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Around the globe, there is an increasingly urgent need to provide opportunities for learners to embrace complexity; to develop the many skills and habits of mind that are relevant to today's complex and interconnected world; and to make learning more connected to our rapidly changing workplace and society.

Take advantage of the appeal and power of Caldecott award literature to extend and promote learning across the curriculum.

This book examines how philosophy was taught in the early modern period in Europe.

Classroom-tested methods for boosting secondary students' writing skills The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day offers teachers, homeschoolers, and parents 180 ready-to-use, reproducible activities that enhance writing skills in secondary students.

Originally published in 1992.

Originally published in 1983.

Water Works is a field-tested physical science unit for high-ability learners in grades K-1.

This unique book compares anthropogenic challenges in science and technology teacher education between the northern and southern contexts of Sweden and South Africa, respectively.

For artists, scholars, researchers, educators and students of arts theory interested in culture and the arts, a proper understanding of the questions surrounding 'interculturality' and the arts requires a full understanding of the creative, methodological and interconnected possibilities of theory, practice and research.

e-Learning Ecologies explores transformations in the patterns of pedagogy that accompany e-learning-the use of computing devices that mediate or supplement the relationships between learners and teachers-to present and assess learnable content, to provide spaces where students do their work, and to mediate peer-to-peer interactions.

This book offers an insight into the 21st century teaching and learning of English in Asia.

The effective and fun-filled way to teach spelling to elementary students The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day gives teachers 180 engaging and ready-to-use lessons-one for each day of the school year-that boost spelling skills in students grades 3-6.

A Practical Guide to Teaching Mathematics in the Secondary School offers straightforward advice, inspiration and a wide range of tried and tested approaches to help you find success in the secondary mathematics classroom.

Zookeeper, horse stable owner, archaeologist, lawyer, pilot, fireman, newspaper editor, dairy farmer, arson detective .

Guided Reading: Visualize for first and second grades enhances language arts lesson plans with 36 readers-six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers.

Use formative assessment to dramatically improve your students' writing.

Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K12 students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using new words.

This book presents a collection of critical thinking that concern cultural, social and political issues for science education in the Nordic countries.

Noticing is an essential aspect of professional expertise in teaching - a skill that draws on deep professional knowledge in ways that affect how teachers are aware of, respond to and meet the needs of their students.

With contributions from leading scholars, this compelling volume offers fresh insights into literacy teaching and learningand the changing nature of literacy itselfin today's K12 classrooms.

Being numerate involves more than mastering basic mathematics.

Writing about Literature combines detailed practical and scholarly advice with a sense of the scope and creative possibilities of literary criticism, empowering the student reader to make his or her own discoveries and experiments with language.

Check out Regie's video welcome and companion websiteHow do we find hope and possibility in challenging times?

This unique, socially conscience reference provides valuable guidance to international medical graduates (IMG's) looking to complete a residency in the United States.

Student Writing Tutors in Their Own Words collects personal narratives from writing tutors around the world, providing tutors, faculty, and writing center professionals with a diverse and experience-based understanding of the writing support process.

Full of drama, dedication, and humor, this book narrates the author's often frustrating experiences working as an experimental physicist in Cuba after the disintegration of the so-called socialist block.

The perfect companion to help you crack some of secondary science's most challenging concepts in your teaching.

Centered around the idea that literacy teaching is more than the transmission of strategies and skills, this volume serves as a foundation for approaching literacy from an identity perspective.

A showcase of innovative, global, collaborative Shakespeare education projects between institutions, educators, practitioners and students.

This book introduces research-based pedagogical practices for supporting and enhancing language development and use in school-based immersion and dual language programs in which a second, foreign, heritage, or indigenous language is used as the medium of subject-matter instruction.

Teaching Fashion Studies is the definitive resource for instructors of fashion studies at the undergraduate level and beyond.

On Reading Books to Children: Parents and Teachers brings together in one volume current research on adult book reading to children.

This textbook is for anyone who needs to learn the basics of bioinformatics the use of computational methods to better understand biological systems.

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Drawing on critical and sociocultural frameworks, this volume presents narrative studies by or about Latinas in which they speak up about issues of identity and education.

This book brings together international research on school teachers', and university lecturers' uses of digital technology to enhance teaching and learning in mathematics.

Exceptional Music Pedagogy for Children with Exceptionalities offers readers in music education, music therapy, and music in special education communities a new, important, and globally-informed resource for effective music pedagogies.

Anthony Laker leads an outstanding international team of educational theorists in critically examining the theoretical underpinnings of physical education, and in challenging the rhetoric, the practices and the pedagogies that prevail in our schools.

This edited volume provides a single coherent overview of vocabulary teaching and learning in relation to each of the four skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

Originally published in 1979 with a second edition in 1985.

A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History is a guide for college and high school educators who are teaching Indian Ocean histories for the first time or who want to reinvigorate their courses.

Why is metacognition gaining recognition, both in education generally and in science learning in particular?

This hands-on book offers teachers a much-needed resource that will help maximize learning for English Language Learners (ELLs).

Librarians who want to begin, expand, or improve their programs on teaching social media to adults and teens will find this guide invaluable.

In this Handbook leading researchers, teacher educators, and expert practitioners speak to current and future educators and educational leaders in understandable language about the research that informs best practices for English language learners integrated into the K-12 public school system.

This collection of simple to use, fun, multi-sensory games and creative lesson starters will jumpstart pupils enthusiasm for literacy learning.

Personalised learning is now widely regarded as a realistic and effective response to the diverse and fast-changing nature of life and work in the 21st century.

Every year at the U.