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Book SynopsisUsing award-winning books, Frohardt teaches realism, surrealism, expressionism, naive, and cartoon. Complete directions, enhanced by liberal illustrations, make this a user-friendly resource for grades 3-6.

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Book SynopsisThis volume, edited by Grace Veach, explores leading approaches to foregrounding information literacy in first-year college writing courses. Chapters describe cross-disciplinary efforts underway across higher education, as well as innovative approaches of both writing professors and librarians inthe classroom. This seminal work unpacks the disciplinary implications for information literacy and writing studies as they encounter one another in theory and practice, in the post-information age. Topics include: reading and writing through the lens of information literacy, curriculum design, specific writing tasks, transfer, and assessment.

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Book SynopsisThis book leads you through the process of designing a learning-centered course. It is written as a “how-to” handbook, providing step-by-step guidance on creating a pathway to student learning, including 26 workboxes (also available free online) that lead you through each element of the course design process and promote a rich reflection process akin to being in a workshop setting. The authors prompt you to (1) consider the distinctive characteristics of your students; (2) clearly articulate your course learning goals; (3) create aligned summative assessments; (4) identify the specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes students will need in order to be successful; (5) craft effective learning experiences, informed by the well-documented research on how people learn; and (6) incorporate formative assessment to ensure you and your students are staying on track. Completion of the sequence of worksheets leads to a poster as a visual display of your course design. This graphic depiction of your course ties the components together, provides a clear map of action for teaching your course, for modifying as you evaluate the success of particular strategies or want to introduce new concepts, and for developing your syllabus. A rubric for evaluating course posters is included.For faculty developers, this book provides a proven and ready-made resource and text around which to design or redesign learner-centered course design workshops or multi-day course design retreats, replicating or modifying the renowned workshop that the authors have developed at the Air Force Academy for both faculty new to teaching and those with many years of teaching experience under their belt.Trade Review"The workbook has much to commend. First, each chapter contains a helpful and thorough survey of the more significant research on the topic under consideration. Second, the system suggested to redesign courses is logically ordered, and effective. Third, at several key points the authors suggest proactive ways of finding evaluation of stages in the course design from colleagues. Most importantly, the authors recognize that effective course design has to be a flexible system; they do not claim to have all the answers for how every course can best be structured, rather they provide a series of guiding questions so that individual instructors can think through how to order their classes so that they effectively take students from wherever they begin, to the acquisition of central proficiencies and the accomplishment of learning goals, whatever the discipline. For these reasons, this book should be essential for anyone developing or revising courses towards a learning-centered model."Reflective Teaching Journal"This book is valuable for both the novice and experienced faculty member. I am particularly impressed that it is written at a level that is easy to understand, yet guides the reader to a complex product individually designed to improve student learning."Todd ZakrajsekInternational Teaching Learning Cooperative, Chapel Hill, NC"Roll up your sleeves and get ready to learn practical guidelines for designing a learning-centered course. This book puts aside theory and argument for the transformational work of re-tooling courses with an emphasis on deep, lasting learning. Various strategies maximize the hands-on, retreat-like approach to achieving what the authors call transparency, alignment, and integration in course design. The book is more than a good read: it is a genuine workout for teachers committed to improving student learning."John Zubizarreta, Ph.D., Professor of English, Director of Honors & Faculty Development, Carnegie Foundation/CASE U.S. Professor of the YearColumbia College"This book leads you through the entire process of designing a well-aligned, learning-centered course – and makes it easy. Not only does it explain solid course design principles we can all agree on, such as backward design, but it also provides the hands-on practicality of a workbook: The reader creates a course as she proceeds through the book. Faculty can use on their own, or educational developers can develop an extended course design workshop around it."Linda B. Nilson, Ph.D. Director, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and InnovationClemson University"Building a Pathway for Student Learning offers a practical, research-informed, systematic, comprehensive yet concise pathway for faculty interested in designing and building more effective courses. The book is itself a cleverly designed 'curriculum' that will engage and assist faculty across the disciplines – from novices to veterans, working individually or collaboratively – in understanding and implementing 'backward design.' I strongly commend and recommend this book to academic administrators and faculty alike for its conceptual clarity, pragmatic advice and admirable brevity.”Tom Angelo, Assistant Provost, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence (CAFE) and Professor of Higher EducationQueens University of Charlotte“Building a Pathway for Student Learning provides a practical and flexible guide to the wicked problem of teaching in higher education. As Jones, Noyd, and Sagendorf explain, faculty possess the content knowledge that is a prerequisite to teach effectively in college. That knowledge, however, is necessary but not sufficient for our work. What students know and are capable of doing as a result of our courses is what matters most, yet the dynamic nature of our students, disciplines, and institutions means that a static approach to teaching is bound to fail. Our disciplinary expertise, no matter how great, will not allow us to resolve this wicked problem.We need to supplement our disciplinary understanding with a systematic yet flexible approach to designing learning experiences for students. This book outlines an efficient and powerful process to do that. Jones, Noyd, and Sagendorf are excellent guides along the way. They have synthesized the best scholarly literature on learning and teaching; they also have practical experience gained by facilitating scores of course design retreats for diverse faculty. ‘Done well,’ Jones, Noyd, and Sagendorf remind us, ‘course design is a scholarly and deeply creative activity.’With this book as our guide, we will make progress in building pathways toward deeper student learning in all of our courses."Peter Felten, Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning, Executive Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learningand Associate Professor of History at Elon UniversityTable of ContentsPart One. Introduction 1. Our Course Design System and Effective Ways to Use This Book 2. Principles of Learning-Centered Course Design Part Two. Elements of the Learning Pathway 3. The Starting Point. Student Learning Factors 4. Defining the Destination. Learning Goals 5. Students’ Successful Arrival. Summative Assessment 6. What Your Students Need to Be Successful. Learning Proficiencies 7. Travelling the Pathway. Learning Experiences 8. Staying on Track. Formative Assessment Part Three. Pulling the Elements Together 9. Visualizing the Learning Pathway. The Course Poster 10. Students’ Pathway to Success. The Course Syllabus 11. Anticipating the Challenges Ahead Appendix A. Rubric for Evaluating Course Posters Appendix B. Taxonomy of the Psychomotor and Affective Domains Appendix C. Sample Syllabus References About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisTeach to Learn You teach to make a difference. Now, revitalize your classroom by learning and mastering these seven time-tested principles being taught around the world! Written for teachers, including Sunday school teachers, parents, and professionals, this book outlines scriptural principles and techniques that will revolutionize your ability to teach to change lives. From the “law of the learner” to the “law of equipping,” each chapter presents hands-on, practical tools for you to employ in your own classroom. Make a Difference Students learn best when teachers teach best! So how can you do your part? Employ the seven laws of the learner and unleash your students’ capabilities. You’ll discover how to: Help students reach their full potential Effect lasting life change Rekindle your flame for teaching Create an excitement for learning Transform apathetic students Whether you’re a professional teacher, a parent, or teach in any setting, these principles and techniques will empower you to make a lasting impact in people’s lives. Thousands of teachers have already used these principles to spur their students to new horizons of success. “For some time I have said to myself, ‘Much of what I am doing in the classroom is a waste of time. I can’t continue this career unless I can make a more significant contribution in the lives of my students.’ The Seven Laws of the Learner was the answer to my need.” Seminary professor Portland , Oregon “For years I filled my students with content. But since learning the seven laws, my life and teaching have not been the same. Now teaching for life change and revival are becoming second nature.” Businessman, adult Sunday school teacher Orange , California Story Behind the BookBruce Wilkinson had received thousands of requests for a book about how people learn. Having taught teachers all over the world, he developed the Seven Laws as the basis of his teaching workshops. In 1991 he sat down to put this content into book form. Published originally as a partnership between Multnomah Publishers and Walk Thru the Bible Ministries, this book is a companion to the workbook titled Almost Every Answer for Practically Every Teacher.

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Book SynopsisA streamlined prep guide for the ACT featuring concise lessons that will boost scores dramatically by teaching students how the questions are asked and the best strategies for getting to the right answer quickly.  In Acing the ACT, internationally renowned tutor Elizabeth King delivers a decade’s worth of secret insights for unlocking solutions to the trickiest questions on the ACT. She offers her closely guarded personal tips in stress-free, down-to-earth language that’s easy to understand and remember. No matter how you read this pocket guide-—cover to cover, or skipping around—these strategies will make your score pop, even if you’re already a top scorer. Whether you’re studying months ahead, or prepping last-minute, Acing the ACT delivers higher scores, fast. 

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Book Synopsis2015 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award Winner in Activity Book Category Perfect 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! Write It! Read It! includes field-tested bookmaking projects that encourage self-expression while building both art and literacy skills. Seventeen easy-to-follow blank book designs—such as Accordion Fold, Hanging Tassel, and Paper-Bag-Pockets books—are presented and then applied to 23 specific cross-curricular book projects, including Alphabet, Pop-Up Jungle, and Flapping Insects books. The projects require nothing more than imagination and standard classroom art supplies. With gentle prompting, kids can write poems, paragraphs, or simple stories related to their creations. Each activity includes educational objectives; skills developed; materials needed; clear, illustrated, step-by-step instructions; and literary connection ideas. Longtime art educator Wendy M. L. Libby guides beginners who might need more direction but also suggests open-ended possibilities for more experienced bookmakers, teachers, and artists.Trade Review" Make It! Write It! Read It! is a helpful resource for educators looking for an interesting way to support their students to consolidate their learning in any curriculum area and to develop creative expression." Canadian Teacher Magazine

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Book SynopsisA great resource for parents and homeschoolers in search of kid-friendly DIY projects, educators seeking to enhance classroom lessons, and caregivers or camp counselors looking for activities with a deeper educational lesson behind them, Curious Minds is filled to the brim with learning activities that will excite the eager, gifted child just as much as the special needs learner.Through 40 fun projects designed to promote kids' critical thinking about the interest in the world they live in, Curious Minds fosters active "learning by doing" in four core academic areas—math, science, social studies, and language arts. Each activity includes a short mini-lesson and list of "related lingo" to provide educational background information; a simple materials list; easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions; and guidance for extending the activity. The wide range of projects ensures every child's interest will be piqued. Kids will make homemade butter like the pioneers did; understand viscosity by making homemade quicksand; learn to recognize and use creative writing techniques; make their own ink using natural resources; and much more!

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Book SynopsisThe past two decades have brought giant leaps in our understanding of how the brain works. But these discoveries-;and all their exciting implications-;have yet to make their way into most classrooms.In Brain Words: How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching, authors J. Richard Gentry and Gene Ouellette bring their original, research-based framework of brain words dictionaries in the brain where students store and automatically access sounds, spellings, and meaning. This book aims to fill the gap between the science of reading and classroom instruction by providing up-to-date knowledge about reading and neurological circuitry, including evidence that spelling is at the core of the reading brain.Brain Words will show how children's brains develop as they become readers and discover ways you can take concrete steps to promote this critical developmental passage, including: Incorporating tools to recognize what works, what doesn't, and why Practical classroom activities for daily teaching and student assessmentInsights about what brain research tells us about whole language and phonics-first movements Deepened understanding of dyslexia through the enhanced lens of brain science With the insights and strategies of Brain Words, you can meet your students where they are and ensure they gain confidence as readers, spellers, and writers.Table of Contents1. Rethinking Reading Instruction as Building a Dictionary in the Brain 2. How the Scientific Study of Reading Can Inform Teaching 3. The Reading Brain 4. What Works and What Doesn't: A Critical Look at Current Teaching Practices 5. Phase Observation for Early Spelling to Read 6. Spell-to-Read: Building Brain Words in Kindergarten and First Grade 7. Building Brain Words in Second Through Sixth Grade 8. Understanding and Supporting Children with Dyslexia in Light of Reading Science

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Book SynopsisTwo leaders of the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship (Robert Quinn and Gretchen Spreitzer) combine with two leaders of Battelle for Kids (Katherine Heynoski and Mike Thomas) to offer a powerful new understanding of the mindsets, behaviors, and change processes of highly effective teachers. What these experts found in their research and their work with teachers and students upends our normal expectations about how to engage students and what learning is. They show how great teachers embrace and dance with the tensions in schools, students, and learning that hinder other teachers. They reveal how great teachers transform their own identities and the identities of their students so everyone becomes a lifelong learner. And they provide vivid examples and inspiring stories of practical ways to accelerate learning among children, youth, and adults.

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Book SynopsisThe perfect way to begin your studentsâ school day! Cross-curricular daily practice gets your 1st graders focused and engagedâand ready to learn. The daily activities provide practice of language, math, and reading skills in an easy-to-use format.

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Book SynopsisThe perfect way to begin your studentsâ school day! Cross-curricular daily practice gets your 3rd graders focused and engagedâand ready to learn. The daily activities provide practice of language, math, and reading skills in an easy-to-use format.

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Book SynopsisThe perfect way to begin your studentsâ school day! Cross-curricular daily practice gets your 4th graders focused and engagedâand ready to learn. The daily activities provide practice of language, math, and reading skills in an easy-to-use format.

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Book SynopsisThe perfect way to begin your studentsâ school day! Cross-curricular daily practice gets your 5th graders focused and engagedâand ready to learn. The daily activities provide practice of language, math, and reading skills in an easy-to-use format.

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Book SynopsisHelp underserved high-potential students claim their right to an education that addresses their unique needs. In gifted education, an important and contentious issue that has yet to be sufficiently addressed is the systemic underrepresentation of gifted students who have been discriminated against in school-based gifted and advanced learner programs because of their race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or other realities. Empowering Underrepresented Gifted Students gives a voice to those students and brings their stories into focus. With chapters written by student and expert scholars who specialize in addressing the structural inequity and educational inequality in gifted and advanced learner programs, Empowering Underrepresented Gifted Students recommends practices and strategies for helping underserved high-potential students claim their right to an education that addresses their unique needs. Each chapter has key takeaways and discussion questions, providing a built-in book study guide to prepare educators to engage students in conversation and to help develop their self-advocacy skills. Coeditors Dr. Joy Lawson Davis and Deb Douglas have brought together the voices of experts and students to help educators move closer to ensuring equity, access, and excellence in gifted education. By arming historically marginalized gifted students with self-advocacy strategies, these remarkable students will be better enabled to fulfill their dreams.

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Book SynopsisThe Internal Coherence Framework presents a system of research-based practices for assessing and developing the conditions that support adult and student learning in schools.Internal coherence is defined as the ability of educators in a school or system to connect and align resources to carry out an improvement strategy, engage in collective learning, and use that learning to provide students with richer educational opportunities. The internal coherence framework featured in the book brings together three important domains of research: leadership for learning, organizational improvement, and instructional efficacy.School or system leaders who progress through this book with colleagues will develop a shared vision for ambitious teaching and learning anchored in the instructional core; organize the work of the leadership and teacher teams to advance this vision; and build psychologically safe team, school, and system cultures to support the risk taking and constructive challenges necessary to move schools or systems to the next level of performance.At the heart of the book is a survey and rubric that can help schools better understand their strengths and weaknesses and the kinds of supports they need to support student learning. The book blends theory and practice to bring tested wisdom to bear on critical issues of education leadership and professional learning.

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Book SynopsisScience in the City examines how language and culture matter for effective science teaching. Author Bryan A. Brown argues that, given the realities of our multilingual and multicultural society, teachers must truly understand how issues of culture intersect with the fundamental principles of learning. This book links an exploration of contemporary research on urban science teaching to a more generative instructional approach in which students develop mastery by discussing science in culturally meaningful ways. The book starts with a trenchant analysis of the 'black tax,' a double standard at work in science language and classrooms that forces students of color to appropriate and express their science knowledge solely in ways that accord with the dominant culture and knowledge regime. Because we are in an interactive, multimedia world, the author also posits the necessity of applying what is known about best practices in science teaching to best practices in technology. The book then turns to instruction, illustrating how science education can flourish if it is connected to students' backgrounds, identities, language, and culture. In this empowered-and inclusive-form of science classroom, the role of narrative is key: educators use stories and anecdotes to induct students into the realm of scientific thinking; introduce big ideas in easy, familiar terms; and prioritize explanation over mastery of symbolic systems. The result is a classroom that showcases how the use of more familiar, culturally relevant modes of communication can pave the way for improved science learning.

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Book SynopsisHigher Teaching is divided into two sections: "Practice," which addresses what to teach when you get your first course outline, how to choose strategies and plan lessons, and how to manage your classroom so it is a safe and positive place in which students learn. There are chapters on instructional media, teaching online assessment and evaluation, dealing with difficult students and academic integrity issues, and how to improve your teaching. The second part "Theory and Background," focuses on the theories that inform current higher education teaching and curriculum, adult education, and a very useful chapter of advice extracted from experienced teachers responding to the question, "What's the advice you would give to a brand new teacher?" Also useful to a new teacher are the glossary of academic jargon and a lesson plan template.

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Book SynopsisThe field of embodiment theorizes bodies as knowledgeable in ways that include but are not solely cognitive. The contributors to this collection suggest developing embodied ways of teaching, learning, and knowing through embodied experiences such as yoga, mindfulness, illness, and trauma. Although the contributors challenge Western educational frameworks from within and beyond academic settings, they also acknowledge and draw attention to the incommensurability between decolonization and aspects of social justice projects in education. By addressing this tension ethically and deliberately, the contributors engage thoughtfully with decolonization and make a substantial, and sometimes unsettling, contribution to critical studies in education.

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Book SynopsisThe Perfect Teacher's Coach presents a simple and practical guide to making coaching work well in your school in order to deliver consistently high standards. This is ever more important with Ofsted increasing the number of lesson observations and 'evaluation of teaching and learning' providing a key performance indicator, alongside student outcomes. Everything you need to know about what coaching is and how it works is provided in this book. This includes details of various models of coaching and how to implement a successful model suitable for your school, training your coaches and ensuring you have a sustainable performance management process that really works.Trade ReviewTom DeRosa - I want to teach forever blog: The Perfect Teacher Coach by Jackie Beere and Terri Broughton is a concise, thoughtful guide to becoming an effective instructional coach. The two UK-based experts draw on years of teaching and coaching in a variety of settings, providing a clear blueprint of what coaching is and isn't. I found their framework for coaching very similar to what I learned both from Teach For America and in graduate school, In short, coaching is not about telling teachers what is wrong and how to fix it, but giving them the tools and encouragement to do so themselves. Coaches are great listeners who ask the right questions and provide a positive, unwavering belief that teachers can find the right answers within. It should come as no surprise that the elements that make a great coach of teachers also make a great classroom teacher. I was always taught to constantly reflect on my practice, get feedback from my students and outside observers, identify weaknesses and find solutions. When I did a good job of all of those things, my classroom was at its peak effectiveness. This is also the message of The Perfect Teacher Coach. Whether you already coach teachers, have such a role on the horizon for next year or beyond, or are still just trying to improve in your own classroom, there's a lot to learn from this new guide. I highly recommend it. Reviewed by Elanor Westbury, SENCo and English Teacher, Kings Lynn Academy.Very friendly and easy to navigate layout, which allows you to follow the book and take a step by step approach to techniques and theories or "dip into" and refresh skills that you haven't used for a while.Jackie and Terri are clearly passionate about the difference that coaching can make in an educational setting and this comes across loud and clear. The references to Ofsted and CPD give an edge of authority and make The Perfect Teacher Coach as an essential tool for a busy teacher - not soTable of ContentsTable of Contents: Introduction: Who this book is for What is coaching? What makes a 'perfect' coach? Coaching with edge, for performance management Creating a culture of coaching The skill of questioning A coaching framework Embedding the coaching culture for the long term

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Book SynopsisThis book will take the NQT through a journey which starts with interviews, leads them through the first visit before taking up the job and then into the first hectic weeks and months. Light in touch but rich in content, it can be read around the pool during the holidays before the start of term or kept by the bedside or in a desk drawer for an emergency flick through once teaching gets under way! It expands on the stuff that teacher training touches on, but importantly provides a refreshing look at the nitty-gritty stuff that most training doesn't! A brilliant book for NQTs. The Art of Being Brilliant series was a finalist in the 2017 Education Resources Awards in the Educational Book Award category.Table of ContentsIncludes: - getting a job - dealing with workload - discipline - preparing eye-catching lessons - dealing with parents - pastoral care - being a form tutor - dealing with colleagues - dealing with boys - getting involved in school life - taking trips - marking - assemblies - career development and much more

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Book SynopsisThe inspiring autobiography and leadership principles of the charismatic, enormously well-respected educator who founded the Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem

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