Education : Aims & Objectives

From September 1998 governing bodies were required to set school targets for developing curriculum, personal environment etc. This comprehensive guide offers......

This book is based on the changes a five year-old, Angelica will see in her lifetime. It predicts that the career of teaching will change and the work of the...

Reinforces and expands cooperative learning practices found in Circles of Learning: Cooperation in the Classroom, to include the school and district. With th......

The author of The Classroom of Choice presents a practical, step-by-step guide to implementing classroom activities for grades 3-12 that help build student-t......

An overview of Response to Intervention for school leaders, focusing on a problem-solving model to help students struggling with academics and behavior. Incl......

A comprehensive resource on formative assessement, covering the history and research base, data-gathering and decision-making procedures, and implications fo......

Formative assessment is one of the best ways to increase student learning and enhance teacher quality. But effective formative assessment is not part of most......

How can every teacher, school, and district improve the quality of their schools? The answer is to empower teachers to take charge of their own learning, say......

"There's a lot more to being a teacher leader than any job description can capture. When action must be taken, new goals must be set, and new standards must be...

We can all remember how great we felt when our favorite teacher praised us for a job well done or a good instructor encouraged us during a tough assignment. We...

How can you teach all students to achieve at the same high standards and still respect and accommodate their differences? This book answers that question and......

A book that explains how negative attitudes toward math get established in the brain and what teachers can do to turn those attitudes around. Includes more t......

English language learners (ELLs) often face the difficult challenge of learning both a new language and new subject matter at the same time. In Teaching Engl......

Learning to inquire together, to generate knowledge and action simultaneouslyâthat's action research. This book provides practical guidance for conducting sc......

This book integrates the ideas of service-learning, positive youth development, and model communities into a book with a comprehensive message about making c......

Peter Pericles Trifonas has assembled internationally acclaimed theorists and educational practitioners whose essays explore various constructions, represent......

There is a huge volume of work on war and its causes, most of which treats its political and economic roots. In Peace Education: How We Come to Love and...

This book brings together the results of 25 years of research on the domain theory of social cognitive development. On the basis of that research - which sho......

When parents are asked what they want for their children, they usually answer that they want their children to be happy. Why, then, is happiness rarely menti......

Critical Lessons concentrates on the critical, reflective thinking that should be taught in high schools. Taking seriously the Socratic advice, 'know thyself......