Curriculum Planning and Development Books

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...

This book examines contemporary issues in music teaching and learning throughout the lifespan, illuminating an emerging nexus of trends shaping modern research in music education. In the past, most music learning opportunities and research were focused...

In this volume, renowned literacy and language education scholars who have shaped policy and practice aimed toward social justice and equity address current intellectual and practical issues in the teaching of literacy in classrooms and...

Creating Curriculum in Early Childhood explores the backward design model of curriculum development, equipping readers with the tools and methods they need to effectively apply backward design in the early childhood classroom. Clear yet comprehensive...

Curriculum Planning with Design Language provides a streamlined, adaptable framework for using visual design terminology to conceptualize instructional design objectives, processes, and strategies. Drawing from instructional design theory, pattern...

What was your experience of art in school? Was it all doilies, cheap paint, and crusty brushes? Or was it better than that but you still wondered why it seemed to be the runt of the educational litter. In this humorous, engaging, and thought-provoking...

This updated edition of Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy presents an examination of the many and varied metaphors of teaching in English. These metaphors serve as sites to excavate conflicting historical, con-ceptual, and philosophical influences that...

This text explores how art education can address the needs of older adults as learners, makers, and teachers of art in formal and informal settings. It combines perspectives of educators, professors, therapists, and artists on what is meant by creative...

"Every five seconds someone in the world goes blind." When you meet a blind person, do you know what to do or what to say? As Christians, do we have a special responsibility for serving disabled people? In Blindness, Braille, and the Bible,...

The Prep 2 Music Theory Rudiments Answer Book (Ultimate Music Theory) is easy to use and is identical to the Prep 2 Rudiments Music Theory Workbook.The Ultimate Music Theory Prep 2 Rudiments Answer Book features these concepts and more!Ultimate Music...

The Prep 1 Music Theory Rudiments Answer Book (Ultimate Music Theory) is easy to use and is identical to the Prep 1 Rudiments Music Theory Workbook.The Ultimate Music Theory Prep 1 Rudiments Answer Book features these concepts and more!Ultimate Music...

The Prep 1 Music Theory Rudiments Workbook by Ultimate Music Theory is an impressive workbook with 12 Lessons, Review Tests, a Guide & Chart PLUS 80 Flashcards.The Ultimate Music Theory Prep 1 Rudiments Workbook features these concepts and...

Companion volume to the award-winning best seller Instructional Design Theories and Models, this book serves as a concrete introduction to instructional design for curriculum developers, teachers and teacher trainers, and students. Eight major theorists...

Chosen by Jane is a memoir of a highly successful principal of two arts magnet schools from 1986-2003. First taking over the failing Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jane Condon quickly shepherded the program to national...

FREE SAMPLE and more info at naturestudycollective.comEasy-To-Implement Nature Study LessonsDesigned for homeschoolers, co-op groups, and traditional classes, each activity helps students observe and discover for themselves through a firsthand experience...

This book investigates the use of performative language pedagogy in working with refugees and migrants, exploring performative language teaching as the application of drama, music, dance and storytelling to second language acquisition.

The education of young people is context bound. This edited volume explores the contexts that characterise South and South East Asia and their influence on social studies education. There is not a single context across this broad geographical expanse,...

Applied Theatre with Youth is a collection of essays that highlight the value and efficacy of applied theatre with young people in a broad range of settings, addressing challenges and offering concrete solutions.This book tackles the vital issues of our...

Creating Transformative Online Communities in Higher Education provides a practical approach for building authentic learning experiences into the design and delivery of online teaching and learning systems. Combining three conceptually related...

Teaching Ethics through Literature provides in-depth understanding of a new and exciting shift in the fields of English education, Literature, Language Arts, and Literacy through exploring their connections with ethics. The book pioneers an approach to...

Academic discourse is the gateway not only to educational success but to worlds of imagination, discovery and accumulated wisdom. Understanding the nature of academic discourse and developing ways of helping everyone access, shape and change this...

Foreword to the Research Text: Mathematics education under cross-examination.- Best evidence research redefined in mathematics education.- Mathematics and Mathematics Education-Deconstructing the Math Wars.- Opening the mathematics text: What does it...

Meanings of Meaning of Mathematics.- "Meaning" and School Mathematics.- The Meaning of Conics: Historical and Didactical Dimensions.- Reconstruction of Meaning as a Didactical Task: The Concept of Function as an Example.- Meaning in Mathematics Education...

This fully updated and revised edition includes fourteen new chapters on contemporary topics such as critical race theory, decolonizing the curriculum, economics education, and children's rights.The Social Studies Curriculum, Fifth Edition updates the...

Understandings of sexuality and sex education have changed dramatically, and in this collection, the authors explore the various texts that were used to teach, to entertain, to sanction and to form a sexual standard for a nation. According to Nelson and...

Curriculum Studies in India examines Indian scholars in dialogue regarding their intellectual life histories and subjective investments in their field. With chapter introductions by William Pinar, scholars explore their intellectual history and present...

The definitive works of the professor and scholar, Donda West, are included in Donda's Rules. Chapters include her systems theory on composition and rhetoric, a resolution on ebonics, a community-based economic development plan, and her studies on...

The Invent to Learn Guide to Making in the K-3 Classroom: Why, How, and Wow! is a practical guide for primary school educators who want to inspire their students to embrace a tinkering mindset so they can invent fantastic contraptions. Veteran teacher...

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This book explores the value of duoethnography to the study of interdisciplinary practice. Illustrating how dialogic and relational forms of research help to facilitate deeply emic, personal, and situated understandings of practice, the editors and...

Holocaust education is a controversial and rapidly evolving field. This book, which critically analyses the very latest research, discusses a number of the most important debates which are emerging within it. Adopting a truly global perspective,...

Underpinned by pedagogical practices and theories of what works in teaching computing, this book gives existing and new teachers ideas to enable them to plan an inclusive curriculum for the secondary school computing classroom.Computing is one of the...

Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension (3rd edition) is a 6-book series containing engaging, enjoyable texts and activities to help primary school children to develop their reading comprehension skills and foster a love of reading. The...

Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension (3rd edition) is a 6-book series containing engaging, enjoyable texts and activities to help primary school children to develop their reading comprehension skills and foster a love of reading. The...

Innovative Business School Teaching showcases the latest pedagogic innovations that actively engage the millennial generation in learning within the business domain. In the context of the contemporary macro issues facing higher education, this book...

Drawing on recent theoretical frameworks from critical disability studies and art education including normalcy, ableism, disability and Crip theory, this book offers an analysis of the conceptualisation of ability in art education and its relationship...

This is the student text portion of the full curriculum book "The Brain; Introduction to Neurology" by Ellen J. McHenry. The student text is provided in this format (apart from the full curriculum book which includes the teacher's section) for the...

This book titled by Pedagogy of school subject chemistry (Volume-I) gives information about the teaching and learning process of Chemistry. It covers whole syllabus of Pedagogy of school subject chemistry for second semester B.Ed Student Teachers of...

This textbook of 'Dr Chitra's Atlas and Textbook of Human Anatomy' is the first of its kind of having the following special features - •  High resolution dissection images for all the parts of the topics in regional...

And . . . Action! While teachers don't train to be entertainers, teaching must capture students' attention and, yes, at times entertain them. This doesn't mean that every lesson has to be a Broadway musical number, but it does require educators to...

L'ICETE Programme for Academic Leadership (IPAL) a été officiellement créé en 2010, né de la nécessité de fournir une formation aux institutions théologiques dans différentes régions du monde. L'IPAL propose des outils de développement professionnel pour...

Effective Australian history education has never been more important for the development of critically aware and thoughtful young people. History fosters important skills in reasoning, historical consciousness and empathy; and an appreciation of history...

Australian education policy for the past 40 years has been heading in the wrong direction and is entirely unsuitable for preparing young people for the 21st century. Exaggeration? Sadly not.For a teacher, there is nothing more exhilarating than...

The second edition of The Peace of Mind Core Curriculum for Early Childhood effectively integrates Mindfulness, Social Emotional Learning, and Conflict Resolution into one weekly curriculum for very young students.   The engaging lessons in Peace of...

There is little doubt that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a controversial entity. They are provocativefor the way in which they have been developed, for the ways they are being implemented and evaluated, fortheir content, and for their...

Modern society gives great importance to scientific and technological literacy, development of "21st century skills," and creating individuals who are not passive users of ICT tools but active thinkers and even tinkerers. The learning process is thus...

The intricacies of providing quality education for school-age children can best be realized through collaboration between practitioners. This same ideology has infiltrated education preparation programs, encouraging the emphasis on collaborative...