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Provides a practical pre-service training program across all secondary subjects by grounding a constructivist approach in seven discrete instructional areas. This groundbreaking text is the only teacher education text with components that shift the focus from a teacher-centered to a student-centered context--whil infusing a key component of successful active student learning.This dynamic text takes a roll-up-your-sleeves approach--yet construc...

Based on the belief that those studying basic or developmental English should be reading, writing, and learning grammar "at the same time" -- rather than separately -- this book offers a wide range of materials that meet the multiple needs of basic writers. Three books in one, " it provides 1) a comprehensive writing skills text and workbook for developmental English, 2) an anthology of acclaimed reading selections of enduring literary value e...

Words Their Way" is a hands-on, developmentally driven approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills. This fifth edition features updated activities, expanded coverage of English learners, and emphasis on progress monitoring. 464 pp. Pub. 6/11.

This DVD, featuring Rick Stiggins and Ken O'Connor, provides educators and learning teams with an interactive professional development presentation that discusses why grades must serve a communication versus a motivation function, why focus on achievement is essential, why achievement must represent mastery of standards and how to report on other non-achievement student characteristics. This DVD includes a copy of the book A Repair Kit for Gra...

Help manage the increasing questions surrounding educational testing with Mastering Assessment, a set of fifteen practical, easy-to use booklets on teaching student evaluation. These groundbreaking booklets, written conversationally by leadingeducational assessment authority W. James Popham in his characteristic witty style, put the most relevant information onassessment at your fingertips. The light-hearted and accessible booklets provide an ...

This best-selling text offers a balanced approach to issues as it explores today's multicultural landscape and how to prepare teachers to use equitable and reflective decision making in their multicultural classrooms. The ninth edition of Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society was designed to introduce prospective teachers to the different cultural groups to which students and their families belong. In this time of extensive standard...

The book is semi-programmed, the explanations are carefully graded and sequenced, and the old material is constantly being reviewed within the context of the new.

This unique book is a practical guide for educators who want to maximize their effectiveness in the classroom. This book stresses the importance of teachers creating the maximum impact on their students in the limited time they have available. It also covers the skills, techniques, and concepts classroom teachers can use to have more impact on their students. It addresses the global picture, and also focuses on smaller, high priority details, ...

This beautifully written ethnography on Yucatecan migrants in Dallas, TX, is a fabulous addition to Allyn &, Bacon's New Immigrants Series. Through fascinating vignettes and case studies, this new, one-of-a-kind text illustrates how these migrants actively maintain social ties across borders and paints a vivid picture of the people and their lives that will mesmerize students.

This book is a critical combination of both the theory and ideas behind the teaching of thinking and very practical strategies to teach thinking in the individual classroom. Six brief "theoretical" chapters are followed by a chapter of practical strategies.

ExpressWays is a complete four-level course for learners of English. Its innovative spiraled curriculum integrates lifeskill topics, functions, and grammar in an imaginative highway theme that puts students in the fast lane for an exciting and motivating journey to English language proficiency. Role playing, cooperative learning, critical thinking, problem solving, and community tasks offer students interactive, student-centered learning that ...

Screenwriting: Step by Step is a user-friendly, basic introduction to successful screenwriting for the student and novice screenwriter. The text covers twelve steps to good screenwriting. It teaches students how to choose a theme, establish a central conflict, and write a story that works as drama. The book is divided into two sections: “First Steps, ” which teaches students the essentials of writing drama, and “Next Steps, ” which teaches the...

This concise text discusses a wide range of quantitative research methods, including advanced techniques such as logic regression, multilevel modeling, and structural equation modeling. Because the text emphasizes concepts rather than mathematics and computation formulas, it is accessible to a wide range of users of research. Professional practitioners in areas such education, business, social work, and psychology can gain an understanding of ...

The sixth edition of Educational Governance and Administration provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to school finance issues and schools as political systems. Its case-based approach,  descriptive studies of how schools work, and  broad look at the historical, political, social contexts that make up this area of study make this book a valuable tool for every aspiring educator, policymaker,  and citizen looking for an overview of the...

Interpersonal Communication and Human Relationships provides comprehensive coverage of the field in the context of developing relationships. Grounded in both contemporary and classic scholarship, the experienced author team engages students through an abundance of relatable stories, accessible writing, and the thoughtful application of interpersonal communication research to everyday life.Focusing on communication's role in the growth and deca...

This anthology from scholarly literature about children explores the ways society makes meaning of the period called childhood, the social forces that shape children, and the strategies children use to influence each other, their familes, and the larger adult world. The anthology includes 34 readings in 7 topic areas: I. Meanings of Childhood " "II. Theorizing Childhood III. Studying ChildrenIV. Relationships V. Constructing Race, Ethnicity an...

This highly readable book provides interpersonal communication theories, concepts, and applications based on a unique model of communication competence. Studying interpersonal communication through this distinct framework will provide a foundation for readers' "motivation "to communicate competently, increase their "knowledge" about communication, and enhance their acquisition and performance of communication "skills." With engaging examples a...

Vicki Spandel Creating Writers Through 6-Trait Writing: Assessment and Instruction, 5/e From Vicki Spandel, the pioneer of 6-trait writing, this fifth edition of our market-leading resource brings everything up to date, offering a comprehensive overview of the best education strategies and philosophies of writing assessment and instruction. It provides clear guidelines on helping students draft, assess, and revise their writing, as well as exp...

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