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In this inspiring collection for these times, the award-winning, bestselling author-and MacArthur genius-gathers all-star advice for K–12 teachers on engaging students around today's toughest issues
Is it okay to discuss politics in class? How can teachers talk about immigration without putting undocumented students in the spotlight or at risk? What are constructive ways to help young people process the daily news coverage of sexual assault? How...
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El jardín es escuela porque allí aprendemos a estar con otros, a salir de nosotros mismos. Los chicos van al jardín para ser verdaderamente escuchados y para habitar otras vidas a través de los relatos que allí se construyen. Van a preguntar y a preguntarse, a mirar y a mirarse, a través de la lente amorosa del juego. Van para abrirse a una conversación que los humaniza como infancias y que devuelve infancia a la humanidad toda. Van a hablar...
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Inspire and engage your students with this Lower Secondary Science course from Collins offering comprehensive coverage of the new curriculum framework including suggested practical investigations and Thinking and Working Scientifically skills. • Offers a full range of questions for every topic in the Student's Book • Provides regular practice for students and in applying and developing their Thinking and Working skills to new contexts as well...
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Every school relies on teachers who informally and voluntarily lead various efforts in the school. These teachers may not be appointed leaders or paid leaders, but they are committed leaders: they see a need and they respond to it. What do these teacher leaders do that is different from the work of excellent teachers who are not teacher leaders? If we can articulate those skills, says Charlotte Danielson, then we can take steps to enable more teachers...
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Educators know it's important to get students to engage in "higher-order thinking." But what does higher-order thinking actually look like? And how can K–12 classroom teachers assess it across the disciplines? Author, consultant, and former classroom teacher Susan M. Brookhart answers these questions and more in this straightforward, practical guide to assessment that can help teachers determine if students are actually displaying the kind of complex...
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La evaluación de competencias y, desde un punto de vista más amplio, el diseño de titulaciones, materias y asignaturas universitarias requiere un constante estudio para su mejora, actualización y adaptación a las necesidades actuales. Este estudio es complejo porque intervienen multitud de factores, pero ello no ha hecho más que estimular a los autores de esta obra para ofrecer una visión rigurosa y sistemática, a partir del análisis de cinco...
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Children today face an unprecedented amount of stress due to our fast paced society, the influence of social media, and the threat of climate change and global pandemics. Instructors also face new challenges with helping kids focus on what they need to learn. Including mindfulness as part of the curriculum has been shown to help students improve both their academic and social skills. With greater awareness of their feelings and surroundings, children...
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Try going a week without hearing a call for a massive overhaul of our educational system. Parents, students, educators, bureaucrats, pundits . . . everyone says something must be done. But what? And who should do it? In this environment, school leaders must build bridges for change. As the system now stands, many students spend great portions of their lives feeling inferior if they struggle, invisible if they already know the material, problematic...
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The authors chart a middle course in our war over religion and public education, one that builds on a developing national consensus among educational and religious leaders. While it is not proper for schools to practice religion or proselytize, neither is it permissible to make them "religion-free" zones.
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Este libro es resultado de un proceso investigativo decolonial a partir de nuestra reflexión como docentes en una institución educativa de Tucurinca, en el municipio de Zona Bananera, Magdalena. La reflexión está elaborada desde el hacer decolonial, es decir, desde la reflexión propia y colectiva que visibiliza prácticas curriculares perpetuadoras de la colonialidad y de aquellas otras que posibilitan la vivencia de valores, haceres, sentires...
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Of all the goods of life, which life, moreover, parsimoniously measures out to us, the most precious is certainly health. It is also the one we neglect the most. We waste our strength, we abuse our stomachs, we lavish our energy with guilty recklessness.
What do a regularly beating heart, a lucid brain, vigorous and powerful lungs matter? We have only one goal: wealth.
All our faculties, all our acts, all our hopes are concentrated and spent on...
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Designed to promote reflection, discussion, and action among the entire learning community, Educating Everybody's Children encapsulates what research has revealed about successfully addressing the needs of students from economically, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse groups and identifies a wide range of effective principles and instructional strategies. Although good teaching works well with all students, educators must develop an...
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La educación ambiental es una herramienta esencial para concienciar a la población de la importancia de preservar el medio ambiente y adoptar prácticas de consumo sostenible en el día a día. En este proceso de concienciación, el educador ambiental tiene un papel fundamental, ya que es el encargado de transmitir información y estimular la reflexión sobre temas medioambientales. Su principal objetivo es concienciar ecológicamente a las personas,...
76) A Bookbag of the Bag Ladies' Best: Resources, Ideas, and Hands-on Activities for the K-5 Classroom
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Are you a creative teacher or notice that there's more to teaching than the rigor of skills and core instruction? Have you wondered what the missing piece is that would allow students to be a member of a team, apply standards in a creative way, and learn skills hands-on? Start here with A Bookbag of the Bag Ladies Best and add hands-on pizazz to your teaching. Encourage interactive learning and motivate your K-5 students with projects that use everyday...
77) Teaching Boys Who Struggle in School: Strategies That Turn Underachievers into Successful Learners
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Teaching Boys Who Struggle in School: Strategies That Turn Underachievers into Successful Learners responds to growing concerns about a crisis in boys' academic achievement. Kathleen Palmer Cleveland seeks to help K–12 educators cut through the hype to get at the real problem: who is underachieving, why are they struggling, and how can educators respond to these students' needs in new and productive ways? Cleveland presents findings from four large-scale...
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Everyone agrees that what we do in schools should be based on what we know about how the brain learns. Until recently, however, we have had few clues to unlock the secrets of the brain. Now, research from the neurosciences has greatly improved our understanding of the learning process, and we have a much more solid foundation on which to base educational decisions. In this completely revised and updated second edition, Patricia Wolfe clarifies how...
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How do you know if your school is improving? Do you know what really works in reading programs...in writing...in math...in science? How do we measure what works? What about teaching to the test--or to the vast array of standards being mandated? How do we effectively use cooperative learning--and direct instruction--and alternative assessment? How do we sustain school reform? How do we get results--and measure them in terms of student achievement?...
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How does the home culture of Latino immigrant students differ from the "mainstream" culture of U.S. schools? Why is it important for teachers to understand the differences? How can educators take advantage of students' cultural traits to improve classroom management, student performance, and school-parent relations? Carrie Rothstein-Fisch and Elise Trumbull answer these and many other questions by drawing on the experience and collective wisdom of...
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