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The combination of the deadpan text and the colourful, action-packed illustrations make for a funny picture book for primary school children - who know exactly what does (and could) happen at school. Humphrey Carpenter is the author of the Mr Majeika stories.
'This is a beautiful work, extremely well written, almost an encyclopaedia for those interested in children's education.' - Dr Yash Pal, National Research Professor This insightful and well-researched book is for teachers and educators, as well as anyone interacting closely with children. Applying frontline research in child psychology, the author calls for a dramatic change in approach towards school teaching. The skill of being able to ask the 'right questions' is far more important than giving the right answers, says Mukunda, and urges teachers to adopt good teaching practices and an open mind towards the learning process of a child. Using a step-by-step approach, and giving varied examples from school situations around the world, the book unravels interesting questions on learning, memory, intelligence, child development and emotional health. This is an enlightening read for parents, social workers, psychologists and counsellors.
Going to school can be an adventure, whether it is childcare, preschool, or school. How we get there is only limited by our imaginations! In this delightful tale, little ones are invited to travel to school in a variety of ways. Should they soar in a balloon in the blue sky? Float on a boat or ride in a truck? Waddle in on a duck or fly in a plane? There are so many ways. Let’s close our eyes and go! How Did You Go to School Today? is a colorful story for children that encourages them to use their imagination to travel to their unique learning environment, wherever that may be.
The follow-up book to the much-recommended What Did You Ask At School Today? A Handbook of Child Learning (Book 1), which sold over 10,000 copies! This book deals with topics in development and learning that are of interest to teachers and parents and indeed anyone interested in children and how they grow and learn.Since the publication of the first book, What Did You Ask at School Today: A Handbook of Child Learning, Book 1, there has been an increasing interest in and awareness of psychological issues revolving around learning and children. Along the way, we in India have also absorbed some mistaken ideas, or oversimplified notions, such as about learning styles or critical windows in development.What Did You Ask at School Today: A Handbook of Child Learning, Book 2 explores these topics further and also tackles others that are particularly timely, such as how to teach for understanding, and digital tech in the classroom.Addressing both educators and parents, this book attempts to clarify concepts that are complex and messy in the real world of learning and childhood.
David's teacher has her hands full. From running in the halls to chewing gum in class, David's high-energy antics fill each schoolday with trouble-and are sure to bring a smile to even the best-behaved reader.
'This is a beautiful work, extremely well written, almost an encyclopaedia for those interested in children's education.' - Dr Yash Pal, National Research Professor This insightful and well-researched book is for teachers and educators, as well as anyone interacting closely with children. Applying frontline research in child psychology, the author calls for a dramatic change in approach towards school teaching. The skill of being able to ask the 'right questions' is far more important than giving the right answers, says Mukunda, and urges teachers to adopt good teaching practices and an open mind towards the learning process of a child. Using a step-by-step approach, and giving varied examples from school situations around the world, the book unravels interesting questions on learning, memory, intelligence, child development and emotional health. This is an enlightening read for parents, social workers, psychologists and counsellors.
Presents a framework for implementing the Working on the Work (WOW) principles in schools, a plan designed to improve student performance by increasing the quality of schoolwork.
In this text Jardine, Clifford, and Friesen set forth their concept of curriculum as abundance and illustrate its pedagogical applications through specific examples of classroom practices, the work of specific children, and specific dilemmas, images, and curricular practices that arise in concrete classroom events. The detailed classroom examples and careful philosophical explorations illustrate the difference it makes in educational theory and classroom practice to think of the curriculum topics entrusted to teachers and students in schools as abundant. The central idea is that viewing what is available to teachers and students in classrooms as abundant, rather than scarce, makes available the unseen histories, language, images, and ideas in everyday classroom life–makes it possible to break open the flat, literal “ordinariness” of classroom events, makes their complex and contested meanings visible, understandable, and pedagogically useful. Understanding the disciplines entrusted to schools (such as mathematics, writing, reading) as living inheritances, not as inert, finished, static, manipulable objects, means that the work of the classroom requires getting in on the real, living conversations that constitute these disciplines as they actually function in the classroom. This view of curriculum as abundance has a profound effect on classroom practice. Curriculum in Abundance addresses curriculum and teaching topics such as mathematics, science, environmental education, social studies, language arts, and the arts curriculum; issues that arise from inviting student-teachers and practicing teachers into the idea of curriculum of abundance; the issue of information and communications technologies in the classroom; and the philosophical underpinnings of constructivism and the dilemmas it poses to thinking about curriculum in abundance. All of the chapters provide images of how to conduct interpretive research in the classroom. This critically important text for undergraduate and master’s-level courses on curriculum methods, curriculum theory, teacher research, and philosophy of education speaks eloquently to students, teachers, teacher educators, and researchers across the field of education.
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.
