Elementary educators face crucial questions when shaping their vocabulary teaching methodswhat vocabulary words to target and how to foster self-directed learning.
An essential text in literacy and teaching methods, this book introduces the concept of identity in literacy learning and provides guidance toward designing identity-based literacy instruction in early childhood and elementary classrooms.
Explore the unique and expansive learning opportunities offered by gardening with childrenGardens are where childrens imaginations engage nature, and the result is joyful learning.
If children are to access all phonics teaching effectively, they first need to know how to tune into and manipulate the sounds specifically needed for reading.
Gathering contributions from leading scholars around the world, this handbook offers a comprehensive resource on the most recent advances in research surrounding the theories, methodologies, and applications of science learning progressions.
This teaching resource provides staff in education settings and parents/carers with a comprehensive way of supporting children, aged 4-7, to learn that they have a right to feel safe and can talk with someone about anything, even if it feels awful or small.
Getting young children active and supporting their physical development right from the start is essential for children's all-round development and good health.
Getting young children active and supporting their physical development right from the start is essential for children's all-round development and good health.
Focusing on the many challenges faced by school leaders in different contexts, including primary, secondary, rural, and urban settings, this book helps you find practical solutions that work for your circumstances, align with your values, and support your relationship with yourself and your people.
Dyslexia in Many Languages thoroughly investigates the fascinating relationship between dyslexia and language systems by highlighting research and practice initiatives around the world.
This book brings together the voices of practitioners, researchers, parents, and children and young people themselves to explore innovative pedagogies where multiple voices have been actively engaged in co-producing the design of inclusive practices within education.
Follow nine young people as they move from racially isolated elementary and middle schools to a diverse - yet internally segregated - neighborhood high school.
This textbook guides teachers in enacting science instruction that results in the cultivation of scientifically literate students in elementary school.
This book presents an exploration of how Golden Age detective fiction encounters educational ideas, particularly those forged by the transformative educational policymaking of the interwar period.
This resource is for any busy teacher looking to enrich their lesson planning and support the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and metacognition skills.
This edited volume takes an expansive, no-nonsense view of the spectrum of English language learners to address their varied backgrounds and their wide range of needs, worries, motivations, and abilities.
This vital resource for early years and primary school trainees and practitioners explores a range of social and therapeutic strategies and interventions that will successfully support all children's sense of belonging.
The Teaching of Instrumental Music, Sixth Edition, introduces music education majors to basic instrumental pedagogy for the instruments and ensembles commonly found in the elementary and secondary curricula.
This accessible guide explores what an autism-affirming primary school should be like, from the perspective of autistic pupils, introducing a tool to gather pupil voice and sharing a toolbox of strategies informed and requested by autistic children themselves.
This book investigates the profound and complex impact of the opioid epidemic on schools in the United States, focusing on diverse aspects such as its history, legislative responses, trends, and implications for students, educators, and schools.
This book charts the firsthand experiences and challenges faced by Maltese early childhood educators in the implementation of a novel approach to the curriculum: the replacement of a prescriptive curricula with one co-constructed by the educator and the child.
Promover aprendizajes en profundidad sobre los diferentes fenomenos y conceptos que se comunican en el aula de ciencias, exige, ademas de la contextualizacion de los contenidos y de su problematizacion, la preparacion consciente de los docentes en temas propios de su quehacer como la naturaleza de las ciencias, la historia y la epistemologia, la motivacion, la metacognicion, la resolucion de problemas, el pensamiento critico, el lenguaje y la argumentacion.
Cuentos sobre STEAM para programar es un libro que recopila varios cuentos creados en conjunto con las docentes de educación infantil que cursaron la primera cohorte del diplomado Desarrollo de Habilidades STEAM.
Como instituciones sociales, la familia y la escuela tienen una gran influencia en la vida de los seres humanos y comparten la misión de construir ambientes saludables (física, mental y espiritualmente) para las nuevas generaciones.
This new edition of the bestselling Language for Life shows how language can be mastered by children and how what they have learned can be carried throughout their lives.
This book presents a range of perspectives on the way language, diversity, and identity are reflected in New Zealand children's literature, based on the published research of Nicola Daly, an associate professor in the Division of Education of the University of Waikato, and her colleagues.
Ever since HND gained the status of the official language ,the moral responsibility of making the language acceptable in perfect administrative form has gradually increased.
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has an important role in ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all.
The transition from early childhood education to primary school is a big step for all children, and a step which more and more children are having to take.
