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“denise d nessel”

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  • Thinking Strategies for Student Achievement

    Improving Learning Across the Curriculum, K-12

    by Denise D. Nessel, Joyce M. Graham ...
    "This resource provides a repertoire of high-effect comprehension strategies. It is important for classroom teachers and school leaders to be able to justify why they are using specific strategies and what the benefits are of a specific strategy. Nessel and Graham provide this justification."-W. Dorsey Hammond, Professor of EducationSalisbury UniversityUse these strategies to develop your students ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Awakening Young Minds

    Perspectives on Education

    by Denise D. Nessel ...
    A perennial challenge for educators, writes Nessel, is one Plato addressed in The Republic: "how to avoid simply feeding students information and instead get them to use their innate capacities and think for themselves." The solution, she says, is not to impose a specific curriculum or method of instruction on all, but to think creatively about the individual situations of students to improve ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Using the Language Experience Approach With English Language Learners

    Strategies for Engaging Students and Developing Literacy

    Edited by Denise D. Nessel, Carol N. Dixon ...
    "Nessel and Dixon show teachers how to effectively support English language development by using the Language Experience Approach."—David E. Freeman and Yvonne S. Freeman, Professors of Literacy, ESL, and Bilingual EducationThe University of Texas at Brownsville"Provides the tools teachers need to use this natural way of helping English Language Learners. The Language Experience Approach makes ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • The Differentiated Classroom

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    by Carol Ann Tomlinson ...
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  • The Reflective Practitioner

    How Professionals Think In Action

    by Donald A. Schon ...
    A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions -- engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning -- to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals, Donald Schon maintains, know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work, they rely less on formulas learned in graduate school than on ... Read more

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  • Teaching English to Young Learners

    by Robert Taylor ...
    In this book, you will learn a wide variety of teaching techniques and strategies for teaching children from ages 4-11. The book is full of lesson plans, games and activities for current or aspiring teachers who are teaching children at kindergarten and early primary grade levels and whose first language is other than English. It is the foundation of a second language instruction course and was ... Read more

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  • Teaching As a Subversive Activity

    A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World

    by Neil Postman ...
    A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods—with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.Praise for Teaching As a Subversive Activity“A healthy dose of Postman and Weingartner is a good thing: if they make even a dent in the pious . . . American classroom, the book will be worthwhile.”—New York Times Book Review“Teaching and knowledge are ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Feel-Bad Education

    And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    Mind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from one of education’s most outspoken voicesAlmost no writer on schools asks us to question our fundamental assumptions about education and motivation as boldly as Alfie Kohn. The Washington Post says that “teachers and parents who encounter Kohn and his thoughts come away transfixed, ready to change their schools.” And Time magazine has called ... Read more

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  • What the Best College Teachers Do

    by Ken Bain ...
    What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators.The short answer is—it’s not what teachers do, it’s what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the ... Read more

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  • What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?

    And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him'perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.' And the Washington Post says he is 'the most energetic and charismatic figure standing in the way of a major federal effort to make standardized curriculums and tests ... Read more

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  • Paideia Proposal

    by Mortimer J. Adler ...
    The Paideia Proposal is a system of liberal education intended for all children. It was a response to what Adler characterized as the United States' antidemocratic or undemocratic educational system, a holdover from the 19th century, when the understanding of basic human rights fell short of 20th century expectations.The Paidea Proposal was based upon the following assumptions: 1) All children are ... Read more

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