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Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Editionby Grant Wiggins; Jay McTighe
ASCD 2005; US$ 32.95Wiggins 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...
Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Designby Carol Ann Tomlinson; Jay McTighe
ASCD 2006; US$ 25.95Discover how the integration of two of education's most powerful frameworks will help teachers impart essential knowledge and skills to the full spectrum of learners. more...
Emileby MobileReference
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ******************. Emile: or, On Education (1762) which Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed to be the ?best and most important of all my writings? is largely a philosophical treatise on the nature of man; it addresses political and philosophical questions regarding the individual?s relationship to society, in particular how the individual can retain what Rousseau saw as his natural goodness while participating in an inevitably corrupt society. In Emile, Rousseau attempts to describe a system of education that will enable the ?natural man? that he outlines in The Social Contract (1762) to live within corrupt society. Rousseau includes the novelistic story of Emile... more...
Why Don't Students Like Schoolby Daniel T. Willingham
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009; US$ 18.95Easy-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...
The Self-Directed Learning Handbookby Maurice Gibbons
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 30.00The 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...
Fifty Modern Thinkers on Educationby Joy Palmer; David Cooper
Routledge 2001; US$ 29.95Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education looks at fifty of the twentieth century's most significant contributors to the debate on education. more...
Discipline with Dignityby Richard L. Curwin; Allen N. Mendler
ASCD 1999; US$ 15.95This 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...
Better schools, better teachers, better resultsby Vic Zbar; Graham Marshall; Paul Power
Australian Council for Educational Research 2007; US$ 39.95Performance management is an essential element of any school's strategy to build and maintain a strong and vibrant professional culture that supports high quality teaching and high quality learning. Better Schools, Better Teachers, Better Results specifi cally examines the how of performance management in schools. more...
Letters to a Young Teacherby Jonathan Kozol
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 13.99In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca’s likably irreverent questioning, he also reveals his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools. Letters to a Young Teacher reignites a numberof the controversial issues Jonathan has powerfully addressed in recent years: the mania of high-stakes testing that turns many classrooms into test-prep factories where spontaneity and critical intelligence are no longer valued, the invasion of our public schools by predatory private corporations, and the inequalities of urban schools that are once again almost as segregated... more...
Functional Behavioral Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatmentby Ennio Cipani
Springer Publishing Company 2007; US$ 62.00Professionals who work in mental health and educational settings are frequently faced with clients (children, adolescents, adults) who engage in serious problem behaviors. Such behaviors often impact the client's welfare and ability to live, work, and be educated in mainstream environments. Children and adolescents who manifest these behaviors are particularly vulnerable to these disruptions, which can have a far-reaching impact on their development and future prospects. This practical book, written both for clinician/educators and high-level students, creates a function-based behavioral diagnostic classification system, the first of its kind, as well as treatment protocols that fit such a diagnostic system. Heavily "practitioner-oriented,"... more...









