From a field developed out of the need to train military personnel at scale to its current role in enabling virtual learning and training experiences, instructional design has developed into a complex, multifaceted discipline.The modern instructional design process goes by many names (e.g., learning experience design, learning engineering, training and development, organizational development) and continues to adapt with continual changes in society and skill development needs. From...

Many would argue that the state of urban science education has been static for the past several decades and that there is little to learn from it. Rather than accepting this deficit perspective, Improving Urban Science Education strives to recognize and understand the successes that exist there by systematically documenting seven years of research into issues salient to teaching and learning in urban high school science classes. Grounded in the post structuralism of William Sewell...

For a little duckling named Deekin, an adventure down a dirt road introduces him to many different animals, and he finds out that even though they are so different, they all have a purpose in this world. (Sometimes it takes a stranger to make you understand what you already know.)

For a little duckling named Deekin, an adventure down a dirt road introduces him to many different animals, and he finds out that even though they are so different, they all have a purpose in this world. (Sometimes it takes a stranger to make you understand what you already know.)

Liven up your seasonal celebrations with inspiration for rituals, crafts, recipes, and meditations alongside tales and traditions written by some of today’s most acclaimed pagans and witches.Authors such as Dodie Graham McKay, Raechel Henderson, Michael Herkes, and Tomás Prower guide you through the year sabbat by sabbat, offering new takes on each observance.Explore the darker aspects of Ostara, work with harvest deities for Mabon, and cast a manifestation...

Llewellyn’s Magical Almanac has inspired practitioners of all skill levels for more than three decades with dozens of new articles grouped by element each year.Perfect for practitioners of all skill levels, this annual collection of useful magic includes spells, rituals, and insights written by esteemed witches and pagans. Deepen your connection to the natural world and enhance your magic with wisdom on a wide variety of subjects, includin...

How does your personality shape your life and what, if anything, can you do about it?Are you hardwired for happiness, or born to brood? Do you think you're in charge of your future, or do you surf the waves of unknowable fate? Would you be happier, or just less socially adept, if you were less concerned about what other people thought of you? And what about your "Type A" spouse: is he or she destined to have a heart attack, or just drive you to drink?In the...

A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions -- engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning -- to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals, Donald Schon maintains, know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work, they rely less on formulas learned in graduate school than on the kind of improvisation learned in practice. This unarticulated, largely unexamined process...

Formative assessment plays an important role in increasing teacher quality and student learning when it’s viewed as a process rather than a tool. Emphasizing the instructional side of formative assessment, this book explores in depth the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success criteria, feedback, collaborative and cooperative learning, and self-regulated learning to engineer effective learning environments for students.

In this provocative and well-researched book, Alfie Kohn builds a powerful argument against “teaching to the test” in favor of more child-centered curriculums to raise lifelong learners.Drawing on stories from real classrooms and extensive research, Kohn shows parents, educators, and others how schools can help students explore ideas rather than just fill them with forgettable facts and prepare them for standardized tests. Here, at last, is a book that challenges t...

Science changes the world because the creation of knowledge opens up new pathways for us to explore new ways of doing things, and new questions to ask. My optimism lies in the fact that I think that the answer to why science is sexist does all of these things.In this eye-opening BWB Text, Nicola Gaston, President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists, reveals the ways in which the discipline of science is sexist. From the under-representation of women to the argument that mental cap...

This book provides invaluable guidance for thinking through and planning a qualitative study. Rather than offering recipes for specific techniques, master storyteller Robert Stake stimulates readers to discover "how things work" in organizations, programs, communities, and other systems. Topics range from identifying a research question to selecting methods, gathering data, interpreting and analyzing the results, and producing a well-thought-through written report. In-depth examples from a...