What the experts say about how the Balanced Curriculum process can tip the scales in favor of your students! "The work that Dr. Squires has done in moving the curriculum development process onto the Web has removed some of the tedium involved in crafting curriculum, making it 'user friendly' and open to the kinds of ongoing changes that make the ......
Elaine McEwan has written "The Principal's Guide to Raising Achievement" with three goals in mind: 1) to convince school principals of the power that rests in them and their faculty to create a "school of readers"; 2) to introduce the most current research in reading instruction so principals and their faculty can make informed decisions; and 3) to shore the eight key components principals need to achieve their goals. The author explores some of the reasons why students can't read and suggests focusing only on those things that can be changed. Also summarized is the running debate between proponents of phonics and whole language, and reasons why reading instruction cannot be an "either-or" proposition. the book also described the eight key components that need to be in place to create a "school of readers," and sets forth the essential learnings that need to occur at each instructional level. Remedial reading and helping the at-risk and learning disabled child are also covered, as well as thirty-plus things you can do tomorrow to raise reading achievement in schools. There are many useful appendixes with practical information for immediate use. This book is for elementary school prinicpals, as well as anyone concerned with successfully teaching all children to read.
Field-tested with 400 elementary school students, this curriculum focuses on developing the cognitive skills behind appropriate social behaviour rather than teaching children a set of specific behaviours to enact. This work provides teachers with 66 activity-based lessons on social skills.
This book is based on the content and performance standards developed by the National Council of Teachers of Language Arts in the United States. It provides a step-by-step guide to developing performance-based curriculum, and includes specific curriculum examples to illustrate the national standards at grades three, five, eight and 12.
The revision of the curriculum to meet the needs of the twenty-first century is the theme of this book. It puts forward a powerful case for making the learning process the major focus of the curriculum, and describes how traditional ways of developing curriculum, instruction, parental involvement, decision-making, assessment, teaching and teacher education would be different in a process-oriented learning organization.
Commissioned by the AACTE in the United States, this book examines the purposes of professional development schools - which collaborate to improve curriculum, instruction and structure - and the problems encountered and the evidence for success or otherwise.
Provides a planning framework that includes numerous examples of performance-based social studies set in real-life contexts. The book includes design templates and reproducible masters - practical tools that can be used to customize and create classroom instructional material that will empower teachers and students to be successful in `showing what they know'.
Designed for practitioners who are responsible for young children's education and welfare in educational settings, this second edition of "Planning for Early Learning" covers social and political changes such as: increased demand for day care for babies and children under three; the introduction of nursery vouchers and increased early admission to infant school; Desirable Outcomes for four-year-olds supporting the National Curriculum for five to seven year-olds; and baseline assessment at five. This text explains how practitioners can structure and organize their thinking about early education and curriculum, so that they can support and extend children's learning and development. It also shows how practitioners can judge the effectiveness of their educational provision and learn more about the education of young children.
Managing Effective Learning and Teaching presents the theory underlying management of teaching and learning, as well as discussion of good practice in schools and colleges. Ann Briggs and Daniela Sommefeldt discuss the rationale for learning and teaching though a consideration of curriculum design. This is linked to models of learning and ......
