Based on six-month fieldwork in a junior secondary school in Shanghai, this book qualitatively investigates the implementation of Teaching Research Groups (TRGs), a form of school-based Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) in China, and teachers' different professional learning experiences within the structure of TRGs.
2018 Critics Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association (AESA)2018 Outstanding Book Award, Society of Professors of EducationChezare A.
A critical resource for inclusive teaching in the Spanish classroomAlthough Indigenous peoples are active citizens of the Americas, many Spanish language teachers lack the knowledge and understanding of their history, culture, and languages that is needed to present the Spanish language in context.
This timely book presents the latest scholarly research on the integration of Information Communications Technology (ICT) for enhanced STEM education in African schools and universities.
This timely book presents the latest scholarly research on the integration of Information Communications Technology (ICT) for enhanced STEM education in African schools and universities.
This book explores the conceptual framework, opportunities for learning, as a transaction between literacy learners, mediating agents, and the literacy content to be learned within social, cultural, and historical contexts.
This book explores the conceptual framework, opportunities for learning, as a transaction between literacy learners, mediating agents, and the literacy content to be learned within social, cultural, and historical contexts.
A COUNTERNARRATIVEThis groundbreaking book uncovers how anti-Black racism has informed and perpetuated anti-literacy laws, policies, and customs from the colonial period to the present day.
Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC, 1989) articulates every child's right to have their voice heard in matters that affect them.
The second edition of this book offers a unique approach to making mathematics education research on the teaching and learning of multiplication and division concepts readily accessible and understandable to preservice and in-service K-6 mathematics teachers.
High School to College Transition Research Studies offers two uniquely designed sections that provide a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research findings surrounding a diverse group of college students.
In rural America, perhaps more than other areas, high school students have the ability to contribute to the revitalization and sustainability of their home communities by engaging in oral history projects designed to highlight the values that are revered and worth saving in their region.
Speaking to the need to move beyond traditional formulations, this textbook presents radical visions for transforming civic education in the United States.
Aimed at teachers and leaders looking to create greater impact on teaching and learning through the use of digital technology in schools, From EdTech to PedTech translates research on the effective integration of digital technology in education into relevant, accessible, and practical guidance for teachers and school leaders.
Dialogues on Religion-and its Study creatively revives a time-honored genre by offering a series of new speeches on religion (its definition, description, comparison, and explanation) between two old friends who periodically meet throughout the year.
The Bullring: A Classroom Experiment in Moral Education describes a way in which the principle of encouraging children to find out for themselves and to conduct their experiments with the raw material of common everyday objects-so well understood in the earlier years of schooling-may be adapted to help older children understand the world of persons.
A respected journalist turned-teacher reveals what's really happening in America's schoolsIn 1999, Chicago Sun-Times veteran Leslie Baldacci left her prestigious, twenty-five year career to teach at a public school in one of Chicago's roughest South Side neighborhoods.
Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management is an exciting methods-based text that integrates appropriate management and assessment techniques with seven distinct teaching strategies for pre-service social studies teachers.
In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women.
The fourth edition of this informative, accessible and intellectually engaging teacher training book provides a definitive guide for trainee and newly qualified secondary school teachers and their mentors.
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.
Now revised and expanded Speaking Frames: How to Teaching Talk for Writing: Ages 10-14 brings together material from Sue Palmer's popular Speaking Frames books with additional material covering the primary/secondary transition.
How Science Works provides student and practising teachers with a comprehensive introduction to one of the most dramatic changes to the secondary science curriculum.
Taking a critical, research-oriented perspective, this exploration of the theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical connections between the reading and teaching of young adult literature and adolescent identity development centers around three key questions: Who are the teens reading young adult literature?
This book reconceptualizes social studies teaching and learning in ways that will help prepare students to live in "e;new times"e; - prepared for new forms of labor in the post-industrial economy, equipped to handle new and emerging technologies and function in the new media age, and prepared to understand different perspectives to participate in an increasingly diverse, multicultural global society.
Are there evidence-based answers to the broad question "e;What explicit knowledge about language in teachers and/or students appears to enhance literacy development in some way"e;?
This book tells a single story, in many voices, about a serious and sustained set of changes in mathematics teaching practice in a high school and how those efforts influenced and were influenced by a local university.
Everything You Need to Get the Score You Want on the HSPT, or TACHSWe ve put our proven expertise into McGraw Hill Catholic High School Entrance Exams to make sure you re fully prepared for any of these difficult exams.
A user-friendly, concept-first approach to Middle School ELA that helps you improve your skills quickly and easilyMust Know Middle School ELA provides a fresh approach to learning.
