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Service-Learning and the Liberal Arts: How and Why It Works
ISBN: 9780739121221 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book evaluates service-learning within the context of a liberal arts education from a variety of disciplines. Contributors have written chapters that have practical appeal to other teachers and students interested in developing their own service-learning courses and connecting those courses to broader issues of citizenship and democracy.
The book evaluates service-learning within the context of a liberal arts education from a variety of disciplines. Contributors have written chapters t...
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Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology: Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers
ISBN: 9780253006127 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How should I use technology in my courses? What impact does technology have on student learning? Is distance learning effective? Should I give online tests and, if so, how can I be sure of the integrity of the students' work? These are some of the questions that instructors raise as technology becomes an integral part of the educational experience. In Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology, award-winning instructors representing a wide range of academic disciplines describe their strategies for employing technology to achieve learning objectives. They include tips on using just-in-time... How should I use technology in my courses? What impact does technology have on student learning? Is distance learning effective? Should I give onli... |
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Creating Campus Cultures: Fostering Success Among Racially Diverse Student Populations
ISBN: 9780415888202 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many colleges and universities have not engaged in the critical self-examination of their campuses necessary for effectively serving racially diverse student populations. This timely edited collection provides insights into how campus cultures can and do shape the experiences and outcomes of their increasingly diverse college student populations. By cultivating values, beliefs, and assumptions that focus on including, validating, and creating equitable outcomes among diverse undergraduate students, an institution can foster their success.While attention to campus climate is critical for... Many colleges and universities have not engaged in the critical self-examination of their campuses necessary for effectively serving racially diver... |
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Preserving the Public in Public Schools: Visions, Values, Conflicts, and Choices
ISBN: 9781610485432 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What's public about public schools? Why do we invest in educating the next generation of Americans? What is it that drives our common purpose in educating children and at the same time divides us so passionately about how to educate them? Public schools have little to do with children. Schools are political and ideological institutions in which each generation battles among itself for supremacy in determining the purposes, goals and direction of public education. From battles over school lunch to school dress to school prayer, each generation reinterprets and recapitulates the political and...
What's public about public schools? Why do we invest in educating the next generation of Americans? What is it that drives our common purpose in educa...
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Research-Based Unit and Lesson Planning: Maximizing Student Achievement
ISBN: 9781610484541 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a detailed, thorough, and comprehensive discussion of effective curriculum and instructional planning that leads to student success. Coaching rubrics facilitate implementation of the content so that teachers can improve their productivity.
This book presents a detailed, thorough, and comprehensive discussion of effective curriculum and instructional planning that leads to student success...
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Classroom Management: A Guide for Urban School Teachers
ISBN: 9781610487634 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many teachers who work in urban schools find classroom management to be very problematic. Their university course work, and training, didn't prepare them for the heavy demands of being an urban school teacher. Urban educators need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage adverse behaviors, and still deliver a quality education to all students. Classroom Management: A Guide for Urban School Teachers is designed to give educators practical strategies that will help them deal with the unique challenges faced by urban school teachers today. Whether the teacher is...
Many teachers who work in urban schools find classroom management to be very problematic. Their university course work, and training, didn't prepare t...
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Surveying Borders, Boundaries, and Contested Spaces in Curriculum and Pedagogy
ISBN: 9781617355202 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A volume in The Curriculum and Pedagogy Series The Curriculum and Pedagogy book series is an enactment of the mission and values espoused by the Curriculum and Pedagogy Group, an international educational organization serving those who share a common faith in democracy and a commitment to public moral leadership in schools and society. Accordingly, the mission of this series is to advance scholarship that engages critical dispositions towards curriculum and instruction, educational empowerment, individual and collectivized agency, and social justice. The purpose of the series is to create and...
A volume in The Curriculum and Pedagogy Series The Curriculum and Pedagogy book series is an enactment of the mission and values espoused by the Curri...
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Surveying Borders, Boundaries, and Contested Spaces in Curriculum and Pedagogy (Hc)
ISBN: 9781617355219 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A volume in The Curriculum and Pedagogy Series The Curriculum and Pedagogy book series is an enactment of the mission and values espoused by the Curriculum and Pedagogy Group, an international educational organization serving those who share a common faith in democracy and a commitment to public moral leadership in schools and society. Accordingly, the mission of this series is to advance scholarship that engages critical dispositions towards curriculum and instruction, educational empowerment, individual and collectivized agency, and social justice. The purpose of the series is to create and...
A volume in The Curriculum and Pedagogy Series The Curriculum and Pedagogy book series is an enactment of the mission and values espoused by the Curri...
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Plurilingualism in Teaching and Learning: Complexities Across Contexts
ISBN: 9781138228474 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World
ISBN: 9780807758335 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prominent educators and researchers propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining cultural practices rather than eradicating them. Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of how schools can support Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, South African, and immigrant students as part of a collective movement towards educational justice in a changing world.
Prominent educators and researchers propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining cultural practices rather than eradicating them. Chapters p...
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Critical Pedagogy and the Everyday Classroom
ISBN: 9789048178872 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the applications of Critical Pedagogy to actual classroom situations. Written in a concise and lucid form, this book takes the theories behind Critical Pedagogy and illustrates them at work in common classroom environments.
This book explores the applications of Critical Pedagogy to actual classroom situations. Written in a concise and lucid form, this book takes the theo...
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Differing Worldviews in Higher Education : Two Scholars Argue Cooperatively about Justice Education
ISBN: 9789460913501 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two noted professors on opposite sides of the cultural wars come together and engage in "cooperative argumentation." One, a "Jewish, atheist libertarian" and the other a "mixed blood American Indian" bring to the table two radically different worldviews to bear on the role of colleges and universities in studying social and ecological justice. The result is an entertaining and enlightening journey that reveals surprising connections and previously misunderstood rationales that may be at the root of a world too polarized to function sanely. "How refreshing to read a debate between a...
Two noted professors on opposite sides of the cultural wars come together and engage in "cooperative argumentation." One, a "Jewish, atheist libertari...
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Education Reform in New York City: Ambitious Change in the Nation's Most Complex School System
ISBN: 9781934742839 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written in an accessible style by highly respected scholars, the papers in this volume document and analyze particular components of the Children First reforms, including governance, community engagement, finance, accountability, and instruction.
The education reforms in New York City s public schools begun under the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and School Chancellor Joel Klein have been among the most ambitious of any large urban system in the country. Aimed at instituting evidence-based practices to produce higher and more equitable outcomes for all students, the... Written in an accessible style by highly respected scholars, the papers in this volume document and analyze particular components of the Children Firs...
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Education Reform in New York City: Ambitious Change in the Nation's Most Complex School System
ISBN: 9781934742846 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written in an accessible style by highly respected scholars, the papers in this volume document and analyze particular components of the Children First reforms, including governance, community engagement, finance, accountability, and instruction.
The education reforms in New York City s public schools begun under the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and School Chancellor Joel Klein have been among the most ambitious of any large urban system in the country. Aimed at instituting evidence-based practices to produce higher and more equitable outcomes for all students, the... Written in an accessible style by highly respected scholars, the papers in this volume document and analyze particular components of the Children Firs...
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When Research Matters: How Scholarship Influences Education Policy
ISBN: 9781891792847 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Research Matters considers the complex and crucially important relationship between education research and policy.
In examining how and under what conditions research affects education policy, the book focuses on a number of critical issues: the history of the federal role in education policy; the evolving nature of educational policy research; the role of research in debates about reading, NCLB, and out-of-field teaching; how research affects policy by shaping public opinion, judicial rulings, and the decisions of district and school leaders; and the incentives that... When Research Matters considers the complex and crucially important relationship between education research and policy.
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Grounds to Play: Culture-Specific Ideals in the Upbringing of Children in France, Germany and the Netherlands
ISBN: 9783906770529 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is good for children? Should children learn or play? The answers to these questions vary depending on where the questions are asked. Focusing on a Danish company producing playgrounds the study reflects the relationship between culture and consumption, and outlines culture-specific perceptions of childhood and ideals for the upbringing of children in France, Germany and the Netherlands. These ideals are examined through an interdisciplinary analysis of family patterns, school systems and advertisements for products for children. Starting with a brief examination of the spare-time...
What is good for children? Should children learn or play? The answers to these questions vary depending on where the questions are asked. Focusing on ...
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Unlearned Lessons : Six Stumbling Blocks to Our Schools' Success
ISBN: 9781934742150 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " Why is it, writes noted assessment expert W. James Popham, that today s educators seem almost compelled to replicate their predecessors blunders? Looking back over a career of more than fifty years in education, Popham identifies six key unlearned lessons in education and reflects on their impact on schools, teachers, and students.
In an account enlivened by personal anecdotes and the unique perspective gained from long experience, he shows how each of these six mistakes has persisted over time, gives examples of encounters with these mistakes in the course of his professional... " Why is it, writes noted assessment expert W. James Popham, that today s educators seem almost compelled to replicate their predecessors blunders? Lo...
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How It's Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools
ISBN: 9781934742280 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How It's Being Done offers much-needed help to educators, providing detailed accounts of the ways in which unexpected schools--those with high-poverty and high-minority student populations--have dramatically boosted student achievement.
How It's Being Done builds on Karin Chenoweth's widely hailed earlier volume, "It's Being Done," providing specific information about how such schools have exceeded expectations and met with unprecedented levels of success. How It's Being Done offers much-needed help to educators, providing detailed accounts of the ways in which unexpected schools--those with high-...
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School Reform from the Inside Out: Policy, Practice, and Performance
ISBN: 9781891792243 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is essential reading for any school leader, education reformer, policymaker, or citizen interested in the forces that promote school change.
"Giving test results to an incoherent, badly run school doesn't automatically make it a better school. The work of turning a school around entails improving the knowledge and skills of teachers-changing their knowledge of content and how to teach it-and helping them to understand where their students are in their academic development. Low-performing schools, and the people who work in them, don't know what to do. If they did, they would... This is essential reading for any school leader, education reformer, policymaker, or citizen interested in the forces that promote school change. |
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Toward Excellence with Equity: An Emerging Vision for Closing the Achievement Gap
ISBN: 9781891792786 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the past 15 years, economist Ronald Ferguson has investigated the myriad factors that combine to create racial disparities in academic performance. This volume brings together Ferguson s most important papers and most recent thinking on these issues. In language accessible and useful to education practitioners, Ferguson sets forth a wide-ranging and compelling vision for closing the achievement gap.
Beginning with his analysis of the impact of test scores in predicting racial wage gaps, Ferguson has explored how rates of progress in narrowing gaps have varied over the recent... For the past 15 years, economist Ronald Ferguson has investigated the myriad factors that combine to create racial disparities in academic performance...
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