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by Adam J Pestridge
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Writing a book or creating a good story is a skill. Learn the secrets here in this quick read that shows you the secrets of how authors compose their books.
Learn the 10 stages of writing a book and what the seven basic plots are.
At the end of the book is a special invitation to show you how to launch your own book successfully and become a writer for a successful fantasy series.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
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Focusing on Critical Practice and Insights in the Music Teacher Education Curriculum
Betty Anne Younker, University of Michigan
What is the purpose of music education in Canadian classrooms? Younker submits that music education provides an opportunity for students to develop critical thinking skills, which can be transferred to other subjects and throughout life.
Learning from Young Children
Research in Early Childhood Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
In early childhood, the most important period of learning and human development, young children often achieve developmental milestones in a short time. Learning from Young Children: Research in Early Childhood Music presents research on the importance of fostering musical growth during this period. These studies discuss: _
SOLO Taxonomy: A Guide for Schools Bk 1
A common language
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Translate “learning how to learn” from a pedagogical principle into everyday classroom practice with this series. SOLO Taxonomy offers a clear, simple and robust way of identifying the level of cognitive complexity of learning intentions and outcomes, and consequently makes feedback and “feed...
Curricular Conversations
Play is the (Missing) Thing
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The central theme of Curricular Conversations is this: Play is the thing that brings aesthetic curricular complications near educators and their students, making the lived consequences very vivid, tangible, and possible. Viewing curriculum as genuine inquiry into what is worth knowing, rather than...
Teaching for Experiential Learning
Five Approaches That Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book describes how to change the way in which educators conduct business in the classroom. Our current educational systems lack ways to reach today's learners in relevant, meaningful ways. The five approaches in this book inspire and motivate students to learn. The authors provide in-depth descriptions...
Time for Action
Stop Teaching to the Test and Start Teaching Skills
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
This book should be read by anyone concerned about the future of education in the U.S. It was written for students, parents, educators, administrators, and policy makers because it will require effort from all these individuals to create meaningful change in the education system. This book discusses...
RIP Jim Crow
Fighting Racism through Higher Education Policy, Curriculum, and Cultural Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Together we can build enough momentum to see Jim Crow lying silent and still in his grave.
This book shouts out ways that we can and must respond to the sickening accumulation of racially inspired and systemically sanctioned deaths. Today, we remember the passing of young, Black Michael Brown in Ferguson,...
Critical Studies of Southern Place
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader critically investigates and informs the construction of Southernness, Southern identity, and the South past and present. It promotes and expands the notion of a Southern epistemology. Authors from across the South write about such diverse topics as Southern...
ABC's of Cultural Understanding and Communication
National and International Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This book is a valuable one for teacher educators and teacher education programs in the United States and Europe, since it is organized around numerous data sources. It contains national and international adaptations of the ABC’s of Cultural Understanding and Communication. Authors for this book...
Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom
Legacies of Modernity and Colonialism in Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom critiques the normalizing aspects of schooling and the taken-for-granted assumptions in education about culture, identity, language, and learning. The text applies theories of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and other critical cultural theories from...
Unique Challenges in Urban Schools
The Involvement of African American Parents
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
This study explores the various ways in which parental involvement can help to increase student academic success. Parent involvement by itself will not ensure academic success of children, but, combined with many strategies, including a clear understanding of the differences between an inner city...
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Integration to Educational Curricula
A New Direction for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Integration to Educational Curricula serves as a standard textbook in graduate and senior level undergraduate classes in colleges and universities to contribute to the existing mass communication and ICT literature. The textbook offers a multi-discipline...
Helping with Behaviour
Establishing the Positive and Addressing the Difficult in the Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
This book shows how to establish good practice in early years settings so that all children are supported in developing positive interactions with one another.
With limited material available for practitioners in this area, Sue Roffey explains the features of an 'emotionally literate' environment...