Making clear connections between assessment and instruction that so many similar texts lack, this first edition special education assessment textbook uses current research and standards-based assessment material grounded in field-based...
Education
- Author:Kritikos, Effie P.Summary:
- Author:Herzberg, LarrySummary:
From one of the authors of Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar comes Speak and Read Chinese, a simple, fun guide that helps language learners remember essential Chinese characters. Students and teachers rate character pronunciation and...
- Author:Wilson, JanetSummary:
- Author:Stambaugh, TamraSummary:
Serving Gifted Students in Rural Settings provides a framework for educating the gifted in rural settings. Case study vignettes and practical ideas for administrators and teachers are combined with theoretical applications. The first of...
- Author:Fishbaugh, Angela SchmidtSummary:
Teachers can help children achieve academically when they themselves feel balanced and whole. Filled with classroom management strategies and character education activities, Seeking Balance in an Unbalanced World is for anyone who works...
- Author:Simmonds, JenniferSummary:
Seeing Red is a curriculum designed to help elementary and middle school-aged students better understand their anger so they can make healthy and successful choices and build strong relationships. Overall, it aims for participants to...
- Author:Simmonds, JenniferSummary:
Anger is a natural human emotion, but if it isn't managed properly its effects can be devastating. Seeing Red is a curriculum designed to help elementary and middle-school aged students better understand their anger so they can...
- Author:Cowin, RobertSummary:
The literature about postsecondary education in British Columbia has largely focused on public colleges and universities, while paying less attention to vocational colleges, apprenticeship, continuing education, and private institutions...
- Author:Noddings, NelSummary:
"The first edition of Nel Noddings' Philosophy of Education was acclaimed as the "best overview in the field" by the Teaching Philosophy and predicted to "become the standard textbook in philosophy of education...
- Author:Marr, LouiseSummary:
Passed On presents an honest, often gritty story of the classroom experience in failing schools in Philadelphia, PA, a city with violent crime and a high poverty rate. Through stories of her own students, Louise Marr reveals how the...
- Author:Peterkin, A. D.Summary:
Erotic slang words from Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, and other English-speaking nations number well into the tens of thousands. But the history of terms used to describe the sexual activities of gays and lesbians...
- Author:Knockwood, IsabelleSummary:
In the 1880s, through an amendment to the Indian Act of 1876, the government of Canada began to require all Aboriginal children to attend schools administered by churches. Separating these children from their families, removing them...
- Author:Howley, Craig B.Summary:
This second edition of the often-cited book on anti-intellectualism, Out of Our Minds, focuses on U.S. schools' failure to care for the intellects and talents of all children, gifted children in particular. The revision comprises...
- Author:Delpit, LisaSummary:
Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award and Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic book award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine's "great books," Other People's Children...
- Author:Johnson, Kevin E., Manning, SusanSummary:
From admission to graduation-your personal guide to studying online Online Education For Dummies explains the ins and outs of attending a virtual classroom, and provides you with the tools you need to hone your skills or obtain...
- Author:Olsen, SylviaSummary:
- Author:Cummins, JimSummary:
Aimed at "empowering" teachers and students in a culturally diverse society, this book suggests that schools must respect student's language and culture, encourage community participation, promote critical literacy, and institute forms...
- Author:Stake, Robert E.Summary:
This engaging text shows readers how to design, analyze, and report studies that balance common issues across the group of cases with the unique features and context of each case. Three actual case reports from a transnational early...
- Author:Delaney, Douglas E., Engen, Robert C., Fitzpatrick, MeghanSummary:
Military education was the lifeblood of the armies, navies, and air forces of the British Empire and an essential ingredient for success in both war and peace. Military Education and the British Empire is the first major scholarly work...
- Author:Chinn, SteveSummary:
A seminal handbook in the field for more than 20 years, this new and updated edition of Mathematics for Dyslexicsand Dyscalculics contains the latest research and best practices for helping learners with numerical and mathematical...