Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - General

Fred Pauley, Ph.D. Faculty, Marshall University Graduate College

"This is an important work that offers insight to creating success for students within a school setting. The information and ideas presented here will be invaluable to any teacher or administrator seeking a new approach at the middle and high school levels."

Mickey Blackwell...

While in meditation, I sensed the familiar urging of my inner voice, andreached for a pen.

""Children are arriving in vast numbers to assist in the crossover to anenlightened age. They are a new prototype of human being, andtheir 'soul' purpose is to help humanity return to love."

Wisdom's Children" describes a new generation of highly sensitive childrenwhose heightened vibration and consciousness can bring about atransformation in the hearts of humanity. It blends metaphysical informationthe author received intuitively with her experiences as a teacher and aparent. She has witnessed...

In the past, substitute teachers have often regarded as babysitters; to fill an absent teacher's position for a day, week, or even longer.

Today, there is an increasing demand for teachers to attend staff development and unit planning workshops. However, it is still critical that students are actively engaged in learning, when a...

This curriculum has been developed to provide accommodations to assist students in meeting state and national standards and for educators who teach and support students in the educational process. This information:
*Assists in meeting state and national standards
*Improves Test Scores
*Organizes Standards in Scope and Sequence
*Helps Align Curriculum
*Identifies Students Missing Skills
*Provides for Alternate Assessment

How does a teacher begin to appreciate and tap the rich creative resources of the fantasy world of children? What social functions do story playing and storytelling serve in the preschool classroom? And how can the child who is trapped in private fantasies be brought into the richly imaginative social play that surrounds him?

The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter focuses on the challenge posed by the isolated child to teachers and classmates alike in the unique community of the classroom. It is the dramatic story of Jason-the loner and outsider-and of his ultimate triumph and...

Will America find enough good teachers to staff its public schools? How can we ensure that all our children will be taught by skilled professionals? The policies that determine who teaches today are a confusing and often conflicting array that includes tougher licensing requirements, higher salaries, mandatory master's degrees, merit pay, and alternative routes to certification. Who Will Teach? examines these policies and separates those that work from those that backfire.

The authors present an intriguing portrait of America's teachers and reveal who they are, who they have...

Four experienced teachers of beginning Chinese have developed this introductory textbook. A pilot edition has been tested widely in classrooms and refined over a period of years. Among its salient features are lessons that are lively, amusing, and relevant to everyday life: concentrated training of ear and tongue in the sound system of Chinese; extensive grammar notes, clearly presented, with attention to mistakes English-speakers are likely to make; a carefully sequenced character workbook embodying a new and effective approach to the learning of Chinese characters; and audiovisual...

Four experienced teachers of beginning Chinese have developed this introductory textbook. A pilot edition has been tested widely in classrooms and refined over a period of years. Among its salient features are lessons that are lively, amusing, and relevant to everyday life: concentrated training of ear and tongue in the sound system of Chinese; extensive grammar notes, clearly presented, with attention to mistakes English-speakers are likely to make; a carefully sequenced character workbook embodying a new and effective approach to the learning of Chinese characters; and audiovisual...

Classics seems constantly under threat in schools, yet the subject evolves and survives. Threats to it are taken seriously. When one of the UK examination boards dropped Greek and Latin from the curricula offered to schools, questions were asked in Parliament. Here contributors from fourteen European countries, including the UK, outline the state of Classics teaching in their own countries: what part Classics play in the curriculum, how many pupils take Latin and Greek, and what kind of courses are offered. They explain how much language learning takes place and what proportion of the...