P David Pearson: 3 books
Powerful Learning
What We Know About Teaching for Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
In Powerful Learning, Linda Darling-Hammond and an impressive list of co-authors offer a clear, comprehensive, and engaging exploration of the most effective classroom practices. They review, in practical terms, teaching strategies that generate meaningful K–2 student understanding, and occur both...
Video Pedagogy in Action
Critical Reflective Inquiry Using the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Combining video analysis with the well-known Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR) model, this book offers teacher educators a fresh perspective and a new tool for supporting teachers’ learning and reflection. The clearly articulated and useful framework shifts the focus away from children and...
A Field Guide to the Tiger Beetles of the United States and Canada
Identification, Natural History, and Distribution of the Cicindelinae
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
More than 2600 species of tiger beetles are found all over the world. In North America there are 116 species of tiger beetle, divided into 153 geographically distinct races. Detailed studies of their natural history, population dynamics, communities, patterns of worldwide species richness, and taxonomy...