An excellent resource for aspiring and experienced instructional leaders, this popular text reveals a practical model of leadership for teacher leaders, principals, and school teams. It honors the working realities of schools and highlights interpersonal and intrapersonal skills and qualities essential to successful school leadership. Completely updated second edition.
With age-appropriate, inquiry-centered curriculum materials and sound teaching practices, middle school science can capture the interest and energy of adolescent students and expand their understanding of the world around them. Resources for Teaching Middle School Science, developed by the National Science Resources Center (NSRC), is a valuable tool for identifying and selecting effective science curriculum materials that will engage students in grades 6 through 8. The volume describes more than 400 curriculum titles that are aligned with the National Science Education Standards.
Critical Pedagogy addresses the shortcomings of mainstream educational theory and practice and promotes the humanization of teacher and student. Where Critical Pedagogy is often treated as a discourse of academics in universities, this book explores the applications of Critical Pedagogy to actual classroom situations. Written in a straight-forward, concise, and lucid form by an American high school teacher, this book is meant to provoke thought in teachers, students and education activists as we transform our classrooms into democratic sites.
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Challenges is a four-level course for Lower Secondary school students aged 11 – 14 years. Successfully combining a modular approach with a story line strand, Challenges presents Lower Secondary school students with characters and topics that promote positive values and activities that help them build learning strategies in an involving and motivating way.
All you need to know about teaching and implementing the Big6™ in middle schools!
·Discover strategies to collaborate with educators to teach information and technology skills to middle school students ·Learn how to implement each step of the Big6 at the middle school level! ·Acquire effective age-appropriate methods to teach information literacy skills and integrate technology into the curriculum.
