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"Fourth grade is ground zero in the fierce debates about education reform in America. It's when kids (well, some of them) make the shift from 'learning to read' to 'reading to learn,' and tomes have been written about the fourth-grade year by educators, administrators, philosophers, and pundits. Now ... Inda Schaenen adds the voices of actual fourth-grade kids to the conversation"--
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"Synthesizing cutting-edge research and firsthand reporting, Peg Tyre offers parents far smarter and more sophisticated ways to assess a classroom and decide if the school and the teacher have the right stuff. Passionate and persuasive, The Good School empowers parents to make sense of headlines; constructively engage teachers, administrators, and school boards; and figure out the best option for their child, be that a local public school, a magnet...
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A student's entire journey along the educational spectrum is affected by what occurs-and, crucially, by what does not occur-before the age of eight or nine. Yet early learning has never received the attention it deserves and needs. In his latest book, education expert Gene Maeroff takes a hard look at early learning and the primary grades of schooling. Building Blocks offers a concrete and groundbreaking strategy for improving early education. Filled...
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Whether you want to make subtle changes to your instructional design or turn it on its head-Hacking Instructional Design provides a toolbox of options. Discover just-in-time tools to design, upgrade, or adapt your instructional practices. Curriculum design experts Michael and Elizabeth Fisher show you how to:
• Prioritize and break apart standards
• Set targets and demonstrations of learning
• Create valuable experiences for contemporary learners
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En el mundo de lo social, es imprescindible la creación de nuevos proyectos, enfocados a mejorar el bienestar y la calidad de vida de las personas.Ante la actual crisis económica que estamos atravesando, donde, se hace latente una de sus consecuencias más claras y devastadoras, como es la falta o ausencia de empleo, nace, a modo de ejemplo, esta presentación de proyectos, con el objetivo de inspirar y animar a los profesionales de lo social a...
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After serving in linguistically diverse schools for over a decade, Carly Spina has scoured for the most effective and meaningful ways to support multilingual learners. The overwhelming answer has always been this: "Just add visuals!" When it comes to serving our multilingual learners, there are countless ways for us to strengthen our practice! This book will help us to reflect on ways to move beyond our current practices and really dive deep into...
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Kent Greenawalt is University Professor teaching at the Columbia University School of Law, and a former Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. He is the author of Religious Convictions and Political Choice, Private Consciences and Public Reasons, Fighting Words (Princeton), and Religion and the Constitution: Volume 1: Free Exercise and Fairness (also Princeton).
Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but...
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This book is about teaching and learning phrasal verbs in the context of both foreign and second language acquisition. Although both processes differ in terms of the degree to which learners are exposed to the target language through either formal classroom instruction or immersion in the language, the idea underlying this proposal is that both EFL and ESL learners can have similar levels of exposure to the language if the nature of constructions...
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True or false? The continued presence of the racial achievement gap is not merely an indication of how poorly individual students perform but more of an indication of a school's lack of effectiveness in teaching certain students. Depending on how one answers the previous question ultimately depends on one's understanding of the importance of equity-based and culturally responsive practices in the classroom.
As K-12 schools continue to grow increasingly...
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Amplify Every Student's Potential
Do you ever wonder how you'll reach challenging students (You know the ones.) and bring out the best in every single student?
Be Their Warrior will inspire you, stretch you, empathize with you, and empower you to be a warrior for all students.
Award-winning educator, Pamela Hall shares her strategies and stories for building unwavering, life-changing relationships through Culture, Community, & Being STRONG. You'll...
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This is an easy-to-read guide for all teachers looking to meet the needs of Multilingual Learners/English Learners, in particular Newcomers and SLIFE (Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education). Educators may feel intimidated admitting that they need to learn more about ways to help their students, here they will find easy-to-implement and non-judgmental support that busy teachers can put into place from the first moment they pick up the...
14) El camino de un genio y sus técnicas de desarrollo cognitivo e intelectual (Descubre secretos de apr
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El desarrollo intelectual está muy ligado al pensamiento y mantiene relación con las áreas de motricidad, factores sociales y del lenguaje. Por su parte, el desarrollo cognitivo se encarga principalmente de los procesos del intelecto y las conductas. Ambos están relacionados con el aprendizaje y en cómo somos capaces de adquirir ese conocimiento y guardarlo.
Se estudiarán aquí algunas técnicas básicas para facilitar el aprendizaje, estas...
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It's time to say a good word for the ten o'clock scholar. The recovery of a flourishing academic culture--which is not the same as being a major research center--lies in the recovery of leisure. The heart of this practice is contemplation and Divine worship. It names, furthermore, our lives as being in communion with others, the cosmos, and, ultimately with God. True leisure reconfigures our compartmentalized space and distorted time, allowing us...
16) Applied Cognitive Construction Grammar: A Non-essentialist Cognitive Approach to Language Instructi
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The purpose of this volume is to dispel some potential misconceptions about the
status of Applied Cognitive Construction Grammar with regard to SLA and SLA
research. This is important because, as we will see, most of the applied cognitive
approaches on offer seek to align the insights of cognitive research with the essentialist SLA paradigm. SLA essentialism is the idea that observable or elicited performance reveals facts about non-observable mental...
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¿Te gustaría leer más y mejor? ¿Quieres aprender a sacar el máximo provecho de tus lecturas? ¿Te interesa desarrollar tu capacidad de comprensión, análisis y crítica? Si tu respuesta es sí, entonces este Ebook es para ti.
En sus páginas, encontrarás una fascinante exploración de las técnicas y estrategias utilizadas por los lectores más exitosos del mundo. Desde la lectura crítica hasta la lectura activa, este libro te proporcionará...
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With a direct, urgent, and passionate tone, Visionary Schools was, written as an educational manual to encourage school transformation. It challenges college-teacher education programs and teacher trainees to be daring and liberate students from race and class, colonial capitalism, militarism, and climate catastrophe. Solving these issues can transform a nation from colonial rule to governance by the African and Latino working class, the descendants...
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Total College Success provides the information you need to make a sound judgment on selecting and pursuing a degree program. Unlike other books that give you a cookie-cutter, "one size fits all" approach to these subjects, the approach of this book is to educate you about the various aspects of choosing a college major, selecting a school, financing your education, and planning and pursuing your education. You will be able to effectively research...
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La Educación Física escolar se ha constituido en los últimos veinte años, siguiendo un proceso similar al de otras disciplinas escolares, en un campo de estudio e investigación, por tanto área de conocimiento, dejando atrás su ligazón con el mero activismo físico e integrándose al corpus de las llamadas didácticas especiales, desde el potencial educativo y educable del cuerpo y la motricidad.
Ese proceso reclama interpelar nuevamente el...
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