Pedagogies to Deepen Understanding of Social Evils
In this collection, scholars from the United States, Canada, and Australia examine the concepts of villainification and antivillainification in social studies curriculum and popular culture, as well as within broader sociocultural contexts. Villainification is the process of identifying an individual or a small group of individuals as the sole ......
Document-Based Lessons for the Secondary Classroom
Get started with an innovative approach to teaching history that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students' lives, and meets state and national standards (grades 7-12). Now in a second edition, this popular book provides an introductory unit to help teachers build a trustful classroom climate; over 70 ......
Document-Based Lessons for the Secondary Classroom
Get started with an innovative approach to teaching history that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students' lives, and meets state and national standards (grades 7-12). Now in a second edition, this popular book provides an introductory unit to help teachers build a trustful classroom climate; over 70 ......
In Teaching Powerful Problem-Solving in Math, readers will visit urban elementary and K-8 schools where teachers have dramatically transformed learning for teachers and for students. Students learn mathematics by confronting a novel problem and building the new mathematics needed to solve it, just as mathematicians would. Learning in this way, ......
In Teaching Powerful Problem-Solving in Math, readers will visit urban elementary and K-8 schools where teachers have dramatically transformed learning for teachers and for students. Students learn mathematics by confronting a novel problem and building the new mathematics needed to solve it, just as mathematicians would. Learning in this way, ......
How to Design Engaging Lessons for the Elementary Classroom
Making math accessible to young learners is especially challenging. This hands-on book provides a method for teaching math with fun stories that allow students to experience math concepts in real-world contexts. Teachers can choose from a selection of suggested stories, or they can create their own to reflect the interests and identities of their ......
How to Design Engaging Lessons for the Elementary Classroom
Making math accessible to young learners is especially challenging. This hands-on book provides a method for teaching math with fun stories that allow students to experience math concepts in real-world contexts. Teachers can choose from a selection of suggested stories, or they can create their own to reflect the interests and identities of their ......
Observation and Reflection as the Heart of Practice
Many teachers maintain commitments to ideas and practices that they rarely question. Among these assumptions are ideas about children and the variety of reasons as to how they might learn or fail to learn. Teaching as inquiry is the practice of gaining distance from one's assumptions about teaching and learning to better serve all children, ......
Observation and Reflection as the Heart of Practice
Many teachers maintain commitments to ideas and practices that they rarely question. Among these assumptions are ideas about children and the variety of reasons as to how they might learn or fail to learn. Teaching as inquiry is the practice of gaining distance from one's assumptions about teaching and learning to better serve all children, ......
