Sentences with phrase «book challenges educators»

The first section of the book challenges educators to consider how they view children; the role of play in young children's lives; and the implications of this upon practice.

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The book is packed with engaging projects that will keep parents and educators going through December like: — Psychedelic Snowflakes — Jingle Bell Painting — Santa Challenges — Christmas Tree Circuits — Candy Cane Science

Two educators present ideas for transforming our classrooms to meet the challenges of the future in this excerpt from their new book.

In an excerpt from his new book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess describes how his own experiences as a student and a teacher, often in a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve every child.

Clearly, religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.

It's a very big deal among U.S. educators, and we found some of it in all eleven countries that we profile in our recently published book, Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High - Ability Students.

This webinar, based on futurist Gary Marx's book Twenty - One Trends for the 21st Century, offers a deeper understanding of impending challenges and opportunities to prepare educators for the schools of tomorrow.

A companion to Dr. DuFour's best - selling book, In Praise of American Educators, the video highlights what educators have accomplished despite unprecedented challenges and what they can do to be eveEducators, the video highlights what educators have accomplished despite unprecedented challenges and what they can do to be eveeducators have accomplished despite unprecedented challenges and what they can do to be even better.

Willard's book, Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Cruelty, Threats, and Distress, provides educators with guidance on handling this new cChallenge of Online Social Cruelty, Threats, and Distress, provides educators with guidance on handling this new challengechallenge.

The final sentence of this book says it all: «The greatest generation of American educators is on hand to take on this challenge.»

This book, edited by prominent teacher educator Mary E. Dilworth, considers the unique qualities, challenges, and opportunities posed by that large population for the teaching field.

, a book designed not only to support the educators who are already teaching with globalization in mind, but also to challenge those who are not.

The result is Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course, a book designed not only to support the educators who are already teaching with globalization in mind, but also to challenge those who are not.

In this book the two models converge, providing readers fresh perspectives on two of the greatest contemporary challenges for educators: crafting powerful curriculum in a standards - dominated era and ensuring academic success for the full spectrum of learners.

Since 1998, we have published many books and videos with the same two goals in mind: (1) to persuade educators that the most promising strategy for meeting the challenge of helping all students learn at high levels is to develop their capacity to function as a professional learning community and (2) to offer specific strategies and structures to help them transform their own schools and districts into PLCs.

His book The Well - Balanced Teacher helps highlight the challenges that today's educators face as they struggle to maintain their love and passion for teaching in the midst of increasing stress and pressure in education, and offers suggestions for how teachers can take good care of themselves personally and professionally.

This site brings together readings, videos, images, and questions to help guide educators and adult learners through this challenging content.The site is organized into four main sections, plus an educator area where specific teaching strategies are identified for use in classrooms along with connection questions for the book.

Written for teacher educators, higher education administrators, policy makers, and others concerned with issues of race, the book is comprised of four parts that each represent a distinct perspective on the struggle for racial justice: contributors reflect on their experiences working as educators of Color to transform the culture of predominately White institutions, navigating the challenges of whiteness within teacher education, building transformational bridges within classrooms, and training current and inservice teachers through concrete models of racial justice.

As more and more educators take up the challenge to implement UDL, this enterprising book is an excellent place to start that journey, filled as it is with wise and hard - won lessons from these UDL pioneers.»

Classroom teachers, principals, and school leaders must read this book; it provides an illuminating model and framework for educators that vividly challenges «us» to re-envision what we think and do about poverty, race, and achievement in classrooms across the U.S..

10 Best Books on Differentiation In today's 21st - Century classroom the challenge to reach all learners is one that is ever - pressing on the back of every great educator's mind.

Veteran educator Jeffrey Benson is the author of the forthcoming ASCD book, Hanging In: Strategies for Teaching the Students Who Challenge Us Most (Jan 2014), which is available for pre-order though the ASCD Online Store.

Booklist will continue to cover the CCSS with free webinars that add opportunities to hear educators, publishers, and other experts weigh in on the challenges of implementing the standards and offer practical tips for implementing them with new books for youth.

Known for her intricate and dynamic wire sculptures, the American sculptor, educator and arts activist Ruth Asawa challenged conventional notions of material and >> more David Zwirner Books ISBN 9781941701683 US $ 70.00 CAN $ 92.50 TRADE Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in.

This highly interactive session introduces early educators to a systematic method for examining challenging behavior in group environments and provides an introduction to the book Children with Challenging Behavior: Strategies for Reflective Thinking, which can be used as an ongoinchallenging behavior in group environments and provides an introduction to the book Children with Challenging Behavior: Strategies for Reflective Thinking, which can be used as an ongoinChallenging Behavior: Strategies for Reflective Thinking, which can be used as an ongoing resource.

As an early years educator, you likely feel that you have tried every trick in the book when it comes to dealing with challenging behavior in young children.

Developed specifically for use with children with persistent or severe behavior problems, this book introduces educators to the systematic Positive Strategies method, which helps teachers understand why behaviors persist, prevent problem behavior, and replace challenging behaviors with better alternatives.

«Exceptional... an easy - to - read book with practical strategies that early childhood educators can directly use with children with challenging behaviors.»