigation rubric, and a
bibliography. It allows for differentiated instruction and supports
National Science Education Standards and NCTM standards.
Reflecting the World: A Guide to Incorporating Equity in
Mathematics Teacher Education is a guide for mathematics teacher
educators interested in incorporating equity concerns into their
teaching. The book draws on the authors' research and experience
integrating issues of equity, diversity, and social justice into
their work as mathematics teacher educators of preservice and
inservice preK?9 teachers. Reflecting the World includes both a
framework for integrating issues of equity into mathematics teacher
education courses and professional development and example lessons.
The lessons are organized by content area and include guidance for
using them effectively. Elementary and middle grades pre?service
teachers are often uncomfortable with mathematics, uncertain about
their ability to teach it, and unsure of how it connects to the
real world. For many preservice teachers a focus on the real
world-and in particular on issues of equity, diversity, and social
justice-is more engaging than their past experiences with
mathematics and can help lessen their mathematical anxieties.
Reflecting the Worldi will assist teacher educators in designing
and teaching mathematics content and methods courses in ways that
support future teachers to see the relevance of mathematics to our
world and in becoming critical, questioning citizens in an
increasingly mathematical world. The book provides a set of tools
for helping future teachers connect mathematics to the lives,
interests, and political realities of an increasingly diverse
student body, and in doing so it provides a meaningful answer to
the question, "when will I ever use this?"
Educational Leadership: Building Bridges Among Ideas, Schools, and
Nations breaks new ground by connecting many ideas to educational
leadership that have traditionally been discussed as part of
leaders' contexts by connecting them and showing how international
issues can unite scholars and educators in action. The book draws
on the authors' extensive experiences in U.S. public schools,
research in the field of educational leadership, and programmatic
practices to prepare school leaders to commit themselves to social
justice. The book provides a forum for this important work in the
ongoing conversation about equity and excellence in education, and
the role(s) leadership can assume in building bridges among ideas,
people, and educational organizations. Chapters center on creating
spaces for vigorous dialogue. Authors call upon scholars and
practitioners to reconsider their intent to empower those who live
on the margins. The dynamic approaches discussed throughout the
book urge school leaders, teachers, school community members, and
those who prepare administrators to look within and build bridges
between themselves and those they serve.
A volume in International Social Studies Forum: The Series Series
Editors Richard Diem, University of Texas at San Antonio and Jeff
Passe, Towson University There may be no topic that is more
controversial in our country and in our schools than religion.
Changing demographics and the evolving relationship between
religion and politics have resulted in conflicts concerning
teaching about religion, teaching about evolution, and prayers at
graduation. In spite of laws and policies designed to clarify these
challenges, the relationship between religion and the schools
remains a powerful and conflicted issue. And yet, religious
literacy is essential for people of all ages to understand
historical and contemporary cultures and conflicts as well as
different beliefs and practices of people in our communities and
around the world. Many of the concerns raised about teaching
children about religion can be addressed through the use of
authentic children's and adolescent literature. The use of rich
narratives, both fact and fiction, is both an effective and
inclusive strategy for teaching about religious and spiritual
diversity. This book is an invaluable resource for enabling
teachers, religious educators, and families to learn about
religious diversity themselves and to teach children about both
their own religion as well as the beliefs of others. The traditions
featured include indigenous beliefs throughout the world, Native
American spirituality, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity
(Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism), Islam, Sikhism, and
other beliefs such as Baha'i, Unitarian Universalism, Humanism, and
Atheism. Each chapter highlights a specific religion or spiritual
tradition with a brief discussion about major beliefs,
misconceptions, sacred texts, and holy days or celebrations. This
summary of each tradition is followed by extensive annotated
recommendations for children's and adolescent literature as well as
suggested teaching strategies. The recommended literature includes
informational books, traditional religious stories, and fiction
with religious themes. The child-friendly informational books focus
on major beliefs, celebrations, symbols and people from various
faiths who are role models and heroes. These books often feature
colorful artwork, photographs, poetry or music. The traditional
religious literature includes stories about basic values and
beliefs that were passed down orally for hundreds and thousands of
years. And the recommended fiction highlights stories about
authentic experiences faced by children, both past and present.
These stories represent both sadness and joy; conflict and
resolution; confusion and understanding; discrimination and
acceptance. Teachers, religious educators, and family members will
find the literature from these genres to be invaluable tools for
bridging the religious experience of the child with that of the
global society in which they live.
Everything you need to teach writing in the primary classroom. The
Writing Book helps you to break down the mysteries of written
English into comprehensible steps that will get your students
writing with confidence and flair. Written in Zoe and Timothy
Paramour's funny, frank and reassuring style, this follow up to The
Grammar Book gives teachers clear and systematic guidance about how
to develop children's written English. It covers vocabulary,
register, word order and text layout, as well as sentence
structure, length and syntax. It explores the features of different
genres, the ways we can play with language and the reader's
expectations to make writing more engaging. The Writing Book gives
teachers a clear and consistent language they can use with their
students to offer meaningful feedback, especially when children's
writing lacks flair and energy. Written by teachers for teachers,
it provides tips, tricks, and adaptable resources to make teachers'
lives easier. This book makes it easy for teachers to identify
everything their students need to know to become confident,
competent writers.
Inventions, Inventors, and You is a comprehensive unit that will
not only acquaint students with significant inventions and
inventors, but will also give them techniques for being more
creative. Inventions, Inventors, and You takes invention out of the
history books and brings it to life. This combination of research
and creativity training allows students to explore how our lives
have been affected by inventions while they build their own
creative skills. Inventions, Inventors, and You offers something
for every teaching and learning style. The teacher's section gives
outlines for directed lessons, warm up ideas and guidelines for
learning centers and bulletin boards, as well as pretest and
invention reference lists. The student section includes
reproducible worksheets that explore inventions, inventors, the
inventive process, and 27 project ideas. These activities take your
class through the entire inventive process with many opportunities
for side trips. Use for a unit on creative thinking or on the
history and social impact of inventions or to enhance the study of
famous inventors. From a youngster's playful attempts to use
objects in new ways, to the adult's efforts to solve everyday
problems, we see the inventive mind analyzing at all times. If
you're planning an invention convention, put this book on your
must-have list! Grades 3-7
ABA Visualized is a parent training guidebook that uses step-by-step visuals to teach essential ABA strategies. Parents will learn how to build skills and reduce problem behaviors. In addition to the more than 60 visual strategies, templates & tools are included to accommodate the use of the techniques, making this book a comprehensive ABA resource for parents and BCBAs.
On a daily basis, we see the positive influence Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) has on the lives of children, their parents as well as for the teacher. That is why ABA Visualized is created with the mission to make ABA accessible for everyone.
By using visuals, our ABA resources help parents, teachers, and caregivers to bridge the gap between behavioral expertise and everyday applications.
ABA Visualized's resources teach essential ABA strategies which help to build developmental skills and reduce problem behaviors. Our visual guidebook, workbook, and TeleHelp e-book together create a comprehensive parent training package.
Management education is one of the most popular fields of study
worldwide, and as it continues to grow, so does the need for
updated, relevant programs to best prepare students for the
business world. Case studies have become popular as a means to
teach real world applications, but require flexibility in form and
content catered to each audience in order to garner the intended
affects. Case Studies as a Teaching Tool in Management Education
demonstrates the benefits and challenges associated with teaching
through case studies in management studies, by weaving theory and
practice to form a comprehensive outline for educators. This
publication is essential reading for managers, business
professionals, teachers in higher education, and advanced
management students.
The First Sourcebook on Nordic Research in Mathematics Education:
Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark and contributions from Finland
provides the first comprehensive and unified treatment of
historical and contemporary research trends in mathematics
education in the Nordic world. The book is organized in sections
co-ordinated by active researchers in mathematics education in
Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, and Finland. The purpose of this
sourcebook is to synthesize and survey the established body of
research in these countries with findings that have influenced
ongoing research agendas, informed practice, framed curricula and
policy. The sections for each country also include historical
articles in addition to exemplary examples of recently conducted
research oriented towards the future. The book will serve as a
standard reference for mathematics education researchers, policy
makers, practitioners and students both in and outside the Nordic
countries. This Sourcebook includes over 50 chapters from the
Nordic world. Section I- Norwegian Research in Mathematics
Education Section Editor: Simon Goodchild Introduction to the
Norwegian part of the Sourcebook of Nordic Research in Mathematics
Education Simon Goodchild The development of mathematics education
as a research field in Norway - an insider's personal reflections,
Trygve Breiteig and Simon Goodchild Section II- Swedish Research in
Mathematics Education Section Editor: Christer Bergsten Mathematics
education research in Sweden - An introduction Christer Bergsten
Some theoretical orientations of Swedish research Learning
difficulties and mathematical reasoning Johan Lithner, Torulf Palm
Section III - Icelandic Research in Mathematics Education Section
Editors: Guobjorg Palsdottir, Bharath Sriraman Mathematics
Education in Iceland: Explaining the Non-homogeneity in a
Homogenous System, Guony Helga Gunnarsdottir, Guobjorg Palsdottir,
Bharath Sriraman The History of Public Education in Mathematics in
Iceland and its Relations to Secondary Education, Kristin
Bjarnadottir Section IV - Danish Research in Mathematics Education
Section Editors: Bettina Dahl, Bharath Sriraman Section V-
Contributions from Finland Section Editor: Lenni Haapasalo
Standards in the American education system are traditionally
handled on a state-by-state basis, which can differ significantly
from one region of the country to the next. Recently, initiatives
proposed at the federal level have attempted to bridge this gap.
Common Core Mathematics Standards and Implementing Digital
Technologies provides a critical discussion of educational
standards in mathematics and how communication technologies can
support the implementation of common practices across state lines.
Leaders in the fields of mathematics education and educational
technology will find an examination of the Common Core State
Standards in Mathematics through concrete examples, current
research, and best practices for teaching all students regardless
of grade level or regional location. This book is part of the
Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design
series collection.
This book explores the pedagogical applications of critical
thinking in art education and scholarship. In the first part of the
book, the author delves into the ways that arts-based educational
research has incorporated critical thinking in order to illuminate
the context for the subsequent study. The second half of the book
focuses on the essay as a genre used in creative nonfiction and
film in order to enact the concept of critical thinking in art
education. In this way, the book sheds light on a new landscape of
thinking arts education and thinking scholarship through the essay
that is practiced in creative nonfiction and cinema.
This book brings together the voices of leading English Education
researchers who work to offer views into the changing landscape of
English as a result of the use of digital media in classrooms, out
of school settings, universities and other contexts in which
readers and writers work. But, as in most useful texts, the purpose
is more nuanced and far reaching than simply offering a glimpse
into where we currently find ourselves as a field. In sum, the
collection brings together and interweaves what we are coming to
know and understand about teaching English within a shifting
digital landscape as well as the implications for teacher education
and the discipline of English Education specifically. The intended
audience for this particular book is English educators, doctoral
candidates in the field of English education, researchers and
scholars in the field, and English language arts teachers -
especially those interested in the impact digital technologies can
have in our field.
Through an examination of three wooden boat workshops on the East
coast of the United States, this volume explores how craftspeople
interpret their tools and materials during work, and how such
perception fits into a holistic conception of practical skill. The
author bases his findings on first-person fieldwork as a boat
builder's apprentice, during which he recorded his changing sensory
experience as he learned the basics of the trade. The book reveals
how experience in the workshop allows craftspeople to draw new
meaning from their senses, constituting meaningful objects through
perception that are invisible to the casual observer. Ultimately,
the author argues that this kind of perceptual understanding
demonstrates a fundamental mode of human cognition, an intelligence
frequently overlooked within contemporary education.
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