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Specifications Grading
Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Linda Nilson puts forward an innovative but practical and tested approach to grading--the specifications grading paradigm—which restructures assessments to streamline the grading process and greatly reduce grading time, empower students to choose the level of attainment they want to achieve, reduce...
by A. M. Levin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The Mountain was chosen as the name of the book because it represents the biblically significant Mount Sinai, which God selected as the venue on Mother Earth where man, represented by Moses, would meet directly with the Almighty God to receive the Ten Commandments as the code of human conduct, which would enable man to a live a happy, healthy, meaningful, and peaceful life.
Crossing the Curriculum
Multilingual Learners in College Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
As college classrooms have become more linguistically diverse, the work of ESOL professionals has expanded to include research on the experiences of multilingual learners not only in ESOL courses but also in courses across the curriculum. At the same time that ESOL professionals are trying to understand...
Language Proficiency Testing for Chinese as a Foreign Language
An Argument-Based Approach for Validating the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK)
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
How did the (old) Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) assess the Chinese proficiency of non-native speakers of Chinese? What inferences can be derived from HSK test taker scores, especially from Western test takers? How difficult is it to learn Chinese according to the HSK? Thirty years of research have been...
From Illiteracy to Literature
Psychoanalysis and Reading
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
From Illiteracy to Literature presents innovative material based on research with ‘non-reading’ children and re-examines the complex relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, through the lens of the psychical significance of reading: the forgotten adventure of our coming to reading.
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by John R. Hollingsworth, Silvia E. Ybarra
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Boost achievement for English learners in all subject areas!
Building ELLs' language skills while teaching content is about to get easier. Hollingsworth and Ybarra combine the best of educational theory, brain research, and data analysis to bring you explicit direct instruction (EDI): a proven...
by Patricia Martin
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Fly with Sophia as she tries to get through her day!Written in English and Spanish with original painted artwork.Sofia was the smartest girl in school. Because she was so bright, school felt slow and boring to her. To escape the slowness of her days, she escaped into her books. Every day, she read...
by Catherine Hart
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
¿Sabéis Aquel...? 20 Jokes with Vocabulary for Spanish-speaking Students of English is based on the author's more than 25 years' experience of teaching English in Barcelona. It is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to learn English as a foreign (or second) language. The book is easy to use...
Learning on Other People's Kids
Becoming a Teach For America Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This work captures the voices of TFA novices who offer candid accounts of their experiences in Becoming Teach For America Teachers. Previously unanswered questions are addressed: Why do recent college graduates apply to Teach For America? How are they recruited, trained, and hired? How do they learn...
English Learners at the Top of the Class
Reading and Writing for Authentic Purposes
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
English Learners at the Top of the Class is a practice oriented book that also contributes to the professional literature. It is written for teacher candidates and both new and experienced practicing teachers who want to design and deliver effective instructional paradigms across this country’s...
by Nancy Appleyard, Keith Appleyard
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
The teacher training framework, introduced in September 2007, requires all teachers in the post-16 sector to possess knowledge, understanding and personal skills to at least level 2 in the minimum core for language and literacy. Coverage and assessment of the core has to be embedded in all Certificate...
Os Contos de Fadas
Origens, História e permanência no mundo moderno
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Este livro apresenta os contos de fadas como patrimônio universal, com elementos comuns ao imaginário de todas as culturas, que se renovam e se perpetuam através de autores e narradores contemporâneos. Os contos de fadas podem ser compreendidos não apenas como fenômeno histórico e literário,...
by Pierre de Coubertin
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
L’éducation publique, dans le monde moderne, tourne plus ou moins autour de deux formules qu’on pourrait appeler, — si ce langage n’était un peu trop absolu, — la formule de la contrainte et celle de la liberté. Toutes deux tendent bien au même but, la grandeur...
Storytelling in a Culturally Responsive Classroom
Opening Minds, Shifting Perspectives, and Transforming Imaginations
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
The authentic, storytelling process gives students the opportunity to include their heritage language and culture into the learning process at school. Often, students separate their heritage language and culture from the school culture. They do this in order to survive the complexity of living in...