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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...
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fireby Rafe Esquith
Penguin Group Inc. 2007; US$ 12.99Read 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...
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...
Education Policyby M. Olssen; J. Codd; A-M. O'Neill
Sage Publications Ltd. 2004; US$ 60.00Education Policy provides an international perspective on education policy, and of the role and function of education in the global economy. It covers the major topics of central significance in education and the sociology of education. At the same time it maintains a unique position in respect to globalization, education and the nation state. more...
On Educationby Harry Brighouse
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 22.95What is education for? Is there a place for faith schools - and should patriotism be taught? Drawing on the examples from Britain and North America, and from thinkers on education, this title criticizes and assesses the arguments for and against the controversial issues of faith schools and the teaching of patriotism. 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...









