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Beyond the conservative backlash against multiculturalism, Cai (literacy education, U. of Northern Iowa) focuses on definitional issues in multicultural literature, the author's cultural identity and role in such literature, and empowerment in the classroom via reading multiculturally. He presents t

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The first part of this book is concerned with classroom strategies and with student research projects. The second part is concerned with information resources which should be useful to both instructors and students.

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Explores how conceptions of curriculum and supervision exert an impact upon school practice.

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This handbook for teachers and practitioners in communications and multicultural studies shows how to pluralise the curriculum to encourage diversity; how to recruit and retain journalism students of colour; and how to make newsrooms and classrooms more multicultural in attitude and action.

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Many commentators feared that the Education Reform Act of 1988 sounded the death knell for teacher professionalism. This text explores the issue by setting the debates in their historical context and by drawing on detailed research findings.

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This updated text surveys the debate amongst politicians and professionals surrounding the evolution and revision of the National Curriculum for England and Wales. The contributors investigate the ways in which schools have managed curriculum policies and the development of teaching methods.

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Written by specialists in the field from schools and higher education, this book examines each national curriculum subject, and analyses it in terms of culture and ideology represented. It gives detailed advice and suggestions on how to promote equality and equal opportunities within each national curriculum subject.

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Effective assessment is central to the functioning of all schools and this resource from David Spendlove offers guidance for driving student attainment and progress through the Assessment for Learning initiative.

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"Postscript by Ron Berler copyright 2014 by Ron Berler"--Title page verso.

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This text provides information necessary to interpret test scores in schools. It emphasises that test performance must be interpreted with respect to the limitations of the test itself and how the score corresponds with other information known about the individual test-taker.

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This activity-centred resource uses a variety of children's literature to integrate science across the elementary curriculum.

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With the vision that children can learn well and achieve excellence if provided with opportunity and challenge, Flack offers exciting ideas and strategies to identify and develop the unique talents found in each one.

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Offers a critical examination of learning and teaching theories together with debate on the sociological construct of the curriculum. This guide is suitable for undergraduate students on Education Studies courses and postgraduate trainee teachers looking to gain a deeper understanding of teaching and learning theories and curriculum development.

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Offers a critical examination of learning and teaching theories together with debate on the sociological construct of the curriculum. This guide is suitable for undergraduate students on Education Studies courses and postgraduate trainee teachers looking to gain a deeper understanding of teaching and learning theories and curriculum development.

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Despite the hundreds of programs in existence for training students in counseling, human service, social work, and psychology, teachers in such programs have relied on an informal network of information exchange to guide their teaching practice.

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This book represents one of the first extensive investigations of the effects of statewide testing policies on local school districts. They argue that the blame for this lack of progress lies not with educators' misuse of tests, nor necessarily with the tests themselves, but with policymaker's misuse of testing as a tool for reform.

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This volume addresses a central question in the acquisition of written language-the interrelated roles of response and revision- and begins to account both for the cognitive processes underlying learning to write and the social context of schooling.

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The result is a valuable chronicle of the development of the American school curriculum.

The work begins with an introductory piece that overviews the development of the curriculum and surveys the most important works on curriculum history.

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An authoritative reference on one of education's hottest topics, describing how the latest testing and assessment tools can be used to help improve student performance.