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A Nurturing Blight: How the One-Room School Experience Can Inform Modern Educators
ISBN: 9780761854739 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This qualitative study of one-room schools in a rural Virginia county examines twenty interviews with people who attended or taught in these schools and analyzes them for traits that can inform modern education. They have much to teach us and much that modern teachers can integrate in their own philosophies.
This qualitative study of one-room schools in a rural Virginia county examines twenty interviews with people who attended or taught in these schools a...
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137,09 |
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Spotlighting the Strengths of Every Single Student: Why U.S. Schools Need a New, Strengths-Based Approach
ISBN: 9780313391538 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's a familiar and seemingly logical model: to improve performance, identify weaknesses and target these problem areas. Could doing the opposite be a better way? Licensed clinical psychologist Elsie Jones-Smith argues that strengths-based systems are indeed more effective--not just in social work, where the philosophy became popular; or in the business world, where the concept is increasingly being embraced--but in the academic setting as well. "Spotlighting the Strengths of Every Single Student: Why U.S. Schools Need a New, Strengths-Based Approach" explains how and why a system that... It's a familiar and seemingly logical model: to improve performance, identify weaknesses and target these problem areas. Could doing the opposite b... |
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221,69 |
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Virtual Literacies: Interactive Spaces for Children and Young People
ISBN: 9780415899604 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an evaluation and appreciation of the learning, teaching and instruction that can occur in digital environments. Mass media accounts of digital culture are invariably predicated on a technologically determinist vision, on the one hand promoting a utopian view of the future while on the other fueling moral panic by emphasizing views of alienation and danger in life online. In this book, children, young people and those who work with them are revealed as active agents with possibilities to navigate new paths. This book provides an evaluation and appreciation of the learning, teaching and instruction that can occur in digital environments. Mass media acco... |
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759,15 |
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Tutoring Matters: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about How to Tutor
ISBN: 9781439907405 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authoritative manual for both the aspiring and seasoned tutor
The authoritative manual for both the aspiring and seasoned tutor
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333,05 |
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Intelligent Learning Systems and Advancements in Computer-Aided Instruction: Emerging Studies
ISBN: 9781613504833 / Angielski / Twarda / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the field of distance and online learning continues to grow, it is important to consider the relationship between students and technology and to find the best possible means to deliver computer-aided instruction. Educational technologists and instructional designers seek to grow the body of research in this field by developing new tools and methodologies that can be implemented in the traditional or virtual classroom. Intelligent Learning Systems and Advancements in Computer-Aided Instruction: Emerging Studies reviews computational models and technologies for distance education, focusing...
As the field of distance and online learning continues to grow, it is important to consider the relationship between students and technology and to fi...
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896,90 |
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The New Circles of Learning: Cooperation in the Classroom and School
ISBN: 9780871202277 / Angielski / Miękka / 111 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,73 |
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The Forgotten Room: Inside a Public Alternative School for At-Risk Youth
ISBN: 9780739134962 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This gritty and compelling ethnography examines the darker side of American education through chronicling the course of Peachtree Alternative School's tenth and final year. It exposes punitive school policy, demonstrates the prison-industrial complex, and reveals school board corruption. In addition, it pinpoints quality teaching of chronically disruptive youth. As ethnographic nonfiction, The Forgotten Room breaks down the walls between social science and literature.
This gritty and compelling ethnography examines the darker side of American education through chronicling the course of Peachtree Alternative School's...
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232,00 |
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Preparing Change Agents for the Classroom: From Paradigm to Practice
ISBN: 9781610480536 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Preparing Change Agents for the Classroom: From Paradigm to Practice is for teacher educators who want to address the need for classroom teachers who know how students learn and how to teach to support this learning. The social constructivist paradigm can be instrumental in engaging children as well as teacher candidates in the critical-thinking, inquiry-based, knowledge construction that is learning. The practical applications of constructivist teaching and true-life "Turning Points" included in this book can be used to provide the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that candidates need to...
Preparing Change Agents for the Classroom: From Paradigm to Practice is for teacher educators who want to address the need for classroom teachers who ...
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313,46 |
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Empowering Discipline: An Approach that Works with At-Risk Students
ISBN: 9780615482422 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. EMPOWERING DISCIPLINE by Vicki Phillips Third Edition (Revised and Expanded, (c) 2011) Most school discipline programs have one thing in common; their primary goal is to CONTROL student behavior. This tends to work with the majority of students; however there remains a group with whom nothing seems to work--so we label these students as "at-risk" and attempt to tighten our control. The author of this book, Vicki Phillips, was principal of an award-winning alternative school for at-risk students for twenty-two years. Since all of her students were at-risk, she had to come up... EMPOWERING DISCIPLINE by Vicki Phillips Third Edition (Revised and Expanded, (c) 2011) Most school discipline programs have one thing in com... |
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88,81 |
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Art Education Beyond the Classroom: Pondering the Outsider and Other Sites of Learning
ISBN: 9780230114302 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By focusing on children and adults with disabilities, each contributor offers critical research which challenges the non-transferable divide between us and them, encouraging art teachers, therapists, critics, and general readers alike to uncover their biases regarding the nature of art and education.
By focusing on children and adults with disabilities, each contributor offers critical research which challenges the non-transferable divide between u...
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201,24 |
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Feminist Critique of Education: Fifteen Years of Gender Development
ISBN: 9780415509466 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in gender and education over the last fifteen years. It includes over thirty-five seminal articles from the journal Gender and Education, written by many of the leading authors in the field from the UK, the USA, Australia and Europe. Compiled by the current editors of the journal to show the development of the field, the book is divided into six sections: * Gender Identities * Theory and Method * Policy and Management * Sexuality * Ethnicity * Social Class. The specially written introduction by the editors...
This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in gender and education over the last fifteen years. It includes over thirty-fi...
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269,33 |
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Unlocking Group Potential to Improve Schools
ISBN: 9781412998895 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This field book shows educators how to improve schools by developing group culture, enhancing facilitators' skills, and equipping groups to resolve complex issues around student learning.
This field book shows educators how to improve schools by developing group culture, enhancing facilitators' skills, and equipping groups to resolve co...
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161,57 |
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E-Portfolios and Global Diffusion: Solutions for Collaborative Education
ISBN: 9781466601437 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As information is increasingly gathered online, the issues surrounding the usefulness, organization and interaction with electronic collection have grown in number and scope. E-Portfolios and Global Diffusion: Solutions for Collaborative Education addresses the emerging requirements, concerns and applications for e-portfolios. Through innovative chapters on real-world business uses, educational experiences, ideal design, this book fills an important gap in current literature concerning Web 2.0 applications. The theoretical debate surrounding e-portfolios is also presented along with...
As information is increasingly gathered online, the issues surrounding the usefulness, organization and interaction with electronic collection have gr...
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896,90 |
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Collaborative Learning 2.0: Open Educational Resources
ISBN: 9781466603004 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Current advances and convergence trends in Web 2.0 have changed the way we communicate and collaborate, and as a result, user-controlled communities and user-generated content through Web 2.0 are expected to play an important role for collaborative learning. Collaborative Learning 2.0: Open Educational Resources offers a collection of the latest research, trends, future development, and case studies within the field. Without solid theoretical foundation and precise guidelines on how to use OER and Web 2.0 for collaborative learning, it would certainly be very difficult to obtain all the...
Current advances and convergence trends in Web 2.0 have changed the way we communicate and collaborate, and as a result, user-controlled communities a...
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Dramatizing the Content with Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre, Grades 6-12
ISBN: 9781467921558 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No matter what the content area, one goal all teachers share is for students to actively engage in learning and achieve deep comprehension of required content material. This book will show teachers how to use Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre (CBRT) to increase students' motivation, active engagement with learning, and reading fluency. Unlike traditional readers theatre, which is typically limited to literature-based scripts, CBRT invites teachers and students to create scripts based on any topic, any work of literature, any textbook, or almost any collection of facts--Science scripts, Social...
No matter what the content area, one goal all teachers share is for students to actively engage in learning and achieve deep comprehension of required...
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62,72 |
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The ABC's of Homeschooling
ISBN: 9781937387914 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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57,76 |
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The 3 Dimensions of Improving Student Performance: Finding the Right Solutions to the Right Problems
ISBN: 9780807752401 / Angielski / Miękka / 133 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on work from educational psychology as well as several other fields, Rueda identifies three primary reasons for the stubborn failure of most school reform efforts: 1) a fragmentation of approaches, 2) a misalignment of approaches and goals, and 3) a failure to match solutions to problems. He argues that most performance and achievement problems are rooted in knowledge gaps, motivation gaps, and institutional gaps, or a combination thereof. This book provides an overview of each of these three dimensions, and discusses ways that they can affect performance. It then discusses a...
Drawing on work from educational psychology as well as several other fields, Rueda identifies three primary reasons for the stubborn failure of most s...
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122,40 |
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Setting up Classroom Spaces That Support Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders
ISBN: 9781934575680 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With even the best curricula and interventions, students with autism spectrum disorders will not learn unless the classroom environment is organized with their specific needs in mind. This long-awaited book shows through clear and brief text and lots of photos how to determine what type of furniture and materials to choose for various types of classrooms and how to arrange them in a way that creates an effective learning environment while reducing anxiety and preventing problem behaviors.As such, it uses evidence-based practices of structure and visual supports to enhance the well-being and...
With even the best curricula and interventions, students with autism spectrum disorders will not learn unless the classroom environment is organized w...
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102,81 |
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Changing the Way We Think: Using Arts to Inspire, Empower and Change Your School Community
ISBN: 9781461122517 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspired by personal work in secondary education, Ms. Little has created an invaluable resource to help educators use applied theatre to create multidisciplinary connections in their school district. Illustrating how to integrate a drama program with English, Social Studies, Visual Arts, and Television, this book creates a broad tool to effectively reach students and help them not only become better scholars but better global citizens. The book breaks down the process of integrating arts into academics - from working with school administration, to creating lesson plans, inspiring students and...
Inspired by personal work in secondary education, Ms. Little has created an invaluable resource to help educators use applied theatre to create multid...
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Science and Environmental Education: Towards the Integration of Science Education, Experimental Science Activities and Environmental Education
ISBN: 9783631554067 / Angielski / Twarda / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tries to bridge the gap between science and environmental education by describing a set of projects, initiatives and field activities, which aim at raising awareness on the environment and encourage action. Via the descriptions of approaches, methods and projects, it shows how different organisations have been linking science with environmental education, the approaches used and the outcomes achieved. The various case studies guarantee that a special emphasis is given to practice as opposed to a focus on the theory as has largely been the case in the past. This publication presents...
This book tries to bridge the gap between science and environmental education by describing a set of projects, initiatives and field activities, which...
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493,04 |