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This book is based on a series of simple psychological concepts that helps to empower parents to play a much more active role in engaging their children in critical thinking.

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Six exciting titles use well-known works of childrens literature as a springboard for learning!Activities, booktalks, and recommended book titles help students connect reading for pleasure with reading for information. Includes relevant McREL, Information Power II, and NETS standards.

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This book seeks to provide some practical insights guided by conceptual and contextual knowledge by understanding how to teach urban African American and Hispanic/Latino(a) students by discussing culturally appropriate instructional strategies that have demonstrated success among African American and Hispanic/Latino(a) students.

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This book seeks to provide some practical insights guided by conceptual and contextual knowledge by understanding how to teach urban African American and Hispanic/Latino(a) students by discussing culturally appropriate instructional strategies that have demonstrated success among African American and Hispanic/Latino(a) students.

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The first scholarly examination of distance and online learning in national, cultural and linguistic contexts.

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Examines the challenges and potentials of teaching literature at Open and Virtual Universities in a wide range of national, cultural and linguistic contexts. This book explores seminal issues, including literature pedagogy and curriculum building, canon and theory debates, the uses of hypertext and other digital tools for literary instruction.

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Showcases, with practical guidance, how literature can be an integral part of a modern foreign language lessons promoting comprehension and cultural awareness.

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Showcases, with practical guidance, how literature can be an integral part of a modern foreign language lessons promoting comprehension and cultural awareness.

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Written for in-service teachers, this volume covers techniques for teaching literature to 11-18 years olds as well as covering the works and authors taught throughout the syllabus.

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Part III, which deals with advanced coursework, includes chapters on courses in mass communication law, mass media management, and history, mass media and politics, media criticism, and media ethics.

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Numerous examples from early years and primary classrooms are included as well as checklists and helpful advice. There are also suggestions for further reading to assist trainee and newly qualified teachers in meeting the Standards for Initial Teacher Training and Induction.

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This book shows how problems can be the vehicle for learning mathematics itself, and presents a comprehensive pedagogy based on classroom discourse, assessment, critical and creative thinking.

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This book shows how problems can be the vehicle for learning mathematics itself, and presents a comprehensive pedagogy based on classroom discourse, assessment, critical and creative thinking.

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NLP is very effective in enabling young people to overcome fears, anxieties and limitations. This book provides strategies for teachers to use in the classroom. It includes topics such as: understanding that we only see what we believe is possible; realising that we create our own experience; and using embedded commands to aid homework.

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Lasley shows how American culture fosters selfishness, aggression, and violence. Lasley uses ethnological examples of non-Western societies that stress nonviolence to elucidate models of peaceful behavior.

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In the academic climate, teaching is often seen as secondary to research. This book seeks to bring teaching philosophy higher on the academic agenda. It offers practical guidance and advice for teachers of philosophy. It suggests ways in which the teaching of philosophy at undergraduate level might be facilitated.

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Addresses the complex issues involved in teaching philosophy at undergraduate level. This book seeks to bring teaching philosophy higher on the academic agenda. It argues that philosophy is a subject that can transform students. It also offers practical guidance and advice for teachers of philosophy.

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The lessons build skills in phonemic awareness, morphemic analysis, letter identification, rhyming, and sight words, through singing, dancing, games, art activities, cooking, and interesting experiences, as well as a wealth of humorous picture books.

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This book introduces the central issues in teaching PE in the secondary school. The book includes chapters on all key aspects of provision and chapters on areas that are often neglected.