Education - Curricula

A powerful anthology on the role of curricula in perpetuating-and resisting-oppression.Author: Boni WozolekISBN-10: 143848917XISBN-13: 9781438489179Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2022Pages: 228Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

What if you could challenge your kindergartners to come up with a way to reduce human impact on the environment? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Our Changing Environment outlines a journey that will steer your students toward...

Timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive, this text directly supports pre-service and in-service teachers in developing curriculum and instruction that both addresses and exceeds the requirements of English language arts standards. It demonstrates how the Common Core State Standards as well as other local and national...

Timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive, this text directly supports pre-service and in-service teachers in developing curriculum and instruction that both addresses and exceeds the requirements of English language arts standards. It demonstrates how the Common Core State Standards as well as other local and national...

Peace Work: Mindful Lessons of Self Regulation for a Child's Early Years is the six-lesson curriculum from Wellness Works in Schools, an innovative school-based program that teaches mindfulness skills to students to help them handle life's challenges. The first book for teachers from Wellness...

Coverage of heritage and archeology in formal education is typically limited. These subjects are typically taught through specific and anecdotal activities that do not respond to a specific methodological foundation. School-museum relationships offer numerous benefits for design participation experiences with long-term perspectives in conducting...

FreedomCivics was developed by a team of teachers and historians for the Freedom EducationFoundation (FEF) to provide an accurate history of the founding of the United States of America, with a focus on the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Northwest Ordinance...

This is a complete curriculum about food chemistry for ages 10 to 16. The first half of the book (130 pages) is the student text which gives all the information needed. The text is lively and includes some cartoons and whimsical humor while still...

Want an innovative way to get young children moving--and support development across multiple domains? Discover CHAMPPS, the fun, effective, and research‐based motor program for inclusive preschool classrooms. Filling the need for a school‐based motor program designed for children with diverse abilities, CHAMPPS uses universal...

The primacy of surface teaching and learning is largely based on a system of habits. Attempts at changing these systems have been based largely on changing belief systems, building "motion" based habits, and setting goals. As we read through the book, motion and actions...

The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic plunged large numbers of students and faculty across the world into online learning with little to no warning or experience. This leaves a ripe situation to assess how far online learning has come, what pitfalls people have experienced,...

The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic plunged large numbers of students and faculty across the world into online learning with little to no warning or experience. This leaves a ripe situation to assess how far online learning has come, what pitfalls people have experienced,...

This edited volume extends ecological approaches to curriculum theory by recognizing and building on the contributions of the late Chet A. Bowers to curriculum and ecological studies globally. Chapters provide in-depth explanation of Bowers' central contributions to the field, including his identification of the...

Didaktik and Curriculum in Ongoing Dialogue revives the dialogue between the continental European Didaktik tradition and the Anglo-Saxon tradition of curriculum. It highlights important research findings that bridge cultural differences and argues for a mutual exchange and understanding of ideas. Through analyses of shared...

How can teachers introduce Islam to students when daily media headlines can prejudice students' perception of the subject? Should Islam be taught differently in secular universities than in colleges with a clear faith-based mission? What are strategies for discussing Islam and violence without perpetuating...

The CopyWorkBook series from Blue Sky Daisies makes it easy to add a little copywork to your school schedule. The CopyWorkBook: Comedies of William Shakespeare includes quotes and selections from each of Shakespeare's comedy plays.In this edition of The CopyWorkBook, lines are provided for...

Due to our fast-paced society, the impact of social media, and the threat of climate change, today's children are facing challenges unique to their generation. Incorporating mindfulness as part of their curriculum--whether in a classroom or a home school setting--teaches invaluable life skills that...

Excel Awards Gold Winner for Technical book The research is clear: Play is acritical part of the learning process for young children. Early childhoodeducators have the opportunity to deeply and meaningfully scaffold children'slearning by curating and organizing the "stuff" children love to play withmost....

The challenge many of us face is balancing the planning paper work with our time interacting with children. We want to be with them, hear their ideas, and engage in the moments of awe and wonder sprinkled throughout the day, but we often feel...

The IntuitivChemistry series is different The Ross Periodic Table is a pedagogical model of the periodic table, the first periodic table designed for learning. A synthesis of cognitive science plus chemistry, the Ross Table is a powerful representation of the periodic table, aimed at...

Electricity can be easy to understand - if you choose the right starting point To make the science of electricity intuitive, you will begin with energy. From here, you can learn a fruitful model of simple electric circuits, developed from ground up. This approach...

This book has been written to provide a current, practical, Australian-based approach to designing and developing curriculum. The demands of schools and educational systems today are such that teachers with practical curriculum skills are highly valued and this book provides a vital source for...

This book develops the ideas presented in Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties Book I: A Psycholinguistic Framework by focussing on how the information gathered within a psycholinguistic framework can be used to plan intervention for children with speech, wordfinding and phonological awareness problems. It...

As a father of three young adult children, a registered nurse, a former Boy Scout leader, and a former college professor, I noticed a serious lack of training offered to young adults in the skills needed to be able to live on their own....

The Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools (2011) lamented the "lack of high-quality civic education in America's schools [that] leaves millions of citizens without the wherewithal to make sense of our system of government" (p. 4). Preus et al. (2016) cited literature to...

The Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools (2011) lamented the "lack of high-quality civic education in America's schools [that] leaves millions of citizens without the wherewithal to make sense of our system of government" (p. 4). Preus et al. (2016) cited literature to...

Chapter 1. Introduction to Animals in Environmental Education: Whither Interdisciplinarity?, Teresa Lloro-Bidart and Valerie BanschbachChapter 2. What Can an Animal Liberation Perspective Contribute to Environmental Education?, Jan OakleyChapter 3. An Intersectional Approach to Teaching and Learning about Humans and Other Animals in Educational Contexts,...

This book focuses on the process of creating and educating innovation leaders through specialized programs, which are offered by leading academic schools. Accordingly, the book is divided into two parts. While the first part provides the theoretical foundations of why and how innovation leaders...

This book examines the formative relationship between nineteenth century American school architecture and curriculum. While other studies have queried the intersections of school architecture and curriculum, they approach them without consideration for the ways in which their relationships are culturally formative--or how they reproduce...

Builds on growing interest in the flipped classroom technique for all levels of the educational system, from elementary through post-secondary levelsMakes an important contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learningProvides scholars and practitioners guidance on how to create materials for flipped classrooms will...

This book will help post-secondary educators to discover the joys and challenges of implementing theoretically grounded civic engagement projects on their campuses. The essays on civic engagement and public scholarship are written by an interdisciplinary group of community college faculty who have designed and...

Since its original publication, Conflicts in Curriculum Theory has firmly established itself as the key volume that not only advanced alternative ways to think about education and curriculum but also introduced innovative scholarship and a radical conceptual grammar for the field. In this revised...

This book has been designed to add to the study and experience of early childhood ideas and experience in an international context. The focus is Australia and China with three research projects explored to provide insights into the history and development of early childhood...

1. Introduction2. What Art Teaches3. Formalism and False History4. A Monstrous, Misshapen Ideal 5. Twisting Reality 6. Finding the Purple7. ConclusionsAuthor: Timothy BabulskiISBN-10: 3030277674ISBN-13: 9783030277673Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2019Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.50d

Chapter 1. Moving Beyond Biography: Critical Race Theory and the Construction of the Alternative Black Curriculum in Social Studies Chapter 2. Black Curriculum in Social Studies: A Textual Reading of When Truth Gets a Hearing Chapter 3. Resisting the Master Narrative: Building the Alternative...

This book theorizes shadow education as a new component of curriculum, expanding the concept of curriculum to include this type of learning. Curriculum scholars and theorists have largely disregarded shadow education as a valid topic of scholarly attention despite its massive growth worldwide. But...

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Curriculum Studies in South Africa: Colonialism, Constructivism, and Outcomes-Based Education Chapter 3. Curriculum Studies in Brazil: Marxism, Postmodernism, and Multiculturalism Chapter 4. Curriculum Studies in Mexico: Technical Rationality, Curriculum Communities, and Neoliberal Globalization Chapter 5. Curriculum as a Process...

This volume provides an analysis of what we know about turning around "failing" schools in the United States. It starts with an in-depth examination of the barriers that hinder action on turnaround work.The book analyses the reasons why some schools that find themselves in...

The purpose of this book is to give parents the tools they need to help solidify academic skills by strengthening the basic skills taught in the previous school year. Giving short daily lessons to help reinforce basic skills throughout the summer months will help...

Written by Claire Banks and Mick Waters, A Curious Curriculum: Teaching foundation subjects well details the insightful and transformational steps that a school can take towards designing and delivering a rich, rigorous and wide-ranging curriculum.Foreword by Mary Myatt.Rather than being a model curriculum that...

This book narrates and analyzes a century of the Turkish education system and textbook indoctrination starting from the foundation of the Republic until today. It divides the history of Turkish education into five periods: Single party government (1923-1950), Menderes' Democrat Party government (1950-1960), the...

The what, the why, and the how of pedagogical documentationWhat does your classroom say about the children's ideas, inquiries, learning, and play? An inspiring step-by-step guide to documenting children's ideas, questions, play, and learning in a way that enhances teachers' thinking and understanding at...

Author: Mary RosenbergISBN-10: 1420639935ISBN-13: 9781420639933Publisher: Teacher Created ResourcesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2009Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.50d

Author: Robert W. SmithISBN-10: 1420632205ISBN-13: 9781420632200Publisher: Teacher Created ResourcesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/10/2006Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.44w x 0.12d

The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction emerges from a concept of curriculum and instruction as a diverse landscape defined and bounded by schools, school boards and their communities, policy, teacher education, and academic research. Each contributing author was asked to comprehensively review the...

This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education. Deliver an exciting computing course for ages 11-14, building on students' existing computing skills and experience whilst demonstrating new concepts, with practice opportunities to ensure progression. - Recap and activate students' prior knowledge with...

Author: Kirkpatrick Debbadi Jones an Ben BarnesISBN-10: 1398369810ISBN-13: 9781398369818Publisher: Hodder EducationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2023Pages: 208Format: Paperback

Author: Kirkpatrick Debbadi Jones an Ben BarnesISBN-10: 1398369802ISBN-13: 9781398369801Publisher: Hodder EducationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2023Pages: 208Format: Paperback

This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education. Deliver an exciting computing course for ages 11-14, building on students' existing computing skills and experience whilst demonstrating new concepts, with practice opportunities to ensure progression. - Recap and activate students' prior knowledge with...

Author: Kirkpatrick Debbadi Jones an Ben BarnesISBN-10: 1398369330ISBN-13: 9781398369337Publisher: Hodder EducationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/23/2022Pages: 208Format: Paperback