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Core knowledge volume 1
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"Offers a guide to the first-grade education curriculum, presenting the knowledge and skills that should be at the core of a challenging first-grade education, including reading comprehension, American history, visual arts, music, math, and science."--
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Core knowledge volume 3
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English
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"A revised and updated edition of the bestselling definitive Core Knowledge guide for parents and teachers of third grade-age children, featuring all new full-color photographs and illustrations and revised material"--
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Core knowledge volume 2
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English
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"A revised and updated version of What your [second] grader needs to know, fundamentals of a good second-grade education, with readings and activities in literature, mathematics, history, science, and the arts"--
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College curriculums that were once centered on instruction in the classics of Western civilization have become smorgasbords where almost anything qualifies as a course in the liberal arts and where political conformity is enforced by professors. Stanford University, caving in to demands from the Black Student Union (“We don't want to read any more dead white guys”), removed Homer, Dante, Luther, Darwin, and Freud from its course on Western civilization....
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Core knowledge volume 4
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English
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"Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated What Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know How can you help your child at home? This book answers that important question and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American fourth graders. Featuring sixteen pages of full-color illustrations, a bolder, easier-to-follow format, and a thoroughly updated curriculum,...
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In “The Teacher's Gradebook”, Barry Raebeck, a practicing secondary school English teacher, shares the grading strategies that he uses so successfully with his own students. Ample discussion is given to not only grading techniques, but also to other important issues surrounding the philosophy and ethics of grading. These include test construction, rubric creation, "grade-friendly" projects, assessment without grades, and cultivating student ownership...
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Provides firsthand perspectives from yoga practitioners and educators on the promises and challenges of school-based yoga programs.
The yoga-in-schools movement has been gaining momentum in recent years as adult practitioners realize the benefit of yoga in their personal lives and want to share it with children and youth. As the movement has grown, so has the need to understand how yoga works and its effects on individuals, groups, and school culture....
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Es fundamental que docentes, directivos docentes, padres y cuidadores dispongan de los medios para comprender la estructura y el alcance de las Pruebas Saber.
El conocimiento de estas pruebas permite preparar en forma apropiada a los estudiantes, y reorientar los procesos curriculares para consolidar su formación integral.
La colección saber-SABER contiene libros para que el profesor pueda orientar en forma adecuada la apropiación de los conceptos...
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Through engaging assignments, this integrated curriculum course design introduces the physics of sound and music, with the exploration of musical styles and their biological effect, along with the newer disciplines of Music Therapy and Sound & Vibrational Healing. While the course is designed for grades 5-6, educators will find a variety of applications and inspiration from individual units, as well as the full eight week cycle. This course is designed...
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Este libro trata sobre una de las competencias evaluadas en las nuevas Pruebas de Estado y defenderá la necesidad de considerar ésta como un propósito central de la escuela. Para ello, el autor parte de la pregunta y la reflexión sobre cómo y bajo qué circunstancias se generan los cambios en educación, a partir de allí pasa a la reflexión, conceptualización y discusión actual sobre el concepto de competencia en el contexto educativo colombiano....
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The authors describe how they approach each individual on the autistic spectrum with no preconceived notions about who they are or what is "right" for them. The typical mind set of professionals is that we have the answers, tools and science to dictate what a child in school or adult are supposed to do. We introduce the idea that the person with autism has all the answers to what they need to regulate more successfully throughout their day and life....
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How do designers do what they do? How do architects, engineers, industrial, fashion and graphic designers think? What is it that goes on in their minds that enables them to shape the things that people buy, use and inhabit? And, how far do they share their mental abilities with people at large? Is it true that everyone is a designer in their, own way? In Models of Change, Ken Baynes draws on a lifetime's research and experience to suggest answers...
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"Las tensiones del curriculum" hace visible un problema actual en el campo del curriculum relacionado con su reconocimiento como disciplina. Aborda el estado de situación del campo en Argentina y México, como muestra de dos países latinoamericanos que cuentan entre sí con rasgos de colaboración académica. Su contenido está impregnado de preocupaciones epistemológicas vigentes que consideran la tensión entre los paradigmas de la modernidad...
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La elaboración de un currículo intercultural para las comunidades afrocolombianas, parte de la convicción de ser capaces de revalorar lo propio, cristalizado en los saberes que se han heredado por medio de la palabra "dicha" de una generación a otra. La obra explora los significados que estas poblaciones le atribuyen a su legado cultural, como detonante de los procesos formativos que se dan en sus escuelas.
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Es fundamental que directivos, docentes, estudiantes y sus familias cuenten con los medios para comprender la estructura y el alcance de las Pruebas Saber, de tal manera que les sea posible orientar, intencional y pertinentemente, los currículos escolares y avanzar en el mejoramiento sistemático de los resultados obtenidos por los estudiantes. Por ello es importante disponer de una propuesta editorial integral que incluya, tanto guías para el profesor,...
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Black Lives Matter in US Schools critically examines the relationship between schooling and sociocultural abolitionist movements like #BlackLivesMatter. Aligning with a long history of education scholars who have insisted on the enmeshed nature of schools and society, the book addresses the role of various forms of curricula that perpetuate anti-Blackness while simultaneously shaping Black ways of being, knowing, and doing. While its focus tends toward...
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Estudios críticos del currículo. Educación, toma de conciencia y políticas del conocimiento ofrece un marco novedoso para pensar cómo el currículo se relaciona con la comprensión de los estudiantes acerca del mundo que los rodea.
Wayne Au reúne la teoría del currículo, los estudios educativos críticos y la teoría del punto de vista en la perspectiva feminista con ejemplos prácticos de la enseñanza de la justicia social para debatir un...
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It's a new generation and schools are offering valuable training to students. This short book attempts to put at ease some serious misconceptions and old stereotypes of what is means for students to enroll or enter endorsement pathway in high school that focuses on Construction, Building Trades and / or Manufacturing. I have seen a lot of changes and improvements over the last few years and It goes a long way for students to have the pride and support...
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