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This is a must read for parents, teachers and all those interested in education. Having been a primary school teacher for 35 years, the author highlights the discipline problems facing teachers and parents of children in the primary schools of the United Kingdom and how we need to address behavioural problems in their early stages.
The characters in What Did You Learn at School Today? (which is a brand-new, innovative, and uniquely creative children’s book) are different types of socks—socks that happen to be the characters’ last names! Meet the Toesock siblings, Tommy and Tammy; their mother, Mrs. Tamara Toesock; Tippy Grippysock; Lexi Longstocking; Tracy Lacysock; Toby Tubesock; Mrs. Polka Dotsock, and many more! These charming characters live in the town of Sock Hill, USA, and attend Sock Hill Elementary School. Tommy and Tammy Toesock are much like other children who, when a parent asks what they learned at school that day, typically say “Nothing.” But, wait! Maybe they just don’t realize that they actually have learned some very important lessons this particular school day. Read this fun and enlightening book to find out how their smart mom guides them through the process of retelling, analyzing, and evaluating their exciting day at school. Your child will instantly become enthralled and intrigued by these characters’ hilarious names and antics. This is the first in a series of children’s books cleverly written by Rhonda Twiner and beautifully illustrated by Stephanie Birdwell (both public school teachers). Elementary educators will most certainly appreciate the vocabulary section and the prereading and postreading guiding questions at the end of the book, which can help make lesson plan preparation quick, easy, concise, and effective! The next book about these cute little sock people from Sock Hill, USA, is entitled Guess What Happened at Show & Tell Today! Be sure to look for it and many more educational, thrilling, and totally entertaining books from these ladies, which are coming soon to your favorite bookstore in paperback and e-book formats! Also, check out more of Stephanie’s art on her web page at www.artbysteph.weebly.com.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In Patrons of Paleontology, Jane Davidson explores the motivation behind this rush to fund exploration, arguing that eagerness to discover strategic resources like coal deposits was further fueled by patrons who had a genuine passion for paleontology and the fascinating creatures that were being unearthed. These early decades of government support shaped the way the discipline grew, creating practices and enabling discoveries that continue to affect paleontology today.
Keys to engaging secondary students Research shows that all students—regardless of learning style, disability category, or language difference—learn more effectively when they are engaged in active learning. This book shows teachers how to help all students achieve positive learning outcomes. The authors provide a compilation of strategies that serve as blueprints for instructional design and directions for using them across a variety of content areas. The many benefits of active learning include: A more engaged and interactive classroom Increased self-directed learning Development of higher-order thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, evaluation Improved reading, discussion, and writing competencies
Successful learning is as much about emotion as it is about cognition Discover how to manage the emotional dynamics of learning success and build strong relationships in order to realize profound achievement gains. Bestselling author Rick Stiggins shares important lessons learned from his career—most importantly, how to help students become confident, lifelong learners. Separate chapters for teachers, parents, and school leaders discuss how to form teams to explore home and school partnerships, the keys to effective learning, a growth mindset, the Visible Learning® research, and assessment FOR learning. Rick shows us how to ensure students Understand the learning targets Are able to monitor their own progress Can act assertively to close the gap between where they are now and where they need to be Call it self-efficacy, student agency, or internal locus of control—the label doesn’t matter. What does matter is that every student discovers that they can meet whatever challenges our rapidly changing society presents.
Dynamic Relationships invites us to step into the appreciative paradigm where the principles governing our actions and relationships offer a means for increased value and meaning in our lives and communities of work and play.They empower us to become a force for creating and sustaining life-affirming relationships and success in daily living.
This fascinating book features the writings from therapists’children--ranging in age from seven to over eighty--as they explore how they feel about their parents and themselves. Observe the emotional health of analysts’children, whether they are more mature than children whose parents are in other professions, what their unique difficulties and strengths are, and how they relate to the people around them.
Mid-21st Century Los Angeles: after a succession of natural disasters, in a landscape wracked by global warming, the city is now the western-most outpost of an Arab empire. Ali is a Los Angeles-born police officer. His local birth leaves him under suspicion when he discovers the body of the daughter of one of the Caliph's ruling elite. Arab-born fellow officer Shah seeks to link Ali and this murder to American insurgents. To save himself and his family, Ali must discover whether this girl was a victim of an honor killing by her family, a political murder by a rival faction, or a sex crime. To solve the murder, he must enlist the help of the victim's sister. Caliphornia is a fast-paced novel of suspense that should appeal to mystery and suspense fans, as well as readers of literary fiction.
This book provides key insights into how educational leaders can successfully navigate the turbulence of political debate surrounding leading student assessment and professionalised practice. Given the highly politicised nature of assessment, it addresses leaders and aspiring leaders who are open to being challenged, willing to explore controversy, and capable of engaging in informed critical discourse. The book presents the macro concepts that these audiences must have to guide optimal assessment policy and practice. Collectively, the chapters highlight important assessment purposes and models, including intended and unintended effects of assessment in a globalised context. The book provides opportunities to explore cultural similarities and particularities. It invites readers to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions about ourselves and colleagues in other settings. The chapters highlight the cultural clashes that may occur when cross-cultural borrowing of assessment strategies, policies, and tools takes place. However, authors also encourage sophisticated critical analyses of potential lessons that may be drawn from other contexts and systems. Readers will encounter challenges from authors to deconstruct their assessment values, beliefs, and preconceptions. Indeed, one purpose of the book is to destabilise certainties about assessment that prevail and to embrace the assessment possibilities that can emerge from cognitive dissonance.
