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Provides teachers with the tools they need to help students learn in an integrated, real-world instructional environment. Focusing on problem-based learning (PBL) as a teaching approach, this work presents modes of problem-based learning that include real-life references, real problem simulations, and student-identified community problems.

Takes a critical look at how students' achievements are assessed for a range of purposes, from reporting progress to selection and qualification. This work considers the relationship between what is taught, and how, and what and how learning outcomes are assessed.

Focuses on parents and teachers as adult learners, who should be growing and learning along with the children in their care. This book uses narratives of actual school meetings, workshops, parent planning and discussion groups, testimonies, newsletters, and research of others in the field, to demonstrate applications of theory and research.

This book is about the inner voice of the self. It addresses the ways students, teachers, and others speak to themselves about who they are and how they fit in the world.

Although cooperative learning is widely endorsed as a pedagogical practice that promotes learning and socialization among students, teachers still struggle with how to introduce it into their classrooms.

This practical, hands-on guide leads you through the process of developing and implementing standards for your school or district.

The author defines 15 literacy approaches, with research and best practices associated with each strategy, to teach literacy and comprehension across all grade levels and content areas.

This book identifies the classroom methodologies, curriculum and personal professional growth that are essential for ongoing school reform. The author honours the traditions of teaching while simultaneously making a compelling case for change.

Elaine Johnson demonstrates how implementing contextual teaching and learning can change students' lives and help them achieve academic excellence.

''''Designed for teachers at all grade levels, these step-by-step guides provide real-world tips and techniques from experienced educators and tech experts. Both beginners and advanced users will learn how to create essential tools such as lesson plans, gradebooks, graphs and charts, presentations, and more.

Foreword by David D. ThornburgWindows on the Future was designed to help the educator cope with changes created by technology and embrace a new mind-set necessary to access burgeoning technological advances. was designed to help the educator cope with changes created by technology and embrace a new mind-set necessary to access burgeoning technological advances.

Presenting over 550 terms, this guide to strategic management presents the subject in a historical context, showing readers how views have changed and evolved, as well as inviting the reader to think more deeply about the issues raised.

This title reviews the images and meanings which play a vital role in our mass-mediated world, especially via television and the computer screen. Gabriel Weimann pays attention to the integration of news and entertainment, fact and fiction, and event and story in his discussion of mediated images.

The study of family violence is surrounded by a myriad of controversies.

This study of 30 mothers looks at the varying ways women balance work and family life. It is carried out through intensive interviews and the data is examined from several theoretical standpoints, including structural theory, motherhood theory, and feminist theory. A supplemental text for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in Family Studies Programs and Women's Studies programs.

This book is about decent and affordable shelter in rural America, a little known and often overlooked issue in housing policy. The rural poor and their housing conditions are not widely discussed or examined within the professional literature. It explores decent and affordable shelter in rural areas, an often overlooked issue in housing policy.

Presenting the major trends, theories and practices in cross-cultural assessment, this volume focuses on intelligence and intelligence testing, particularly as applied to people from racial and ethnic minority groups who are also socioeconomically and culturally deprived.

The politics and economics of the United States are wedded in the political economy of the nation state and the nationalist economic policies. This book proposes that political jurisdictions are not economies but polities, and explores the complex and important economic implications of this thesis.

Suitable for researchers, evaluators, and graduate students, this title includes the author's arguments as to why qualitative approaches belong with quantitative ones as the assumptive background to relevant quantitative measures, his debate with deconstructionists and social constructionists on measurement validity, and more.

This volume faces the challenge of the 21st century in this masterly analysis of the legitimate options open to public administration in a democratic society. Against a background of globalization of markets, increased prejudice, and racial and ethnic violence, the author demonstrates the centrality of administrative legitimacy to a 21st century that is an improvement over the 20th.

Demonstrates how dress shapes and is shaped by social processes and phenomena such as beauty, time, the body, the gift exchange, class, gender, and religion.

Written by leading academics in their field this book provides a clear and considered overview of the politics of health care in Britain. Bringing together a wide range of material on both past events and recent developments, the chapters cover issues such as the politics of health professionalism, clinical knowledge, and organization and management.