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Paula Lillard, director of a Montessori school ranging in age from 18 months to fifteen years, provides a clear and cogent introduction to the Montessori program for the elementary and later years. In detailed accounts, Lillard shows how children acquire the skills to answer their own questions, learn to manage freedom with responsibility, and maintain a high level of intellectual stimulation by using the Montessori method. This is an essential handbook for parents and teachers who have chosen t...

The growth of e-learning and distance education today creates an increasingly pressing need for research and writing on the pedagogy of e-learning. Teams are, or should be, an integral component of e-learning. "Teaching and Learning with Virtual Teams" develops this concept by investigating many issues around teams in the virtual and hybrid classroom, bringing a variety of current research and practice on the subject of virtual and collaborative teams in teaching and learning together in a singl...

Outcome-Based Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Innovative Practices provides insights into initiatives that enhance student learning and contribute to improving the quality of undergraduate STEM education. These findings and experiences will promote excellence in undergraduate STEM education and inspire new thinking about STEM curriculum design.

While the importance of the role of storytelling can hardly be overestimated, the impact of digitalization on this role is more ambivalent. In this second book-length publication of the programme Media and Education in the Digital Age ? MEDA, the authors take a critical stance towards the alleged emancipative affordances of digital storytelling in education. The collection is inspired by the effort of making professional educators aware of the risks of the digital turn in educational storytellin...

Teachers begin the professional journey with a treasure chest full of experiences, hopes, and expectations gathered from early childhood. Yet the everyday stresses and challenges of 21st century classrooms often leave teachers with neither time nor energy to recall their initiating dreams and desires. In this innovative workbook you'll be expertly guided through a journey of self-discovery, back to the roots of your story, your evolution as a teacher, and the rituals and routines that help or hu...

Im Buch wird das padagogisch-psychologische Konstrukt der erwartungswidrigen Minderleistung vor dem Hintergrund von Belastung, Bewaltigung und berufsschulischem Unterricht genauer beleuchtet. Mittels eines mehrebenen- und prozessanalytischen Forschungsansatzes wurden vom Autor sowohl psychologische und physiologische Produkt- und Prozessdaten als auch unterrichtliche Beobachtungsdaten erhoben. Die Befunde weisen u. a. darauf hin, dass es zwischen den unterschiedlichen Datenebenen entsprechende Z...

Creating a Culture of Learning is an internal strategic planning process facilitating movement toward district wide student-centered learning. The "Best Practice" subjects discussed during the planning process, and covered herein, are specifically selected to focus attention on their district and where on the continuum of the practice does their district currently stand. It then develops goals and strategies designed to "help things go right."

Education reformers Deborah Meier, Theodore R. Sizer, and Nancy Faust Sizer have published books that have helped shape a movement. As school principals, all three have done another kind of writing as well: short essays in their own schools' newsletters to families. Keeping School collects the best of these wonderfully readable gems of education writing-from an urban public elementary school and an exurban charter high school-along with new essays. Together, the letters form a portrait of what...

Higher education institutions are increasingly delivering content online, but the content is often not sufficiently engaging. Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds provides a simple and practical guide to identifying when and what kind of games, simulations, and virtual environments should be used, how to get them, how to deploy them, and how to measure their effectiveness. Using frameworks, tips, case studies, real examples, and resources, this cutting-edge tool will help...

Handbook of Research on Improving Learning and Motivation through Educational Games: Multidisciplinary Approaches provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings on game-based learning. It is written for professionals, such as students, teachers, developers or managers, who want to improve their understanding of the important roles and applications of educational games in terms of teaching strategies, instructional design, educational psychology and game desig...