Responding to the issues and challenges of teaching and learning about climate change from a science education-based perspective, this book is designed to serve as an aid for educators as they strive to incorporate the topic into their classes.
The professional learning framework this book presents is designed to support teachers' understandings of how language functions in their academic disciplines.
Coaching Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom is a practical resource to help Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 teachers explore and understand a range of concepts, principles and techniques gathered under the term 'emotional intelligence', and the way that this powerfully influences pupils' behaviour and learning in the classroom.
Runner up in Teach Secondary's Technology and Innovation Awards 2014 sponsored by Lego, Brilliant Ideas for using ICT in the Inclusive Classroom provides lots of simple practical ideas showing teachers and support staff how they can use ICT to boost the achievement of all pupils.
This timely book takes up the challenge of maintaining programs in the arts in the face of unrelenting pressure from two directions; the increasing focus on literacy and numeracy in schools, teamed with the cut-backs in public funding that often affect the arts most severely.
Despite variations of educational systems, when transitions in education occur, the pedagogical challenges that teachers and pupils undergo are quite similar across the globe.
This book takes a fresh look at secondary urban English classrooms and at what happens when students and their teachers explore literature collaboratively.
Offering a philosophy, methodology, and examples for history instruction that are active, imaginative, and provocative, this text presents a fully developed pedagogy based on problem-solving methods that promote reasoning and judgment and restore a sense of imagination and participation to classroom learning.
The middle school years are a maze of academic duties, human growth and self-development, discovering self identity, and increasing social interaction with other people.
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.
Surviving the Move and Learning to Thrive: Tools for Success in Secondary Schools, Grades 6-12 is collection of seven chapters that provide tools for all students, especially struggling and reluctant learners, to find a better path to learning while moving through middle and high school.
Instructors using the textbook, Supervising Student Teachers: The Professional Way, 7th Edition, will find its companion instructor's guide a helpful resource.
While research and common sense tells us that experiential learning is more effective than the more traditional process of information assimilation (where teachers lecture, test, and grade), high school, college, and university teachers continue to use paper-and-pencil tests as their primary grading and assessment tool.
More than ever before, as they teach to an increasingly diverse population, educators need a clear, concise guide to designing and implementing responsive curriculum.
An in-depth look at academically selective public high schools in AmericaWhat is the best education for exceptionally able and high-achieving youngsters?
In the current standards-based, accountability-driven world of education, it is difficult for educators to use differentiated instruction to cater to the individual learning needs of each student.
This book is the perfect starting point for anyone looking to promote and encourage mental health in their school, or evaluate their existing provision, in line with current government priorities.
One in five students are identified as speaking English as an Additional Language (EAL) and all teachers are highly likely to be teaching multilingual students in their classrooms.
Transforming the Lives of Impoverished Girls in Patriarchal SocietiesSince 2003 a privately funded high school in India has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh.
The new IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) curriculum for 11 to 16 year olds came into effect in September 2014 and will strengthen the IB's continuum of learning.
Roman für Jugendliche von 12–16 Jahren, auch als Klassenlektüre an weiterführenden Schulen geeignet, Fach: Deutsch, Förderunterricht, Klasse 7–10 +++ Leseschwache Schüler geben schnell frustriert auf, wenn die Lektüre zu schwer, zu lang und zu langweilig ist.
Roman für Jugendliche von 13–16 Jahren, auch als Klassenlektüre an weiterführenden Schulen geeignet, Fach: Deutsch, Förderunterricht, Klasse 8–10 +++ K.
Mithilfe des Trainings können Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene im Alter von 13 bis 20 Jahren kompetentes Sozial- und Arbeitsverhalten alltagsnah einüben.
Klassenlektüre für Jugendliche an weiterführenden Schulen, Fach: Deutsch, Klasse 7–10 +++ Leseschwache Schüler geben schnell frustriert auf, wenn die Lektüre zu schwer, zu lang und zu langweilig ist.
This volume seeks to close the gap between education systems across the world that remain systematically devoted to understanding our world through text rather than images.