Drafting and Assessing Poetry offers a range of teaching strategies for developing students' poetry writing skills, and guidance about assessment approaches. Critical commentaries combine with illustrations of successful classroom practice to consider this essential but under-explored aspect of English teaching. Based in theory but with a ......
In the United States, German studies traces its beginnings to the late nineteenth century, when research universities were founded on the German model. The dominance of German as a foreign language before World War I and the decline in enrollments during that war are salient points in the discipline's social history. Today German studies finds ......
Improving Reading and Literacy in Grades 1-5 provides an essential resource for primary school principals, and all reading specialists charged with aligning their reading instruction with new federal requirements and best instructional practices. Improving Reading and Literacy in Grades 1-5 provides tools to help administrators evaluate their ......
Lesson plans, games, and teaching tips for elementary physical education
In Part Three, the author, an experienced physical-education specialist, provides creative ideas for motivating students. Class-management strategies that help provide an atmosphere for learning are shared in Part Four. Part Five contains ways to communicate with parents, other teachers and the public, including the use of brochures, websites, ......
In "Integrating Aging Topics into Psychology", leading teacher-scholars provide guidance about ageing topics in the core psychology curriculum, as well as in more specialized areas, such as gender and industrial organizational psychology.
An Implementation Guide for Teachers of Science and Mathematics
"The 'standards movement' offers great promise for strengthening American education; however, its success will depend upon how the standards affect classroom practice. Standards in the Classroom provides an excellent set of strategies to assist teachers in this critical task. Audet and Jordan have written a clear guide for making standards work in ......
Supporting and Developing Children's Writing in School
`This book is a useful addition to any staff library. What makes it different to many other similar books is that it shows teachers that speaking, listening and reading create the foundations for writing. Tested in schools, staff said: "It is a very useful framework for action-research based upon secure theory. When deciding classroom strategies, ......
Extending the Challenge in Mathematics is designed to help the general education mathematics teacher challenge his/her student(s) with mathematical promise. By providing math teachers with ready-to-use activities and the tools to create their own activities that will add depth to the standard curriculum, Extending the Challenge in Mathematics will ......
`Improving Literacy at KS2 and KS3 is all about primary-secondary transfer, seen mostly through the eyes of secondary teachers, but with some interesting contributions from middle-school staff who know the territory well. This book sees the NLS's influence on primary practice as generally benign, but takes a more jaundiced view of the implications ......
