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Designed to serve as a resource for faculty members at colleges and universities, this "how-to" book offers an overview of the co-operative learning process, including its rationale, research base, value and practical implementation. Examples are provided across a variety of disciplines.

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It is never easy to begin an innovative practice in any educational organization. The inertia of the existing culture can often be overwhelming. Michael K. Raible provides insights into how to create an environment in which performance-based innovations can flourish. Many scho...

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It is never easy to begin an innovative practice in any educational organization. The inertia of the existing culture can often be overwhelming. Michael K. Raible provides insights into how to create an environment in which performance-based innovations can flourish. Many scho...

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This book examines the critical role that teachers play in supporting at-risk student populations to stay in school and successfully complete their graduation requirements. Thompson addresses how high schools may support marginal students in achieving success by the implementation of teacher self-efficacy and a positive classroom environment.

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Tap into hidden creativity, engage students in the learning process, and foster creative thinking and expression with innovative techniques based on Downing's research and experience.

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Can creativity be taught After presenting valid models of creative thinkers appearing in outstanding children's literature, she offers a variety of activities you can use to develop creative processes through fluency, flexibility, and originality.

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Developed through Project Zero at the Harvard School of Education, these simple but powerful games are designed to develop students' critical-thinking skills and deepen their understanding of topics they are already studying.

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Teaching critical thinking requires sustained, finely tuned teaching and assessment methods. This book lays out a blueprint to do just that. Specifically, it outlines the necessary components of a critical thinking classroom and provides assessment techniques and ample exercises adaptable to any students field, age, or level of education.

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This book describes five principles to guide teachers in working with families of struggling readers.

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This book describes five principles to guide teachers in working with families of struggling readers.

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With more than 80 activities in each book, these valuable resources will enrich your curriculum. For each activity, literature links promote reading, while Internet links encourage the best use of technology. Individual and team projects for K-5 classrooms, connected to NCTE standards.

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With more than 80 activities in each book, these valuable resources will enrich your curriculum. For each activity, literature links promote reading, while Internet links encourage the best use of technology. Individual and team projects for K-5 classrooms, connected to NCTE standards.

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The key to authentic learning is capitalizing on teachable moments in the classroom. Learn to look for and create these tremendous learning opportunities as you teach your curriculum.

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This book features 85 interesting and exciting multi-century and multicultural web sites that are accompanied by numerical critical thinking questions and activities. Teachers can pose the questions to their entire class or individually assign them. It also contains lists of b...

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This book features 85 interesting and exciting multi-century and multicultural web sites that are accompanied by numerical critical thinking questions and activities. Teachers can pose the questions to their entire class or individually assign them. It also contains lists of b...

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An accessible introduction to key educational issues, prompting debate, and encouraging reflective practice and supporting further enquiry.

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An accessible introduction to key educational issues, prompting debate, and encouraging reflective practice and supporting further enquiry.

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The research-oriented activities in this book will help teachers provide differentiated learning experiences for advanced and gifted learners based on grade-level content.

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Differentiating Instruction With Menus: Literature (Grades 6-8) offers teachers everything needed to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. It contains attractive reproducible menus for novels, short stories, and poems commonly used in grades 6-8 classrooms.

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Differentiation Made Simple will help classroom teachers overcome time constraints and other obstacles to differentiation by providing a wealth of ready-made and generic tools they can employ right away.

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An introductory guide to home educating for parents considering or involved in home education, this title includes: help for parents to decide if home education will work for their family; guidance on subjects and curriculum; and help to refine the skills of experienced home educators.

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Focusing on educational and instructional strategies that are successful with students with autism spectrum disorders, this book profiles the most current, research-based interventions that can be implemented by teachers in a classroom setting.

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Any conception of staff development emerges from an understanding of teaching, schooling, and education. The way people define and think about staff development will be influenced inevitably by their philosophy of education: their values, beliefs, and their taken-forgranted assumptions about what is and what ought to be.