Six gorgeous step-by-step projects illustrate how to create vivid pictorial scenes and artistic renditions on fabric with dyes, paints, resists, leaves, salts, airbrushes, and stencils.
The Power of Professional Learning (Expanding Educational Horizons (Quality))
Teacher professional development is often promoted as a panacea for improving schools but it rarely lives up to its promise. This book develops an approach to professional learning that has motivated teachers and resulted in impressive improvements in student learning, particularly for students who traditionally underachieve in school. As the underpinning research shows, the approach has proven successful in several countries with consistently positive outcomes.
Top Notch, a dynamic 6-level course for international communication, sets a new standard, using the natural language that people really speak. With a rock-solid learner-centered approach, Top Notch provides students an opportunity to confirm their own progress at the end of every easy-to-teach two-page lesson.
Rock-solid learner support Its unique leaner-centred approach allows students to confirm their progress at the end of every concise two-page lesson. Careful recycling of vocabulary, grammar and social language guarantees success.
Teaching Young Children to Draw: Imaginative Approaches to Representational Drawing
This illustrated handbook on teaching young children to draw has been developed using what the authors call the "negotiated drawing approach". It presents this approach to teachers, demonstrating how it works, ideas for future work, and concrete evidence that it actually produces good results.
Pair-It Extreme - the books that hook with extreme motivation, extreme pairing, and extreme instruction! This series engages a new generation of students in the digital age with: - Thematic clusters of books that hook using cutting edge images, exciting topics, and recurring characters - Genres, topics, design, structure, and instructional approach that engage boys - An extended bridge approach which expands the opportunity to read on a topic and forges powerful connections between fiction/nonfiction texts, encouraging critical thinking Guided Reading Level K