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The Goldilocks Map: A classroom teacher's quest to evaluate 'brain-based' teaching advice
by Andrew C. WatsonIn the last 20 years, the cognitive sciences have revealed fresh, surprising, and useful insights into how and why our students learn. Teachers can now draw on psychology and neuroscience research to supplement, reconsider, even overturn our traditions and training.To use this research most wisely, teachers must find our way to an elusive Goldilocks Zone.Instead of resisting all research-based guidance, we should be ready to take it to heart – even when it challenges both our training and conventional wisdom. Instead of accepting all research-based guidance, we should be ready to reject it emphatically – especially the hyped-up edu-fads that exaggerate and misinterpret psychology findings.How can we get this Goldilocks balance “just right”? This book offers a specific, practical quest map to discover just such a balance. By critically examining the source, the research, and ourselves, teachers can develop the skills necessary to be effective research skeptics.Written by a teacher with 18 years in the classroom – and 13 years studying neuroscience and psychology – The Goldilocks Map transforms brain research from a daunting monologue into an approachable, exciting, and lively conversation.
The Goldilocks Map: A classroom teacher's quest to evaluate 'brain-based' teaching advice
by Andrew C. WatsonIn the last 20 years, the cognitive sciences have revealed fresh, surprising, and useful insights into how and why our students learn. Teachers can now draw on psychology and neuroscience research to supplement, reconsider, even overturn our traditions and training.To use this research most wisely, teachers must find our way to an elusive Goldilocks Zone.Instead of resisting all research-based guidance, we should be ready to take it to heart – even when it challenges both our training and conventional wisdom. Instead of accepting all research-based guidance, we should be ready to reject it emphatically – especially the hyped-up edu-fads that exaggerate and misinterpret psychology findings.How can we get this Goldilocks balance “just right”? This book offers a specific, practical quest map to discover just such a balance. By critically examining the source, the research, and ourselves, teachers can develop the skills necessary to be effective research skeptics.Written by a teacher with 18 years in the classroom – and 13 years studying neuroscience and psychology – The Goldilocks Map transforms brain research from a daunting monologue into an approachable, exciting, and lively conversation.
Goldilocks Breaks In: Goldilocks Breaks In (Grimmtastic Girls #6)
by Joan Holub Suzanne WilliamsIn this fairy tale retelling, Goldilocks hopes to prove herself a worthy friend by infiltrating an evil organization and saving the day.Once upon a time, in faraway Grimmlandia . . . Goldilocks is so eager to make friends at Grimm Academy, she’s even tempted to accept an invitation to join E.V.I.L.—it’s just nice to be included! But she doesn’t want to be a villain. Can Goldie get inside the secret society and do some good?
Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Hopscotch Fairy Tales
by Anni Axworthy Anne WalterGoldilocks is out for a stroll in the woods when she starts feeling hungry. The Three Bears are out for a walk too, waiting for their porridge to cool. Goldilocks finds their house and soon makes herself at home...Hopscotch Fairy Tales retell classic fairy tales in accessible language of no more than 400 words, with bright colourful supporting illustrations by our top authors and illustrators.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Must Know Stories: Level 1)
by Dr Barrie Wade"Someone's been eating my porridge!" growled Daddy Bear.A beautifully illustrated retelling of this favourite traditional story. Join the three bears as they try to find out just who has been in their house!Must Know Stories includes favourite tales, celebrating the diversity of our literary heritage. Level 1 stories are told in under 500 words, for children to read independently.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Hopscotch: Fairy Tales #7)
by Anne WalterGoldilocks is out for a stroll in the woods when she starts feeling hungry. The Three Bears are out for a walk too, waiting for their porridge to cool. Goldilocks finds their house and soon makes herself at home...Hopscotch Fairy Tales retell classic fairy tales in accessible language of no more than 400 words, with bright colourful supporting illustrations by our top authors and illustrators.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Independent Reading Purple 8 (Reading Champion #1076)
by Jackie WalterThis story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure. Perfect for 5-7 year olds or those reading book band orange.
GoldenGirl
by Micol OstowPaige, Spencer, and Madison have it all: the looks, the connections, the money, the boys. As the daughters of three of the most prestigious families on Philadelphia's Main Line (read: old money, and lots of it) and the ruling juniors at Bradford Prep, nothing can stand in their way... except, perhaps, their own dark secrets. When an old frenemy from Paige's hidden past shows up at Bradford and plays nice--too nice--Paige is desperate to smother the threat. How far will she go to silence the truth?
Golden Ticket
by Kate EganA middle grade novel by Kate Egan, Golden Ticket, explores friendship, academic anxiety, and what it means to be special.“It’s practically like a private school,” Mrs. Silver said bitterly. “The best teacher, for such a tiny group of students. Who wouldn’t succeed in a class like that?” She took off her sunglasses to glare at the dad. “Those kids get picked out when they’re seven years old, and they get handed a golden ticket. Of course they become stars.”Eleven-year-old Ash McNulty is one of the “gifted and talented” kids at her school, spending most of her day in a special class with a few other advanced students. As the end of fifth grade rolls around, she should be on top of the world. According to everyone, she’s going to rock junior high!But Ash has a secret: She can’t keep up with her advanced classmates anymore. The minute she asks for help though, everyone will know she’s not who they think she is. She’s not so smart. She might not even be that special. And her parents will be crushed to discover the truth.If Ash can win the Quiz Bowl, though, that will show everyone that she is still on top. If she gets a lucky break ahead of time, all the better.Except that “lucky break” backfires . . .And Ash is left to question everything she thought she knew about school, friends, and success.
The Golden Spike
by Stephen Cosgrove Kitty Higgins Pam Hirschfeld Jackie UrbanovicPerform this script about the linking of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad to form the Transcontinental Railroad.
The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite
by Duff McDonaldWith The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey & Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner works of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and influence: Harvard Business School.Harvard University still occupies a unique place in the public’s imagination, but the Harvard Business School eclipsed its parent in terms of influence on modern society long ago. A Harvard degree guarantees respect. But a Harvard MBA near-guarantees entrance into Western capitalism’s most powerful realm—the corner office. And because the School shapes the way its powerful graduates think, its influence extends well beyond their own lives. It affects the organizations they command, the economy they dominate, and society itself. Decisions and priorities at HBS touch every single one of us.Most people have a vague knowledge of the power of the HBS network, but few understand the dynamics that have made HBS an indestructible and dominant force for almost a century. Graduates of HBS share more than just an alma mater. They also share a way of thinking about how the world should work, and they have successfully molded the world to that vision—that is what truly binds them together.In addition to teasing out the essence of this exclusive, if not necessarily “secret” club, McDonald explores two important questions: Has the school failed at reaching the goal it set for itself—“the multiplication of men who will handle their current business problems in socially constructive ways?” Is HBS complicit in the moral failings of Western capitalism?At a time of soaring economic inequality and growing political unrest, this hard-hitting yet fair portrait offers a much-needed look at an institution that has had a profound influence not just in the world of business but on the shape of our society—and on all our lives.
A Golden Opportunity: Advancing California's Early Care and Education Workforce Professional Development System
by Lynn A. KarolyThis study focuses on the education, training, and ongoing professional development of early care and education (ECE) caregivers, teachers, and administrators who work with infants, toddlers, andpreschool-age children from birth to kindergarten entry in California. It aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of the state's ECE workforce professional development system and a set of recommendations for improving the system's effectiveness.
The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
by Richelle MeadThe second thrilling installment in Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy spinoff series, BloodlinesTough, brainy alchemist Sydney Sage and doe-eyed Moroi princess Jill Dragomir are in hiding at a human boarding school in the sunny, glamorous world of Palm Springs, California. The students--children of the wealthy and powerful--carry on with their lives in blissful ignorance, while Sydney, Jill, Eddie, and Adrian must do everything in their power to keep their secret safe. But with forbidden romances, unexpected spirit bonds, and the threat of Strigoi moving ever closer, hiding the truth is harder than anyone thought.Populated with new faces as well as familiar ones, Richelle Mead's breathtaking Bloodlines series explores all the friendship, romance, battles, and betrayals that made the #1 New York Times bestselling Vampire Academy series so addictive. In this second book, the drama is hotter, the romances are steamier, and the stakes are even higher.
The Golden Door: The Life of Katherine Drexel
by Katharine BurtonWherever Mother Katharine Drexel went she lighted lamps of faith and hope to bring the Negro and the Indian from the shadows to the light. Surely of her it may be said, as of the woman in Proverbs, "Her lamp shall not be put out in the night." The amount she gave away in the course of her long life was phenomenal. In 1936 Cardinal Dougherty estimated that Mother Katharine had by that time given away $12,000,000 of her inheritance not only to the work of her own congregation but as aid to many struggling missions, including five in foreign countries. As for the works of her own congregation, at the time of her death she had established three houses of social service and one mission center, many rural schools, eight of them supervised by her Sisters, sixty-one other schools—twelve high schools, forty-eight elementary schools—and Xavier University, the first Catholic university in the country for its Negro citizens. To accomplish her part in this work for the neglected minorities of the United States, she gave up everything in the world—and in her case it was surely a great deal—but from her viewpoint it was not a sacrifice but a privilege. And perhaps this was the secret of all her life: she regarded herself as simply expending for God's people what God had given her to give to them. Without her faith, Katharine Drexel's gifts might still have done much good, but her giving was raised above the purely humanitarian level by the fact that she saw beyond the body which must be clothed and fed, to the mind which must be trained—and beyond to the soul which must be saved. And she accepted the responsibility.-Print ed.
Gold Rush (Focus Forward #Green (Level 14))
by Alan Trussell-CullenThe late 1800s was the time of the great gold rushes. The first big gold rush took place in California.
Gold Dust
by Chris LynchAll of Boston has been waiting for the "Gold Dust Twins" to come to the 1975 Red Sox. It's a Sox fan's dream. Richard Riley Moncrief is a fan who intends to live that dream. Napoleon Charlie Ellis arrives from the island of Dominica. A cricket player, he's more at home in Symphony Hall than Fenway Park. No problem. As long as he's willing to make baseball his life, they will be the next Gold Dust Twins.
Gold by Moonlight: Sensitive Lessons From A Walk With Pain
by Amy CarmichaelOriginally published in 1935, Gold by Moonlight was not written by the well for the ill, but by one who knows the sensitive lessons that come from a walk with pain.This book is for all who are walking in the difficult places of life. It is a literary signpost pointing toward the peace and comfort that only comes from the Lord.A spiritually rich book, full of courage for anyone who suffers."Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the adversities of life? Then this encouraging and comforting book is just for you. Written by Amy Carmichael who has known pain and suffering herself and has an amazing capacity to guide a weary soul back into God's presence."--Prayer TrayIllustrated throughout with beautiful photographs.
The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 (Volume Two)
by Clark KerrThis second of two volumes continues the story of one of the last century's most influential figures in higher education. This absorbing memoir is an intriguing insider's account of how the University of California rose to the peak of scientific and scholarly stature and how, under Kerr's unique leadership, it evolved into the institution it is today.
Going Vintage
by Lindsey LeavittWhen Mallory's boyfriend, Jeremy, cheats on her with an online girlfriend, Mallory decides the best way to de-Jeremy her life is to de-modernize things too. Inspired by a list of goals her grandmother made in 1962, Mallory swears off technology and returns to a simpler time (when boyfriends didn't cheat with computer avatars).
Going to University Abroad: A guide to studying outside the UK
by Martin Hyde Anthony HydeMore and more students in the world now decide to undertake their university studies in another country to their own. They see advantages of quality, value and experience in studying abroad and rightly see the experience as a preparation for life and a big plus for their CVs in an increasingly inter-connected world and job market. The world language is now undisputedly English and even universities in non-English speaking countries such as Holland and Denmark, universities that are wanting to attract international students, are switching to teaching university programmes in English. This makes for an unparalleled opportunity for UK students these days, just at a time when UK university fees are increasing significantly. This guide gives an overview of the opportunities available to UK students across the world, from the English speaking counties of the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, to Asia (India, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore), to offers nearer home, in Europe. As well as information on what is available - the education systems and academic cultures and demands of the different destination countries are explained, application procedures and information on living (accommodation, food, entertainment) are provided and there are self-development exercises that will help with the process of cultural readjustment that you as a UK student are likely to undergo and need to understand. The book covers information for both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and recommends ideal destination countries for these. Tips and advice on how to avoid certain pitfalls while being an international student living abroad are provided.
Going to School in Pioneer Times
by Kerry A. GravesDiscusses the school life of children in pioneer times, including lessons, books, teachers, examinations, and special days. Includes activities.
Going to School in American History (How People Lived In America)
by Dana Meachen RauThis book traces how schools have evolved over time in America.
Going to School in 1876
by John J. LoeperTen-year-old Jim Porter lives in Broxbury, Massachusetts. He does chores before breakfast and before going to school. School begins at eight o'clock. And by law Jim must attend for twelve weeks a year. Patrick Doherty is also ten years old. He works ten hours a day, six days a week in a coal mine. His only school is one run by the church, which he attends on Sunday. The Millville Academy is in the home of Mathias Wilson, the schoolmaster. Parents pay Mr. Wilson one hundred and eighty dollars a year for each child. He claims to teach all branches of science and classical learning. School is held six days a week and there are vacations in December and August. Miss Robin's school in Nebraska is a sod hut. Six pupils go to the school. In spring wildflowers bloom out of the sod bricks. The time is 1876. The United States is one hundred years old and most states have laws that say all children must go to school. But the students learn reading, writing and arithmetic and not much more. For some, school is a matter of a few days a year. For others there is no real school at all. Yet education is becoming more important, and our schools today grew out of the school systems that were beginning then. This book is designed as a companion to the author's Going to School in 1776 and shows how much schools had changed in the country's first one hundred years.
Going to School
by Margaret Clyne Rachel Griffiths Cynthia BenjaGoing to School is a Report text covering Geography, PSHE and Citizenship and ICT themes for Year 1. It is part of Four Corners, the most visually compelling series of cross-curricular books to motivate all readers from 4 to 11.
Going to School: Independent Reading Non-Fiction Pink 1a (Reading Champion #515)
by Katie WoolleyThis book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Going to School is a non-fiction text exploring the different ways in which people travel to school. The repeated sentence structure offers readers the opportunity for a very first independent reading experience with the support of the illustrations.Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.This non-fiction text is accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.