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“kevin thomas smith”

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  • Teaching With Text-Based Questions

    Helping Students Analyze Nonfiction and Visual Texts

    by Kevin Thomas Smith ...
    Help your students navigate complex texts in history/social studies and English language arts! This book shows you how to use a key tool—text-based questions—to build students’ literacy and critical thinking skills and meet the Common Core State Standards. You’ll learn how to ask text-based questions about different types of nonfiction and visual texts, including primary and secondary sources, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Teaching with DBQs

    Helping Students Analyze Nonfiction and Visual Texts

    by Kevin Thomas Smith ...
    Help your students navigate complex texts in history and social studies. This book shows you how to use document-based questions, or DBQs, to build student literacy and critical thinking skills while meeting rigorous state standards and preparing students for AP exams. DBQs can be implemented year-round and can be adjusted to meet your instructional needs. With the helpful advice in this book, you ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • The Language of Art

    Reggio-Inspired Studio Practices in Early Childhood Settings

    by Ann Pelo ...
    Incorporate inquiry-based practices into your early childhood classroom or family child care program. Inspired by an approach to teaching and learning born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, The Language of Art emphasizes investigation anchored by drawing, painting, and other art activities. It provides:advice on setting up a studio space for art and inquirystudio explorations designed to give children a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • 100 TESOL Activities for Teachers: Practical ESL/EFL Activities for the Communicative Classroom

    by Shane Dixon ...
    100 TESOL Activities for Teachers is a teacher training manual and activity guide that has been used by teacher training groups from Korea, China, Japan, Iraq, Peru, Mexico and many other parts of the world as part of the popular TESOL Certificate Program: Teach English Now! from Coursera and Arizona State University. Designed to be practical, these techniques support the general need to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching Music Through Composition

    A Curriculum Using Technology

    by Barbara Freedman ...
    Teaching Music through Composition offers a practical, fully multimedia curriculum designed to teach basic musical concepts through the creative process of music composition. Author and award-winning music educator Barbara Freedman presents classroom-tested ways of teaching composition with technology as a tool with which students can create, edit, save, and reproduce music. As Freedman ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • A Basis for Music Education

    by Keith Swanwick ...
    First Published in 1979. Designed for all music teachers, this book provides a careful and clear examination of the fundamental concepts involved in music. Keith Swanwick investigates questions such as: What is music? Is music meaningful? Does music refine our feelings and emotions? If so, how? The discussion of questions forms a conceptual framework which will motivate further thinking and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Common Core Standards and Banned Books Week

    A Thematic Guide to Introducing Banned and Challenged Books in the Classroom

    by Pat Scales ...
    Banned Books Week is celebrated the last full week in September and strives to make the public aware of books that have been banned or challenged in schools and public libraries, as well as in bookstores and other venues. Founded in 1982, the event is sponsored by the American Library Association, American Booksellers Association, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, American ... Read more

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  • The Learner-Directed Classroom

    Developing Creative Thinking Skills Through Art

    by Diane B. Jaquith, Nan E. Hathaway ...
    Educators at all levels want their students to develop habits of self-directed learning and critical problem-solving skills that encourage ownership and growth. In The Learner-Directed Classroom, practicing art educators (PreK–16) offer both a comprehensive framework for understanding student-directed learning and concrete pedagogical strategies to implement student-direct learning activities in ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Literacy Practices and Perceptions of Agency

    Composing Identities

    by Bronwyn T. Williams ...
    In this book, Bronwyn T. Williams explores how perceptions of agency—whether a person perceives and feels able to read and write successfully in a given context—are critical in terms of how people perform their literate identities. Drawing on interviews and observations with students in several countries, he examines the intersections of the social and the personal in relation to how and, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice

    A Way Out of No Way

    Edited by Mary Stone Hanley, Gilda L Sheppard, George W. Noblit, Thomas Barone ...
    A groundswell of interest has led to significant advances in understanding and using Culturally Responsive Arts Education to promote social justice and education. This landmark volume provides a theoretical orientation to these endeavors. Examining a range of efforts across different forms of art, various educational settings, and diverse contexts, it foregrounds the assets of imagination, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Science Education and Pedagogy in South Africa

    by Oscar Koopman, William F. Pinar ...
    Series Book 51 - Complicated Conversation
    Science Education and Pedagogy in South Africa is a contemporary contribution that entices science teachers to ‘re-examine’ or ‘rethink’ the pedagogical strategies they use in their teaching. It offers fresh and exciting teaching approaches that explore new ways to tackle the worrisome problems of how to plan, implement, and present excellent and quality learning opportunities. From this ... Read more

    $43.09 USD

  • Argument as Dialogue Across Difference

    Engaging Youth in Public Literacies

    by Jennifer Clifton ...
    In the spirit of models of argument starting with inquiry, this book starts with a question: What might it mean to teach argument in ways that open up spaces for change—changes of mind, changes of practice and policy, changes in ways of talking and relating? The author explores teaching argument in ways that take into account the complexities and pluralities young people face as they attempt to ... Read more

    $59.99 USD