In Against Schooling, Stanley Aronowitz passionately raises an alarm about the current state of education in our country. Discipline and control over students, Aronowitz argues, are now the primary criteria of success, and genuine learning is sacrificed to a new educational militarism.
Think About It!: Thinking Skills Activities for Years 3 and 4
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Engage pupils' interest and imagination with these thirty-six stand-alone lesson plans. These thought-provoking activities are suitable for pupils of all abilities and will also help improve their literacy skills. Includes: differentiation and extension activities time-saving photocopiable resources easy-to-use flexible lesson plans.
The Online Teaching Survival Guide: Simple and Practical Pedagogical Tips
The Online Teaching Survival Guide offers faculty a wide array of theory-based techniques designed for online teaching and technology-enhanced courses. Written by two pioneers in distance education, this guidebook presents practical instructional strategies spread out over a four-phase timeline that covers the lifespan of a course.
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Informed by speech act research, conversational analysis and intercultural research, Lifestyle teaches useful ‘people skills language’. This language will help students avoid misunderstanding and communication breakdown enabling them to develop good work and social relationships in their everyday lives.
The Lifestyle Elementary Teacher’s Book provides all the support teachers need. It includes detailed teaching notes, cultural, functional and background notes and extra photocopiable activities.
Next Generation Assessment: Moving Beyond the Bubble Test to Support 21st Century Learning
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Next Generation Assessment examines performance assessment as an alternative to the current high-stakes standardized testing system. This important resource provides a thorough analysis of the prospects and challenges of sustaining performance assessments on a large scale. Linda Darling-Hammond, with a team of leading scholars, describes the history and current uses of performance assessments in the United States and abroad and summarizes the latest findings in the field.
