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This book will help middle and secondary school teachers take advantage of teachable moments by drawing students into productive intellectual discussions. It also provides an overview of the rationale and research base for engaging students in educational activities that are truly intellectual and not limited to training for testing success.

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This book will help middle and secondary school teachers take advantage of teachable moments by drawing students into productive intellectual discussions. It also provides an overview of the rationale and research base for engaging students in educational activities that are truly intellectual and not limited to training for testing success.

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Supplying a foundation for understanding the development of the brain and the learning process, this text examines the physical and environmental factors that influence how we acquire and retain information throughout our lives. The book also lays out practical strategies that educators can take directly into the classroom.

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The combination of sustained hard work and resiliency, grit is the difference between those who give up and those who don't. Grit in the Classroom assists educators in creating a learning environment that fosters grit development for all students, regardless of ability.

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Healthy Children, Healthy Minds: Helping Children Succeed NOW for a Brighter Future is an excellent resource for educators, parents, and anyone who is interested in and committed to fostering healthy patterns of behavior, thinking, and lifestyle choices in children.

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Healthy Children, Healthy Minds: Helping Children Succeed NOW for a Brighter Future is an excellent resource for educators, parents, and anyone who is interested in and committed to fostering healthy patterns of behavior, thinking, and lifestyle choices in children.

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In his international bestseller How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control and conscientiousness play a critical role in childrens success.

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This historical reference book dealing with school psychology covers over 450 terms, concepts, important people and organisations, issues, events, and other topics of note. This is a user-friendly encyclopedia for gathering information about the field of school psychology rapidly.

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The theory to guide instruction is cognitive psychology. The concepts in this book lead the teacher to develop a theory of instruction as opposed to operating on intuition. The theory based on psychological concepts allows the teacher develop applications which fit their style.

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This book is a collection of unconventional classroom approaches, lessons, and strategies rarely found in text form. They serve to successfully acquire your students' undivided attention, strongly influence a sincere appreciation for their education and motivation to learn, an...

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Instruction highlights the ongoing research of military and academic communities--research aimed at developing new approaches in the instruction of complex intellectual processes and skills.

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Dr. Coleman combines extant research with personal experiences to provide a contextual framework.

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Examines young children's spatial and scientific thinking through their architectural constructions with Legos and blocks. This work provides coding system which allows teachers and parents to observe and record children's cognitive behaviors related to spatial thinking.

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At the onset, this book provides explanations/definitions for what it is to be "creative." Research-based viewpoints and personal perspectives on creativity lead to an introduction of an Interactive Methodology (IM) and interactive instructional strategies focused on The Inter...

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At the onset, this book provides explanations/definitions for what it is to be "creative." Research-based viewpoints and personal perspectives on creativity lead to an introduction of an Interactive Methodology (IM) and interactive instructional strategies focused on The Inter...

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Learning Begins, written by a teacher for teachers, translates current brain research into practical classroom strategies.

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Complex information structures are found in many disciplines including physics, genetics, biology and all branches of the information sciences.

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Complex information structures are found in many disciplines including physics, genetics, biology and all branches of the information sciences.

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The author has developed a manual for the easy implementation of the character education program she created. It includes the necessary lesson plans, eight original hero tales, annotated bibliographies of other applicable tales, assessment pieces, reproducible forms and instructions for implementing the program and the action research piece.

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This volume discusses classroom research from a set of ethnographic perspectives, and shows how these perspectives provide knowledge across a wide variety of subjects. The volume is divided into four sections that discuss education in the areas of reading, social studies, math/science, and computers.

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Home circumstances or school regimes are often blamed for the worst excesses of pupil disaffection. The authors argue that this simplistic response needs to be re-examined, and report the findings of a research programme based on the views and experiences of pupils themselves.