Most would agree that a learning community of practice cultivates social and intellectual development in educational settings but what are the other benefits and what does a learning community actually look like in practice? This book explores such questions as: Are learning communities essential in education? How are they designed and developed? What difference do they make in learning? The book contains contributions of educators who share their research and practice in designing and implementing learning communities in school, university, and professional network settings.

Understanding and Developing Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge

There has been a growing interest in the notion of a scholarship of teaching. Such scholarship is displayed through a teacher's grasp of, and response to, the relationships between knowledge of content, teaching and learning in ways that attest to practice as being complex and interwoven. Yet attempting to capture teachers' professional knowledge is difficult because the critical links between practice and knowledge, for many teachers, is tacit.

Let your students' success build on success! Use these phonetically controlled stories to help students thoroughly learn, practice, and apply phonics-independently and with growing confidence.

Features • Features 140 Readers of about the same difficulty (10 in each set). • Gives students a sense of accomplishment in completing an entire book in 8 pages. • Provides decoding practice, application with a phonetically controlled vocabulary. • Checks comprehension with a sequencing activity at the back of each book.

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This workbook is designed to supplement the Language Skills Practice workbook by providing additional instruction and practice to students who have not yet mastered the rules and topics. The worksheets in this workbook provide additional instruction, practice, and reinforcement for Language Skills Practice.

The Answer Key is included.

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