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The Rowman & Littlefield Guide for Peer Tutors

by Daniel R. Sanford ...

Series series Theory & Practice for Peer Tutors & Learning Center Professionals
The Rowman & Littlefield Guide for Peer Tutors introduces college students to the field of peer tutoring, providing a theoretical background and practical guidance for peer tutors in higher education. Taking an innovative approach firmly grounded in the science of learning and cognition, the text guides college students in thinking critically about their work as educators and in making informed ... Read more

$33.38 CAD

The Rowman & Littlefield Guide for Peer Tutors introduces college students to the field of peer tutoring, providing a theoretical background and practical guidance for peer tutors in higher education. Taking an innovative approach firmly grounded in the science of learning and cognition, the text guides college students in thinking critically about their work as educators and in making informed
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Poetry and Pedagogy across the Lifespan

Disciplines, Classrooms, Contexts

Edited by Sandra Lee Kleppe, Angela Sorby ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book explores poetry and pedagogy in practice across the lifespan. Poetry is directly linked to improved literacy, creativity, personal development, emotional intelligence, complex analytical thinking and social interaction: all skills that are crucial in contemporary educational systems. However, a narrow focus on STEM subjects at the expense of the humanities has led educators to ... Read more

$162.62 CAD

This book explores poetry and pedagogy in practice across the lifespan. Poetry is directly linked to improved literacy, creativity, personal development, emotional intelligence, complex analytical thinking and social interaction: all skills that are crucial in contemporary educational systems. However, a narrow focus on STEM subjects at the expense of the humanities has led educators to
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Teaching World History Through Wayfinding, Art, and Mindfulness

by Amber J. Godwin ...

Teaching World History Through Wayfinding, Art, and Mindfulness approaches world history instruction through standards-based arts- and story-telling prompts. Each chapter provides contextualization through stories along with unique pieces of art from around the globe along with inquiries for teachers to examine by themselves and/or with their students through a mindfulness lens. By providing ... Read more

$33.38 CAD

Teaching World History Through Wayfinding, Art, and Mindfulness approaches world history instruction through standards-based arts- and story-telling prompts. Each chapter provides contextualization through stories along with unique pieces of art from around the globe along with inquiries for teachers to examine by themselves and/or with their students through a mindfulness lens. By providing
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The Double Bass, How It Works

A Practical Guide to Double Bass Ownership

by Michael J. Pagliaro ...

Series series National Association for Music Education
The**Double Bass: How it Works provides information not usually found in traditional instrumental music method books. When used concurrently with any method book, the student's learning experience is expanded beyond "learning how to play" to include all topics relevant to the subject instrument. As the lessons proceed, the students will be able to associate their playing experiences with ... Read more

$24.65 CAD

The**Double Bass: How it Works provides information not usually found in traditional instrumental music method books. When used concurrently with any method book, the student's learning experience is expanded beyond "learning how to play" to include all topics relevant to the subject instrument. As the lessons proceed, the students will be able to associate their playing experiences with
... Read more
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence

Applying a Model for Democratic Professional Practice in Education

by Marilyn A. Friga, Jean L. Cate, Chetanath Gautam, Mary E. Gardiner, Jane Ziebarth-Bovill, Karen A. Rowe, Diane L. Duffin, Elizabeth A. Urban, Katheryn E. Shannon, Michelle Van Lare, Dennis Potthoff0, Jiyoon Yoon1, Viola E. Florez2, Anthony Walker3, Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers4, Tamara Newport Love5, Cheryl Franklin Torrez6, Penny L. Tenuto7, Susan E. McLaughlin-Jones9, Leisa A. Martin0, Cynthia Paes de Carvalho1, Julie K. Yamamoto2, Catherine A. Bornhorst3, Ana Cristina Prado de Oliveira4, Rochelle Hunt Krueger5, Elizabeth Murakami6, Robert G. Smith7, Chance D. Mays8, Scott C. Bauer9, Nancy P. Gallavan0, Charles L. Lowery1, S. David Brazer2 ...

Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence advances discussion of a conceptualized model for cultivating democratic professional practice in education (DPPE) and considers its relationship with contemporary teaching and leading praxes. A diverse and highly qualified group of scholars and practitioners have contributed chapters relating to innovative programs, co-constructed partnerships, ... Read more

$127.97 CAD

Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence advances discussion of a conceptualized model for cultivating democratic professional practice in education (DPPE) and considers its relationship with contemporary teaching and leading praxes. A diverse and highly qualified group of scholars and practitioners have contributed chapters relating to innovative programs, co-constructed partnerships,
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The Common Core in Action

Ready-to-Use Lesson Plans for K–6 Librarians

by Deborah J. Jesseman ...

Series series SLM Hot Topics
This book addresses Common Core State Standard curriculum resources to assist the school librarian in collaborating with classroom teachers.Librarians are being asked to understand the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and their implications to programming and instruction, as well as to collection development planning. Using lesson plans originally published in School Library Monthly, this title ... Read more

$49.22 CAD

This book addresses Common Core State Standard curriculum resources to assist the school librarian in collaborating with classroom teachers.Librarians are being asked to understand the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and their implications to programming and instruction, as well as to collection development planning. Using lesson plans originally published in School Library Monthly, this title
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Collecting for the Curriculum

The Common Core and Beyond

by Amy J. Catalano ...

If you're a librarian charged with collecting curriculum materials and children's literature to support the Common Core State Standards, then this book—the only one that offers explicit advice on collection development in curriculum collections—is for you.While there are many publications on the Common Core for school librarians and K–12 educators, no such literature exists for curriculum ... Read more

$90.08 CAD

If you're a librarian charged with collecting curriculum materials and children's literature to support the Common Core State Standards, then this book—the only one that offers explicit advice on collection development in curriculum collections—is for you.While there are many publications on the Common Core for school librarians and K–12 educators, no such literature exists for curriculum
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The Whole Person

Embodying Teaching and Learning through Lectio and Visio Divina

by Maureen P. Hall, Catherine E. Hoyser, Jane E. Dalton ...

The Whole Person: Embodying Teaching and Learning through Lectio and Visio Divina offers readers a rich collection of voices from diverse settings that illustrates the ways in which lectio divina as a contemplative practice can transform teaching and learning.Growing from ancient roots, lectio divina as a contemplative practice and part of contemplative pedagogy, aligns with many efforts in the ... Read more

$34.01 CAD

The Whole Person: Embodying Teaching and Learning through Lectio and Visio Divina offers readers a rich collection of voices from diverse settings that illustrates the ways in which lectio divina as a contemplative practice can transform teaching and learning.Growing from ancient roots, lectio divina as a contemplative practice and part of contemplative pedagogy, aligns with many efforts in the
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Inquiry Paths to Literacy Learning

A Guide for Elementary and Secondary School Educators

Inquiry Paths to Literacy Learning, a collection of chapters from secondary teachers and university researchers, offers English language arts teachers several models and considerations for how to design and implement inquiry-based teaching and learning. As the contributors demonstrate, an inquiry approach can significantly boost student achievement, understanding, and transfer of learning. The ... Read more

$49.22 CAD

Inquiry Paths to Literacy Learning, a collection of chapters from secondary teachers and university researchers, offers English language arts teachers several models and considerations for how to design and implement inquiry-based teaching and learning. As the contributors demonstrate, an inquiry approach can significantly boost student achievement, understanding, and transfer of learning. The
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Navigating Certification

Success with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Process for Maintenance of Certification

by Bobbie Faulkner ...

Series series What Works!
This book explains, summarizes, and interprets the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards’ new Maintenance of Certificate (MOC) process. The MOC process replaces the former renewal process for National Board-Certified Teachers who want to maintain their certification beyond its original expiration date. MOC explores the teacher’s professional growth since the time of original ... Read more

$23.66 CAD

This book explains, summarizes, and interprets the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards’ new Maintenance of Certificate (MOC) process. The MOC process replaces the former renewal process for National Board-Certified Teachers who want to maintain their certification beyond its original expiration date. MOC explores the teacher’s professional growth since the time of original
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Designing World Language Curriculum for Intercultural Communicative Competence

by Dr Jennifer Eddy ...

Series series Bloomsbury Guidebooks for Language Teachers
This book creatively redefines how teacher educators and faculty in secondary and post-secondary language education can become designers with intercultural education in mind. The author aligns theoretical frameworks with practical features for revising the modern language curriculum via themes and novel tasks that transfer language learning from classroom to community, developing communicative ... Read more

$40.85 CAD

This book creatively redefines how teacher educators and faculty in secondary and post-secondary language education can become designers with intercultural education in mind. The author aligns theoretical frameworks with practical features for revising the modern language curriculum via themes and novel tasks that transfer language learning from classroom to community, developing communicative
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Enhancing the Professional Practice of Music Teachers

101 Tips that Principals Want Music Teachers to Know and Do

by Paul G. Young ...

If you want to improve your professional performance and set yourself apart from your colleagues-in any discipline-these tips are for you. If you desire anything less than achieving the very best, you won't want this book.Rather than addressing research and theory about music education or the "how-tos" of teaching, these time-honored tips focus on common-sense qualities and standards of ... Read more

$50.21 CAD

If you want to improve your professional performance and set yourself apart from your colleagues-in any discipline-these tips are for you. If you desire anything less than achieving the very best, you won't want this book.Rather than addressing research and theory about music education or the "how-tos" of teaching, these time-honored tips focus on common-sense qualities and standards of
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Gamify Your Classroom

A Field Guide to Game-Based Learning

by Matthew Farber ...

Series Book 71 - New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
This book is a field guide on how to implement game-based learning and «gamification» techniques to the everyday teaching. It is a survey of best practices aggregated from interviews with experts in the field, including: James Paul Gee (Author, What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy); Henry Jenkins (Provost Professor at University of Southern California); Katie Salen ... Read more

$46.07 CAD

This book is a field guide on how to implement game-based learning and «gamification» techniques to the everyday teaching. It is a survey of best practices aggregated from interviews with experts in the field, including: James Paul Gee (Author, What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy); Henry Jenkins (Provost Professor at University of Southern California); Katie Salen
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Reimagining Curriculum Studies

A Mosaic of Inclusion

by Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book addresses the crucial issue of how we value and deploy the idea of “freedom” that underlies contemporary curriculum studies. Whether we are conventional curriculum thinkers who value knowledge development or favor a Deweyan, individualist orientation toward curriculum or are a critical social justice curriculum thinker, at the heart of all these orientations and theorizing is the value ... Read more

$98.72 CAD

This book addresses the crucial issue of how we value and deploy the idea of “freedom” that underlies contemporary curriculum studies. Whether we are conventional curriculum thinkers who value knowledge development or favor a Deweyan, individualist orientation toward curriculum or are a critical social justice curriculum thinker, at the heart of all these orientations and theorizing is the value
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Opportunity to Learn, Curriculum Alignment and Test Preparation

A Research Review

Edited by Jaap Scheerens ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book provides a review of the effectiveness of Opportunity to Learn (OTL) operationalized as the association between OTL and student achievement. In addition, it presents an elaborate conceptual map in which OTL is regarded as part of a larger concept of curriculum alignment. Major components of this framework are national goals and standards, school curricula, formative tests, textbooks, ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

This book provides a review of the effectiveness of Opportunity to Learn (OTL) operationalized as the association between OTL and student achievement. In addition, it presents an elaborate conceptual map in which OTL is regarded as part of a larger concept of curriculum alignment. Major components of this framework are national goals and standards, school curricula, formative tests, textbooks,
... Read more
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Educação Física e futebol em tempos de chumbo

by João Fernando Pelho Ferreira ...

A obra aborda as políticas voltadas para a Educação Física e para os esportes, com maior atenção ao futebol, no governo do presidente Emílio Garrastazu Médici, destacando a preparação militar da comissão técnica da Copa do Mundo de 1970. A cientifização empreendida pelo governo do presidente Médici alcançou também a Educação Física e os esportes. A "ciência moderna" foi decantada em todos os ... Read more

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A obra aborda as políticas voltadas para a Educação Física e para os esportes, com maior atenção ao futebol, no governo do presidente Emílio Garrastazu Médici, destacando a preparação militar da comissão técnica da Copa do Mundo de 1970. A cientifização empreendida pelo governo do presidente Médici alcançou também a Educação Física e os esportes. A "ciência moderna" foi decantada em todos os
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Practicing Critical Pedagogy

The Influences of Joe L. Kincheloe

Edited by William Martin Reynolds, Mary Frances Agnello ...

Series series Education (R0)
This edited text recaptures many of Joe L. Kincheloe’s national and international influences. An advocate and a scholar in the social, historical, and philosophical foundations of education, he dedicated his professional life to his vision of critical pedagogy. The authors in this volume found mentorship, as well as kinship, in Joe and express the many ways in which he and his work made profound ... Read more

$104.48 CAD

This edited text recaptures many of Joe L. Kincheloe’s national and international influences. An advocate and a scholar in the social, historical, and philosophical foundations of education, he dedicated his professional life to his vision of critical pedagogy. The authors in this volume found mentorship, as well as kinship, in Joe and express the many ways in which he and his work made profound
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Del dicho al hecho

El largo trecho entre las propuestas y las transformaciones que realmente ocurren en las aulas

by María Gabriela Pauli, María Gabriela Pauli, Ricardo Coscio, Elida Beatriz Assenborn, Julio César Farmani, Margarita Herman, María Graciela Mancini ...

"La escuela secundaria está en crisis" es una frase que escuchamos reiteradamente. La necesidad de cambios en la educación y en particular en la escuela secundaria argentina es un imperativo y ha sido eje de las políticas educativas – o al menos de los discursos asociadas a ellas. Este libro es producto del proyecto "Una escuela del siglo XIX en el siglo XXI". Con él nos propusimos, desde la ... Read more

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"La escuela secundaria está en crisis" es una frase que escuchamos reiteradamente. La necesidad de cambios en la educación y en particular en la escuela secundaria argentina es un imperativo y ha sido eje de las políticas educativas – o al menos de los discursos asociadas a ellas. Este libro es producto del proyecto "Una escuela del siglo XIX en el siglo XXI". Con él nos propusimos, desde la
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Nuevas claves para la Docencia Universitaria en el Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior

by Águeda Benito, Ana Cruz ...

Series Book 10 - Universitaria
La redefinición de los objetivos de la Educación Superior que supone el proceso de convergencia europea implica grandes novedades en el planteamiento de la enseñanza que viene desarrollándose en las universidades. Este libro de naturaleza práctica e ilustrado permanentemente por ejemplos concretos y recomendaciones sencillas, pretende facilitar el cambio docente necesario para la verdadera ... Read more

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La redefinición de los objetivos de la Educación Superior que supone el proceso de convergencia europea implica grandes novedades en el planteamiento de la enseñanza que viene desarrollándose en las universidades. Este libro de naturaleza práctica e ilustrado permanentemente por ejemplos concretos y recomendaciones sencillas, pretende facilitar el cambio docente necesario para la verdadera
... Read more
Teacher's Guide to Effective Sentence Writing

by Bruce Saddler, PhD ...

Series series What Works for Special-Needs Learners
This practical book provides explicit instructions for teaching sentence-level skills to students who have difficulties in this area. The author explains the key role of sentence combining in the writing process and presents effective techniques for instruction and assessment. Numerous sample lessons, practice activities, planning tips, and grammatical pointers make it easy for teachers to ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

This practical book provides explicit instructions for teaching sentence-level skills to students who have difficulties in this area. The author explains the key role of sentence combining in the writing process and presents effective techniques for instruction and assessment. Numerous sample lessons, practice activities, planning tips, and grammatical pointers make it easy for teachers to
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The Relationship between Regime “Type” and Civic Education

The Cases of Three Chinese Societies

by Hui Li ...

Series series Education (R0)
Using comparative qualitative methodology, this book examines three Chinese societies, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China, as specific cases of democratic, hybrid and authoritarian regimes, presenting the theoretical underpinnings of civic education in contexts other than liberal democracy. It highlights on the concept of ‘good citizens’ in these three regime contexts and explores how these ... Read more

$116.09 CAD

Using comparative qualitative methodology, this book examines three Chinese societies, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China, as specific cases of democratic, hybrid and authoritarian regimes, presenting the theoretical underpinnings of civic education in contexts other than liberal democracy. It highlights on the concept of ‘good citizens’ in these three regime contexts and explores how these
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La actividad historiográfica en Filosofía y Letras

El Instituto Ravignani, entre dos coyunturas turbulentas, 1955-1974

by Martha Rodríguez ...

Uno de los principales objetivos de este título es contribuir al relevamiento y al análisis de la actividad historiográfica del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani, durante la dirección de Ricardo Caillet Bois (1956-1973 y 1976-1977). Los dos períodos de su mandato estuvieron atravesados por distintas coyunturas políticas, sociales, culturales e intelectuales en las ... Read more

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Uno de los principales objetivos de este título es contribuir al relevamiento y al análisis de la actividad historiográfica del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani, durante la dirección de Ricardo Caillet Bois (1956-1973 y 1976-1977). Los dos períodos de su mandato estuvieron atravesados por distintas coyunturas políticas, sociales, culturales e intelectuales en las
... Read more
The Origins of the Common Core

How the Free Market Became Public Education Policy

by D. Owens ...

Series series Education (R0)
Owens provides a historical analysis of the ideological movements and reform efforts leading to the Common Core State Standards, beginning with conservative criticism of public schools in the 1930s and culminating in a convergence of the political right and left in efforts to systemically reform education based on free market principles. ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

Owens provides a historical analysis of the ideological movements and reform efforts leading to the Common Core State Standards, beginning with conservative criticism of public schools in the 1930s and culminating in a convergence of the political right and left in efforts to systemically reform education based on free market principles.
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Las pedagogías de la comunidad a través de investigaciones locales en el contexto urbano de Bogotá

by Amparo Clavijo Olarte, Luz Maribel Ramírez Galindo ...

Series series Didácticas
Es difícil pensar en una manera más apropiada para celebrar el quincuagésimo aniversario del trabajo fundamental de Paulo Freire, Pedagogía del oprimido (1970/1968), que la publicación de Las pedagogías de la comunidad a través de investigaciones locales en el contexto urbano de Bogotá. Este volumen es un testimonio de los maestros como intelectuales creativos y transformadores (Giroux, 1988), ... Read more

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Es difícil pensar en una manera más apropiada para celebrar el quincuagésimo aniversario del trabajo fundamental de Paulo Freire, Pedagogía del oprimido (1970/1968), que la publicación de Las pedagogías de la comunidad a través de investigaciones locales en el contexto urbano de Bogotá. Este volumen es un testimonio de los maestros como intelectuales creativos y transformadores (Giroux, 1988),
... Read more

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