Can a student do experiments on his own? Would he know the right way to conduct a process using the scientific method? What is a hypothesis? These and other questions are addressed in Bill Nye the Science Guy: Do-it-yourself Science, as Bill Nye teaches students independent thinking. His series always includes experiments that can be done at home, using easily found items. In this show, he encourages students to raise questions, make educated guesses, and test their hypotheses.
This book looks at worker safety in the changing workplace and the challenge of ensuring a supply of top-notch OSH professionals. Recommendations are addressed to federal and state agencies, OSH organizations, educational institutions, employers, unions, and other stakeholders.
Commonsense Methods for Children with Special Educational Needs
This fifth edition of this successful title provides teachers with an immediate and comprehensive source of practical strategies for meeting children's special needs in regular classrooms.Fully revised and updated, this fifth edition includes expanded chapters on: learning difficulties students with intellectual, physical or sensory disabilities behaviour management self-regulation the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills adapting curriculum and instruction.
Achieving Competence, Success and Excellence in Teaching
Measuring the ability to teach is central to government policies to raise standards in schools. 'Successful teaching' is now measured through basic technical and personal skills in the context of the National Curriculum. Teachers are labelled successes or failures based on graded OFSTED inspections. This thought-provoking book explains how different levels or qualities of teaching can be identified and achieved. It outlines the criteria for competent, successful and excellent educational practice, whilst suggesting ways of achieving the highest possible measure of excellence.
Educational Neuroscience provides an overview of the wide range of recent initiatives in educational neuroscience, examining a variety of methodological concerns, issues, and directions. Encourages interdisciplinary perspectives in educational neuroscience. Contributions from leading researchers examine key issues relating to educational neuroscience and mind, brain, and education more generally.
Rustle The Leaf's Earthday Book (Activity Book for Kids)
It doesn't sound like much, really: a 12-page booklet with a few comics, mazes, word puzzles and a colorful foldout poster. But Rustle the Leaf's Earth Day Book is grabbing the interest and attention of educational, religious and governmental organizations in the US, Canada and around the world. In fact, the booklet—an educational tool to help students learn about the environment as they celebrate Earth Day—has such appeal that more than 10,000 books were ordered in a single day.
New Understandings of Teacher’s Work - Emotions and Educational Change
Within educational research that seeks to understand the quality and effectiveness of teachers and school, the role emotions play in educational change and school improvement has become a subject of increasing importance. In this book, scholars from around the world explore the connections between teaching, teacher education, teacher emotions, educational change and school leadership.
