This book provides a pupil-centered, teacher-friendly approach where each youngster from his or her own starting point can advance up a school's curriculum ladder as far and as fast as the pupil's skills allow.
This book provides a pupil-centered, teacher-friendly approach where each youngster from his or her own starting point can advance up a school's curriculum ladder as far and as fast as the pupil's skills allow.
Many parents and teachers struggle with math. How many times have you heard, "I hate math," "Math is not my thing," or, "I can't do math"? In our culture, innumeracy is acceptable. This acceptance fails to account for innumeracy's lifelong consequences, from not understanding statistics used in science and news to difficulty managing finances. The ......
Many parents and teachers struggle with math. How many times have you heard, "I hate math," "Math is not my thing," or, "I can't do math"? In our culture, innumeracy is acceptable. This acceptance fails to account for innumeracy's lifelong consequences, from not understanding statistics used in science and news to difficulty managing finances. The ......
A (research-informed) choose your own destiny book
The aim of the book is to show how we can take charge of our networks, in order to improve our chances of doing well in life, whatever our background. In particular, the book provides cutting-edge insights that readers can deploy to help make things better for themselves, their families and their wider communities.
This book provides a practical guide to curriculum-based evaluation (CBE), which helps educators solve learning problems by making data-based decisions about what and how to teach. CBE offers clear procedures for analyzing PreK-12 students' academic skills, determining where instruction needs to focus, and evaluating progress. Written in an ......
A complete, straightforward guide to the issues and challenges commonly faced by children and young people as they face up to the demands of secondary education - and the practical ways in which parents, carers, teachers and schools can help.
This book provides six different strategies for teaching the fundamentals of reading with social-emotional learning in mind. With engaging lesson plans, there is a strategy for every learner, including the teaching of thinking with reciprocity among three Phases, and recognizing feelings with distinguishing thinking from feelings, as well as their ......
This book provides six different strategies for teaching the fundamentals of reading with social-emotional learning in mind. With engaging lesson plans, there is a strategy for every learner, including the teaching of thinking with reciprocity among three Phases, and recognizing feelings with distinguishing thinking from feelings, as well as their ......
Developed by highly respected creators of the evidence-based Pyramid Model for Promoting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children, the TPOT(TM) tool measures how well teachers are implementing the model in classrooms enrolling children
An in-depth, easy-to-use tool, the two-part SEAM(TM) assessment reveals detailed qualitative information on young children's social-emotional competence?and identifies their caregivers? strengths and areas of need.
Packed with creative, effective ideas for bringing mindfulness into the classroom, child therapy office, or community, this book features sample lesson plans and scripts, case studies, vignettes, and more. Leading experts describe how to harness the unique benefits of present-focused awareness for preschoolers, school-age kids, and teens, ......
Packed with creative, effective ideas for bringing mindfulness into the classroom, child therapy office, or community, this book features sample lesson plans and scripts, case studies, vignettes, and more. Leading experts describe how to harness the unique benefits of present-focused awareness for preschoolers, school-age kids, and teens, ......
An exploration of ""the thinking classroom"". Illustrated with classroom vignettes and teaching activities, this volume is supported by an empirically validated and classroom tested psychological theory that lays out the three ways of thinking and the cognitive processes that underlie them.
The Invisible Curriculum series gives teachers the secret ingredients that can fully unlock a child's learning potential. In Teaching for Motivation, Andrew Hammond proves that identifying a child's motivational needs and wants is key to powerful learning.
The Invisible Curriculum Series gives teachers the secret ingredients to unlock the full potential of children's learning abilities. Too often in formal schooling, creativity and curiosity are taught out of children. Teaching for Creativity offers practical advice on how to ensure that this does not happen. This book will help teachers to preserve ......
The Invisible Curriculum series helps teachers discover the secret ingredients that really unlock a child's learning potential. Teaching for Character offers practical advice to help encourage grit and determination in children - important foundations in any future success in or out of school. Is it possible to teach for character and raise ......
