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Title: Sept. 17: schools must teach Constitution.(Curriculum Update: The latest developments in math, science, language arts and social studies)
Author: Melissa Ezarik
Publication: District Administration (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 41Issue: 8Page: 64(2)

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Alicia aces geometry but barely passes English. Ben's an idea powerhouse who has trouble figuring out where to start and when to stop writing. Fernando's efforts to read and write are frustrated by a learning disability. Need solutions for students like these? The Structured Writing method is here to help. The secrets to its highly successful results lie in the focused, incremental pace that simplifies planning and organization; the incorporation of concept maps, word processing tools, and color-coded templates; and the motivation that springs from success. By the final lesson, students are writing fully developed paragraphs with skill and enthusiasm and flaunting what they once found daunting.

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The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is the trusted source for professional development, knowledge generation, advocacy and leadership for innovation. ISTE is the premier membership association for educators and education leaders engaged in improving teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education. Home of the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), the Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (CARET), and ISTE's annual conference (formerly known as the National Educational Computing Conference, or NECC), ISTE represents more than 100,000 professionals worldwide. We support our members with information, networking opportunities, and guidance as they face the challenge of transforming education.

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Structured Writing II takes up where volume one left off , showing how students can use the same techniques to build simple paragraph units into full, complex essays. With the help of concept maps, word processing tools, and colorcoded templates, students who were once intimidated by writing assignments can succeed. Structured Writing II makes the process incremental and manageable, and gives students a taste of writing success.

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Educator's Podcast Guide - ISBN 1564842312
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The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is the trusted source for professional development, knowledge generation, advocacy and leadership for innovation. ISTE is the premier membership association for educators and education leaders engaged in improving teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education. Home of the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), the Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (CARET), and ISTE's annual conference (formerly known as the National Educational Computing Conference, or NECC), ISTE represents more than 100,000 professionals worldwide. We support our members with information, networking opportunities, and guidance as they face the challenge of transforming education.

Some of the areas in which we publish are:
-Web. 2.0 in the classroom-RSS, podcasts, and more
-National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
-Professional development for educators and administrators
-Integrating technology into the classroom and curriculum
-Safe practices for the Internet and technology
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This seminal text on developing, aligning, and auditing curriculum has now been reissued to achieve even greater impact. Since the early 1990s, Deciding What to Teach and Test has been a key component in curriculum alignment and professional development programs across the country.

It is a powerful, up-to-date tool to help teachers become more involved in curriculum planning and practice. The Millennium Edition provides an updated perspective on improving student achievement with a new preface, foreword, and listing of recent research. ... Read more

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Curriculum and instruction
This is a very good book for administrators but more useful to the classroom teacher. It was required reading for one of my administration classes. However, I think this book should have been required during my methods courses. It speaks of aligning curriculum and classroom instruction. The debate is whether to frontload
(develop the curriculum and then choose the standardized test) or backload (develop the curriculum after choosing the test). The author talked about the tests measuring the children's life experiences and not totally testing subject mattter, which is why some standardized tests are bias. The role of the administrator in testing, as an instructional leader and not just a manager of people, was also discussed. This book is a must have for anyone who administers any type of test to other people. ... Read more

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This guidebook bridges two leading works on curriculum alignment—Deciding What to Teach and Test, written by Dr. Fenwick English, and The Video Journal of Education’s Developing, Aligning, and Auditing Curriculum, presented by Dr. English. Betty Steffy shows educators how to create learning and staff development activities that apply and extend the ideas presented in the best-selling book and videotape. 

This practical and powerful blend of theory and practice will help you:

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Focusing on curriculum leadership and closing the achievement gap, this influential book is updated with new insights on developing and aligning curriculum in a standards-based environment. ... Read more

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Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School advocates art, craft and design as useful, critical, transforming, and therefore fundamental to a plural society. It offers a conceptual and practical framework for understanding the diverse nature of art and design in education at KS3 and the 14-19 curriculum. It provides support and guidance for learning and teaching in art and design, suggesting strategies to motivate and engage pupils in making, discussing and evaluating visual and material culture.
With reference to current debates, Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School explores a range of approaches to teaching and learning, it raises issues, questions orthodoxies and identifies new directions. The chapters examine:

• ways of learning
• planning and resourcing
• attitudes to making
• critical studies
• values and critical pedagogy.

The book is designed to provide underpinning theory and address issues for student teachers on PGCE and initial teacher education courses in Art and Design. It will also be of relevance and value to teachers in school with designated responsibility for supervision.

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Attention beginning Art Education Students
This book is very useful in linking teaching theories with Art.If you are a beginning Art Education Student or Art Teacher, this book would be good if you want to learn about pedagogy in the Art classroom.It asks you to analyze and discuss the different approaches to teaching and learning in the Art classroom.This book gives great suggestions for assessment in the Art classroom. It also contains a section on how to get that teaching job you want. ... Read more

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Understanding and Shaping Curriculum: What We Teach and Why introduces readers to curriculum as knowledge, curriculum as work, and curriculum as professional practice. Author Thomas W. Hewitt discusses curriculum from theoretical and practical perspectives to not only acquaint readers with the study of curriculum, but also help them to become effective curriculum practitioners.   ... Read more

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<Rolling my eyes>
If you are buying this text book, there is probably a 99% chance that you have to for some class. For the remaining 1% of the population, don't do it to yourself. This is THE worst text book I have EVER had to read. It is obnoxiously wordy, the vocabulary is unnecessarily Oxford Dictionary making it a very dreary, tedious read. The author takes 2 paragraphs to say what could have been said in three sentences.
If it's any consolation for those who think I'm some idiot who doesn't like to read; the teacher (58 year old PhD.) couldn't stand the book either!! ... Read more

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Teaching history should not be reciting an endless list of dead men, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away from the Textbook offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the world today. Simply put, this book makes world history fun. Soon, your students will be busy debating, thinking, applying, and learning about information that will stay with them for a lifetime. The key to this wonderful work is its incorporation of various disciplines including art, music, and writing to create a fun and active classroom. Volume 1 covers prehistory to the Renaissance and volume 2 covers the Enlightenment to the 20th century. Includes pictures and drawings, appendices, indexes, maps, and a bibliography. Appropriate for all grade levels. ... Read more

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Filled with ideas for the college classroom
Vol. 2 of Pahl's series covers 1600 to the present.See Vol. 1 for his earlier treatment.This book suggests activities, written assignments, and group activities for world history courses.As such it does a very good job.It takes the same dozen or so activities (quick write, pair share, poster power, talk show hosts, etc.) and applies to the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, Bolivar and Latin America, and many other topics.The professor can easily find something that appeals to him or her, and try it out.

The book also tries to give a very short history of some of the major events, but this can be found in many other books, as well, and it is understandably sketchy and sadly eurocentric.

Here is one interesting suggestion of the author: Protest Song - create a protest song "focused on the working and living conditions of the poor workers during the industrial revolution" (p. 79).

Recommended.

Breaking Away from the Textbook Vol. II
This is a decent book for world history teachers.It is a bit small for the price and several of the activities are repeated over and over again.I will be able to use it with my classes, but not as much as I had hoped to. ... Read more

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Written by an experienced team of lecturers and practitioners, this new book will be an invaluable text and companion for all those involved in primary mathematics.The book provides models for pupils learning as well as seeking to develop your own understanding of the subject. ... Read more

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In todays public schools, teachers are often discouraged by the restrictions placed on them by the education system: federal mandates such as No Child Left Behind, excessive emphasis on standardized testing, pre-packaged curricula, inadequate funding, overcrowded classrooms, cultural incongruence, and social injustices. Teachers feel thwarted from meeting the unique needs of each student, and students continue to fall between the cracks in the system. This book encourages educators to teach boldly, using wisdom and courage to do what they know is best for their students despite the obstacles. A collection of letters from leading educators and scholars to practicing and future teachers, Teach Boldly! offers advice, encouragement, and inspiration in the form of bold, innovative ideas to ignite teachers passion for their work in the midst of a range of discouraging situations. The book can be used as a resource for practicing teachers or as a textbook in teacher education programs. It is relevant to courses in foundations of education, curriculum studies, issues in education, education policy, critical pedagogy, ethics in education, school reform, and educational leadership. ... Read more

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What skills are required of secondary student physical education teachers?

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Comments from Distinguished Educators
An engaging, timely, and important historical account.Evans's book is perceptive and compelling, and should be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of social education.

~Wilson J. Warren, Western Michigan University,


Evans' delineation of approaches is vastly more complex and richer than those proposed by other scholars ...

~Donald Schneider, University of Georgia


Largely because it is a space for articulating competing visions of the "good society," there is no area of the school curriculum that is more contested than social studies. In his detailed and well-researched examination of a century of curricular and pedagogical reform efforts, Evans argues that the history of the field is largely a story of civil war over the purposes, content, methods, and ideology of the social studies curriculum. Evans's thesis that what began as a struggle of various interest groups has evolved into a cultural war against progressive social studies is convincing, and he points to the current, narrow disciplinary focus on history and the social sciences in today's schools as evidence. Evans concludes that the turf struggles in the field have contributed to continuing failure of curricular reform ... .Until now, social studies education lacked a satisfying, comprehensive curricular history; that this history has been written by one of the strongest critics of history-centered social studies education adds to the irony. Summing up: Highly recommended.

~E. W. Ross, University of British Columbia


Evans' work gives an historical review of the current struggle over the content and process of social studies instruction in the curriculum. It offers insight into the evolution of the current disengagement in social studies education in public school by identifying key events and people from his insider's perspective. The power of money, influence, and privilege fragment efforts for a common social studies position, both philosophically and pragmatically. Evans tries to bridge some of these differences by a shift in focus. His thesis is that social studies itself is not the target but rather the pedagogy of critical inquiry that is central to learning about historical events, political systems, social institutions, and global interactions that frame the content. With that stance, he is creating space for groups to find common ground for dialogue around issues of pedagogy. He offers multiple examples and descriptions of materials created for social studies education to make this a valuable professional resource.

~Reese H. Todd, Texas Tech University


Ronald W. Evans is Professor in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University.He is the author of "This Happened in America: Harold Rugg and the Censure of Social Studies" (2007, Information Age) and editor of the "Handbook on Teaching Social Issues" (1996, NCSS). ... Read more

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As the amount of curriculum in today’s classrooms expands and teaching time seems to shrink, teachers are finding that it makes sense to integrate content area and writing instruction. The author provides practical and helpful ideas for classroom teachers and content-area specialists to easily incorporate Writing Across the Curriculum in their classrooms.This comprehensive resource includes:student examples showing how writing regularly stimulates critical thinking and creativity in students activities that help students learn more content area information and improve their writing skills ideas to help teachers plan and organize content classes to include writing graphic organizers, templates, and mini-lessons that engage students in learning ... Read more

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Invaluable resource for educators,administrators& parents
This book focusses on the whole child & team approach in helping students of various skills and abilities towards success in school. The book is comprehensive and includes reproducibles that are practical and useful for classroom use. This is an indispensable resource that aids in helping integrate different groups of students in the classroom to foster an effective and successful learning outcome for every child.

Should be a college text
Maybe some colleges are using it as a text. I don't know. This book makes it easy to find many helpful ideas for helping all children in the regular classroom.

In many school systems, the classroom teacher and the parents have one or two meetings a year with the special education team. Here they gain insights from the team and from the psychological evaluation. These evaluations are often locked away for the sake of privacy at school although parents are allowed to have a copy. Access to the information is not easy for other teachers although it could help them address the children's needs better. This book is well worth studying and applying its suggestions.

Better for Elementary or MIddle School
I have to say I was a little disappointed.I read the previous reviews and really looked forward to getting this book.My position was recently changed to a Grade 9 Algebra Inclusion Teacher and I thought this would be a great resource.There were very few math activities and none of them applied to high school curriculum.Some of the reproducables were helpful.This book is probably great for a upper elementary or middle school teacher.

Excellent Resource Book
I am a middle school English/language arts teacher.It is a great resource book if you are or aren't involved in an inclusion classroom!I would recommend it to anyone in education!

COMPREHENSIVE
As a Special Educator I encourage every teacher to purchase this book.It is up-to-date on the latest and most innovative teaching practices.The book is loaded with reproducibles that a teacher can use immediately.Sandra Rief and Julie Heimberge not only explain the needs of diverse learners, but have ready-to-use strategies,lessons, and fun activities so that all students may succeed.Gifted, learning disabled, culturally diverse, ADHD, communication disorders, multiple intellegences, learning styles, and developmental classrooms are some of the subjects addressed in their book.Every school district should use this book as part of their professional development. WELL DONE! ... Read more