Students, parents, and teachers can easily find answers related to the specific requirements of The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. This set of expectations and skills need to be mastered to succeed in school, college, and the real world. The QuickStudy (R) series aligns with those standards being implemented in most states to help ......
Students, parents, and teachers can easily find answers related to the specific requirements of The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. This set of expectations and skills need to be mastered to succeed in school, college, and the real world. The QuickStudy (R) series aligns with those standards being implemented in most states to help ......
From Childhood Play to Adult Creativity Across the Arts and Sciences
How can parents, educators, business leaders and policy makers nurture creativity, prepare for inventiveness and stimulate innovation? One compelling answer, this book argues, lies in fostering the invention of imaginary worlds, a.k.a. worldplay. First emerging in middle childhood, this complex form of make-believe draws lifelong energy from the ......
This book has a simple intent. In September 2014, primary schools in England will be expected to adopt a new national curriculum. There is good time to prepare. At this point of curriculum change and development in England's schools, the contributors offer their considered reflections on how primary schools across the country might take forward ......
Exploring Issues of Continuity: The IB in a wider context examines 'continuity' across the IB programmes and more widely across the sphere of international education.
Successful students use comprehension skills and strategies throughout the school day. This book presents ways to support reading comprehension across content areas and the full K-12 grade range.
This is the first book to present a practical, problem solving approach and hands-on tools and techniques for assessing English Language learners and culturally diverse students in K-12 settings. It meets a crucial need among practitioners and special educators working in today's schools.
Field-tested with 400 elementary school students, this curriculum focuses on developing the cognitive skills behind appropriate social behaviour rather than teaching children a set of specific behaviours to enact. This work provides teachers with 66 activity-based lessons on social skills.
Catholic colleges and universities have achieved a prestigious place in American higher education, but at the risk of losing their religious identity. This book confronts challenges facing members of the college community, from presidents and trustees through the faculty and deans to professionals, in making a renewed commitment to that mission.
