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In Society, Culture, and STEM: A Model for Student Engagement and Teacher Collaboration, teachers will learn a team-based approach to incorporating local and international cultural perspectives and experiences into a curriculum of STEM subjects.

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Dr. Sparapani has taken broad theoretical pedagogy and gradually narrowed it to real-world application for teachers. As an edited volume, Dr. Sparapani has utilized the best experts in the field, giving the reader a variety of relevant and validated voices for a solid foundation in education and the current issues facing the profession today.

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Sociocultural Issues in Physical Education: Case Studies for Teachers helps teachers increase their sociocultural awareness and knowledge in order to consider how students experiences are shaped in and through physical education classes. This book is especially useful as a professional development and academic tool.

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Sociocultural Issues in Physical Education: Case Studies for Teachers helps teachers increase their sociocultural awareness and knowledge in order to consider how students experiences are shaped in and through physical education classes. This book is especially useful as a professional development and academic tool.

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Helps develop an overall understanding as to why some students achieve where others don't. This book questions and challenges popular assumptions surrounding class-based theory in making sense of girls, aspirations and to question the usefulness of the over reliance of such broad categorisations by both academics and policy makers.

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Using data from an ethnographic case study of a low-achieving girls school, the author explores aspirations and argues that whilst class is very powerful in explaining educational attainment, understanding educational aspirations is somewhat more complex.

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Argues that world-class scholars, and not administrators, make the best leaders of research universities. This title shows why experts need leaders who are experts like themselves. It explains why the most effective leaders are those who have deep expertise in what their organizations actually do.

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By looking at some of the great practitioners of Socratic questioning in the past, Socratic Methods in the Classroom explains how teachers may use questioning, reasoning, and dialogue to encourage critical thinking, problem solving, and independent learning in the secondary classroom. Through a variety of problems, cases, and simulations, te

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Indicates how the arts have been marginalized in contemporary American education, and argues for more integration of the arts into general education.

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Soft skills help prepare kids for school and the workplace. They are a series of strategies that help children learn competencies such as manners, respect, and organization. This book focuses on fourteen soft skills that all kids need, as well as how teachers and parents can w...

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Soft skills help prepare kids for school and the workplace. They are a series of strategies that help children learn competencies such as manners, respect, and organization. This book focuses on fourteen soft skills that all kids need, as well as how teachers and parents can w...

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If you strip away the rosy language of school-business partnership, win-win situation, giving back to the community, and the like, what you see when you look at corporate marketing activities in the schools is example after example of the exploitation of children for financial gain.

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If you strip away the rosy language of school-business partnership, win-win situation, giving back to the community, and the like, what you see when you look at corporate marketing activities in the schools is example after example of the exploitation of children for financial gain.

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This volume seeks to integrate research and performance-based concepts on order to demystify and debunk the conventional wisdom about education. Myths addressed include: that it takes specialists to diagnose what is wrong; that research doesn't reflect the real world; and more.

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Rich in practical information about the history of American education, Solving Education's Problems Effectively encourages readers to analyze, prioritize, and synthesize historical information by applying it to current situations. Using more than thirty case studies, Giordano ...

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Often in higher education, the focus is on the WHAT and the HOW. But if you're sitting in a class with 100 other students, how likely is it that you're working towards a better understanding of YOUR meaning and purpose Solving for WHY will help you ask the right questions to find these answers. This book is meant for students and professionals interested in knowing the WHY of what they do.

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Word problems can be especially difficult for elementary students. Period quizzes assess how well the students are mastering the problems. Tips for working the problems are provided to the students. This is ideal for improving math skills while giving students a starting activity for each day.

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This challenging compilation of multi-step word problems is designed to strengthen basic math and problem-solving skills among 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.

Solving Word Problems for Life, Grades 6-8 offers students who struggle with math a daily opportunity to improve their skills.

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Scripts built around such rhymes and songs as: The Itsy, Bitsy Spider, The Farmer in the Dell, Hush, Little Baby, If You're Happy and You Know It, and I'm a Little Teapot will encourage kids to read the scripts, all the while building reading fluency.

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The components of sound school finance that are increasingly important in an era of scarce financial, material, and human resources are provided in this book.

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The components of sound school finance that are increasingly important in an era of scarce financial, material, and human resources are provided in this book.

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This book explores the growing crisis in school safety and security.