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  • Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Editionby Grant Wiggins; Jay McTighe

    ASCD 2005; US$ 32.95

    Wiggins and McTighe provide an expanded array of practical tools and strategies for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that lead students at all grade levels to genuine understanding. more...

  • Teach Like Your Hair's on Fireby Rafe Esquith

    Penguin Group Inc. 2007; US$ 12.99

    Read Rafe Esquith's posts on the Penguin Blog. The New York Times bestseller that is revolutionizing the way Americans educate their kids-"Rafe Esquith is a genius and a saint" ( The New York Times ) Perhaps the most famous fifth-grade teacher in America, Rafe Esquith has won numerous awards and even honorary citizenship in the British Empire for his outstandingly successful methods. In his Los Angeles public school classroom, he helps impoverished immigrant children understand Shakespeare, play Vivaldi, and become happy, self-confident people. This bestseller gives any teacher or parent all the techniques, exercises, and innovations that have made its author an educational icon, from personal codes of behavior to... more...

  • Why Don't Students Like Schoolby Daniel T. Willingham

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009; US$ 18.95

    Easy-to-apply, scientifically-based approaches for engaging students in the classroom Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham focuses his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning. His book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn. It reveals-the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences. Nine, easy-to-understand principles with clear applications for the classroom Includes surprising findings, such as that intelligence is malleable, and that you cannot develop "thinking skills" without facts How an understanding of the brain's workings can help teachers hone their teaching skills... more...

  • Effective Teachingby Daniel Muijs; David Reynolds

    SAGE Publications, Inc. 2010; US$ 49.00

    Praise for the previous edition:“A small number of education books feel indispensable; this is warmly welcomed to the club. It's a magnificent survey of what educational research can tell us about nitty-gritty classroom issues.” - Geoff Barton, Times Educational Supplement, Friday MagazineThis new edition updates the successful 2005 edition with the latest research on effective teaching and learning. Appropriate for primary and secondary education, the authors continue to provide a broad and comprehensive overview of what is now a large body of knowledge on effective teaching.The authors maintain their user-friendly style and the structure which takes in generic teaching skills; teaching for specific goals; subject specific strategies... more...

  • The Self-Directed Learning Handbookby Maurice Gibbons

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 30.00

    The Self-Directed Learning Handbook offers teachers and principals an innovative program for customizing schooling to the learning needs of individual students-- and for motivating them to take increasing responsibility for deciding what and how they should learn. Whether the students are struggling or proficient, the program is designed to nurture their natural passion for learning and mastery, challenging them to go beyond the easy and familiar so they can truly excel. The program can be introduced in stages in any middle or high school classroom and enables students of diverse abilities to design and pursue independent course work, special projects, or even artistic presentations, community field work or apprenticeships. Using this approach,... more...

  • Active Math Problem Solvingby Ken Smith; Rod Jefferson

    Ready-Ed Publications 2001; US$ 7.95

    Contains applied mathematics activities (photocopy masters) that are thematically grouped and are structured to present an increasing level of difficulty with each successive sheet on the theme. The themes include: * Stamp Study * Unmagic squares * Number tracks * Map coloring * Pentominoes more...

  • Designing Authenticity into Language Learning Materialsby Frieda Mishan

    Intellect 2004; US$ 10.00

    This book puts forward an authenticity-centred approach to the design of materials for language learning. The premise of the approach is that language learning should be based on authentic materials drawn from a variety of genres found in the target language culture, and that the learning tasks involving these materials should be correspondingly authentic, by entailing interactions that are consistent with the original communicative purpose of the authentic text. It provides both a theoretical grounding to the authenticity-centred approach, and demonstrates its practical application in a teaching task reference section. In outline, the book: ? Refines a definition of authenticity in the context of language pedagogy. ? Traces the historical... more...

  • Understanding the Global TV Formatby Albert Moran

    Intellect 2006; US$ 10.00

    This volume presents a series of papers concerned with the interrelations between the postmodern and the present state of art and design education. Spanning a range of thematic concerns, the book reflects upon existing practice and articulates revolutionary prospects potentially viable through a shift in educative thinking. more...

  • Discipline with Dignityby Richard L. Curwin; Allen N. Mendler

    ASCD 1999; US$ 15.95

    This update to the best-selling ASCD book features a new introduction written by the authors and an index. Educators know that we must have safe schools. Teaching and reinforcing responsible human behavior is the core of Discipline with Dignity . more...

  • Learn Basic Sight Words - Book 1by Dayle Smith; Jane Beals

    Curriculum Concepts 2007; US$ 5.95

    Learn Basic Sight Words. This book uses large and small motor activities and sentence reading and writing activities with contextual clues to introduce 24 basic sight words. The activities used repeat for each word so that independence is quickly achieved and students can complete the activity on their own as a follow-up activity to instruction. Activities for each word are:. ? tracing over a large model of the word. ? copying over the word and writing it independently. ? cutting out the muddled more...