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Duffy walks you through the curriculum selection process: goal setting, figuring out which educational approach to use, developing your own philosophy of education, determining your teaching style, and identifying your children's learning styles.

"Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated What Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know How can you help your child at home? This book answers that important question and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American fourth graders. Featuring sixteen pages of full-color illustrations, a bolder, easier-to-follow format, and a thoroughly updated curriculum,...

Take Five! for Science transforms those first five minutes of class into engaging writing opportunities. Students will brainstorm their way through 75 topics within three main science divisions: earth, life, and physical science. All prompts are aligned with NGSS and ELA CCSS as students debate, compare, investigate, question, and design in response to 150 prompts. Each topic is divided into a Teacher Page and a Student Page and provides the following:...

Mastery learning is an instructional approach that empowers every student to progress with confidence. Using flexible pacing and targeted supports, teachers guide students through a cyclic process of preparation, demonstration, and formative feedback until there is a mutual agreement between teacher and student that the student is ready to advance. In this book, educator Jonathan Bergmann, a pioneer of the flipped classroom movement, walks you step-by-step...

Es fundamental que directivos, docentes, estudiantes y sus familias cuenten con los medios para comprender la estructura y el alcance de las Pruebas Saber, de tal manera que les sea posible orientar, intencional y pertinentemente, los currículos escolares y avanzar en el mejoramiento sistemático de los resultados obtenidos por los estudiantes. Por ello es importante disponer de una propuesta editorial integral que incluya, tanto guías para el profesor,...

How do designers do what they do? How do architects, engineers, industrial, fashion and graphic designers think? What is it that goes on in their minds that enables them to shape the things that people buy, use and inhabit? And, how far do they share their mental abilities with people at large? Is it true that everyone is a designer in their, own way? In Models of Change, Ken Baynes draws on a lifetime's research and experience to suggest answers...

Black Lives Matter in US Schools critically examines the relationship between schooling and sociocultural abolitionist movements like #BlackLivesMatter. Aligning with a long history of education scholars who have insisted on the enmeshed nature of schools and society, the book addresses the role of various forms of curricula that perpetuate anti-Blackness while simultaneously shaping Black ways of being, knowing, and doing. While its focus tends toward...

Estudios críticos del currículo. Educación, toma de conciencia y políticas del conocimiento ofrece un marco novedoso para pensar cómo el currículo se relaciona con la comprensión de los estudiantes acerca del mundo que los rodea. Wayne Au reúne la teoría del currículo, los estudios educativos críticos y la teoría del punto de vista en la perspectiva feminista con ejemplos prácticos de la enseñanza de la justicia social para debatir un...

Este libro trata sobre una de las competencias evaluadas en las nuevas Pruebas de Estado y defenderá la necesidad de considerar ésta como un propósito central de la escuela. Para ello, el autor parte de la pregunta y la reflexión sobre cómo y bajo qué circunstancias se generan los cambios en educación, a partir de allí pasa a la reflexión, conceptualización y discusión actual sobre el concepto de competencia en el contexto educativo colombiano....

Es fundamental que directivos, docentes, estudiantes y sus familias cuenten con los medios para comprender la estructura y el alcance de las Pruebas Saber, de tal manera que les sea posible orientar, intencional y pertinentemente, los currículos escolares y avanzar en el mejoramiento sistemático de los resultados obtenidos por los estudiantes. Por ello es importante disponer de una propuesta editorial integral que incluya, tanto guías para el profesor,...