Added by: titito | Karma: 1215.71 | Only for teachers, Maths | 5 September 2010
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These lessons, based on popular children's books, address major mathematical topics such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, geometry, algebraic thinking, number sense, and place value.
Includes Centipede’s 100 Shoes; A Cloak for the Dreamer; The Greedy Triangle; How Big Is a Foot?; Inch by Inch; The King’s Commissioners; Little House in the Big Woods; Night Noises; One Duck Stuck; One Hundred Hungry Ants; Only One; P. Bear’s New Year’s Party; Pigs Will Be Pigs; Six-Dinner Sid; A Three Hat Day; Two of Everything; and Two Ways to Count to Ten.
Added by: msaddam | Karma: 741.13 | Only for teachers, Linguistics | 5 September 2010
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Recent developments in this field of small corpus studies, largely brought about by the personal computer, have yielded remarkable insights into the nature and use of real language. This book presents work by a number of leading researchers in the field and covers a series of topics directly related to language teaching and language research. The ultimate aim of this book is to encourage the exploitation of small corpora by the ELT profession to make language learning more effective.
Writing test scores indicate that boys have fallen far behind girls across the grades. In general, boys don't enjoy writing as much as girls. What's wrong? How can we do a better of job of creating “boy-friendly” classrooms so their voices can be heard?
In Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices Ralph Fletcher draws upon his years of experience as staff developer, children's book author, and father of four boys. He also taps the insights from dozens of writing teachers around the US and abroad.
The Art of Teaching:Best Practices from a Master Educator (Audio)
Added by: Choboboy | Karma: 134.12 | Only for teachers, Audio | 4 September 2010
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TTC - The Art of Teaching:Best Practices from a Master Educator
Teaching is more than a job. It's a responsibility—one of the greatest responsibilities in civilized society. Teachers lay bare the mysteries of the world to us. They train our minds to explore, to question, to investigate, to discover. They ensure that knowledge is not lost or forgotten but is instead passed on to future generations. And they shape our lives in limitless ways, both inside and outside of the classroom.