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Transforming Teacher Education Through the Epistemic Core of Chemistry

Empirical Evidence and Practical Strategies

by Sibel Erduran, Ebru Kaya ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book synthesizes theoretical perspectives, empirical evidence and practical strategies for improving teacher education in chemistry. Many chemistry lessons involve mindless “cookbook” activities where students and teachers follow recipes, memorise formulae and recall facts without understanding how and why knowledge in chemistry works. Capitalising on traditionally disparate areas of research ... Read more

$64.09 CAD

This book synthesizes theoretical perspectives, empirical evidence and practical strategies for improving teacher education in chemistry. Many chemistry lessons involve mindless “cookbook” activities where students and teachers follow recipes, memorise formulae and recall facts without understanding how and why knowledge in chemistry works. Capitalising on traditionally disparate areas of research
... Read more
What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know

Fundamentals of a Good Fifth-Grade Education

by Core Knowledge Foundation, E.D. Hirsch Jr. ...

Series series The Core Knowledge Series
What should your child learn in the fifth grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American fifth graders. Featuring sixteen pages of illustrations, a bolder, easier-to-follow format, and a thoroughly updated curriculum, What ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

What should your child learn in the fifth grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American fifth graders. Featuring sixteen pages of illustrations, a bolder, easier-to-follow format, and a thoroughly updated curriculum, What
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How to Assess Higher-Order Thinking Skills in Your Classroom

by Susan M. Brookhart ...

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 ... Read more

$35.19 CAD

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
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So Much More than the ABCs

The Early Phases of Reading and Writing, Revised Edition

by Molly F. Collins, Judith A. Schickedanz ...

Laying a Strong Foundation for Literacy in the Early YearsA child’s literacy development begins long before their formal education does. The skills and knowledge that infants, toddlers, and preschoolers acquire through meaningful, playful language and literacy experiences are the building blocks of their later success in reading and writing.How do early childhood educators foster young children’s ... Read more

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Laying a Strong Foundation for Literacy in the Early YearsA child’s literacy development begins long before their formal education does. The skills and knowledge that infants, toddlers, and preschoolers acquire through meaningful, playful language and literacy experiences are the building blocks of their later success in reading and writing.How do early childhood educators foster young children’s
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Teaching STEM Outdoors

Activities for Young Children

by Patty Born Selly ...

Connect nature play, outdoor experiences, and STEM learning for young children with activities, real-life examples, and educator resources. Nurture young children’s innate tendencies toward exploration, sensory stimulation, and STEM learning when you connect outdoor learning and STEM curriculum. Discover the developmental benefits of outdoor learning and how the rich diversity of settings and ... Read more

$36.79 CAD

Connect nature play, outdoor experiences, and STEM learning for young children with activities, real-life examples, and educator resources. Nurture young children’s innate tendencies toward exploration, sensory stimulation, and STEM learning when you connect outdoor learning and STEM curriculum. Discover the developmental benefits of outdoor learning and how the rich diversity of settings and
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Understanding Contemporary Education

Key themes and issues

by Tom O'Donoghue ...

Understanding Contemporary Education offers an essential exploration of key concepts and issues in education that will allow education studies students, as well as trainee and practising teachers to engage in reflection, not only on work at the classroom level, but on education more broadly. Using detailed examples, the book problematises many popular and taken-for-granted views, allowing the ... Read more

$76.94 CAD

Understanding Contemporary Education offers an essential exploration of key concepts and issues in education that will allow education studies students, as well as trainee and practising teachers to engage in reflection, not only on work at the classroom level, but on education more broadly. Using detailed examples, the book problematises many popular and taken-for-granted views, allowing the
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Good Questions

Great Ways to Differentiate Mathematics Instruction in the Standards-Based Classroom

by Marian Small ...

Now in its Fourth Edition—with more than 50 new questions and a new chapter on financial literacy—this bestselling resource helps experienced and novice teachers to effectively and efficiently differentiate mathematics instruction in grades K–8. Math education expert Marian Small shows teachers how to get started and become expert at using two powerful and universal strategies: Open Questions and ... Read more

$40.69 CAD

Now in its Fourth Edition—with more than 50 new questions and a new chapter on financial literacy—this bestselling resource helps experienced and novice teachers to effectively and efficiently differentiate mathematics instruction in grades K–8. Math education expert Marian Small shows teachers how to get started and become expert at using two powerful and universal strategies: Open Questions and
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Mathematics Miseducation

The Case Against a Tired Tradition

by Derek Stolp ...

Author and veteran teacher Derek Stolp has come to the conclusion that learning mathematics is of no real consequence for the vast majority of our children. This stance flies in the face of the conventional wisdom held among political leaders, business people, teachers, and parents that mathematics is an essential subject for all children to study well into their high school years. In Mathematics ... Read more

$31.69 CAD

Author and veteran teacher Derek Stolp has come to the conclusion that learning mathematics is of no real consequence for the vast majority of our children. This stance flies in the face of the conventional wisdom held among political leaders, business people, teachers, and parents that mathematics is an essential subject for all children to study well into their high school years. In Mathematics
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Creative Block Play

A Comprehensive Guide to Learning through Building

by Rosanne Hansel ...

Creative Block Play covers everything you need to encourage a child's development in a variety of domains through block play. This book is full of photos that illustrate block play in real classrooms and stories from teachers who have successfully used block play to encourage children's development in a variety of domains.Rosanne Regan Hansel has been both a teacher and administrator for a variety ... Read more

$41.59 CAD

Creative Block Play covers everything you need to encourage a child's development in a variety of domains through block play. This book is full of photos that illustrate block play in real classrooms and stories from teachers who have successfully used block play to encourage children's development in a variety of domains.Rosanne Regan Hansel has been both a teacher and administrator for a variety
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Powerful Ideas of Science and How to Teach Them

by Jasper Green ...

A bullet dropped and a bullet fired from a gun will reach the ground at the same time. Plants get the majority of their mass from the air around them, not the soil beneath them. A smartphone is made from more elements than you. Every day, science teachers get the opportunity to blow students’ minds with counter-intuitive, crazy ideas like these. But getting students to understand and remember the ... Read more

$48.08 CAD

A bullet dropped and a bullet fired from a gun will reach the ground at the same time. Plants get the majority of their mass from the air around them, not the soil beneath them. A smartphone is made from more elements than you. Every day, science teachers get the opportunity to blow students’ minds with counter-intuitive, crazy ideas like these. But getting students to understand and remember the
... Read more
High School Graduation

K-12 Strategies That Work

by Rob Andrews, Avis E. Glaze, Ruth E. Mattingley ...

High-impact strategies to improve student outcomesBased on first-hand experiences from one of the world’s fastest improving school systems, this comprehensive resource helps teachers and leaders increase student achievement and outcomes in elementary, middle, and high school education.Written by three educators instrumental in developing and implementing Ontario, Canada’s remarkably successful ... Read more

$40.79 CAD

High-impact strategies to improve student outcomesBased on first-hand experiences from one of the world’s fastest improving school systems, this comprehensive resource helps teachers and leaders increase student achievement and outcomes in elementary, middle, and high school education.Written by three educators instrumental in developing and implementing Ontario, Canada’s remarkably successful
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Bible Workbook Volume 2 New Testament

by Catherine Walker ...

NOW WITH UPDATED, FULL-COLOR MAPSThe Bible Workbooks are a systematic, individual study of the Bible. The student learns by doing; information is given and questions are asked to test their understanding. Bible Workbook Volume 2 gives an overview and a book-by-book study of the New Testament. Interesting, stimulating, informative- Bible Workbooks provide an understandable and enjoyable means of ... Read more

$9.59 CAD

NOW WITH UPDATED, FULL-COLOR MAPSThe Bible Workbooks are a systematic, individual study of the Bible. The student learns by doing; information is given and questions are asked to test their understanding. Bible Workbook Volume 2 gives an overview and a book-by-book study of the New Testament. Interesting, stimulating, informative- Bible Workbooks provide an understandable and enjoyable means of
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Difference Maker

Enacting Systems Theory in Biology Teaching

by Christian Moore-Anderson ...

"Rarely have I been so convinced by the power of a new theoretical underpinning for a pedagogical technique such as the one presented here."—Helen Darlington, Faculty Progress Leader for Science at South Wirral High School (reviewed in School Science Review).From the author of Biology Made Real, Difference Maker reveals how to teach with students rather than merely teach to them. Without slides or ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

"Rarely have I been so convinced by the power of a new theoretical underpinning for a pedagogical technique such as the one presented here."—Helen Darlington, Faculty Progress Leader for Science at South Wirral High School (reviewed in School Science Review).From the author of Biology Made Real, Difference Maker reveals how to teach with students rather than merely teach to them. Without slides or
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Curriculum in a New Key

The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki

by Ted T. Aoki ...

Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
Ted T. Aoki, the most prominent curriculum scholar of his generation in Canada, has influenced numerous scholars around the world. Curriculum in a New Key brings together his work, over a 30-year span, gathered here under the themes of reconceptualizing curriculum; language, culture, and curriculum; and narrative. Aoki's oeuvre is utterly unique--a complex interdisciplinary configuration of ... Read more

$166.26 CAD

Ted T. Aoki, the most prominent curriculum scholar of his generation in Canada, has influenced numerous scholars around the world. Curriculum in a New Key brings together his work, over a 30-year span, gathered here under the themes of reconceptualizing curriculum; language, culture, and curriculum; and narrative. Aoki's oeuvre is utterly unique--a complex interdisciplinary configuration of
... Read more
International Primary English Student's Book: Stage 1

by Daphne Paizee ...

Series series Collins International Primary English
Collins International Primary English offers full coverage of the Cambridge Primary English curriculum framework (0058) from 2020 within a six-level, multi-component course, which has been carefully developed to meet the needs of teachers and students in the international market.Collins International Primary English is a self-contained, cohesive course which develops reading, writing, speaking and ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

Collins International Primary English offers full coverage of the Cambridge Primary English curriculum framework (0058) from 2020 within a six-level, multi-component course, which has been carefully developed to meet the needs of teachers and students in the international market.Collins International Primary English is a self-contained, cohesive course which develops reading, writing, speaking and
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The Principal’s Guide to Curriculum Leadership

by Richard D. Sorenson, Lloyd M. Goldsmith, Zulma Y. Mendez, Karen T. Maxwell ...

"This handbook synthesizes the best of educational research in an easily accessible format. Educators will find it an effective roadmap for leading their schools to organizational excellence, effective instruction, and optimum student achievement."—Brenda P. Dean, Assistant SuperintendentHamblen County Schools, Morristown, TN"The author clearly makes the case for the principal to be THE ... Read more

$46.39 CAD

"This handbook synthesizes the best of educational research in an easily accessible format. Educators will find it an effective roadmap for leading their schools to organizational excellence, effective instruction, and optimum student achievement."—Brenda P. Dean, Assistant SuperintendentHamblen County Schools, Morristown, TN"The author clearly makes the case for the principal to be THE
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Between Hope and Despair

Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma

by Rachel Baum, Mario DiPaolantonio, Andrea Liss, Jody Ranck, Julie Salverson, Rinaldo Walcott, Deborah P. Britzman ...

Series series Culture and Education Series
At the end of a century of unfathomable suffering, societies are facing anew the question of how events that shock, resist assimilation, and evoke contradictory and complex responses should be remembered. Between Hope and Despair specifically examines the pedagogical problem of how remembrance is to proceed when what is to be remembered is underscored by a logic difficult to comprehend and ... Read more

$57.99 CAD

At the end of a century of unfathomable suffering, societies are facing anew the question of how events that shock, resist assimilation, and evoke contradictory and complex responses should be remembered. Between Hope and Despair specifically examines the pedagogical problem of how remembrance is to proceed when what is to be remembered is underscored by a logic difficult to comprehend and
... Read more
Standards-Based Learning for Students with Disabilities

by Marsha Craft- Tripp, Allan Glatthorn ...

This book describes in detail how educators can apply curriculum standards, performance standards and opportunity standards to improve education of special learners. It provides practical examples which show you how to develop and implement standards-based IEPs, use curriculum standards and benchmarks to develop long term plans, develop performance tasks for students with disabilities, and develop ... Read more

$21.97 CAD

This book describes in detail how educators can apply curriculum standards, performance standards and opportunity standards to improve education of special learners. It provides practical examples which show you how to develop and implement standards-based IEPs, use curriculum standards and benchmarks to develop long term plans, develop performance tasks for students with disabilities, and develop
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The Science of Learning and Development

Enhancing the Lives of All Young People

Edited by Pamela Cantor, David Osher ...

This essential text unpacks major transformations in the study of learning and human development and provides evidence for how science can inform innovation in the design of settings, policies, practice, and research to enhance the life path, opportunity and prosperity of every child. The ideas presented provide researchers and educators with a rationale for focusing on the specific pathways and ... Read more

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This essential text unpacks major transformations in the study of learning and human development and provides evidence for how science can inform innovation in the design of settings, policies, practice, and research to enhance the life path, opportunity and prosperity of every child. The ideas presented provide researchers and educators with a rationale for focusing on the specific pathways and
... Read more
Brilliant Stories for Assemblies

by Paul Urry ...

Series Book 33 - Brilliant how to ...
Contains over 60 stories written by an experienced primary school teacher and natural storyteller. The stories are divided into 4 categories: cultural stories from around the world; religious stories from the 6 main religions; moral stories including bullying, birth of a sibling, racism and disability; and historical stories. They can be used at specific times of the year or whenever issues arise. ... Read more

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Contains over 60 stories written by an experienced primary school teacher and natural storyteller. The stories are divided into 4 categories: cultural stories from around the world; religious stories from the 6 main religions; moral stories including bullying, birth of a sibling, racism and disability; and historical stories. They can be used at specific times of the year or whenever issues arise.
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Relational Land-Based Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) Education

Edited by Eun-Ji Kim, Kori Czuy ...

Series Book 1 - Bios-Mythois
This edited collection brings together theories and lived experiences in teaching and learning Nature through multiple ways of coming to know.Showcasing the experiences and ideas from diverse stakeholders in the field of education, this book includes work from researchers, teacher-educators, teachers, outreach workshop facilitators, and Indigenous youth.Focusing on the importance of ... Read more

$52.79 CAD

This edited collection brings together theories and lived experiences in teaching and learning Nature through multiple ways of coming to know.Showcasing the experiences and ideas from diverse stakeholders in the field of education, this book includes work from researchers, teacher-educators, teachers, outreach workshop facilitators, and Indigenous youth.Focusing on the importance of
... Read more
Groups to Facilitate Motor, Sensory and Language Skills 2

Teachers Resource Series, #2

by S Kelley ...

Series Book 2 - Teachers Resource Series
MORE! Groups for early childhood and elementary classroom(can be adjusted for any age/ability group) to facilitate fine motor, gross motor, language and social skillsIntegrates the use of a puppet & classroom materialsProvides specific greeting protocol for group start and end to promote eye contact and engagementIncludes discussion on Common Core StandardsThe books in this collection are designed ... Read more

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MORE! Groups for early childhood and elementary classroom(can be adjusted for any age/ability group) to facilitate fine motor, gross motor, language and social skillsIntegrates the use of a puppet & classroom materialsProvides specific greeting protocol for group start and end to promote eye contact and engagementIncludes discussion on Common Core StandardsThe books in this collection are designed
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Reshaping Engineering Education

Addressing Complex Human Challenges

by Fawwaz Habbal, Anette Kolmos, Roger G. Hadgraft, Jette Egelund Holgaard, Kamar Reda ...

Series series Education (R0)
This open access book is dedicated to exploring methods and charting the course for enhancing engineering education in and beyond 2023. It delves into the idea that education, coupled with social connections, is indispensable for a more profound comprehension of the world and the creation of an improved quality of life.The book serves as a conduit for incorporating complex problem-solving into ... Read more

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This open access book is dedicated to exploring methods and charting the course for enhancing engineering education in and beyond 2023. It delves into the idea that education, coupled with social connections, is indispensable for a more profound comprehension of the world and the creation of an improved quality of life.The book serves as a conduit for incorporating complex problem-solving into
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Classroom Group Sensory Experiences

Teachers Resource Series, #3

by S Kelley ...

Series Book 3 - Teachers Resource Series
Fun, basic sensory groups for various age groups in the classroomMay be suitable for younger classrooms, cross categorical, inclusive and self contained classroomsPrimary focus on motor planning (praxis), proprioception and vestibular input, with integration of other sensory systemsIncludes discussion on Common Core StandardsThe books in this collection are designed to meet the needs of educators ... Read more

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Fun, basic sensory groups for various age groups in the classroomMay be suitable for younger classrooms, cross categorical, inclusive and self contained classroomsPrimary focus on motor planning (praxis), proprioception and vestibular input, with integration of other sensory systemsIncludes discussion on Common Core StandardsThe books in this collection are designed to meet the needs of educators
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