This book gives teachers the tools and the teaching strategies to enable their students to become more... Læs mere
This tackles the fallacies of marking and grading students’ work and provides teachers with specific examples of how they might provide evaluative feedback to students that enables and promotes their subsequent growth on learning tasks.
This book for teachers and parents makes an important case for the need for developing... Læs mere
This book provides a collection of ten cases for use in the middle grades that focus on many of the critical social issues we face today.
The book offers concrete and specific suggestions for improving teacher education programs.
A practical guidebook to enable teachers to address their concerns about teaching science as active inquiry, in addition to providing them with the tools and techniques for developing a science program that models how real scientists work.
Learning to respond with respect and understanding to others is the primary objective of this book.
This is a book for teachers and parents as well who seek to develop such self-directed, “can-do” children.
Opening Minds is a wonderful resource full of materials for parents of elementary and middle school children who want to expand their... Læs mere
Thinking Matters: A Guide to Making Wiser and More Thoughtful Decisions offers adults an opportunity to examine what it means to use intelligent habits of mind to make wise, rational, and informed choices and to deal more logically with the problems that impact their lives.
We live in a climate of vigorous testing and memorization, so how can we both engage and challenge our children to... Læs mere