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DK Readers L1: Star Wars: Are Ewoks Scared of Stormtroopers? (DK Readers Level 1)
by Catherine SaundersAn all-new addition to DK's top-selling line of Star Wars readers. It's the question on everyone's minds: Are Ewoks scared of stormtroopers? Let's find out! Level 1 readers feature simple sentences and limited vocabulary, as well as a picture glossary and a simple index. Adult participation is helpful.
DK Readers L2: LEGO Friends: Let's Go Riding! (DK Readers Level 2)
by Catherine SaundersGo on a reading adventure with Mia, Emma, Andrea, Stephanie, and Olivia!Join the friends at Heartlake Stables and Riding School. Meet their favorite horses.Engaging topics and fun, interactive pages build reading skills in this Level 2 Reader – just right for children who are beginning to read on their own. A fun quiz at the end of the book helps to develop reading comprehension skills. Each title in the DK Readers series is developed in consultation with leading literacy experts to help children build a lifelong love of reading.©2013 The LEGO Group.
DK Readers L2: LEGO Friends: Let's Go Riding! (DK Readers Level 2)
by Catherine SaundersGo on a reading adventure with Mia, Emma, Andrea, Stephanie, and Olivia!Join the friends at Heartlake Stables and Riding School. Meet their favorite horses.Engaging topics and fun, interactive pages build reading skills in this Level 2 Reader – just right for children who are beginning to read on their own. A fun quiz at the end of the book helps to develop reading comprehension skills. Each title in the DK Readers series is developed in consultation with leading literacy experts to help children build a lifelong love of reading.©2013 The LEGO Group.
DK Readers L3: Discover the Secret of Yoda's Life! (DK Readers Level 3)
by Catherine SaundersIn DK Star Wars readers, stunning photographs combine with engaging age-appropriate stories, creating a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills! DK Readers: Level 3: Star Wars: The Legendary Yoda Yoda, the legendary Jedi Master, is the focus of this exciting Level 3 DK reader. Inside, rich vocabulary and challenging sentence structure, as well as an alphabetical glossary and comprehensive index, will help fans learn more about the most wise and mysterious Jedi Master of them all.
DK Readers L3: Discover the Secret of Yoda's Life! (DK Readers Level 3)
by Catherine SaundersIn DK Star Wars readers, stunning photographs combine with engaging age-appropriate stories, creating a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills! DK Readers: Level 3: Star Wars: The Legendary Yoda Yoda, the legendary Jedi Master, is the focus of this exciting Level 3 DK reader. Inside, rich vocabulary and challenging sentence structure, as well as an alphabetical glossary and comprehensive index, will help fans learn more about the most wise and mysterious Jedi Master of them all.
DK Readers L3: LEGO® Friends: Summer Adventures (DK Readers Level 3)
by Catherine SaundersEnjoy a summer of fun in Heartlake City!School is out for summer. Join Emma, Mia, Andrea, Stephanie, Olivia, and friends as they explore Heartlake City.Engaging topics and fun, interactive pages build reading skills in this Level 3 Reader – just right for children who are beginning to read on their own. Each title in the DK Readers series is developed in consultation with leading literacy experts to help children build a lifelong love of reading.©2013 The LEGO Group.
DK Readers L3: LEGO® Friends: Summer Adventures (DK Readers Level 3)
by Catherine SaundersEnjoy a summer of fun in Heartlake City!School is out for summer. Join Emma, Mia, Andrea, Stephanie, Olivia, and friends as they explore Heartlake City.Engaging topics and fun, interactive pages build reading skills in this Level 3 Reader – just right for children who are beginning to read on their own. Each title in the DK Readers series is developed in consultation with leading literacy experts to help children build a lifelong love of reading.©2013 The LEGO Group.
Culturally Responsive Assessment in Classrooms and Large-Scale Contexts: Theory, Research, and Practice (NCME APPLICATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT)
by Catherine S. Taylor Carla M. EvansCulturally Responsive Assessment in Classrooms and Large-Scale Contexts explores how scholars and professionals in educational measurement and assessment can use the unique cultural and social identities of students to shape assessment purpose, design, implementation, use, and validation processes. Despite the sheer diversity of student populations in the United States, the tools used to understand their performance and progress have not substantively changed in decades. Large-scale testing and related policies still privilege “culturally neutral” test content, standardization, and comparability. Classroom assessments often mimic these procedures, even though rich tasks and activities could easily be incorporated into curriculum and instruction to allow students to see themselves, their interests, communities, beliefs, and backgrounds represented and valued. This book collects the theory, research, and best practices that are essential to ensuring cultural responsiveness in classroom assessment and standardized testing procedures, policies, and practices. Chapters by assessment and measurement experts along with scholars who are experts in sociocultural learning theory, philosophy of education, critical theories, multilingual education, and Indigenous education, summarize findings from existing research and suggest how future research can move classroom and industry practice as well as federal, state, and local policy forward.
Jumpstart the World
by Catherine Ryan HydeSixteen-year-old Elle falls in love with Frank, the neighbor who helps her adjust to being on her own in a big city, but learning that he is transgendered turns her world upside down.
Pay It Forward: Young Readers Edition
by Catherine Ryan HydeThe internationally bestselling book that inspired the Pay It Forward movement is now available in a middle grade edition.Pay It Forward is a moving, uplifting novel about Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy in a small California town who accepts his teacher’s challenge to earn extra credit by coming up with a plan to change the world. Trevor’s idea is simple: do a good deed for three people, and instead of asking them to return the favor, ask them to “pay it forward” to three others who need help. He envisions a vast movement of kindness and goodwill spreading across the world, and in this “quiet, steady masterpiece with an incandescent ending” (Kirkus Reviews), Trevor’s actions change his community forever. This middle grade edition of Pay It Forward is extensively revised, making it an appropriate and invaluable complement to lesson plans and an ideal pick for book clubs, classroom use, and summer reading. Includes an author'snote and curriculum guide.
Auditory Processing in the Classroom
by Catherine RoutleyAuditory Processing Disorder (APD) is a difficulty with the brain's interpretation of sounds. It is not a hearing impairment. The book looks at the various theories which give rise to a diagnosis of APD. Although awareness and research of APD has been chiefly carried out in the USA, it is now increasingly becoming acknowledged in the UK. Teachers are becoming aware of the impact of APD on a wide range of classroom learning. Assessments, awareness of APD in the classroom and its co-existence with other learning problems are areas which are discussed. The book is essentially a practical one, offering a range of strategies of how pupils can be helped, teaching strategies, modifying the classroom environment and providing details of both low and high cost strategies. The difficulties of APD relating to the various key stages are referred to, with ideas of how parents can provide support.
Special Learners in School: Understanding Essential Concepts
by Catherine RoutleyOffering a wealth of photocopiable resources for use with individual children or small groups, Special Learners in School provides a step-by-step programme to help practitioners support children with a range of special educational needs, and develop the skills which are fundamental to their learning in the mainstream classroom. Competencies including active listening and observation skills, memory, comprehension of pattern and sequencing, positional and expressive language, body awareness and emotional intelligence are all key to ensuring a child’s access to the school curriculum. Recognising that these can be particular areas of difficulty for pupils with SEND, this book provides a range of activities designed to engage and gradually develop children’s use of auditory and visual memory, pragmatic and sensory skills. Easily accessible and differentiated for children at lower and upper levels of ability, practical examples and activities can be used immediately, or be adapted in line with students’ abilities and progress. This will be an invaluable source of inspiration and activites for learning support assistants, teaching assistants, teachers and SENCOs looking to support children in mainstream schools as they develop skills fundamental to their learning.
Working Memory in the Primary Classroom: Practical and Inclusive Strategies for Curriculum Success in Maths and English
by Catherine RoutleyThis highly practical resource has been designed to support working memory and curriculum success in the Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 classroom. Working memory is crucial for success in maths, reading, reading comprehension and problem solving, yet children with poor working memory often struggle to meet the demands of everyday classroom activities. Filled with activities and support for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 Maths and English, this book offers ideas for the practising teacher on how to make the classroom a place to reinforce memory skills, and to ensure that those with working memory difficulties are included and supported. Key features include: • Information on recognising working memory difficulties • Practical and specific strategies to support learners in the classroom • Graduated activities for Maths and English learners based on the national curriculum The importance of working memory on curriculum success is becoming increasingly evident, with growing emphasis on testing and an ever more demanding curriculum. With photocopiable and downloadable resources, this is an essential book for teachers, teaching assistants and other education staff looking to support working memory with children.
Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem
by Catherine RobsonMany people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed the worlds in which they lived. Heart Beats begins by investigating recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. Robson then scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics: Felicia Hemans's "Casabianca," Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," and Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna." To conclude, the book considers W. E. Henley's "Invictus" and Rudyard Kipling's "If--," asking why the idea of the memorized poem arouses such different responses in the United States and Great Britain today. Focusing on vital connections between poems, individuals, and their communities, Heart Beats is an important study of the history and power of memorized poetry.
Leading Your World Language Program: Strategies for Design and Supervision, Even If You Don’t Speak the Language!
by Catherine RitzAn essential resource for district, school, and program leaders who supervise, evaluate, or otherwise support World Language programs, this book provides clear, practical guidance on leading an exemplary K–12 World Language program. No matter whether you speak the language, the effective approaches in this book will equip you with the tools you need to implement and evaluate World Language curricula in your school. Catherine Ritz provides a clear and research-based framework for World Language instruction aligned to rigorous national and state standards, and addresses essential concepts and topics, including program and curriculum design, assessment and evaluation, and strategic planning. Whether you are a World Language department chair with years of experience, a school administrator with no background in language education, or a World Language teacher, you will find much to use in this book. It is chock-full of ready-to-use resources and tools, including: Templates for program and unit planning, observation protocols, and sample assessments World LAnguage program models for different age ranges, and a sample curriculum unit Additional resource lists and further reading recommendations.
Health and Safety in Early Years and Childcare: Contextualising health and safety legislation within the Early Years Foundation Stage
by Bernadina Laverty Catherine ReayThis practical guide demystifies health and safety in early years settings with a step-by-step guide to the law, compliance and practical application. Bringing together health and safety legislation and the welfare requirements within the revised Early Years Foundation Stage 2012, it successfully integrates health and safety within the EYFS. Including information taught on a variety of courses accredited by CACHE and BTEC, references to EYFS and Health and Safety legislation, specific guidance for childminders and audit tools for evaluation, it can be referred to as needs arise or used as an aid to inspection. This book is for all staff working within the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) or environmental health. It will be useful for auditing, improving standards and preparing for inspection and it offers a clear outline of responsibilities within the legislative framework. It could also be used for in-house training or workshops.
Health and Safety in Early Years and Childcare: Contextualising health and safety legislation within the Early Years Foundation Stage
by Bernadina Laverty Catherine ReayThis practical guide demystifies health and safety in early years settings with a step-by-step guide to the law, compliance and practical application. Bringing together health and safety legislation and the welfare requirements within the revised Early Years Foundation Stage 2012, it successfully integrates health and safety within the EYFS. Including information taught on a variety of courses accredited by CACHE and BTEC, references to EYFS and Health and Safety legislation, specific guidance for childminders and audit tools for evaluation, it can be referred to as needs arise or used as an aid to inspection. This book is for all staff working within the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) or environmental health. It will be useful for auditing, improving standards and preparing for inspection and it offers a clear outline of responsibilities within the legislative framework. It could also be used for in-house training or workshops.
Quark's Academy
by Catherine PelosiSCIENCE IN PROGRESS - ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!Junior science geniuses Augustine, Celeste and Oscar can't believe their luck when they're accepted into an elite and mysterious science academy summer camp run by the elusive Inventor Quark.From the moment they step inside the gates of Quark's Academy at the end of Molecule Drive, they know they're in for a week they'll never forget. But things at the academy are not quite what they seem, and the three quickly realise that they'll need to put their squabbles aside and their heads together if they're ever to get out of there alive...A page-turning adventure for readers aged eight to twelve, QUARK'S ACADEMY is bound to cause a hair-raising reaction!'an engaging and entertaining debut for readers aged eight and up with an interest in STEM - or those who just love a well-paced adventure story with fantastical elements.' 4.5 stars - BOOKS + PUBLISHING
What to Wear: A Kids Bible Study on Looking Like Jesus (Colossians 3:1-14)
by Catherine ParksHelping kids fall in love with God and His Word as they study the Bible for themselves.What to Wear is your kids&’ journey into their truest identity—Jesus Christ!The Apostle Paul tells us that our identity is in Christ, and we need to dress the part. All who follow Jesus—kids included—must take off and put on certain things. What to Wear is an eight-part study of these items of &“clothing&” Paul teaches about in Colossians 3. How do we put on compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, patience, forbearance, forgiveness, and love?This study shows your kids how Jesus perfectly embodies these virtues and how He enables us to grow in them. Apart from Jesus Christ, our attempts to form these traits in our children will fail. Yet when tied to identity in Christ and our belonging in the church, we see the fruit of these qualities developed in our minds and hearts.Kids are encouraged to learn algebra, science, instruments, and athletics. The goal of this study is to help our kids live into their calling to know and love Jesus by studying His Word. In this study, kids will learn the method of observation, interpretation, and application. As kids learn how to read the Bible for themselves, they&’ll also grow to delight in God&’s Word.What to Wear provides the encouragement and guidance needed for your kids journey into looking like Jesus!
In Search of Academic Quality
by Catherine ParadeiseThis book is based on an international comparison observing a series of universities, where diversity remains huge when considering how single institutions position themselves in terms of quality standards and combine resources, as well as the alternatives they have access to given their organizational and cultural governance path dependence.
Education for Sustainable Happiness and Well-Being
by Catherine O'BrienIn this innovative and cogent presentation of her concept of sustainable happiness, Catherine O’Brien outlines how the leading recommendations for transforming education can be integrated within a vision of well-being for all. Solution-focused, the book demonstrates how aspects of this vision are already being realized, and the potential for accelerating education transitions that enable people and ecosystems to flourish. Each chapter assists educators to understand how to apply the lessons learned, both personally and professionally. The aim is to support educators to experience themselves as change-makers with growing confidence to implement new teaching strategies and inspire their students to become change-makers as well—engaged in deep learning that develops character, connections with life, and invigorating collaborations that revitalize the very purpose of education.
Team-Based Collaboration in Higher Education Learning and Teaching: A Review Of The Literature (SpringerBriefs in Education)
by Alan Bain Catherine NewellThis book examines what collaboration means in practice, and the factors that enable effective team collaboration for learning and teaching in higher education. It explains how academics can work more collaboratively, and how universities can organise and govern themselves by means of collaboration. The book brings together current research and commentaries on collaboration in higher education to provide important guidance derived from a synthesis and evaluation of the existing empirical research and commentaries in the field.The book will benefit all readers who are interested in making their own teams and higher education organisations more collaborative. It will help them plan collaborative innovations in their organisations, identify priorities for professional capacity building, and design collaborative organisational structures.
Transnational and Transcultural Positionality in Globalised Higher Education
by Catherine MontgomeryTransnational higher education (TNHE), where students study on a ‘foreign’ degree programme whilst remaining in their home country, has seen exponential development over the last decade. In addition to the increase in students engaged in TNHE across the globe, the involvement of university teachers in TNHE has also risen in response to the demand for this form of international education. Although research into transnational education has doubled since 2006, there is a paucity of research focusing on transnational teacher education, especially outside of North America. The global nature and scope of the expansion of TNHE remains underexplored, and the ways in which different countries are realising TNHE provision is little understood. This book explores the experiences and perceptions of teachers in transnational higher education, interrogating the ways in which university teachers negotiate cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary contexts in order to provide transformative learning experiences for their students. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education for Teaching.
The Million Dollar Handshake: The ultimate guide to revolutionise how you connect and communicate in business and life
by Catherine MolloyThe Million Dollar Handshake is about more than making money - it is also about helping you feel a million dollars.First impressions do count - and few have as much impact as your handshake. A handshake can let the other person know if we are nervous, over-excited, confident or interested in them, and it can tell us so much about that person too, once we learn the signs.A great handshake can lead to a positive outcome, help secure a deal and result in an ongoing relationship. We can make a good or bad impression within just seven seconds of meeting someone.This book shows you how to create a great first impression; offers advice on how to let the other person see that you are interested in them, that they can trust and depend on you; and delves into what you do and don't want your handshake to convey.The Million Dollar Handshake will teach you how to communicate better in all parts of your life, starting with those crucial first seven seconds. But the skills you'll learn won't stop there, because as you realise how your handshake reveals who you are, you'll be inspired to make the positive changes that will result in better first-time and ongoing communication with others.Includes access to exclusive online content featuring interactive training, worksheets an videos.
Futures of Reproduction
by Catherine MillsIssues in reproductive ethics, such as the capacity of parents to 'choose children', present challenges to philosophical ideas of freedom, responsibility and harm. This book responds to these challenges by proposing a new framework for thinking about the ethics of reproduction that emphasizes the ways that social norms affect decisions about who is born. The book provides clear and thorough discussions of some of the dominant problems in reproductive ethics - human enhancement and the notion of the normal, reproductive liberty and procreative beneficence, the principle of harm and discrimination against disability - while also proposing new ways of addressing these. The author draws upon the work of Michel Foucault, especially his discussions of biopolitics and norms, and later work on ethics, alongside feminist theorists of embodiment to argue for a new bioethics that is responsive to social norms, human vulnerability and the relational context of freedom and responsibility. This is done through compelling discussions of new technologies and practices, including the debate on liberal eugenics and human enhancement, the deliberate selection of disabilities, PGD and obstetric ultrasound.