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“leah m melber”

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  • Informal Learning and Field Trips

    Engaging Students in Standards-Based Experiences Across the K-5 Curriculum

    "A highly accessible work of immense value on all facets of informal learning opportunities. The focus on specific content areas is an excellent tool for teachers, and the inclusion of a section related to English Language Learners is especially welcome and unique."—Robert Rueda, Professor of EducationUniversity of Southern California"This great resource demonstrates how to gain more meaning from ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Informal Learning and Field Trips

    Engaging Students in Standards-Based Experiences across the K?5 Curriculum

    Turn every field trip into a high-quality learning experience!What youngster isn't excited at the prospect of taking a field trip? Enthusiastic students present teachers with the ideal scenario for creating meaningful out-of-the-classroom encounters and giving students the building blocks to help them become active participants in their own educational process.This resource helps educators take ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Teaching the Museum

    Careers in Museum Education

    Edited by Leah M. Melber ...
    Education departments in museums of all kinds serve millions of students and adult learners every year using the objects and other resources of the museum. Teaching the Museum offers insights, anecdotes, and valuable advice on how to get started and how to succeed in this rapidly growing field. Twenty contributors with decades of museum experience point out the opportunities for new graduates and ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

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  • Where Great Teaching Begins

    Planning for Student Thinking and Learning

    What comes to mind when you think about lesson planning? If you're like most teachers, you focus on the material you need to present, what you will do and say, what you will ask students to do, and the assessments you will create and administer. And if you're like most teachers, you also know what it's like to be disappointed when this careful planning doesn't always lead to the deep understanding ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Making Differentiation a Habit: How to Ensure Success in Academically Diverse Classrooms

    by Diane Heacox ...
    Updated edition of a popular resource helps teachers seamlessly integrate differentiation practices into their daily routine. In this updated edition of her guide to daily differentiated instruction, Diane Heacox outlines the critical elements for success in today’s classrooms. She gives educators evidence-based differentiation strategies and user-friendly tools to optimize teaching, learning, and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Checking for Understanding

    Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom

    A teacher presents a lesson, and at the end asks students if they understand the material. The students nod and say they get it. Later, the teacher is dismayed when many of the students fail a test on the material. Why aren't students getting it? And, just as important, why didn't the teacher recognize the problem?In Checking for Understanding, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey show how to increase ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Creating Exhibitions

    Collaboration in the Planning, Development, and Design of Innovative Experiences

    “This is a must-read for the nervous novice as well as the world-weary veteran. The book guides you through every aspect of exhibit making, from concept to completion. The say the devil is in the details, but so is the divine. This carefully crafted tome helps you to avoid the pitfalls in the process, so you can have fun creating something inspirational. It perfectly supports the dictum—if you don ... Read more

    $59.00 USD

  • Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults

    by Robert Taylor ...
    For adults, learning a new language can be painfully slow and often a frustrating experience. While everyone would like to quickly acquire the ability to converse in a foreign language, the reality is that it is not easy - there is a whole new set of rules to learn, let alone thousands of new words and expressions. It can be very burdensome to have to, in effect, go back to grade 1 and start all ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Language Assessment for Classroom Teachers

    Series series Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers
    This book provides teachers with an entirely new approach to developing and using classroom-based language assessments. This approach is based on current theory and practice in the field of language assessment and on an understanding of the assessment needs of classroom teachers. The following key questions are addressed: • Why do I need to assess? What beneficial consequences do I want to help ... Read more

    $50.79 USD

  • 95 Strategies for Remodeling Instruction

    Ideas for Incorporating CCSS

    Give your lesson plans a makeover!Would you rather listen to a lecture or play classroom Jeopardy? Research shows that the most successful learning happens when teachers talk less and engage their students in actively applying concepts. This book shows you how to enhance lessons with 95 research-based strategies that work for all subjects and grade levels. In addition, the authors explain the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Museum Experience

    by John H Falk ...
    As the first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit, The Museum Experience revolutionized the way museum professionals understand their constituents. Falk and Dierking integrate their original research from a wide variety of disciplines as well as visitor studies from institutions ranging from science centers and zoos to art and natural history museums. Written in clear, non ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Academic Reading Circles

    by Tyson Seburn ...
    Academic Reading Circles by Tyson Seburn is a teacher-resource book for a learner-centred reading skills approach.The book explains and exemplifies an intensive reading approach aimed at improving learner engagement with and understanding of concepts in non-fiction texts, like those encountered in higher education courses. This approach (academic reading circles or "ARC") combines individual ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus