Inquiry in Education, Volume I (Educational Psychology)
by Mark W Aulls and Bruce M Shore
Why should inquiry—the engine for independent, curiosity- and interest-driven, life-long learning—be a curricular imperative, and its presence a criterion for excellent education? Is it possible to teach inquiry skills systematically and to engage learners in being inquirers across elementary, secondary, and post-secondary schooling?To answer these urgent questions, this book*pulls together more than four decades of expert opinion, quantitative research, and qualitative research on inquiry in di...
Based on the highly acclaimed PeaceJam program - an educational action plan built around the spirit, skills, and wisdom of Nobel Peace Laureates - this is a practical and motivational guide that will inspire a generation of peacemakers. "PeaceJam" traces the lives of five American teens who, by applying the skills and techniques from the PeaceJam program and developing personal relationships with Nobel Peace Laureates such as the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, begin to sense their own potential fo...
Realistic Decision Theory: Rules for Nonideal Agents in Nonideal Circumstances
by Curators' Professor Department of Philosophy Paul Weirich
Turning conceptual marketers into marketing engineers.June 2004 update: This title is now available solely through the authors. Students may purchase it online at http://www.trafford.com/4dcgi/view-item?item=5338 Please make a note of this change since Prentice Hall will not be reprinting this title or able to offer it once our current inventory is depleted.Marketing professionals today are surrounded by information technology, which they need to exploit to succeed in their markets. This is a ma...
Maths Problem Solving: Year 1 (Maths Problem Solving)
by Catherine Yemm
Maths Problem Solving, Year 1 is the first book in a six-book series that has been written for teachers to use during the numeracy lesson. The sheets provide opportunities for making decisions, reasoning about numbers and shapes, solving real life problems and organizing and using data. Differentiated sheets makes it easy to use the sheets in a mixed-ability classroom. The length of the problems are varied with short, medium and more extended problems for children to solve. The problems on each...
Mexicans and Hispanos in Colorado Schools and Communities, 1920-1960
by Ruben Donato
What happens when teachers face difficult options? Examining ourselves_why we do what we do_is the very essence of human psychology and of ethics. The purpose of this book is not to illustrate the difference between right and wrong, but to show how educators might choose among ethical approaches to decision-making as they face the difficult choices they make every day. However, to be just and ethical, we need to know something about the demands of justice and how they apply in our own circumstan...
Working Together for Children provides an account of the systems and processes of multi-agency work with several groups of children and their families. The key philosophy of the book is that such work is inherently complex, and only by understanding and grappling with these complexities can prospective or practising professionals within children’s services contribute really effectively to multi-agency working. This second edition contains updated references to legislation and guidance underpin...
Ausgangspunkt dieser Studie zur Schulentwicklung in Baden-Wurttemberg in den Gemeinden und Kreisen des Landes waren die zum Teil heftigen Diskussionen um den Fortbestand der Hauptschulen, nachdem ihre Schulerzahl in den letzten Jahren immer weiter gesunken ist. Insbesondere im landlichen Raum stehen immer mehr Hauptschulen vor dem Aus. Das Gutachten stellt dar, wie sich die kunftige Anzahl der Schuler/innen in der Sekundarstufe auf die Anzahl der Schulstandorte in den Landkreisen auswirkt. Dabei...
Using and Applying Mathematics at Key Stage 1
by Elaine Sellers and Sue Lowndes
All pupils - able children included - need to be taught strategies to enable their thinking skills to progress. They also need help with developing different approaches to problem solving. A sustained piece of work that requires perseverance, logical strategies, and refinement of method and extension of the original task is not the same as a straightforward quick-fix type problem. Both types of problem solving need to be taught. This book presents a series of activities that can be used with who...
Steam Project-Based Learning, Grade 2 (Steam Project-Based Learning)
by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Failing schools have become the latest academic cottage industry, and they serve as lightning rods for the controversy that continues to surround the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Surprisingly, there are only a handful of books that address the topic of turning around failing schools and even fewer that provide a meaningful discussion on how individual schools should avoid failure from the outset. This book will help public school educators understand that turnaround efforts are based on...
Can Schools Survive? raises essential questions about the current status of schools and about the future of schools. The book explores vital questions to answer and considers actions to take so schools can begin to thrive. This book will raise the issue of the purpose of a school and the related issue of whether schools are being asked to do tasks which compete with or complicate the fundamental purpose of a school. This book is interactive and encourages the reader to answer challenging quest...
Education Reform in Florida
Expanding Opportunity in Higher Education (SUNY series, Frontiers in Education)
An innovation in learning improves upon the implementation of the standard practice or introduces a new practice, thus achieving greater learning outcomes. The Handbook on Innovations in Learning, developed by the Center on Innovations in Learning, presents commissioned chapters describing current best practices of instruction before embarking on descriptions of selected innovative practices which promise better methods of engaging and teaching students. Written by a diverse and talented field o...
Refining Common Sense
by Vickie Williams Phelps and Elizabeth F. Warren
Designed to help educators collect and use data more effectively, this guide enables the reader to develop three tools to use in decision-making. 1.) A Data Notebook to capture the charts, notes, and agendas created during the process along with goals, questions, and process information. 2.) A Master Data Directory for compiling the data sources that are available in the district and school, and, 3.) The Information-Based Decision-Making Roadmap that contains all the finished documents that have...
STOP IT! You're too smart to keep making Dumb Decisions
by Lonnie Carton
In these times of rapid change, including a global pandemic, educational leaders need tools and frameworks that can adapt to evolving shifts in real time. What might happen if a leadership framework could make sense of this complexity in ways that are humane, ethical, culturally responsive, and multifaceted? This book examines how a flux leadership mindset and corresponding tools promote the conditions for educational change that uplift stakeholders and generate contextualized data during emerge...
For students, becoming mathematical thinkers and problem solvers is an essential first step to achieving STEM success. In this brief but thought-provoking look at mathematics teaching, former NCTM president Cathy L. Seeley considers what it takes for each teacher to help every student become a mathematical thinker and problem solver. Seeley, a highly regarded author and experienced math educator, explains her approach while she skillfully accomplishes the following: Challenges old ideas about t...