This highly novel book provides an exploration of the role of silence in the school setting and interrogates the value of silence and quiet in contemporary educational practices, looking at pedagogies and classroom practice to guide this increasingly popular subdiscipline of the history of education.
In Through a Different Lens, Ger Graus, a global authority on education, especially in the areas of experience-based learning and human potential, gives us a unique and invaluable perspective on education, children, and schooling.
Best-selling author Randi Stone brings together a collection of best classroom practices by award-winning teachers from schools throughout the United States to inspire new and experienced middle school teachers with time-tested ideas.
Let Randi Stone and her award-winning teachers demonstrate tried-and-tested best practices for teaching science in diverse elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.
This unique book focuses on the interaction of learning disabilities and emotional disorders, fostering an understanding of how learning problems affect emotional well-being, and vice-versa.
Elementary school provides foundational development and education for students, and there is much that a new teacher must consider when taking on the responsibility of shaping young minds.
How can early childhood teachers, administrators, and parents translate discoveries on early brain development into strategies that nurture cognitive growth?
Drawing on the authors' combined expertise in both occupational and speech and language therapy, this essential guide is designed to empower teaching staff in their mission to create inclusive learning environments that support every child.
Elementary educators learn to recognize how students learn best-and adjust their lesson plans accordingly-with this handbook's Multiple Intelligence (MI)-based strategies.
Elementary educators learn to recognize how students learn best-and adjust their lesson plans accordingly-with this handbook's Multiple Intelligence (MI)-based strategies.
2015 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award Winner in Activity Book CategoryPerfect for preschool through elementary level educators seeking to enhance classroom lessons or parents and other caregivers looking for fun and creative hands-on activities for children, Make It!
2015 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award Winner in Activity Book CategoryPerfect for preschool through elementary level educators seeking to enhance classroom lessons or parents and other caregivers looking for fun and creative hands-on activities for children, Make It!
Ripe for Change: Garden-Based Learning in Schoolstakes a big-picture view of the school garden movement and the state of garden-based learning in public K8 education.
Ripe for Change: Garden-Based Learning in Schoolstakes a big-picture view of the school garden movement and the state of garden-based learning in public K8 education.
This book provides a unique examination on the ways in which educating the whole child in the community school serves to ameliorate the conditions of poverty and obstacles to learning faced by students.
This second edition to Hidden Dangers to Kid's Learning: Parent Guide to Cope with Educational Roadblocks gives more insight into waysparents can understand and help their academically struggling child.
Exploring Nonfiction with Young Learners explores the four basic nonfiction structures that the youngest learners are most likely to encounter: descriptive, recount/collection, procedural, and explanatory texts.
Diversity Awareness for K-6 Teachers: The Impact on Student Learning is a resource guide for elementary teachers and college-level student teachers for teaching diversity awareness across the various areas of content.
In History and Imagination, elementary school social studies teachers will learn how to help their students break down the walls of their schools, more personally engage with history, and define democratic citizenship.
Bringing together leading experts, this book presents the principles of effective literacy leadership and describes proven methods for improving instruction, assessment, and schoolwide professional development.