Curriculum Planning and Development Books

Drawing on the work of over 50 international contributors, this volume delves into curriculum praxis, human development, and cognition within the contexts of the STEAM disciplines. This book will be useful to educational practitioners and researchers of...

French is Fun at Key Stage 1 contains all the activities, games and resources you need to teach French to 5-7 year olds.The lesson plans have been specially written to appeal to young children and build on their innate spontaneity and lack of inhibition,...

Children will love reading these humorous French stories, specially written to motivate and inspire children. Written in simple everyday language, these stories are a perfect way of helping pupils develop reading confidence.These stories have been tried...

Children will love reading these humorous French stories, specially written to motivate children and develop confidence. Written in simple everyday language, these stories are a perfect way of encouraging reading fluency.These stories have been tried and...

Children will love reading these humorous French stories, specially written to motivate beginning learners. Written in simple everyday language, these stories are a perfect way of inspiring children to practise French.These stories have been tried and...

Children will love reading these humorous French stories, specially written to motivate beginning learners. Written in simple everyday language, these stories are a perfect way of introducing children to French. These stories have been tried and...

Children will love reading these humorous Spanish stories, specially written to motivate and inspire children. Written in simple everyday language, these stories are a perfect way of helping pupils develop reading confidence.These stories have been tried...

Children will love reading these humorous Spanish stories, specially written to motivate children and develop confidence. Written in simple everyday language, these stories are a perfect way of encouraging reading fluency.These stories have been tried...

Physical Spanish Phonics is a tried-and-tested multisensory approach to teaching Spanish phonics. It has been developed in conjunction with school children and their teachers over the course of several years.For each phoneme, students learn an action, as...

Sum Fun Maths Assessment is a series of 3 books full of puzzle worksheets for assessing children's progress in maths. Each sheet is self-correcting - children use their mathematical skills to solve a series of questions, then use the code to find the...

What do you get when you bring together two of NSTA's bestselling authors to ponder ways to deepen students' conceptual understanding of science? A fascinating combination of deep thinking about science teaching, field-tested strategies you can use in...

As the increasingly frequent press stories of school children being radicalised show, teachers urgently need a resource that enables them to recognise, debate and disrupt extremist narratives within the context of the classroom. This practical handbook...

6th Grade Utah MathStandards-Aligned Prep for Utah StudentsSupport your child's success with this engaging and easy-to-use 6th Grade RISE Math Study Guide, created specifically for students in Utah. Aligned with the Utah Core Standards, this...

The Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education is a practical reference guide that shows how museums, galleries and heritage sites can offer opportunities for successful visitor engagement.

In an interconnected world, developing culturally responsive curriculum in higher education fosters inclusive learning environments and prepares students to thrive in global contexts. Culturally responsive curriculum actively incorporates diverse...

Rich Kids: Mom's Lessons in Financial Growth and Entrepreneurship is a powerful guide for parents, caregivers, and young readers alike, delivering real-life wisdom on money, mindset, and legacy. Written from the perspective of a mother determined to...

Combines theory and practice to inspire teachers to embrace a sense of surprise in their classrooms.What would your classroom be like if you could see it as something surprising, novel, and fresh in every moment? What are the unique gifts that students...

Dance is a universal language that transcends barriers, bringing joy and creative expression to all ages. This book, "Dancing games," is designed for educators, dance instructors, and caregivers who wish to introduce movement and dance to children aged 4...

This book examines course design, student engagement, research, theory, and practices of teaching with and for critical pedagogy in online environments.

The Crossing Paths Framework III: Developing District Cultural Standards is a comprehensive guide designed to help educational leaders establish meaningful cultural standards within their school districts. This framework provides a step-by-step approach...

Alternative Approaches to Education provides parents and teachers with information and guidance on different education options in the UK and further afield. This new and expanded edition, including additional chapters and up-to-date contact details,...

Engaging in Community Music: An Introduction focuses on the processes involved in designing, initiating, executing, and evaluating community music practices. Designed for both undergraduate and graduate students, in community music programs and...

For over two decades, philosopher Tyson E. Lewis has produced an impressive and sprawling body of work organized around the pursuit of alternative forms of educational life. By doing so, he's staged radical interventions in fields...

Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Years 3-4: Non-fiction contains 12 high quality authentic non-fiction passages and is perfect for developing reading strategies as children move through Key Stage 2.Each of the 12 high quality non-fiction extracts...

This readable and informative survey of key ideas about students' thinking in science builds a bridge between theory and practice by offering clear accounts from research, and showing how they relate to actual examples of students talking about widely...

This book presents an overview of the history and philosophy of science, explores its methodological and educational implications, and develops innovative teaching strategies, based on actual classroom practice, that emphasize 'science-in-the-making'.

This book reconceptualizes social studies teaching and learning in ways that will help prepare students to live in "new times" - prepared for new forms of labor, equipped to handle new and emerging technologies and function, and able to understand...

The realities of new technological and social conditions since the 1990s demand a new approach to literacy teaching. Looking onward from the original statement of aims of the multiliteracies movement in 1996, this volume brings together top-quality...

As the third millennium progresses, we are faced with increasing pressures relating to climate change and the sustainability of life on Earth. Concerned citizens are realizing that the responsibility to respond is both local and global. There is an...

This book brings together social semiotics, cultural studies, multiliteracies, and other approaches in order to theorize very different learning environments, giving visibility to the modal effect in a range of disciplines. It highlights the ideological...

With a focus on the role of discourse and language in education, this book examines China's educational reform from an original perspective that avoids mapping on Westernized educational sensibilities to a Chinese environment. Zhao untangles the...

By examining a range of policy areas, this book aims to assess and qualify the claim that EU policies towards the Arab Mediterranean after the uprisings are predominantly marked by continuity with the past. This is attributed to the fact that the EU...

Calls for "deparochialization of educational research" (Lingard 2006) have directed educational ethnography from the conventional research designs and from the study of single sites and local situations to the study of "the circulation of cultural...

A Short and Practical German Grammar for Beginners: With Copious Examples and Exercises (1877) by Heinrich Apel is a comprehensive guide to the German language. The book is designed specifically for beginners who are just starting to learn German. It...

The aim of this book is to inject more intercultural understanding and education into people's lives. This is achieved by focusing on key aspects such as geography and culture, geography and citizenship, pedagogic implications...

""Eben's Sprachmeister: Handbuch Der Englischen Sprache Fur Den Schul Und Selbstunterricht"" ist ein Buch von Carl Theodor Eben, das im Jahr 1890 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch ist ein Handbuch f�����r den Unterricht und Selbststudium der englischen...

Das Buch ""Die Geh������r�����bungen in der Taubstummenschule: Nach dem System des Dr. Urbantschitsch (1895)"" von Adalbert Lehfeld ist ein p�����dagogisches Werk, das sich mit der Methode der Geh������rbildung f�����r taubstumme Sch�����ler...

""First Lessons For The Deaf And Dumb"" is a book written by John Robinson Keep and published in 1875. The book is a guide for teaching basic communication skills to individuals who are deaf and mute. The author emphasizes the importance of sign language...

This book engages with the concept "queer battle fatigue," which is the everyday exhaustion that LGBTQIA+ people and communities often experience from anti-queer norms and values. Contributors express how this concept is often experienced across spaces...

The Teaching of Instrumental Music, Sixth Edition introduces music education majors to basic instrumental pedagogy for the instruments and ensembles commonly found in the elementary and secondary curricula.

This textbook equips students and educators committed to understanding how art and creative practice work as powerful communicative tools and have a substantial role in advancing civic participation.

Science is often a forgotten subject in early elementary grades as various mandates require teachers to focus on teaching young students to achieve specific reading and mathematical competencies. This book offers specific examples and empirical evidence...

The central theme of Curricular Conversations is this: Play is the thing that brings aesthetic curricular complications near educators and their students, making the lived consequences very vivid, tangible, and possible. Viewing curriculum as genuine...

Summarizing data derived from a four-year combined longitudinal/ cross-sectional comparative study of the implementation of one standards-based middle school curriculum program, Mathematics in Context, this book demonstrates the challenges of conducting...