Elementary category: 2214 books
Learning First, Technology Second
The Educator's Guide to Designing Authentic Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Learning with technology doesn’t happen because a specific tool “revolutionizes” education. It happens when proven teaching strategies intersect with technology tools, and yet it’s not uncommon for teachers to use a tool because it’s “fun” or because the developer promises it will help...
by Claire Mooney, Alice Hansen, Reg Wrathmell
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
The essential subject knowledge text for primary mathematics. Secure subject knowledge and understanding is the foundation of confident, creative and effective teaching. This comprehensive text includes interactive tasks, a self assessment section to allow trainees to better understand their level...
Turtle's Tug
A Discovery of Hopeful Kindness as Life’S “More”
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Turtles Tug is a journey in learning to understand and empathize with the lives of others. Turtle follows Owl to new reaches of the forest to discover treasured lessons and new friends. Acts of hopeful kindness emerge as one of lifes greatest teachers.
This book may be read in home or classroom...
by Lesley Ito
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Teaching English as a second or foreign language is full of challenges: How do you hold students’ interest? How do you ensure that they get enough practice to really learn? Teaching young learners—children—presents unique challenges. Teachers are often looking for age- and level-appropriate...
Teaching in Themes
An Approach to Schoolwide Learning, Creating Community, and Differentiating Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do teachers and schools create meaningful learning experiences for students with diverse skills, abilities, and cultures? How can teachers authentically assess the learning of their students and build on their strengths and interests in ways that enrich the larger community? How can schools be...
Creativity in the Classroom
Schools of Curious Delight
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Creativity in the Classroom, sixth edition, helps teachers link creativity research and theory to the everyday activities of classroom teaching. This foundational textbook is relevant for any course dealing wholly or partially with creativity and teaching. The sixth edition has been revised and updated...
Lifelong Kindergarten
Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
How lessons from kindergarten can help everyone develop the creative thinking skills needed to thrive in today's society.
In kindergartens these days, children spend more time with math worksheets and phonics flashcards than building blocks and finger paint. Kindergarten is becoming more like...
by Jessica Grass
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
He Shoots! He Scores! Units of Study make up a unique comprehensive program that promotes awareness and understanding of topics related to mental wellness through existing curricular expectations. It reflects Canadian standards in education and it uses evidence-based material (the Iris the Dragon...
by Eileen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
This book is crammed with stimulating ideas to help you create and communicate the impression of a calm, happy classroom where pupils feel secure and are challenged to do their very best. Suggestions cover everything from layout of the classroom and innovative ways of controlling noise levels to great...
New Perspectives on Young Children's Moral Education
Developing Character through a Virtue Ethics Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
New Perspectives on Young Children's Moral Education explores how to approach young children's moral education in a world of uncertainty and change.
What is moral education? How do young children learn to act and interact appropriately? How do we enable children to recognise that how they act...
Passionate Readers
The Art of Reaching and Engaging Every Child
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
How do we inspire students to love reading and discovery? In Passionate Readers: The Art of Reaching and Engaging Every Child, classroom teacher, author, and speaker Pernille Ripp reveals the five keys to creating a passionate reading environment. You’ll learn how to…
Use your own reading...
Sticky Assessment
Classroom Strategies to Amplify Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Sticky Assessment is a straightforward guide to assessment, designed to demystify assessment and to give teachers the tools they need become better assessors. Translating the latest research into a concise and practical volume, this book helps teachers to monitor student learning, make assessment...
The 160-Character Solution
How Text Messaging and Other Behavioral Strategies Can Improve Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
For decades schools have invested substantial resources in boosting educational outcomes for disadvantaged students, but those investments have not always generated positive outcomes. Although many communities have expanded school choice, for example, families often choose to keep their children in...
Why Kids Can't Read
Continuing to Challenge the Status Quo in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Nearly forty percent of all fourth graders in this country cannot read at grade level, and this number rises to sixty percent for children coming from poor families. This gap in learning increases as students go through grade school and is a primary reason for school failure. Ironically, this problem...