Coaching Children in Sport: Principles and Practice Review
This book has arisen out of a need for a text which tackles the special issues relating to coaching children (from 6 - 16) in sport. Academics (many with coaching experience) and practitioners have been commissioned to write on their specialist areas.
Learning to Learn in Practice: The L2 Approach Review
Change the way you think about learning and preparing students for the challenges of the 21st Century with this new book by Alistair Smith, best-selling author and internationally known presenter and motivational speaker. Designed for grades 1-12, this detailed re-evaluation introduces the 12 essentials of Learning to Learn and explains their impact for the students and teachers. It is designed to help learners move away from teacher dependence towards learner independence. Learning to Learn in Practice will:
Show you how to develop a Learning to Learn approach across your school
Provide guidance at classroom, school and community level
Give case studies from schools on different stages of the journey
Show how to involve parents
Give guidance on embracing Web 2.0 technologies
Explain what works and what doesn't
It is packed with easy to apply common sense ideas and guidance. If you wish to get behind the theory and find out what really makes the difference this is the book to take you on the next step of your journey.
Transforming Psychology: Gender in Theory and Practice Review
Over the last two decades, a rich, diverse, yet sometimes contradictory body of research has been gathered under the general rubric of "psychology of women." This burgeoning literature represents several disciplines, among them psychology, psychiatry, sociology, political science, and women's studies. To bring sense to this agglomeration of views, both for the layperson and the student, the author looks at research in this area as a social process and refutes the notion that science can be objective about its search for universal truths. She asks us to reflect on how we choose among explanations of behavior, calling the need to examine the psychology of women in a social and historical context. Throughout the book, Riger reveals how interpretive frameworks shape how we perceive research findings. Her central theme suggests that social factors shape the meaning and experience of biological femaleness.
Motivation and Practice for the Classroom Review
Motivation and Practice for the Classroom is a book for everyone concerned with the study of motivation in education. Although there have been a number of notable contributions to the literature attempting to explain how students could excel in learning if only the conditions were right, a perennial problem for teachers is putting these ideas into practice in their classrooms. What seems to be lacking in the literature are evidence-based claims about pedagogy and practice that are grounded in educational research at the classroom level and written in a style that is manageable for busy, non-specialist teachers. The main theme of this edited volume is on aspects of motivation that are of relevance and application to the teaching practitioner. It would also be useful to student-teachers, school administrators, tertiary education lecturers, educational researchers and school administrators. The collection of articles in this reader seeks to address one essential question: how can classroom-based research findings be used to improve the quality of teaching and motivation of students?
Provoking Agents: GENDER AND AGENCY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE Review
Teaching for Understanding: Linking Research with Practice (Jossey-Bass Education Series) Review
This book presents an innovative approach to teaching that helps students acquire and use knowledge in ways that go beyond rote memorization of facts and figures--to develop a level of understanding that will serve them well throughout their lives. Based on a six-year collaborative research project of school teachers and researchers from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the book describes what teaching for understanding looks like in the classroom, and examines how teachers have learned to use it.
Part One: Foundations of Teaching for Understanding
1. Why Do We Need a Pedagogy of Understanding?
Vito Perrone
2. What is Understanding?
David Perkins
Part Two: Teaching for Understanding in the Classroom
3. What is Teaching for Understanding?
Martha Stone Wiske
4. How Do Teachers Learn to Teach for Understanding?
Martha Stone Wiske, Karen Hammerness, Daniel Gray Wilson
5. How Does Teaching for Understanding Look in Practice?
Ron Ritchart, Martha Stone Wiske, Eric Buchovecky, Lois Hetland
Part Three: Students' Understanding in the Classroom
6. What Are the Qualities of Understanding?
Veronica Boix Mansilla, Howard Gardner
7. How Do Students Demonstrate Understanding?
Lois Hetland, Karen Hammerness, Chris Unger, Daniel Gray Wilson
8. What Do Students in Teaching for Understanding Classrooms Understand?
Karen Hammerness, Rosario Jaramillo, Chris Unger, Daniel Gray Wilson
9. What Do Students Think About Understanding?
Chris Unger and Daniel Gray Wilson with Rosario Jaramillo and Roger Dempsey
Part Four: Promoting Teaching for Understanding
10. How Can We Prepare New Teachers?
Vito Perrone
11. How Can Teaching for Understanding Be ExtAnded in Schools?
Martha Stone Wiske, Lois Hetland, Eric Buchovecky
Conclusion: Melding Progressive and Traditional Perspectives
Howard Gardner
Martha Stone Wiske is a lecturer and researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she co-directs the Educational Techono
The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice Review
The Handbook of Conflict Resolution, Second Edition is written for both the seasoned professional and the student who wants to deepen their understanding of the processes involved in conflicts and their knowledge of how to manage them constructively. It provides the theoretical underpinnings that throw light on the fundamental social psychological processes involved in understanding and managing conflicts at all levels—interpersonal, intergroup, organizational, and international. The Handbook covers a broad range of topics including information on cooperation and competition, justice, trust development and repair, resolving intractable conflict, and working with culture and conflict. Comprehensive in scope, this new edition includes chapters that deal with language, emotion, gender, and personal implicit theories as they relate to conflict.
Differentiation: From Planning to Practice, Grades 6-12 Review
In this refreshing addition to differentiated learning literature, Rick Wormeli takes readers step-by-step from the blank page to a fully crafted differentiation lesson. Along the way he shows middle and high school teachers and behind-the-scenes planning that goes into effective lesson design for diverse classrooms.
Rick demonstrates how to weave common and novel differentiation strategies into all subjects and offers clear advice about what to do when things don't go as expected. Based on nearly thirty years of experience as a teacher and instructional coach, Rick's thoughtful and imaginative classroom accommodations will help teachers succeed with advanced students, struggling students, English language learners, and students across the multiple intelligences spectrum.
A thorough and practice guide, Differentiation: From Planning to Practice also provides an overview of the cognitive science behind differentiation as well as a more than two-dozen tools that make differentiation doable in the classroom. This is an essential resource for all reflective teachers.
