• Theory and Best Practices in Science Communication Training (Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media)

    This edited volume reports on the growing body of research in science communication training, and identifies best practices for communication training programs around the world. Theory and Best Practices in Science Communication Training provides a critical overview of the emerging field of by analyzing the role of communication training in supporting scientists’ communication and engagement goals, including scientists’ motivations to engage in training, the design of training programs, methods for evaluation, and frameworks to support the role of communication training in helping scientis... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1138478156
    • ASIN: 1138478156
    • ISBN: 1138478156
    • Brand: Routledge
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

  • Teaching in Nursing and Role of the Educator, Second Edition: The Complete Guide to Best Practice in Teaching, Evaluation, and Curriculum Development

    With essential, updated content for novice and experienced nurse educatorsThis evidence-based text delivers the full scope of knowledge necessary for novice and experienced faculty to become competent teachers in nursing. The only book to focus on the full academic role, it encompasses all of the key concepts required for effective teaching, curriculum development, evaluation and testing, becoming a scholar in nursing education, and much more. The second edition is updated throughout and includes four new chapters on Understanding the Learner, Interprofessional Education, Curriculum Models, an... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0826140130
    • ASIN: 0826140130
    • ISBN: 9780826140135
    • Manufacturer: Springer Publishing Company

  • Ambitious Science Teaching

    Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds. The practices presented in the book are being used in schools and districts that seek to improve science teaching at scale, and a wide range of science subjects and grade levels are represented.   The book is organized around four sets of core teaching practices: planning for engagement with big ideas; eliciting student thinking; supporting changes in students’ thinking; and drawing together evidence-based explanations. Discuss... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1682531627
    • ASIN: 1682531627
    • ISBN: 1682531627
    • Manufacturer: Harvard Education Press

  • Best Practices in Prevention (Prevention Practice Kit)

    This second book in the Prevention Practice Kit provides counselors, psychologists, and other mental health workers with practical steps that need to be considered by prevention practitioners as they engage with others in developing and delivering prevention projects. A context for engaging in prevention practice is provided, including discussion of how prevention fits with traditional models of psychology, descriptions of theoretical models for doing prevention practice, and examples of empirically-supported prevention interventions.

    • ASIN: 1452257973
    • ASIN: 1452257973
    • ISBN: 1452257973
    • Brand: SAGE Publications, Inc
    • Manufacturer: SAGE Publications, Inc

  • Exploring Math and Science in Preschool (The Preschool Teacher's Library of Playful Practice Set)

    Engage Preschoolers in Counting, Comparing, and Discovering Their Way to LearningWhat every preschool teacher needs! Filled with practical strategies and useful information on math and science, this book offers• Learning center ideas• Engaging activities• Practical suggestions that are easy to implement• Ideas that support the development and learning of every preschooler• Children’s book recommendationsThis excellent resource of engaging learning experiences for preschoolers was developed for you by the editors of Teaching Young Children.

    • ASIN: 1938113098
    • ASIN: 1938113098
    • ISBN: 1938113098
    • Manufacturer: The National Association for the Education of Young Children

  • 100 Write-and-Learn Sight Word Practice Pages: Engaging Reproducible Activity Pages That Help Kids Recognize, Write, and Really LEARN the Top 100 High-Frequency Words That are Key to Reading Success

    Watch confidence soar as children master 100 sight words—the words most commonly encountered in any text. Children read more fluently, write with greater ease, and spell more accurately when they know these high-frequency words! These fun, ready-to-go practice pages let kids trace, copy, manipulate, cut and paste, and write each sight word on their own. Features words from the Dolch Word List, a commonly recognized core of sight words. Also includes games and extension activities. For use with Grades K-2.

    • ASIN: 0439365627
    • UPC: 078073365623
    • ASIN: 0439365627
    • ISBN: 0439365627
    • Brand: Scholastic
    • Manufacturer: Teaching Resources

  • From Reading to Math, Grades K-5: How Best Practices in Literacy Can Make You a Better Math Teacher

    Are your students engaged and motivated to read and write but hesitant during math instruction? Do you want your students to be as excited about math as they are about literacy? This unique resource explores how best practices for teaching reading and writing can help you become a better math teacher. Drawing on the work of such educators as Richard Allington, Carl Anderson, Marilyn Burns, Cathy Fosnot, Stephanie Harvey, Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Ellin Keene, and Diane Snowball, the author describes strategies that work in teaching literacy and how to successfully implement them in the math class.

    • ASIN: 1935099043
    • UPC: 884388872547
    • ASIN: 1935099043
    • ISBN: 1935099043
    • Manufacturer: Math Solutions

  • The Essentials of Science, Grades 7-12: Effective Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment (Priorities in Practice)

    Where is U.S. secondary-level science education heading today? That's the question that The Essentials of Science, Grades 7-12 sets out to answer. Over the last century, U.S. science classes have consistently relied on lectures, textbooks, rote memorization, and lab demonstrations. But with the onset of NCLB-mandated science testing and increased concern over the United States' diminishing global stature in science and technology, public pressure is mounting to educate students for a deeper conceptual understanding of science.Through lively examples of classroom practice, interviews with award... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 141660572X
    • ASIN: 141660572X
    • ISBN: 141660572X
    • Brand: Brand: ASCD
    • Manufacturer: ASCD

  • Visible Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12: Implementing the Practices That Work Best to Accelerate Student Learning (Corwin Literacy)

    Ensure students demonstrate more than a year’s worth of learning during a school year Renowned literacy experts Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey work with John Hattie to apply his 15 years of research, identifying instructional routines that have the biggest impact on student learning, to literacy practices. These practices are "visible" because their purpose is clear, they are implemented at the right moment in a student’s learning, and their effect is tangible.  Through dozens of classroom scenarios, learn how to use the right approach at the right time for surface, deep, and transfer lear... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1506332358
    • ASIN: 1506332358
    • ISBN: 1506332358
    • Brand: Corwin
    • Manufacturer: Corwin

  • Everything You Need to Ace Math in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks)

    It’s the revolutionary math study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest.     Everything You Need to Ace Math . . . covers everything to get a student over any math hump: fractions, decimals, and how to multiply and divide them; ratios, proportions, and percentages; geometry; statistics and probability; expressions and equations; and the coordinate plane and functions. The BIG FAT NOTEBOOK™ series is built on a simple and irresistible conceit—borrowing the notes from the smartest kid in class. There are five books in all, and each is the only book yo... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0761160965
    • ASIN: 0761160965
    • ISBN: 0761160965
    • Brand: Workman Publishing Company
    • Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

  • The New Art and Science of Teaching (More Than Fifty New Instructional Strategies for Academic Success) (The New Art and Science of Teaching Book Series)

    This title is a greatly expanded volume of the original Art and Science of Teaching, offering a competency-based education framework for substantive change based on Dr. Robert Marzano's 50 years of education research. While the previous model focused on teacher outcomes, the new version places focus on student learning outcomes, with research-based instructional strategies teachers can use to help students grasp the information and skills transferred through their instruction. Throughout the book, Marzano details the elements of three overarching categories of teaching, which define what must ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1943874964
    • ASIN: 1943874964
    • ISBN: 1943874964
    • Brand: Ingramcontent
    • Manufacturer: Solution Tree Press

  • Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations

    Introductory and capstone experiences in the undergraduate psychology program are crucial ways to engage students in their major and psychology department, impart realistic expectations, and prepare them for life beyond college. Providing the right orientation and capstone courses in psychology education is increasingly a concern of instructors, department chairs, program directors, and deans, and both types of courses have become important sources for gathering pre- and post-coursework assessment data for degree learning outcomes. The strategies presented here have been designed to help educa... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0195378210
    • ASIN: 0195378210
    • ISBN: 0195378210
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • The New Art and Science of Teaching Writing (Research-Based Instructional Strategies for Teaching and Assessing Writing Skills) (The New Art and Science of Teaching Book Series)

    For educators to be effective, they must intentionally select and implement research-based instructional strategies and conduct assessments. Using a clear and well-organized structure, the authors apply the strategies and techniques originally presented in The New Art and Science of Teaching by Robert J. Marzano to the teaching and assessment of writing skills, as well as some associated reading skills. In total, the book shares more than 100 strategies across grade levels and subject areas. Use effective teaching methods to reach desired writing learning outcomes and student success: Understa... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1945349360
    • ASIN: 1945349360
    • ISBN: 1945349360
    • Manufacturer: Solution Tree Press

  • Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes

    Find out how to apply learning science in online classes The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom.  This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn. It includes current best practices around educational technologies, strategies to build community and collaboration, and minor change... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1119619092
    • ASIN: 1119619092
    • ISBN: 1119619092
    • Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass

  • Comprehension Instruction: Research-Based Best Practices

    Comprehension instruction is widely recognized as an essential component of developing students' pleasure and profit from reading. Yet despite significant recent gains in knowledge about how comprehension develops and how it can be taught effectively, classroom practice still lags behind research in this crucial area. This volume brings together the field's leading scholars to summarize current research and provide best-practice guidelines for teachers and teacher educators. Each coherently structured chapter presents key findings on a particular aspect of comprehension, discusses instructiona... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1572306920
    • ASIN: 1572306920
    • ISBN: 1572306920
    • Brand: Brand: The Guilford Press
    • Manufacturer: The Guilford Press

  • 180 Days of Science for Kindergarten (Grade K) : Practice, Assess, Diagnose

    Build science content-area knowledge with 180 days of daily practice! These quick, diagnostic-based activities focus on three strands of science: life science, physical science, and Earth and space science and align to Next Generation Science

    • UPC: 505548839
    • Model: SEP51406
    • Color: Multicolor

  • 180 Days of Science for Second Grade (Grade 2) : Practice, Assess, Diagnose

    Build science content-area knowledge with 180 days of daily practice! These quick, diagnostic-based activities focus on three strands of science: life science, physical science, and Earth and space science and align to Next Generation Science

    • UPC: 330412818
    • Model: SEP51408
    • Color: Multicolor

  • 180 Days of Science for Sixth Grade (Grade 6) : Practice, Assess, Diagnose

    Build science content-area knowledge with 180 days of daily practice! These quick, diagnostic-based activities focus on three strands of science: life science, physical science, and Earth and space science and align to Next Generation Science

    • UPC: 540405266
    • Model: SEP51412
    • Color: Multicolor

  • 180 Days of Science for Third Grade (Grade 3) : Practice, Assess, Diagnose

    Build science content-area knowledge with 180 days of daily practice! These quick, diagnostic-based activities focus on three strands of science: life science, physical science, and Earth and space science and align to Next Generation Science

    • UPC: 285596672
    • Model: SEP51409
    • Color: Multicolor

  • 180 Days of Science for Fourth Grade (Grade 4) : Practice, Assess, Diagnose

    Build science content-area knowledge with 180 days of daily practice! These quick, diagnostic-based activities focus on three strands of science: life science, physical science, and Earth and space science and align to Next Generation Science

    • UPC: 969462732
    • Model: SEP51410
    • Color: Multicolor

  • 180 Days of Science for First Grade (Grade 1) : Practice, Assess, Diagnose

    Build science content-area knowledge with 180 days of daily practice! These quick, diagnostic-based activities focus on three strands of science: life science, physical science, and Earth and space science and align to Next Generation Science

    • UPC: 641732277
    • Model: SEP51407
    • Color: Multicolor

  • Best Practices for Teaching Science : What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

    Originally published: Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press,

    • UPC: 43905357

  • Supporting the Whole Child: Reflections on Best Practices in Learning, Teaching, and Leadership - eBook

    This e-book, a collection of articles from Educational Leadership and other ASCD publications explores what it means to "support the whole child." In these articles, authors ponder the various meanings of support in the classroom,

    • UPC: 441625101

  • Engaging the Whole Child: Reflections on Best Practices in Learning, Teaching, and Leadership - eBook

    This e-book collection of articles from Educational Leadership provides a compelling look at what it means to truly open students to learning--heart, mind, body, and soul. The articles describe how to impart relevance, respect, and

    • UPC: 586339842

  • Best Practices For Teaching Science What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Paperback

    Let Randi Stone and her award-winning teachers demonstrate tried-and-tested best practices for teaching science in diverse elementary, middle, and high school classroomsLinked to companion volumes for teaching writing and mathematics, this resource for new and

    • UPC: 37808209
    • Model: 9781412924573

  • Best Practices in Science Instruction

    Best Practices in Teaching and Learning K-8 Science with Phenomena

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