Learning Center Theory introduces college students to the field of peer tutoring, providing a theoretical background and practical guidance for peer tutors in higher education. Taking an innovative approach firmly grounded in the science of learning and cognition, the text empowers college students to think critically about their work as educators and to make informed choices in working with learners. A vibrant, engaging read for students, researchers, and administrators alike, the text covers t...
Multilevel Modeling Methods with Introductory and Advanced Applications provides a cogent and comprehensive introduction to the area of multilevel modeling for methodological and applied researchers as well as advanced graduate students. The book is designed to be able to serve as a textbook for a one or two semester course in multilevel modeling. The topics of the seventeen chapters range from basic to advanced, yet each chapter is designed to be able to stand alone as an instructional unit on...
In this Second Edition, Edie L Holcomb richly expands her offerings to school change leaders. The additional examples, illustrations, and stories provide the user of the material with a cachet of new information and applications. Edie Holcomb provides tips for facilitators and an example of each tool's purpose, when to use it, who to involve, and materials that are needed. From histograms to weighted voting and force field analysis, Edie L Holcomb provides tips for facilitators and an example o...
Though schools have long relied on teachers to assume leadership roles, they have received little assistance in becoming the leaders they are expected to be. Leadership preparation tends to focus on teaching educators to become administrators rather than teacher leaders. This innovative sourcebook is designed to redress the balance. Based on a thorough review of current literature, A Handbook for Teacher Leaders guides readers through the leadership skills and strategies they will require. Iss...
Mastering the Louisiana iLeap Grade 3 in Mathematics
by Erica Day, Colleen Pintozzi, and Mary Reagan
50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools
Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive look at modern education reform. They explain how the mythical failure of public education has been created and perpetuated in large part by political and economic interests that stand to gain from its...
Investing in Successful Summer Programs
by Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Catherine H Augustine, Fatih Unlu, Kathleen M Ziol-Guest, Scott Naftel, Celia J Gomez, Terry Marsh, Goke Akinniranye, and Ivy Todd
Children will go Wild About maths using this fun workbook! They'll love practising the key maths skills taught at Key Stage 1, while finding out about the amazing world of animals. Part of the Letts Wild About series, these titles offer an appealing learning approach for budding young explorers keen to discover their world. Matched to the KS1 National Curriculum, it takes your child on a wild adventure, where they will practise maths and explore amazing animals along the way....
Will Standards Save Public Education? (New Democracy Forum, #5)
by Deborah Meier
Somewhere. . . there is a place of sanity where education is intense and substantive. . . . It's in that place that Deborah Meier has been working all these years. Her voice conveys a life of struggle in the front lines-victories and losses, hopes and disappointments. . . . It's a voice our nation needs to hear. --Jonathan Kozol, from the Foreword Acclaimed educator Deborah Meier offers a fresh take on standardized tests. While others have criticized standards and what they measure, Meier rejec...
365 Worksheets - Greater Than for 6 Digit Numbers (365 Days Math Greater Than, #6)
by Kapoo Stem
Value Added Measures of School GCSE Performance (Research Studies, #14)
Educating Language-Minority Children
In the past 30 years, a large and growing number of students in U.S. schools have come from homes in which the language background is other than English. These students present unique challenges for America's education system. Based on Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children, a comprehensive study published in 1997, this book summarizes for teachers and education policymakers what has been learned over the past three decades about educating such students. It discusses a broad range of...
Research Perspectives and Best Practices in Educational Technology Integration
With advancements in technology continuing to influence all areas of society, students in current classrooms have a different understanding and perspective of learning than the educational system has been designed to teach. Research Perspectives and Best Practices in Educational Technology Integration highlights the emerging digital age, its complex transformation of the current educational system, and the integration of educational technologies into teaching strategies. This book offers best p...
Assessment of Classroom Learning
by Claudio Violato, Anthony Marini, Dan McDougall, and Dan McDoughall
Although researched and written within the context of Canadian education, this package contains guidance and tools applicable to teachers and teacher trainees everywhere. The focus is on practical classroom applications, particularly on the construction of assessment devices. There is extensive discussion of traditional methods of assessment, such as multiple-choice tests, essay tests, and standardized tests. Guidelines for the development and interpretation of these tests are provided as are ch...
Purple Chalkboard Educational Services ACT Prep Guide
by Renee Joy Janzen Jd
WHAT WORKS! provides a roadmap for National Board candidates by guiding them as they work through each of the four entries to be submitted. The chapters contain dozens of tips on What Works! and Why These Work!. The tips are practical, specific, and written in a conversational style that is easy to read.
Steck-Vaughn Higher Scores on Science Standardized (Higher Scores on Sci Std Tests)
The migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism are traced in this book. The result of this migration is a widespread fatalism over the ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in popular music. The book synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and theory from romanticism through postmodernism; alternative music such as feminist punk and grunge; poli...