Eight Steps to Classroom Management Success: A Guide for Teachers of Challenging Students
Based on sound psychological principles, this easy-to-read, jargon-free resource provides a systematic approach to helping students who have significant behavioral issues become positive, contributing learners.
Challenging the Classroom Standard Through Museum-based Education: School in the Park
School in the Park is an innovative museum-based educational effort to engage students in their community during the school day. Since 1999 several hundred students have been educated each year in museums and the zoo in San Diego. This is more than a field trip, it is changing the way that education is provided. Challenging the Classroom Standard Through Museum-Based Education: School in the Park presents the experience of School in the Park from the perspective of different disciplines oral language, reading, writing, social studies, math, science, and the arts—to determine how students are learning content within museums and the zoo.
More than a half-million readers have already been exposed to the controlled vocabulary in “1100 Words You Need to Know” and the techniques that this book devised to help them learn how to use those important words.
As you spend the time to master the 1100 words and idiom 15 to 20 minutes daily you will discover the pleasure of recognition and understanding when you come across these challenging words in your listening, reading, and conversing.
In the Shadow of the Moon - A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965 - 1969
In the Shadow of the Moon tells the story of the most exciting and challenging years in spaceflight, with two superpowers engaged in a titanic struggle to land one of their own people on the moon. While describing awe-inspring technical achievements, the authors go beyond the missions and the competition of the space race to focus on the people who made it all possible. Their book explores the inspirations, ambitions, personalities and experiences of the select few whose driving ambition was to fly to the moon.
Japanese-inspired textiles and fabrics are now more popular than ever - but their large-scale motifs can be challenging to use in quilts. This book shows the best ways to do it.
