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Classroom Instruction That Works with English Language Learners by Jane Hill; Kathleen Flynn
ASCD 2006; US$ 26.95As more and more English language learners (ELLs) are included in mainstream classrooms, what can we do to ensure that they understand academic content and develop their English language skills? To answer this question, authors Jane Hill and Kathleen Flynn have examined decades of research, interviewed mainstream teachers with ELLs in their classrooms, and reviewed the classroom recommendations from Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock?s seminal Classroom Instruction That Works (2001) through an ELL lens. more...
Two Way Aboriginal Schoolingby Stephen Harris
Aboriginal Studies Press 1990; US$ 17.50Since the late 1970s, many Aboriginal communities have been moving towards control of their children?s education. Different models of bicultural or ?two way? schooling are emerging, in which Aboriginal language and culture are taught as legitimate ends in themselves, not merely as a means to more effective learning of English. Stephen Harris explores the theoretical concept of bicultural schooling and its practical implication sin the classroom. more...
Still Failing at Fairnessby David Sadker; Karen Zittleman
Simon & Schuster 2009; US$ 12.99Despite decades of effort to create fair classrooms and schools, gender bias is alive and well, and in some ways growing. School practices continue to send boys and girls down different life paths, too often treating them not as different genders but as different species. Teachers and parents often miss the subtle signs of sexism in classrooms. Through firsthand observations and up-to-the-minute research, Still Failing at Fairness brings the gender issue into focus. The authors provide an in-depth account of how girls' and boys' educations are compromised from elementary school through college, and offer practical advice for teachers and parents who want to make a positive difference. The authors examine today's pressing issues -- the... more...
Systematic Instruction Of Functional Skills for Students And Adults with Disabilitiesby Keith Storey
Charles C Thomas 2011; US$ 34.95This text is a clear and current description of the instructional strategies that can be immediately applied across age groups and disability labels. An evidence-based instructional methodology is provided, which has proved to be effective in teaching skills to students and adults with disabilities. Signature topics include: (1) a community-referenced functional curriculum; (2) how to assess and analyze skills; (3) teaching skills; (4) functional academics; (5) teaching employment skills; (6) functional skills in community; (7) functional skills in residential settings; (8) teaching social skills; (9) self-determination and self-advocacy skills; and (10) self-management skills. Each chapter includes Key Point Questions, Windows to the World... more...
Teaching and Learningby Marjorie Schiering; Drew Bogner; Jorun Buli-Holmberg
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2011; US$ 34.99Learners are multi-faceted, unique people. Discovering the whole individual is incumbent upon realizing the teaching/learning environments, common social and societal realities, and belief and value systems respective of academic and socio-societal factors that establish who one is as a learner and teacher. In Learning and Teaching, the authors offer practical strategies for interactive instruction to facilitate optimum learning. more...
Combating Educational Disadvantageby Theo Cox; Ronald Davie
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 57.50International contributors focus on the challenges to the educational system posed by children and young people who experience a variety of social and economic disadvantages. more...
Understanding the Boysby John Head
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 47.50Attention is given to general aspects of learning and assessment before examining the response of boys to specific subjects within the curriculum. Personal, social and health education concerns are addressed. more...
Curriculum of the Futureby Michael F. D. Young
RoutledgeFalmer 1998; US$ 56.95Young argues the need to rethink post-16 education to shift focus onto vocational education, school-work issues and lifelong learning. more...
Sexual Bullyingby Neil Duncan
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 52.95Sexual Bullying draws together a number of theories on gender, adolescent behaviour and schooling to examine the social processes at work in four comprehensive schools. more...
Gender, Policy and Educational Changeby Jane Salisbury; Sheila Riddell
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 64.95This book is an edited collection of chapters that aims to look at the developments that have taken place in recent years in gender policies. more...