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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Read with me outlines the ABCs of active reading (ask questions, build vocabulary, and connect to the child's world) to make these behaviors clear and easy to implement for parents and teachers. Learn skills to engage children aged 2 to 5"--Adapted from cover.
Author
Publisher
ASCD
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Total Participation Techniques presents dozens of ways to engage K-12 students in active learning and allow them to demonstrate the depth of their knowledge and understanding. The authors, Pérsida Himmele and William Himmele, explain both the why and the how of Total Participation Techniques (TPTs) as they explore the high cost of student disengagement, place TPTs in the context of higher-order thinking and formative assessments, and demonstrate...
3) Better learning through structured teaching: a framework for the gradual release of responsibility
Author
Publisher
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Now in its 3rd edition, Better Learning Through Structured Teaching is the definitive guide to the gradual release of responsibility-an instructional framework any teacher can use to help students to be more successful and self-directed learners.
To gradually, release responsibility is to equip students with what they need to master content and develop new competencies. On a day-to-day basis, it means delivering lessons intentionally structured to...
4) Out the door
Author
Language
English
Description
Simple text and illustrations follow a child's progress from home to school and back again.
Author
Publisher
Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In this book you'll learn how to : tap into your passion as a teacher - even when you're less than excited about the subject ; develop creative presentations that capture your students' interest ; establish rapport and a sense of camaraderie in your classroom ; transform your class into a life-changing experience for your students. --from back cover.
Author
Publisher
ASCD
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The benefits of collaborative learning are well documented-and yet, almost every teacher knows how group work can go wrong: restless students, unequal workloads, lack of accountability, and too little learning for all the effort involved. In this book, educators Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Sandi Everlove show you how to make all group work productive group work: with all students engaged in the academic content and with each other, building valuable...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A decade ago, James Lang banned cell phones in his classroom. Frustrated by how easily they could sidetrack his students, Lang sought out a distraction-free environment, hoping it would help his students pay attention to his lessons. But after just a few years, Lang gave in. Not only was his no-cellphones policy ineffective (even his best students ignored it), he realized that he, like many of his fellow teachers, was missing an important point....
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po are celebrating Ten years of Tele-vision for toddlers with this special edition DVD featuring episodes that have never been seen in the U.S. The Teletubbies engage in such infant-pleasing activities as rolling on the ground, laughing, running about, and watching real children on the televisions on their bellies. Mysterious pinwheels and telephones rise out of the meadow to loosely direct the day's activities. The...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Raising an Active Reader explains research on reading aloud with children who are in early elementary school (grades K-3). Upon completion, adults will know how read aloud works for children who are learning to read, and how the ABCs of Active Reading (Ask questions, Build vocabulary, and make Connections) build important reading skills"--
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In his new book, Henry Mintzberg offers a sweeping critique of how managers are educated and how management, as a result, is practiced, and makes thoughtful-and controversial-recommendations for reforming both. Management, Mintzberg writes, is a practice that blends a great deal of craft (experience) with a certain amount of art (insight) and some science (analysis). Because conventional MBA programs are designed almost exclusively for young people...
Author
Publisher
Harriman House Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into classrooms by age and grade, forcing them to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, seven hours a day, five days a week, for twelve years? We trust the school system to prepare our kids for the future. We get excited when they get good grades, or disappointed if they don't. But we rarely stop to question whether school is teaching our children...
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This unique cookbook will encourage you to celebrate every messy minute in the kitchen with your children as you teach them cooking basics, create kid-friendly food they'll enjoy eating, and have a whole lot of smiles and laughter doing it. You and your kids will have a blast making over 50 easy recipes from such fun chapters as "Egg-cellent Breakfasts," "Lovable Lunches," and "Dinners Without the Whine" along with helpful extras, such as a Tips and...
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