The Essential Guide for Educating Beginning English Learners Put all English learners on the path to success—right from the start! As more beginning ELs enroll in schools every year, educators need a realistic framework for addressing the varied needs of this growing population. In this practical resource, the authors provide templates, tools, and vignettes illustrating real-world challenges to help teachers and administrators:
The intellectual distance between education and cognitive neuroscience will be significantly shortened for all who read about the contributions of cognitive neuroscience to teaching and learning initiatives. This book integrates the ideas of the major theorists and focuses on the six significant domains of neuroscience (experience, attention, perception, knowledge, acquisition, memory, and retrieval) relationships to information processing. Explanatory vignettes are inserted throughout the text to provide practical examples of how learners acquire, organize, and use knowledge.
Accurately rendered, well-researched illustrations of 21 Spanish missions built from 1769 to 1823 along the California coast, among them San Diego de Alcala, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Clara de Asis, San Jose de Guadalupe, Santa Barbara Virgen Y Martir, Santa Cruz, many more. Includes realistic vignettes re-creating various aspects of mission life. Descriptive captions.
Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living
Welcome to the unique world of Bailey White. Her aunt Belle may take you to see her bellowing pet alligator. Her uncle Jimbuddy may appall you with his knack for losing pieces of himself. Most of all, you may succumb utterly to the charms of Bailey’s mama, who will take you to a juke joint so raunchy it scared Ernest Hemingway or tuck you into her antique guest bed that has the disconcerting habit of folding up on people while they sleep.
No matter how many times you weigh a pig, all you learn is how much it weighs. If you want to learn something else, you need a different assessment. This sensible book explains how well-constructed assessments provide data that is essential to the development of learning opportunities for all students. The text includes contributions from teachers and teacher educators, classroom vignettes, and alternative approaches that have been proven useful in assessing the needs of a wide range of students.
