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Addresses the current emphasis on standardized curriculum and how it discourages teachers from providing content that provokes thought, and discourages students from intellectual engagement.

In this pragmatic book, the authors have brought the use of the most widely used graphic device - the family genogram - into the wider context of community and culture, to help counselors and therapists better understand individuals and families-in-context.

This book examines the work of pioneers: teachers who have transformed their classrooms in an effort to broaden the literacy of their students, describing some of the most innovative examples of teaching and learning.

Some of the most prominent educators of our time share memorable learning experiences in up-close and personal interviews. They discuss how they overcame obstacles and feelings of isolation to teach in a learner-centred, active classroom; and much more.

In this volume, prominent educators join Nel Noddings to address the issue of global citizenship, what this means, and how it should shape curriculum and teaching in K-12 classrooms.

Helping students develop an understanding of mathematical ideas is a persistent challenge for teachers. This work focuses on ways to engage upper elementary, middle school, and high school students in thinking, reasoning, and problem solving to build their mathematics understanding and proficiency. The content focus of Volume Two is algebra.

In this book, Thornton details why teachers must develop strong skills in curriculum planning and teaching methods in order for effective instruction to occur.

This is the Spanish translation of the ITERS-R (Infant Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised edition) a widely used program quality assessment instrument designed for use in center-based child care programs for infants and toddlers up to 30 months of age.

This book looks at how a group of educators, social activists, and scholars tried to reduce intergroup tensions and create schools where people of all groups could learn from and with each other.

This memoir of professional development in action follows bestselling author Selma Wassermann from her dismal beginnings, struggling for control over her students, to enjoying the kind of teaching in which teacher and students are truly partners in the process.

The ""project approach"" has long been a tremendous tool for educators working with young children. In this book, three experienced teachers show parents, grandparents, and other caregivers how to do meaningful and exciting projects at home with their children in their home and community.

This book of protocols is a useful tool for facilitators of groups working together to examine student and teacher work. A follow-up to 'Looking Together at Student Work' and 'Assessing Student Learning', this resource considers the purposes for engaging in collaborative review and provides effective strategies for successful collaboration.

As poor, non-white communities on the far side of the digital divide become immersed in electronic media, a potential arises to use their experiences as a catalyst to transform the teaching of writing and literature. Barbara Monroe offers an analysis of instructional technology and critical multiculturalism.

These essays follow a veteran teacher educator and school reform activist as he tries to understand an enterprise he calls ""mysterious and immeasurable."" Focusing on his experiences, Bill Ayers argues, reflects, and searches for ways to break through the routine and the ordinary to see teaching as the important and extraordinary work it is.

This book offers an engaging and effective approach to improving teacher and student learning. Based on the experiences of three leading educational organizations, the authors provide research-based guidelines for incorporating inquiry into teacher's instructional practices and student work as part of the ongoing work of schools.

By citing historical developments, the authors provide a framework through which one can interpret the way morality has been cultivated amongst Black minorities. Presenting essays of well-known African American scholars, they discuss the psychology of moral formation among African Americans and the practical implications of this knowledge.

Policymakers face a number of difficult and technical questions in the design and implementation of new accountability approaches. This title gathers the emerging knowledge and lessons learned offered by scholars in the field to provide a resource for policymakers, educators, and anyone interested in the issue of accountability and public schools.

Responding to their research on how children learn mathematics, this work has revised this textbook to provide practical advice on what works and what should be avoided when teaching second graders.

Featuring contributions from teachers and researchers, this work opens new territory on the topics of the intersection of race with literacy research and practice.

How might science education reflect the values of a socially just and democratic society? Using a combination of in-depth case studies and rigorous theory, this volume offers a series of teaching stories that describe inner city youth's practices of science.

This work provides social, historical and philosophical perspectives in the field of early childhood education. It examines a variety of today's most significant and challenging subjects, including child development research, play, programme models, assessment, diversity and inclusion.

This work presents an overview of Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory along with examples that educators can use in their classroom with adult literacy students.

This work explores the power of using media education to help urban teenagers develop their critical thinking and literacy skills. Here, Steven Goodman looks closely at both the problems and possibilities of this model of media education.

A collection of essays on social class, race, gender and schooling in which the authors take a serious look at the paradox of public education - the ways in which urban schools reproduce social inequalities while, at the same time, serve as sites for learning at its most transformative.

Drawing from her experience of using cases in teacher education and in-service courses, Katherine Merseth offers a practical guide to improving the teaching of mathematics. She provides a collection of cases that blend mathematics content with the real complexities of school and classroom life.

This text promotes the integration of visual art into all early childhood curriculum areas. It should help early childhood professionals present in-depth art experiences to children so that they become engrossed in in expressing their ideas and newly learned concepts through art media.