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A Life in Classrooms: Philip W. Jackson and the Practice of Education
ISBN: 9780807747766 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Life in Classrooms examines the full range of Philip W. Jackson's groundbreaking scholarship and teaching. Its essays are authored by some of the outstanding educational thinkers of our time. They attest to the decisive impact Jackson's work continues to have on our understanding of education, and they exemplify, as does Jackson's own work, how such an understanding may draw nourishment from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
A Life in Classrooms examines the full range of Philip W. Jackson's groundbreaking scholarship and teaching. Its essays are authored by some of the ou...
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Other Kinds of Families : Embracing Diversity in Schools
ISBN: 9780807748381 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Turner-Vorbeck and Marsh contend that the vast diversity found in schools and society today suggests an urgent need to reconsider the ways in which families are currently represented and addressed in school curriculum and culture. In this important volume, they provide critical and theoretical analysis combined with narrative experiences to address such issues as multigenerational views of the schooling experiences of immigrant families, the educational needs of gay and lesbian families, the representation of adoption and adoptive families in children's literature, and the experiences of...
Turner-Vorbeck and Marsh contend that the vast diversity found in schools and society today suggests an urgent need to reconsider the ways in which fa...
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The Joy of Teaching: A Practical Guide for New College Instructors
ISBN: 9780807856031 / Angielski / Miękka / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gathering concepts and techniques borrowed from outstanding college professors, The Joy of Teaching provides helpful guidance for new instructors developing and teaching their first college courses.
Award-winning professor Peter Filene proposes that teaching should not be like a baseball game in which the instructor pitches ideas to students to see whether they hit or strike out. Ideally, he says, teaching should resemble a game of Frisbee in which the teacher invites students to catch ideas and pass them on. Rather than prescribe any single model for success,... Gathering concepts and techniques borrowed from outstanding college professors, The Joy of Teaching provides helpful guidance for new instructo...
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Bulletin Bored? or Bulletin Boards!: K-12
ISBN: 9780810835382 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Creating colorful, inexpensive, theme-related bulletin boards will be a snap with Bulletin Bored? or Bulletin Boards!
Creating colorful, inexpensive, theme-related bulletin boards will be a snap with Bulletin Bored? or Bulletin Boards!
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Peer Coaching for Educators
ISBN: 9780810837454 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can teachers, principals, and professors lead their students toward profound learning until they have been there themselves? Peer coaching offers a remarkable vehicle to join with students as learners and together build a community of learners. Peer coaching is a powerful process whereby professional educators can assist and be assisted by fellow educators of equal status, and this volume presents it all with clarity, economy, honesty, and conviction. This volume will be of interest and value not only to classroom teachers and school administrators, but also to central office personnel, and...
Can teachers, principals, and professors lead their students toward profound learning until they have been there themselves? Peer coaching offers a re...
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Breaking Away from the Textbook: Creative Ways to Teach World History, Volume I
ISBN: 9780810837591 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers teachers a different method of teaching world history. It focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the modern world. The book incorporates various disciplines including art, music, and writing in an attempt to create a fun and active classroom. Volume I covers prehistory to the Renaissance.
This volume offers teachers a different method of teaching world history. It focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple w...
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Breaking Away from the Textbook: Creative Ways to Teach World History, Volume II
ISBN: 9780810837607 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers teachers a different method of teaching world history. It focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the modern world. The book incorporates various disciplines including art, music, and writing in an attempt to create a fun and active classroom. Volume II covers three major units: The Enlightenment; the 19th century; and the 20th century.
This volume offers teachers a different method of teaching world history. It focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple w...
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Successful Schools: Achieving Excellence Through Star Theory
ISBN: 9780810840591 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can teachers ensure that every student who graduates is competent in subject matter and responsible in citizenship? Dan Kahler explains how, through the STAR theory: Successful Teachers Are Real. Not only are excellent teachers sound in pedagogy, they are genuine, empathetic, and have a high regard for all students. This handbook illustrates how, through specific examples, educators can positively affect their students for life. Kahler also demonstrates how school and district conditions cause success in connection with an excellent teaching staff. More than simply a book on pedagogy, or...
How can teachers ensure that every student who graduates is competent in subject matter and responsible in citizenship? Dan Kahler explains how, throu...
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Classroom Management: A Resource Manual for Frontline Teachers
ISBN: 9780810840782 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Appropriate classroom management is the base for an effective teaching/learning process. The practical help offered in this guidebook is based on experience and will provide philosophic and behavioral parameters that easily fit every classroom. For the first-year teacher, it offers assistance in handling discipline and behavioral problems with finesse--a skill not developed overnight. For the veteran educator, it provides structure for examining and re-evaluating their management techniques to improve their learning environment. A hands-on resource manual for new or experienced teachers, this...
Appropriate classroom management is the base for an effective teaching/learning process. The practical help offered in this guidebook is based on expe...
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Perspectives on the Mistreatment of American Educators: Throwing Water on a Drowning Man
ISBN: 9780810842168 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pressured by a society searching for a simple solution to a complex problem, educators are constantly subjected to a double standard and their work and role marginalized as insignificant despite compelling evidence to the contrary. This enlightening discussion of the misperceptions about the profession offers a thoughtful perspective on the real work done by educators and examines some of the harm done by efforts to "fix" what is wrong. There is not a group of professionals in the work world who must bear as many demands, yet who are so often undervalued as educators. Norris calls attention...
Pressured by a society searching for a simple solution to a complex problem, educators are constantly subjected to a double standard and their work an...
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Teachers as Owners: A Key to Revitalization of Public Education
ISBN: 9780810843714 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'What if teachers were owners, not employees?' Teacher-ownership is a revolutionary way to put excitement and meaning back into the teaching profession and to revitalize public education. This book demonstrates how being an owner rather than an employee can give teachers control of their professional activity, including full responsibility and accountability for creating and sustaining high performing learning communities. It presents examples of teacher-ownership in practice and provides practical models for those who would like to experience the professional satisfaction found in ownership....
'What if teachers were owners, not employees?' Teacher-ownership is a revolutionary way to put excitement and meaning back into the teaching professio...
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Training for Quality School-Based Decision Making: The Total Teamwork System
ISBN: 9780810844759 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With expert information and guidance from these knowledgeable authors, principals and school personnel can gain a clear understanding of school-based decision making and learn how to work collaboratively to build quality teams to manage a school. Following the TTS Model, each chapter teaches the reader how to successfully engage in school-based decision making and includes activities to help readers to develop skills, not just read about the subject. A comprehensive bibliography, parts of which are annotated, in the areas of school-based decision making, empowerment, and total quality...
With expert information and guidance from these knowledgeable authors, principals and school personnel can gain a clear understanding of school-based ...
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Home, School, and Community Partnerships
ISBN: 9780810845220 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many Americans worry about what they see as a growing gulf between the American public and its public schools. Troubling trends seem to indicate a fraying relationship among families, schools, and communities. Education reform has become the topic of many conversations as well as books and articles. There is widespread agreement that schools and education curricula need to be fixed, but there is no agreement on how this can be accomplished. Educators across the nation are implementing ideas and strategies that are making a difference in children's lives and in the health and well being of our...
Many Americans worry about what they see as a growing gulf between the American public and its public schools. Troubling trends seem to indicate a fra...
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Action! in the Classroom: A Guide to Student Produced Digital Video in K-12 Education
ISBN: 9780810846623 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today's students are attracted to video and readily engage in any project that incorporates the medium. Digital video is easier to manipulate and much less expensive than analog video. Students can create video content and the software can be taught in less than one hour. There is great potential to employ student-produced video as an educational tool and this book explains and instructs teachers how to exploit this potential. This comprehensive work, divided into four sections, covers all aspects of video production including: foundation concepts; the video production process; equipment...
Today's students are attracted to video and readily engage in any project that incorporates the medium. Digital video is easier to manipulate and much...
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Teaching And Its Predicaments
ISBN: 9780813328645 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teaching is a complex and challenging endeavor. Teachers are continually faced with difficult choices in which competing values are set in tension with one another. The interests of all students, and of other groups and constituencies, can rarely be served at the same time. Different educational goals, each desirable in and of itself, often place incompatible demands on teachers, especially in light of the limited resources and time available to most of them. Of course, teaching does have its satisfactions and fulfillments, but increasingly those rewards must be sought in the context of...
Teaching is a complex and challenging endeavor. Teachers are continually faced with difficult choices in which competing values are set in tension wit...
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Class Issues: Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and the Public Sphere
ISBN: 9780814746967 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The university classroom has been turned into an intensely bitter battlefield. Conservatives are attacking the academy's ability to teach, and at times its very right to educate. As the dust begins to settle, the contributors to this volume weigh in with a constructive and wide-ranging statement on the progressive possibilities of teaching. This is, in many ways, a book for the morning after the PC Wars, when the shouting dies down and the imperatives of pedagogy remain. Asserting a complex, inter-related agenda for teachers and students, Class Issues is an anthology of... The university classroom has been turned into an intensely bitter battlefield. Conservatives are attacking the academy's ability to teach, and at t... |
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The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780814754009 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Professor Paul H. Mattingly's The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen of the Nineteenth Century is unquestionably a major contribution to the history of American education. It rests on a thorough command of the scholarship of the field and on a shrewd and original analysis of a great body of primary materials, many of which have not previously been carefully exploited.- -Mattingly's study should be read by everyone interested in the development of the public schools and of the teaching profession, and... -Professor Paul H. Mattingly's The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen of the Nineteenth Century is unquestionably a major contributi... |
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Telecommunications: A Handbook for Educators
ISBN: 9780815307433 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The objective of this book is to provide a comprehensive introduction to telecommunications and their applications in teaching and learning. It contains up-to-date information about telecommunications, including the latest hardware and software. It discusses the most recent developments in computer networking and how to apply them creatively in the classroom and the school. There is an in-depth discussion of teleconferencing as a way to bring cost-effective instructional material to students. The book also explores distance learning and how it can be expanded to include the home and office as...
The objective of this book is to provide a comprehensive introduction to telecommunications and their applications in teaching and learning. It contai...
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710,17 |
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Effective Early Childhood Education: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
ISBN: 9780815324447 / Angielski / Twarda / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines international strategies of early education and literacy for disadvantaged children, from a cross-cultural perspective. It brings together theoretical insights, the results of empirical research, and experiences with early educational intervention programmes. This work examines international strategies of early education and literacy for disadvantaged children, from a cross-cultural perspective. It bring... |
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University Teaching: International Perspectives
ISBN: 9780815324607 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The topic of university and college teaching in the study of higher education is the focus of this text. Providing a broad perspective, it examines preparation, assessment, and reward from cross-cultural perspectives and explores the cultural and social influences that affect these dimensions.
The topic of university and college teaching in the study of higher education is the focus of this text. Providing a broad perspective, it examines pr...
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