Every Book Is a Social Studies Book - How to Meet Standards with Picture Books, K-6
In order for today's children to succeed as adults, they need a solid foundation of life skills inculcated at a young age. Social studies is key to building this critical knowledge, yet less attention is being paid to social studies in elementary schools as this subject becomes more essential. The authors of this text have a solution: use picture books as dual-purpose texts that fulfill more than just language arts needs, and take the time dedicated to those lessons to simultaneously teach social studies.
What Expert Teachers Do - Enhancing Professional Knowledge for Classroom Practice
How do expert teachers do it? How do they enhance student learning? How do they manage the dilemmas and tensions inherent in working with 25 different students in every lesson? Internationally respected teacher educator John Loughran argues that teachers’ knowledge of what they do is largely tacit and often misunderstood. In this book, he distils the essence of professional practice for classroom teachers.
Love is a necessary ingredient of effective pedagogy, yet to this point there has been a distinct lack of serious theoretical and practical work on the topic. What does it really mean to adopt a loving approach to pedagogy? This book provides a pragmatic and thoughtful treatment of the topic of love as pedagogy, examining the use and role of love in teaching and learning, and providing suggestions on how educators can effectively recognise and use love in their work.
How to be a Brilliant Mentor - Developing Outstanding Teachers
How to be a Brilliant Mentor offers clear guidelines to enhance your mentoring, helping you to analyse your own practice and understand the complex and often ambiguous role of the mentor in school.
Fly High Fun Grammar complements the Fly High series and can be used in class or for homework. It includes: • clear and simple explanations for all the grammar points in the Pupil’s Book • a variety of practice activities, with constant recycling • further exploitation of songs from the Pupil’s Book • games and role play activities • regular Reviews
