'In Case Study 5 (a grassroots 'Children's Mathematics Network group') the initiative supported the participants in their professional change by giving them a space for the detailed and joint consideration of children's mathematical thinking.
This textbook will prove invaluable to teacher educators, teachers, educational psychologists, and any professional who is involved with teaching children to read.
Written by a teacher for teachers, the second edition of Ronit Bird's The Dyscalculia Resource Book now comes with 120 games and puzzles and a brand new section on 'mixed operations puzzles' which require learners to switch mentally between addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Changing Seasons: A Language Arts Curriculum for Healthy Aging is a language-based, interdisciplinary program that increases interaction and communication skills among older adults.
The second edition of The Music and Literacy Connection expands our understanding of the links between reading and music by examining those skills and learning processes that are directly parallel for music learning and language arts literacy in the pre-K, elementary, and secondary levels.
In an era when education can extend far beyond traditional classrooms, this volume explores how young people engage with civic life and shape their futures through creative, critical, and collective action.
'My book showcases positive role models for black people and those within our wider dyslexic community and society, to inspire current and future generations.
The teacher training framework, introduced in September 2007, requires all teachers in the post-16 sector to possess knowledge, understanding and personal skills to at least level 2 in the minimum core for numeracy.
This second collection of perspectives on excessive teacher/faculty entitlement draws together authors from nine countries to address afresh the 'conundrums' affecting teaching and teacher education through the new lens afforded by the notion of excessive entitlement.
Written by Peter Mattock,Conceptual Maths: Teaching 'about' (rather than just 'how to do') mathematics in schoolsaims to empower teachers to support students on a comprehensive and coherent journey through school mathematics.
This practical and popular guide to children's common errors and misconceptions in primary mathematics is an essential tool for you as a teacher or trainee.
This book explains 'big ideas' in mathematics in simple terms supported by classroom examples to show how they can be applied in primary schools to enable learning.
Zapata demonstrates how to reinvigorate aesthetic and critical response in early childhood and elementary classrooms through literature explorations of diverse picturebook collections.
Bringing together two key areas within early childhood- play and literacy - this book offers an innovative approach to examining literacies within the context of children's play.
Covering the key principles and concepts in the teaching and learning of mathematics in primary schools, this text provides trainee and practising teachers with a quick and easy reference to what they need to know for their course, and in the classroom.
Algebra is the language that must be mastered for any course that uses math because it is the gateway for entry into any science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discipline.
'This user-friendly interactive book makes concepts simple and gives you the confidence and knowledge to learn and teach mathematics to primary children.
Nearly forty percent of all fourth graders in this country cannot read at grade level, and this number rises to sixty percent for children coming from poor families.
In the course of his educational consultancy work, Bob has seen many teachers successfully use the scope and depth which literature can offer to inspire high standards, mastery learning and, above all, a love of language in its many forms.
Firmly rooted in research evidence of what works within the classroom for our most disadvantaged students, Disciplinary Literacy and Explicit Vocabulary Teaching offers teachers and school leaders practical ways in which those students who are behind in their literacy capabilities can make excellent progress.
This book capitalizes on the authors' longitudinal perspective in program development in approaching a K-12 reading strategy, The school administrator and classroom teacher will find the book's guidelines right to the point.
This second collection of perspectives on excessive teacher/faculty entitlement draws together authors from nine countries to address afresh the 'conundrums' affecting teaching and teacher education through the new lens afforded by the notion of excessive entitlement.
The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation.
Introducing sophisticated mathematical ideas like fractals and infinity, these hands-on activity books present concepts to children using interactive and comprehensible methods.
Introducing sophisticated mathematical ideas like fractals and infinity, these hands-on activity books present concepts to children using interactive and comprehensible methods.
