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“jobeth allen”

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  • A Critical Inquiry Framework for K-12 Teachers

    by JoBeth Allen, Lois Alexander ...
    Series series Practitioner Inquiry Series
    This dynamic book provides powerful ideas to guide pedagogy and a curriculum model for helping students connect with issues in their lives while meeting standards. Vivid portraits of K–12 classrooms illustrate how teachers used a human rights framework to engage students in critical inquiry of relevant social issues, such as immigration rights, religious tolerance, racial equality, countering the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Family Dialogue Journals

    School–Home Partnerships That Support Student Learning

    by JoBeth Allen, Jennifer Beaty, Angela Dean, Joseph Jones, Stephanie Smith Mathews, Jen McCreight, Amber M. Simmons, Elyse Schwedler ...
    Series series Practitioner Inquiry
    This honest, clearly written, and accessible book shows how to use Family Dialogue Journals (FDJs) to increase and deepen learning across grade levels. Written by K–12 teachers who have been implementing and studying the use of weekly journals for several years, it shares what they have learned and why they have found FDJs to be an invaluable tool for forming effective partnerships with families. ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

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    by Charlotte Mason ...
    This is the complete unabridged and authorized edition of the works of turn-of-the-century British educator Charlotte Mason, with a forward by Dr. John Thorley of The Charlotte Mason College. This six-volume set includes over 2400 pages on education, child training and parenting. Recognized as a pioneer in home education and major school reforms, Charlotte Mason's practical methods are as ... Read more

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  • Random House Treasury of Best-Loved Children's Poems

    by Patricia Klein ...
    This latest addition to the highly successful Random House poetry treasury series is a nostalgic collection of children's poems. This is the perfect assortment of poems for children, their parents, and other loved ones to read together.• Features more than 100 poems by poets such as A.A. Milne, Christina Rossetti, Lewis Carroll, Robert Lewis Stevenson, and more• Ideal for children and adults of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Think Again

    A Philosophical Approach to Teaching

    by Mr John L. Taylor ...
    Contemporary education is held captive by an obsession with assessment. The culture of 'teaching-to-the-test' and 'spoon-feeding' has distorted the purpose of teaching and destroyed the joy of free enquiry.This book offers practical advice on how to use philosophy as the cornerstone of a new approach to teaching and learning, with the central aim of developing students' capacity for deeper, freer ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Little Big Minds

    Sharing Philosophy with Kids

    by Marietta McCarty ...
    A guide for parents and educators to sharing the enduring ideas of the biggest minds throughout the centuries—from Plato to Jane Addams—with the "littlest" minds.Children are no strangers to cruelty and courage, to love and to loss, and in this unique book teacher and educational consultant Marietta McCarty reveals that they are, in fact, natural philosophers. Drawing on a program she has honed in ... Read more

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  • Deciding What to Teach and Test

    Developing, Aligning, and Leading the Curriculum

    by Fenwick W. English ...
    "This book makes the reader think deeply about the role of curriculum planning and its connection to assessment in this age of accountability."—J. Jeannette Lovern, Associate Professor of Curriculum and InstructionEastern Kentucky University"For educators who want students and schools to be successful, this book provides a clear and proven process to accomplish this goal. It is succinct, yet ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Mothering a Bodied Curriculum

    Emplacement, Desire, Affect

    Edited by Stephanie Springgay, Debra Freedman ...
    This collection considers how embodiment, mothering, and curriculum theory are related to practices in education that silence, conceal, and limit gendered, raced, and sexual maternal bodies. Advancing a new understanding of the maternal body, it argues for a 'bodied curriculum' – a practice that attends to the relational, social, and ethical implications of ‘being-with’ other bodies differently, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Place- and Community-Based Education in Schools

    by Gregory A. Smith, David Sobel ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    Place- and community-based education – an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local – addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend young people’s attention beyond the classroom to the world as it actually is, and to engage them in the ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Literacy Practices and Perceptions of Agency

    Composing Identities

    by Bronwyn T. Williams ...
    In this book, Bronwyn T. Williams explores how perceptions of agency—whether a person perceives and feels able to read and write successfully in a given context—are critical in terms of how people perform their literate identities. Drawing on interviews and observations with students in several countries, he examines the intersections of the social and the personal in relation to how and, ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Teaching History with Big Ideas

    Cases of Ambitious Teachers

    by Andrew Beiter, Mary Beth Bruce, Julie Doyle, Sarah Foels, S G. Grant, Joseph Karb, Megan Sampson, Trish Davis, Michael Meyer ...
    In the case studies that make up the bulk of this book, middle and high school history teachers describe the decisions and plans and the problems and possibilities they encountered as they ratcheted up their instruction through the use of big ideas. Framing a teaching unit around a question such as 'Why don't we know anything about Africa?' offers both teacher and students opportunities to explore ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Research on Applied Learning Theory and Design in Modern Education

    Edited by Elena A. Railean, Gabriela Walker, Atilla Elçi, Liz Jackson ...
    The field of education is in constant flux as new theories and practices emerge to engage students and improve the learning experience. Research advances help to make these improvements happen and are essential to the continued improvement of education. The Handbook of Research on Applied Learning Theory and Design in Modern Education provides international perspectives from education professors ... Read more

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