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Inclusion and Social Justice in Teacher Education
by Marcelle Cacciattolo Jenene Burke Dianne ToeThe scholarly chapters in this edited collection come from authors undertaking social justice research within the teacher education discipline. Authors examine, explore and critique those educational practices and structures that disadvantage minority groups. With a focus on social justice and inclusion, the book concentrates on themes of equity, diversity, learning spaces and effective learning for all, examining the implications for teacher education. An array of critical traditions and methodologies that interrogate educational issues from political, cultural, structural, and social perspectives are explored. This book provides insights on building the capacities of teacher education stakeholders in teaching and learning contexts to understand and respond with equity and justice. Teacher educators, preservice teachers, practicing teachers, and other education stakeholders may find this book to be an excellent resource for developing a critical lens relating to social justice and inclusion in education.
Global Perspectives on Teaching with Technology: Theories, Case Studies, and Integration Strategies
by Helen Crompton Agnes Chigona Nyarai TunjeraGlobal Perspectives on Teaching with Technology presents a wealth of current research on how teacher education and training programs around the world are preparing teachers to integrate and apply learning technologies across subjects, grade levels, and regions. Digital tools are more integral than ever to an accessible and well-rounded education, although their rapid evolution and proliferation necessitate new guidance into their effective integration and intended outcomes. This book provides graduate students, faculty, and researchers of teacher education, as well as trainers of in-service teachers with field-tested frameworks, evidence-based theories and models, and real-world examples of the complexities and affordances of teaching with technology. Internationally sourced to reflect today's richly diverse and globalized learner populations, the case studies collected here offer fresh approaches for teacher educators and a springboard for education researchers studying how practitioners can thrive in their classrooms and foster equity among students.Chapter 16 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Bringing Mindfulness Into the Classroom: Easy Ideas You Can Try Tomorrow
by Tara SegreeHow can we help our students navigate challenges with confidence, mental well-being, and presence? While many schools implement social emotional learning or guidance programs, this book shows an easy, effective, and sustainable way to incorporate mindfulness into your classroom no matter what grade or subject you teach.Tara Segree, recipient of the 2021 Innovative Educator Award and a collaborator of the Mini Meditations for Kids podcast, shows how mindful practices can help students build confidence, overcome anxiety, focus, engage in learning, find their strengths, and more.Chapters provide tools and activities for incorporating mindfulness into your day-to-day teaching, as well as ideas for partnering with families so students can continue their practice at home. Special features include The 30-Day Mindfulness Challenge to give you an accessible way to try mindfulness with your students, and pages with journal prompts to help you on your own mindfulness journey.
Building Executive Function: The Missing Link to Student Achievement
by Nancy SullaIf students haven’t developed the brain-based skills to focus, catch and correct errors, identify cause-and-effect relationships, and more, they can't make sense of lessons. Executive function is the missing link to student achievement. But how can you develop this in the classroom?Bestselling author Nancy Sulla has the answers. She explains how building executive function requires a combination of activities, structures, and teacher facilitation strategies aimed at six increasingly complex life skills that should be the goal of any school: conscious control, engagement, collaboration, empowerment, efficacy, and leadership.This updated new edition includes information on how and why to build executive function skills in the post-pandemic, AI world, as well as modifications for English language learners. There are also Efficacy Notebook sections throughout—spaces for you to pause and reflect as you’re reading. In addition, there are examples across grade levels and templates for your own use. With these powerful tools, you will be inspired, armed, and ready to establish a clear framework for building executive function in all your students.
Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop
by Jeff Anderson Lisa ThibodeauxSome teachers love grammar and some hate it, but nearly all struggle to find ways of making the mechanics of English meaningful to kids. As a middle school teacher, Jeff Anderson also discovered that his students were not grasping the basics, and that it was preventing them from reaching their potential as writers. Jeff readily admits, “I am not a grammarian, nor am I punctilious about anything,” so he began researching and testing the ideas of scores of grammar experts in his classroom, gradually finding successful ways of integrating grammar instruction into writer's workshop.Just in time for its 20th anniversary, this long awaited second edition of Mechanically Inclined continues to merge the best of writer's workshop elements with relevant theory about how and why skills should be taught. It connects theory about using grammar in context with practical instructional strategies, explains why kids often don't understand or apply grammar and mechanics correctly, focuses on attending to the “high payoff,” or most common errors in student writing, and shows how to carefully construct a workshop environment that can best support grammar and mechanics concepts. In this new edition, longtime colleague, Lisa Thibodeaux joins Jeff in emphasizing four key elements for grammar instruction: short daily instruction in grammar and mechanics within writer's workshop; using high-quality mentor texts to teach grammar and mechanics in context; visual scaffolds, including wall charts, and visual cues that can be pasted into writer's notebooks; regular, short routines, like “express-lane edits,” that help students spot and correct errors automatically. Comprising an overview of the research-based context for grammar instruction, a series of over forty detailed lessons, updated research, compelling new mentor texts, and an appendix of helpful forms and instructional tools, Mechanically Inclined is a boon to teachers regardless of their level of grammar-phobia. It shifts the negative, rule-plagued emphasis of much grammar instruction into one which celebrates the power and beauty these tools have in shaping all forms of writing.
Step Aside: Strategies for Student-Driven Learning with Secondary Readers and Writers
by Sarah M. ZerwinAll students can drive their own learning when we show them how. Humanized, equitable classrooms start with a commitment to building student agency. Step Aside offers clear, streamlined guidance for launching secondary students into high-level work that hinges on their ideas and insights.Sarah Zerwin writes from the complex and challenging space of daily life in a classroom. She knows student-driven learning does not mean students make all decisions about what happens in the classroom. It occupies a more nuanced space where teachers carefully curate the classroom experience and teach students how to navigate it on their own.Sarah has done the work to weave many resources into a Three Step Meaning Making Process that grows students’ thinking. Each chapter offers effective, flexible strategies to put into practice immediately: Reading strategies that work for any text students need or want to read Writing strategies that work for any text students need or want to write Discussion strategies that students can use to talk things out with others, no matter the subject Assessment strategies that show students how to set goals, track their progress, and learn anything they want to learn in their life, in or out of school Especially when we notice our students are struggling, Step Aside reminds us we need to hold ourselves accountable for keeping out of the way of the most important work. Our students must read and write and think and discuss—on their own—to navigate the complexity of their lives.
Unpacking Privilege in the Elementary Classroom: A Guide to Race and Inequity for White Teachers
by Jacquelynne Boivin Kevin McGowanBrimming with reflection and resources, this book is ideal for white elementary teachers who wish to host conversations about race with their predominantly white classes.This book is a clear-cut guide for integrating antiracism into teaching and education, along with policy reform needed for systemic change. Providing hands-on experience and practical insights from literature, it breaks down subject-specific strategies to approach racial conversations. The book acknowledges the variety of challenges that teachers face and encourages them to continue self-work as a step towards supporting students.While specifically targeting all-white and predominantly white classrooms, this resource is suitable for additional professional development and educator preparation programs when considering a variety of racial dynamics.
Language Issues in English Medium Instruction: Theoretical Orientations and Cases from Disciplinary Practitioners (Routledge Focus on English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education)
by Ernesto Macaro Amy Bik May TsuiTsui and Macaro's volume addresses a central issue in English Medium Instruction (EMI) and draws on research and practice from both content teachers and language specialists.It covers a range of academic disciplines and contains contributions by internationally recognized researchers and practitioners in EMI, as well as covering both the theoretical orientations and pedagogical practices of EMI. The chapters provide an in-depth account of how language needs to be integrated into the various academic subjects being taught through the medium of English in higher education in non-anglophone countries. Its contributors are either second language specialists or teachers directly responsible for teaching in the different disciplines. The book calls for much greater collaboration between these actors and for a sense of shared responsibility for ensuring that English Medium Instruction, a phenomenon that is now established worldwide, is successful for all students.It will be of interest to students, researchers and teachers of English Medium Instruction in both secondary and higher education.
Optimizing Digital Competence through Microlearning: Flexible Approaches to Teacher Professional Development (SpringerBriefs in Education)
by Lucas KohnkeThis book examines teacher professional development (TPD) models to integrate microlearning into TPD training and serves as a concise but comprehensive introduction to the field. This book covers critical teacher professional development and microlearning aspects, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed modalities. It is an important starting point for teachers, teacher-trainers, academics, and researchers interested in the principles and practices in teacher professional development through microlearning.
Understanding and Helping to Overcome Exam Anxiety: What Is It, Why Is It Important and Where Does It Come From? (BPS Ask The Experts in Psychology Series)
by David PutwainThis important book considers what we know about test and exam anxiety, including how it is defined, its characteristics, how it can be identified, why and how it develops, and what can be done to support test-anxious students.Addressing the pressures of preparing for and taking high-stakes tests and exams in many educational systems throughout the world, the book offers additional steps that schools, policymakers, and parents can take to further reduce test anxiety. Looking at the science and providing readers with an accessible framework of facts and no-nonsense details, the book addresses the most frequently asked questions and topics, including the difference between exam stress and exam anxiety, the signs and indicators of exam anxiety, and the consequences of exam anxiety on educational achievement. Former teacher and current Professor and leading authority on exam anxiety, David Putwain includes a chapter explaining psychological interventions for test anxiety, specifically STEPS, an intervention designed to help professionals identify and support highly test-anxious students.Putwain’s book is essential reading for teachers, school leaders, parents, and professionals involved in school welfare. It may also be of interest to counsellors, government education departments, and examining bodies.
Navigating the Ecological Transition: A Business School Perspective (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)
by Bernard Leca Hugues Bouthinon-Dumas Arijit ChatterjeeThe transition towards sustainability is now a major issue that has taken centre stage in public debate, policy circles, scientific forums, and business roundtables. Higher education institutions focusing on educating tomorrow’s managers and leaders and on business practices are doubly challenged by this development. On the one hand, they must be accountable to their internal stakeholders who strongly identify with the new “environmental awakening”. On the other hand, because of their status as research institutions, they must provide answers and propose solutions to face this challenge which is shaping up to be the most crucial issue that humanity has had to face in the modern era.In this book, faculty and researchers from École Supérieure de Sciences Économiques et Commerciales (ESSEC Business School), a recognized leader among European schools of business and management, provide a multi-faceted perspective on the different areas that need to be considered to understand the new market dynamics during this environmental and social transition. The book identifies the obstacles that come in the way of the transformation of dominant business models, and how to overcome them in order to move away from “business as usual”. The various chapters in this work offer a vast diversity of approaches that address the paradigm shift towards sustainability, providing insights for both business and higher education. The book includes chapters from seven different departments at ESSEC: Management; Accounting and Management Control; Economics; Information Systems; Decision Sciences and Statistics; Marketing; Operations Management; and Public and Private Policy.Research-based and combining theory with practice, this thought-provoking book will be welcomed by academics, institutions, and professionals alike, wishing to gain perspectives on the challenges of the transition towards a sustainable society.
Artificial Intelligence in Education: 25th International Conference, AIED 2024, Recife, Brazil, July 8–12, 2024, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14829)
by Olga C. Santos Ig Ibert Bittencourt Irene-Angelica Chounta Andrew M. Olney Zitao LiuThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2024, held in Recife, Brazil, in July 8–12, 2024, Proceedings. The 49 full papers and 27 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 334 submissions. The papers present results in high-quality research on intelligent systems and the cognitive sciences for the improvement and advancement of education.
Sharing Leadership Stories in Rural Education: Leading Rurally across Australia and the United States
by Simone White Jayne Downey Melyssa FuquaThis book brings together the two fields of ‘educational leadership’ and ‘rurality’ and builds on the growing field of inquiry into the significance of ‘adding the rural’ to all aspects of education. It explores the vibrancy and variety of opportunities and challenges that are met by rural education leaders and researchers from two particular countries, Australia and the United States. It illuminates and explores the concept of rural leadership and take an educational stance, shedding light into what it means to lead rurally for educational policy, research, schools, communities and for the next generation of rural leaders themselves. It presents stories from the field with insights into capabilities, approaches, models and strategies for improving practice and outcomes. In addition to adding to the international bodies of knowledge, this volume contributes to advancements in educational leadership theories, as well as expands understanding of requisite knowledge and skills as informed by the distinct circumstances and affordances of rural contexts. This book also explores the construct of service, and explores ways in which it has been infused in various rural education leadership contexts.
Globalisierung und lokale Bildungsorganisation: Zum Status international ausgerichteter Privatschulen in Frankfurt/Rhein-Main und Tokyo (Schule und Gesellschaft #71)
by Tomoko KojimaDie qualitative Vergleichsstudie beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie sich die lokale Bildungsorganisation gegenwärtig hinsichtlich der Globalisierung und der Präsenz der Privatschulen mit internationalem Profil verändert. Betrachtet werden exemplarische Fälle in zwei global cities, Frankfurt/Rhein-Main und Tokyo. Dabei werden unterschiedliche Formen international ausgerichteter Privatschulen sowie ihre Differenzierung von bzw. Identifikation mit dem lokalen Bildungskontext aufgezeigt. Die damit einhergehende Überschreitung von Grenzen im nationalstaatlichen Erziehungssystem und deren Folgen werden semantisch aus der Governance-Perspektive sowie aus systemtheoretischer Sicht regional kontrastierend diskutiert.
Developing Students’ Reasoning in Precalculus: Covariational Explorations Enriched by Rates of Change and Limits (Springer Texts in Education)
by Andrzej SokolowskiThis book aims to develop high school and undergraduate students’ covariational reasoning and algebraic skills to succeed in calculus and STEM subjects. The book reflects on contemporary research in math education where students explore algebraic tools and reason mathematically to construct new knowledge. The volume is made up of six chapters covering polynomial, rational, and transcendental functions. An early introduction of limits to support the analyses of linear functions progresses to other book chapters ensuring consistency, parallelism, and a scaffold knowledge delivery. A gradual introduction to function rates of change along with function monotonicity and concavity intertwines with modeling techniques that merge students’ mathematical reasoning with scientific contexts. A forthcoming online component of the book consists of ready-to-download exploratory modeling activities and worksheets that further solidify students’ fluency in understanding how to apply abstract math concepts to gain a deeper understanding of natural and social sciences.
Ordering Tang China: Cultural Memory, Emperor Taizong, and the Essentials (ASIANetwork Books)
by Kelly NgoIn Ordering Tang China: Cultural Memory, Emperor Taizong and the Essentials, Kelly Ngo presents the first book-length study in English of the Essentials for Bringing about Order from Assembled Texts (Qunshu zhiyao 群書治要), a rulership anthology that became renowned for its model of governance in ancient and early modern East Asia. The Essentials is one of the earliest Chinese anthologies designed to educate rulers in cultivating an ethical character and governing the state. Commissioned for the Tang emperor Taizong in the 620s, the Essentials articulates a distinctive political philosophy through a collection of excerpts from earlier canonical, historical, and masters writings, and their commentaries. Examining the Essentials and its transmission in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam through the lens of cultural memory, Ngo explores the foundation, conduct, and impact of Zhenguan rulership, which became synonymous with good governance among later generations of ruling elites, scholars, and historians in China and beyond. By connecting the textual discourse with an analysis of its use and reception across the region, Ngo demonstrates that the Essentials was a key source of Confucian political thought and practice during the early Tang dynasty. In accounting for the place of the Essentials in political advice literature, Ngo illustrates how it drew from the ancient Confucian heritage and was still responsive to contemporaneous political concerns, suggesting that the Essentials played a part in the success of Zhenguan political practice. Ordering Tang China also includes the first English-language translations of portions of the seventh-century anthology, with reference to partial translations published in nine languages. Utilizing the theory of cultural memory to study the Essentials not only opens a fresh approach to learning about the imperial consumption of literature, as well as the theory and practice of emperorship, but also offers a case study for how to study Chinese governance literature, including its “mirror for princes” genre.
Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education (Working Class in American History)
by Nick JuravichParaprofessional educators entered US schools amidst the struggles of the late 1960s. Immersed in the crisis of care in public education, paras improved systems of education and social welfare despite low pay and second-rate status. Understanding paras as key players in Black and Latino struggles for jobs and freedom, Nick Juravich details how the first generation of paras in New York City transformed work in public schools and the relationships between schools and the communities they served. Paraprofessional programs created hundreds of thousands of jobs in working-class Black and Latino neighborhoods. These programs became an important pipeline for the training of Black and Latino teachers in the1970s and early 1980s while paras’ organizing helped drive the expansion and integration of public sector unions. An engaging portrait of an invisible profession, Para Power examines the lives and practices of the first generation of paraprofessional educators against the backdrop of struggles for justice, equality, and self-determination.
Networks of Trust: The Social Costs of College and What We Can Do about Them
by Anthony Simon LadenAn eye-opening look at how parents’ mistrust of colleges has less to do with what their kids are learning than with whom they come to trust. Higher education is a familiar battlefield in today’s culture wars. The right accuses colleges and universities of indoctrinating conservative students with liberal values; the left, with failing to be sufficiently inclusive. The anxieties expressed on both sides of the political spectrum have much in common, however, and they are triggered not by colleges’ failures but by their successes. So argues philosopher Anthony Simon Laden in Networks of Trust. He highlights how a college education shapes students’ informational trust networks: the complex set of people and institutions they rely on for the information they use to think about and understand the world. While the networks that colleges build for students have great value, learning to inhabit them pulls some students away from their families and communities. If many people distrust institutions of higher education, this is one reason why. Networks of Trust offers a path forward, one that preserves the value while reducing the harms of a college education. It includes concrete suggestions for how colleges and universities can educate students in a manner that inspires and deserves trust: one that bridges rather than deepens our social divides.
The Sabbath Practice: A Four-Session Companion Guide to Help You Stop, Rest, Delight, and Worship
by Practicing the Way John Mark ComerIn our era of chronic exhaustion, learn how setting aside 24 hours to stop, rest, delight, and worship restores joy and spiritual vitality in this guide from New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way.This Companion Guide to the Sabbath Practice from Practicing the Way provides a practical, accessible approach to incorporating this life-giving rhythm into your weekly routine. Designed to be used with four engaging video sessions freely available online, this guide offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, and additional resources to help you and your community experience Sabbath as the best part of your week.This guide will help you:• Understand the biblical foundations of Sabbath• Learn to &“stop&” and align with a rhythm God built into the fabric of creation• Develop personal practices for meaningful rest, play, and communal celebration• Resist internal and external forces that war against Sabbath• Cultivate a spirit of worship that extends throughout your weekDiscover how setting aside 24 hours can transform every day of your week, leading to a deeper connection with God, others, and your own soul.
The Bible in 52 Weeks for Families: A Yearlong Bible Study (Bible in 52 Weeks)
by Rev. Dr. Wes BixbyAn interactive, yearlong journey through the entire Bible for families—Part of the USA Today bestselling series with the original The Bible in 52 Weeks!Make Bible study even more meaningful by getting the whole family involved! This Bible study guide features a weekly reading plan to lead your family through the entire Bible, a few verses at a time. With weekly insights, discussion questions, and activities, it will spark deeper conversations about faith and inspire every family member to use God's teachings in their own life.All you need is your Bible—Dive into a new entry each week that includes six daily readings from your Bible (and a day to rest), a brief lesson on the theme for the week, a few questions to talk through, and a fun activity to try.One year of reflection—Touch on every chapter of the Bible over the course of a year with a simple schedule that only requires about fifteen minutes of reading each day and one study session each week.Made for families— These lessons are appropriate for all ages so adults, teens, and even young children can learn and grow in their faith.Study with the bestselling series—Find more ways to connect to His word with The Bible in 52 Weeks for Men and the mega-popular, USA Today bestselling The Bible in 52 Weeks for women.Bring your family closer together and closer to God with this yearlong Bible study!
Individual and Societies for the IB MYP 2
by Paul GraceDevelop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Individuals and Societies presented in global contexts.- Develop conceptual understanding with key MYP concepts and related concepts at the heart of each chapter.- Learn by asking questions with a statement of inquiry in each chapter. - Prepare for every aspect of assessment using support and tasks designed by experienced educators.- Understand how to extend your learning through research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities.
Individuals and Societies for the IB MYP 1: by Concept
by Paul GraceExam Board: IBLevel: MYPSubject: Social ScienceFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Individuals and Societies presented in global contexts.- Develop conceptual understanding with key MYP concepts and related concepts at the heart of each chapter.- Learn by asking questions with a statement of inquiry in each chapter. - Prepare for every aspect of assessment using support and tasks designed by experienced educators.- Understand how to extend your learning through research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities.
Individuals and Societies for the IB MYP 4&5: MYP by Concept
by Danielle Farmer Emily Giles Kenneth A Dailey Robbie WoodburnDevelop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Individuals and societies, presented in global contexts.· Develop conceptual understanding with key MYP concepts and related concepts at the heart of each chapter. · Learn by asking questions for a statement of inquiry in each chapter. · Prepare for every aspect of assessment using support and tasks designed by experienced educators.· Understand how to extend your learning through research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities.· Think internationally with chapters and concepts set in global contexts.
Princeton Review AP English Literature & Composition Premium Prep, 25th Edition: 5 Practice Tests + Digital Practice Online + Content Review (College Test Preparation)
by The Princeton ReviewPREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5! Ace the new Digital AP English Literature & Composition Exam with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide—including 5 practice tests with answer explanations, timed online practice, and thorough content reviews.Techniques That Actually Work• Tried-and-true strategies to help you avoid traps and beat the test• Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically• Essential tactics to help you work smarter, not harderEverything You Need for a High Score• Updated to address the new digital exam• Comprehensive review of the synthesis, rhetorical analysis, and argumentative essays• Coverage of terminology and rhetorical modes for improved writing• Online digital flashcards to review core content, plus study plans and more via your online Student ToolsPremium Practice for AP Excellence• 5 full-length practice tests (4 in the book, 1 online) with detailedanswer explanations• Online test provided as both a digital version (with timer option to simulate exam experience) online, and as a downloadable PDF (with interactive elements mimicking the exam interface)• Pacing drills and detailed analytical scoring rubric guides
Teacher Leadership Practice in High-Performing Schools: A Blueprint for Excellence
by Jeremy D. VisoneThis practical book shares key lessons learned from highly effective, award-winning National Blue Ribbon Schools. Teacher Leadership Practice in High-Performing Schools explores the important role teachers have in leading schools, the balance administrators must strike between providing teachers with support and trusting them as professionals, and the ways that educators in these schools frequently collaborate across roles and do not operate in isolation. Following vignettes inspired by real schools, each chapter explains and unpacks key lessons learned, situates these lessons within the literature, offers readers robust tools to apply these lessons in their own schools, and includes questions designed to encourage reflection on school practices. This exciting new book helps schools, leadership teams, and individual educators reflect on teacher leadership practice in their schools and determine concrete next steps to increase and improve the impact of teacher leadership.