Streamlining The Curriculum
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Streamlining The Curriculum
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Author : Heidi Hayes Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: ASCD
Release Date : 2023-09-18
Streamlining The Curriculum written by Heidi Hayes Jacobs and has been published by ASCD this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-18 with Education categories.
A game-changing resource for educators looking to elevate their unit and lesson plans, increase student engagement, and improve home-school communication. With so many standards to address and templates to fill out, curriculum design and lesson planning can be cumbersome and overwhelming. And every teacher knows the struggle of trying to cover all the required content, which may or may not resonate with their students. In Streamlining the Curriculum, experts Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Allison Zmuda take a hard look at our overburdened, dated curricular practices and offer a better way—one built on the power of narrative. Their storyboard approach casts students as the heroes of the learning journey. Instead of passive recipients, they become protagonists, activity engaged in exploring new ideas, solving problems, finding connections, enlisting allies, and acquiring new skills and understandings to apply to both present and future challenges. This innovative book teaches you how to * Decide what to cut out, cut back, consolidate, and create in your lessons and units. * Find the throughlines in your required content and approach lesson design and teaching as storytelling, no matter what subject area or grade level you teach. * Apply genre lenses to make courses, units, and lessons more compelling. * Communicate clear learning targets to your students and their families. * Create space for exploring essential questions, investigating intriguing ideas, and conducting projects that feel relevant and important. * Determine purposeful and authentic evidence of learning. Filled with examples and insights, this book shows educators how to break free from the tyranny of templates and start streamlining curriculum, assessment, and planning to make learning experiences more immersive, interesting, and emotionally resonant.
What Successful Teachers Do
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Author : Neal A. Glasgow
language : en
Publisher: Corwin Press
Release Date : 2003
What Successful Teachers Do written by Neal A. Glasgow and has been published by Corwin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Business & Economics categories.
`No matter where you are in your teaching career, this book will take you places you have been, will be, and wish to be. I have found some strategies that I can′t wait to try′ - Stephen Sroka, Adjunct Assistant Professor School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University This book serves as resource for novice and veteran teachers who wish to develop, expand, polish and/or reinvigorate the instructional skills that define them as educators. The authors survey and distill the relevant research in education, psychology, and sociology and then focus on how that research addresses individual teaching and learning problems typically faced by classroom teachers: curriculum and methods, classroom organization and time management, student assessment, student behaviour, technology, diversity, special needs, and collaborative work with colleagues, students, and parents. Each chapter is structured in a user-friendly format that includes: - the Teaching Strategy: A simple, crisp, and concise statement of the strategy. - what the Research Says: A brief discussion of the research that validates the strategy and explains its underlying principle(s). - classroom Application: A description of how the strategy can be used in instructional settings. - precautions and Possible Pitfalls: Tips that help teachers ensure smooth implementation of the strategy and avoid common difficulties before they occur. - sources: Citations to the original research to facilitate follow up and further research as needed. This book is invaluable to student teachers, beginning teachers, mentor teachers, co-operating teachers and veteran teachers who need easy access to the best research-based instructional strategies for quality classroom practice.
Visible Learning And The Science Of How We Learn
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Author : John Hattie
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-08
Visible Learning And The Science Of How We Learn written by John Hattie and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-08 with Education categories.
On publication in 2009 John Hattie’s Visible Learning presented the biggest ever collection of research into what actually work in schools to improve children’s learning. Not what was fashionable, not what political and educational vested interests wanted to champion, but what actually produced the best results in terms of improving learning and educational outcomes. It became an instant bestseller and was described by the TES as revealing education’s ‘holy grail’. Now in this latest book, John Hattie has joined forces with cognitive psychologist Greg Yates to build on the original data and legacy of the Visible Learning project, showing how it’s underlying ideas and the cutting edge of cognitive science can form a powerful and complimentary framework for shaping learning in the classroom and beyond. Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn explains the major principles and strategies of learning, outlining why it can be so hard sometimes, and yet easy on other occasions. Aimed at teachers and students, it is written in an accessible and engaging style and can be read cover to cover, or used on a chapter-by-chapter basis for essay writing or staff development. The book is structured in three parts – ‘learning within classrooms’, ‘learning foundations’, which explains the cognitive building blocks of knowledge acquisition and ‘know thyself’ which explores, confidence and self-knowledge. It also features extensive interactive appendices containing study guide questions to encourage critical thinking, annotated bibliographic entries with recommendations for further reading, links to relevant websites and YouTube clips. Throughout, the authors draw upon the latest international research into how the learning process works and how to maximise impact on students, covering such topics as: teacher personality; expertise and teacher-student relationships; how knowledge is stored and the impact of cognitive load; thinking fast and thinking slow; the psychology of self-control; the role of conversation at school and at home; invisible gorillas and the IKEA effect; digital native theory; myths and fallacies about how people learn. This fascinating book is aimed at any student, teacher or parent requiring an up-to-date commentary on how research into human learning processes can inform our teaching and what goes on in our schools. It takes a broad sweep through findings stemming mainly from social and cognitive psychology and presents them in a useable format for students and teachers at all levels, from preschool to tertiary training institutes.
Bigger Isn T Always Better
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Author : George Murdock
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2012-01-18
Bigger Isn T Always Better written by George Murdock and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-18 with Education categories.
Bigger Isn't Always Better is designed to provide a practitioner's viewpoint of the challenges and issues lacing school administrators – particularly those who work in small districts. Based upon a combination of education theory and practical applications, the book contains many real life exampleswith tips for landing a job as administrator and then making a positive and successful first impression through a deliberate entry plan. Bigger Isn't Always Better addresses both the technical aspects of an administrator’s assignment, as well as the administrator’s leading, mediating role while working with the school board, with school staff, or the school’s community. Readers will learn about a variety of potential pitfalls and situations that most new administrators face, with the benefit of learning how to over come and avoid such problems based on the author’s four decades in the profession.
Effective Leadership Communication
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Author : Mary Lou Higgerson
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2007-01-15
Effective Leadership Communication written by Mary Lou Higgerson and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-15 with Education categories.
Conflict can appear with varying degrees of intensity or hostility, but if ignored or managed ineffectively, it can slow or jeopardize an institution's success. Chairs and deans, who have leadership responsibilities to both administrators and faculty, often find a significant portion of their jobs devoted to conflict management. Their leadership success depends on their ability to effectively manage a variety of conflict-laden situations, and negotiate people’s varying needs and personalities. This book, at its core, is about communication strategies that support effective leadership. First it shows how to establish a foundation for effective leadership communication; next, it discusses developing a fair and effective leadership communication style; and finally, it shows how to employ leadership communication to manage especially difficult people, from prima donnas to pot stirrers. Each chapter contains a series of questions and prompts to guide readers through a hypothetical but realistic situation, and encourages them to cultivate and practice the first-person participant and third-person observer roles. By moving between these two perspectives, readers will gain more insight into their own style of managing conflict and understanding of leadership. This skill also permits academic leadership to have more strategic control over the communication in a particular situation, thus empowering them to feel and to be more in control in every situation.
Scaffolding Knowledge Integration Through Curricular Depth
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Author : Douglas Burton Clark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Scaffolding Knowledge Integration Through Curricular Depth written by Douglas Burton Clark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
Educator Workload In South Africa
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Author : Linda Chisholm
language : en
Publisher: HSRC Press
Release Date : 2005
Educator Workload In South Africa written by Linda Chisholm and has been published by HSRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Education categories.
Teachers spend slightly less time on their activities overall, but much less time on teaching than policy requires. There is a serious erosion of instructional time in the majority of schools, but it is worst in rural and semi-rural African schools.
Reforming Learning
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Author : Clarence Ng
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-11-23
Reforming Learning written by Clarence Ng and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-23 with Education categories.
In the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, various reform initiatives, policies and programmes have been carried out in different countries within the Asia-Pacific region. All these reform efforts aim to restructure different aspects of schooling in order to promote learning and to prepare students for future challenges in globalised economies. These measures to a certain extent challenge traditional practices, established arrangements and deep-seated assumptions related to different aspects of learning. The authors in this book discuss educational reforms in different countries in the Asia-Pacific region in light of student learning, clarify their concepts, evaluate implementation and impact on the learning processes, with a hope that we can learn better from each other and develop a better understanding of "contemporary" learning and teaching processes within the region. The central argument running through different chapters in this book highlights the importance of understanding reforms and learning within their historical, political and sociocultural contexts. Reforming learning involves changes in established cultural practices in our schools, classrooms, and other learning sites, and therefore inevitably arouses tensions and negotiations. The discussion in this book puts to the fore the disputable nature of reforming learning and the significance of contextualising the complex relationship between reforms and learning.
Write To Be Read
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Author : Barbara J. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2023-11-03
Write To Be Read written by Barbara J. Smith and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-03 with Education categories.
Write to Be Read is meant to inspire educators to be designers of engaging curriculum, specifically targeting ways to improve the teaching of writing in schools today. Students tend to write in response to literature; whereas, the focus of this resource is to help students write material, fiction and non-fiction, that they want to read. Students often engage in writing that is more about pleasing the teacher or ticking a homework or assignment box. This book challenges many assumptions with reference to traditional models for teaching writing. A rich assortment of engaging examples are presented in this book to prompt educators to adapt and construct their own meaningful writing units of study
Research On Technology In Social Studies Education
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Author : John Lee
language : en
Publisher: IAP
Release Date : 2009-11-01
Research On Technology In Social Studies Education written by John Lee and has been published by IAP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-01 with Education categories.
Despite technology’s presence in virtually every public school, its documented familiarity and use by youth outside of school, and the wealth of resources it provides for teaching social studies, there has been relatively little empirical research on its effectiveness for the teaching and learning of social studies. In an effort to begin to fill this gap in research literature, this book focuses on research on technology in social studies education. The objectives of this volume are threefold: to describe research frameworks, provide examples of empirical research, and chart a course for future research endeavors. Accordingly, the volume is divided into three overarching sections: research constructs and contexts, research reports, and research reviews. The need for research is particularly acute within the field of social studies and technology. As the primary purpose of social studies is to prepare the young people of today to be the citizens of tomorrow, it is necessary to examine how technology tools impact, improve, and otherwise affect teaching and learning in social studies. Given these circumstances, we have prepared this collection of research conceptualizations, reports, and reviews to achieve three goals. 1. Put forward reports on how research is being conducted in the field 2. Present findings from well-designed research studies that provide evidence of how specific applications of technology are affecting teaching and learning in social studies. 3. Showcase reviews of research in social studies It is with this framework that we edited this volume, Research on Technology and Social Studies Education, as an effort to address emerging concerns related to theorizing about the field and reporting research in social studies and technology. The book is divided into four sections. The first section of the book includes three descriptions of research constructs and contexts in social studies and technology. The second section is focused on research reports from studies of student learning in social studies with technology. The third section contains research reports on teachers’ pedagogical considerations for using technology in social studies. In the fourth and final section, we present work that broadly reviews and critiques research in focused areas of social studies and technology. This volume contains twelve chapters, each of which focuses on social studies content and pedagogy and how the field is affected and enhanced with technology. The volume includes research and theoretical works on various topics, including digital history, digital video, geography, technology use in the K-12 social studies classroom, and artificial intelligence.