The Complex Learning and Career Needs of Creative Professionals
This book contemplates what young artists and performers should know when considering an education and career in the arts, and how practical financial needs and self-expression are effectively balanced by artists.
The Complex Learning and Career Needs of Creative Professionals
This book contemplates what young artists and performers should know when considering an education and career in the arts, and how practical financial needs and self-expression are effectively balanced by artists.
All children deserve an engaging, exciting curriculum designed to spark their curiosity, feed their imagination and develop their skills and knowledge. So how can school leaders ensure this is what they receive? We know that the balance of knowledge, skills and understanding.
Including Students With Disabilities in Sports and Recreation
A healthy, active lifestyle for all students: That's the promise of physical education, and the goal of this comprehensive textbook. Now in a thoroughly updated fourth edition, this text prepares current and future PE teachers to lead welcoming, inclusive classes where every student participates, makes friends, and learns new skills and values.
As long as there has been formal curriculum, there has been disappointing curriculum. In an increasingly authoritarian world, problematic curricula are on the march, leaving teachers in a bind. Faced with these problematic curricula, some teachers will submit and do as they are told. Other teachers will oppose the problematic curricula, and, in ......
This book is designed for all K-12 educators and teacher preparation faculty. Each of the strategies presented includes perspectives from teachers at two different grade levels representing a range of suburban and urban teachers.
This book is designed for all K-12 educators and teacher preparation faculty. Each of the strategies presented includes perspectives from teachers at two different grade levels representing a range of suburban and urban teachers.
The Heart of Transformation in K-12 Schools and Teacher Education
This book presents accounts of African diaspora literacy in action in school settings. Focusing specifically on the language, history, politics, economics, and cultural traditions of people in the African diaspora, the authors illuminate critical information missing from schoo...
A Half Century of Research on the Effectiveness of Direct Instruction
Accessible to policy makers, teachers, and parents while containing essential information for researchers, All Students Can Succeed summarizes an extensive meta-analysis of 50 years of research on Direct Instruction. The authors report strong, consistent effects, substantially larger than those from other programs.
Curriculum conversation with alternative provision leaders
For one reason or another, mainstream education does not suit every young person. Many young people are educated in alternative provision, which is defined by the Department for Education as educational provision 'for pupils who, because of exclusion, illness or other reasons, would not otherwise receive suitable education'. As of 2023, over ......
Arts educators have adopted social justice themes as part of a larger vision of transforming society. Social justice arts education confronts oppression and inequality arising from factors related to race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, class, ability, gender, and sexuality. This edition of Common Threads investigates the intersection of social ......
Strategies to Enhance Academic Skills and Student Voice
This book combines two research-based concepts, arts integration and the use of young adult literature, to provide activities and instructional strategies to boost students' communication, reading, and thinking skills
Strategies to Enhance Academic Skills and Student Voice
This book combines two research-based concepts, arts integration and the use of young adult literature, to provide activities and instructional strategies to boost students' communication, reading, and thinking skills
This is the first book to present a practical, problem solving approach and hands-on tools and techniques for assessing English Language learners and culturally diverse students in K-12 settings. It meets a crucial need among practitioners and special educators working in today's schools.
The AEPS (R) Test allows professionals to gather assessment data for one child or a group of children in home- or center-based settings. This volume includes the tests for both age levels, which are divided into six developmental areas-fine motor, gross motor, cognitive, adaptive, social-communication, and social.
Used after the AEPS(R) Test is completed and scored, this developmentally sequenced curriculum for children ages 0 to 3 allows professionals to match the child's IFSP/IEP goals and objectives with activity-based interventions.
