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by Geoffrey T. Colvin
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
The ultimate guide to handling problem behavior "in the heat of the moment"!
When disruptive behavior occurs, your first response can determine how quickly the situation is resolved. Colvin offers teachers seven key behavioral principles and a range of research-based approaches for...
First Steps to Preschool Inclusion
How to Jumpstart Your Programwide Plan
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Interested in preschool inclusion, but not sure where to start? This introductory guide gathers everything you need to know to launch a successful inclusive early childhood program—and get critical buy-in from your whole staff. A must for leaders of early childhood programs, this reader-friendly...
by Gayle H. Gregory, Amy J. Burkman
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Effective ways to help ELLs excel
The key to successfully teaching English learners is focusing on literacy. Adapted from the highly successful Differentiated Literacy Strategies for Student Growth and Achievement in Grades K–6, this book provides a wealth of practical literacy strategies...
The False Promises of the Digital Revolution
How Computers transform Education, Work, and International Development in Ways that are Ecologically Unsustainable
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The False Promises of the Digital Revolution examines what currently goes largely unnoticed because of the many important uses of digital technologies. While many people interpret digital technologies as accelerating the global rate of progress, C. A. Bowers focuses attention on how they reinforce...
Raising Race Questions
Whiteness and Inquiry in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Conversations about race can be confusing, contentious, and frightening, particularly for White people. Even just asking questions about race can be scary because we are afraid of what our questions might reveal about our ignorance or bias. Raising Race Questions invites teachers to use inquiry...
Academic Language/Literacy Strategies for Adolescents
A "How-To" Manual for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Fast-paced, practical, and innovative, this text for pre-service and in-service teachers features clear, easily accessible lessons and professional development activities to improve the delivery of academic language/literacy education across the content areas in junior/middle school and high school...
STEM-Rich Maker Learning
Designing for Equity with Youth of Color
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In recent years, Maker-centered learning has emerged in schools and other spaces as a promising new phase of STEM education reform. With a sharp focus on equity, the authors investigate community-based STEM Making programs to determine whether, and how, they can address the educational needs of youth...
by Emily Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
100 IDEAS: QUICK - EASY - INSPIRED - OUTSTANDING
A new addition to the best-selling 100 Ideas series, offering teachers quick and easy ways to engage students, convey complex knowledge, and build students' history-specific thinking skills. The activities in this book aim to embrace what is mind-boggling,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Copublished with TESOL Press There is a growing need for knowledge and practical ideas about the preparation of teachers for English language learners (ELLs), a growing segment of the K12 population in the United States. This book is for teachers, administrators, and teacher educators looking for innovative...
by Erika Eby
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
It’s the evening before your research paper is due, and you’re staring at a big, empty white word document waiting to be filled on your computer screen. The clock is ticking. And you’re panicking. Sound familiar? It’s a scenario that all high school students face, and with it comes stress,...
by Geri Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book offers practical guidance for teachers working with bilingual pupils in mainstream primary and secondary education and aims to help teachers make the curriculum as accessible as possible to these children. It offers examples of the good practice that has evolved around teaching bilingual children in the classroom.
Global Perspectives on Language Assessment
Research, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
The sixth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series offers up-to-date research on the rapidly changing field of language assessment. The book features original research with chapters reporting on a variety of international education settings from a range of diverse perspectives....
by Ivannia Soto, Linda J. Carstens, James R. Burke
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
“This is an era of extraordinary promise and support for addressing the needs of California’s English learners. That’s why this book, The California ELD Standards Companion, is so important. It’s exactly the kind of bridge teachers need between standards and what it looks like in the classroom.” **
**—****LAURIE...
Brave Language Learning
Why and How Becoming Multilingual Must Happen Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
What is this book for? This book is a positive voice. It is a voice speaking for those who want to learn their language their way. It is an appreciation of low-budget, high-intensity, low-pressure learning. It is a voice in favour of learning that doesn't need to make economical sense - of multilingualism...