Excellent 11, The: Qualities Teachers and Parents Use to Motivate, Inspire, and Educate Children
by Ron Clark
from Hyperion
Now in paperback, the national bestseller that's changing America, one student at a time fter publishing his New York Times bestseller The Essential 55, award-winning teacher Ron Clark took his rules on the road and traveled to schools in 49 states. He met amazing teachers, administrators, students, parents-all kinds of people involved in bringing up great kids. In the best of them, he noticed the same qualities that he'd observed in many of the outstanding individuals he'd worked with during his time teaching in North Carolina and Harlem.
Ron Clark's THE EXCELLENT 11 contains eleven sections, each with a theme directly related to teaching and raising children. In each section, the author gives advice, tells stories of his experiences, and explains the importance of each theme within the learning environment. The learning environment includes the classroom, but it extends out of the classroom to the larger world as well. Some themes included in the book are:ADVENTURE - How to travel with children. Top places for field trips in America and teaching parents how to turn the summer vacation into an educational excursion.INGENUITY - Teaching kids to think for themselves. Common Sense Strategies, showing kids how to use resources within their reach and be successful. Finding grants/scholarships/summer camps for kids. APPRECIATION - Teaching students what it means to be thankful for the things others do for them and the lives they are fortunate enough to lead.LOVE - The most important component of education.
The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections, Second Edition
from Ablex Publishing
The city-run early childhood program of Reggio Emilia, Italy, has become recognized and acclaimed as one of the best systems of education in the world. Over the past forty years, educators there have evolved a distinctive innovative approach that supports children's well-being and fosters their intellectual development through a systematic focus on symbolic representation. Young children (from birth to age six) are encouraged to explore their environment and express themselves through many "languages," or modes of expression, including words, movement, drawing, painting, sculpture, shadow play, collage, and music. Leading children to surprising levels of symbolic skill and creativity, the system is not private and elite but rather involves full-day child care open to all, including children with disabilities. This new Second Edition reflects the growing interest and deepening reflection upon the Reggio approach, as well as increasing sophistication in adaptation to the American context. Included are many entirely new chapters and an updated list of resources, along with original chapters revised and extended. The book represents a dialogue between Italian educators who founded and developed the system and North Americans who have considered its implications for their own settings and issues. The book is a comprehensive introduction covering history and philosophy, the parent perspective, curriculum and methods of teaching, school and system organization, the use of space and physical environments, and adult professional roles including special education. The final section describes implications for American policy and professional development and adaptations in United States primary, preschool, and child care classrooms.
Teambuilding with Teens: Activities for Leadership, Decision Making, and Group Success
by Mariam G. Macgregor
from Free Spirit Publishing
Games for Language Learning (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers)
by Andrew Wright
from Cambridge University Press
This is the third edition of the one of the founding titles of the CHLT series. The book features many of the original games but has also been fully revised to include new games for the ELT classroom. The structure of the book has also been revised so that the games are now grouped in a more teacher-friendly format where teachers can search based on language and skill criteria rather than just game type.
A fully updated and revised edition of this classic book which contains enjoyable games to practise language at any stage of the learning process.
The Equation for Excellence: How to Make Your Child Excel at Math
by Arvin Vohra
from Roland Media Distribution
Read the first 50 pages for FREE at Arvin Vohra's website!
In The Equation for Excellence, renowned educational innovator Arvin Vohra (Sat Math Cognition, Vocabulary Synapse), teaches parents the fundamental principles and subtle techniques that they can use to make their children excel at math. Learn how to use the Asian system for teaching math, how to improve your child s self-perception, how to prepare your child for the SAT and SAT II, and how to effectively motivate your child to excel. If your child already excels at math, the Equation for Excellence will show you how to help him increase his lead. And if your child struggles with math, the Equation for Excellence will help you develop the permanent math abilities that will allow him to surpass his gifted peers.Additionally, The Equation for Excellence gives parents the background necessary to make the right decisions about their children's education, as well as to evaluate and question decisions made by teachers and administrators.
Read the first 50 pages for FREE at Arvin Vohra's website!
Instead of Education: Ways to Help People do Things Better
by John Holt
from Sentient Publications
Holt's most direct and radical challenge to the educational status quo and a clarion call to parents to save their children from schools of all kinds.
Foxfire 12 (Foxfire)
by Inc. Foxfire Fund
from Anchor
For more than thirty years, Foxfire books have brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative-self-sufficiency, the art of natural remedies, home crafts, and preserving the stories and customs of Appalachia. Inspiring and practical, this classic series has become an American institution.
Foxfire 12 is the latest volume, the first in more than five years. Here are reminiscences about learning to square dance and tales about traditional craftsmen who created useful items in the old-time ways that have since disappeared in most of the country. Here are lessons on how to make rose beads and wooden coffins, and on how to find turtles in your local pond. We hear the voices of descendants of the Cherokees who lived in the region, and we learn about what summer camp was like for generations of youngsters. We meet a rich assortment of Appalachian characters and listen to veterans recount their war experiences. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, Foxfire 12 is a rich trove of information and stories from a fascinating American culture.
Summer Smarts: Activities and Skills to Prepare Your Child for First Grade (Summer Smarts)
by Jeanne Crane Castafero
from Houghton Mifflin
The Summer Smarts series provides a substantive and fun bridge that covers all appropriate subjects between grades during the summer, when a child most needs a refresher. Children anticipate going back to school and facing the unknown expectations of a more difficult grade, and these activity books are designed to offer them the opportunity to increase their learning self-confidence. Summer Smarts is the only series to include a unique integration of material, combining elementary school subjects such as phonics, spelling, math and, geography into one friendly workbook.
Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children
by Sharifa Oppenheimer
from Steinerbooks
As we witness the shifting of old forms that once stood as the foundation of our daily lives, parents—who must prepare the next generation to meet this changing world—have more questions now than ever before. Although our culture and the nature of the family may be changing, the atmosphere in the home continues to create the foundation of a child's life. In Heaven on Earth, parent and educator Sharifa Oppenheimer reveals how to make the home environment warm, lively, loving, and consistent with your highest ideals.
Heaven on Earth balances theoretical understanding of child development with practical ideas, resources, and tips that can transform family life. Readers will learn how to establish the life rhythms that lay the foundation for all learning; how to design indoor play environments that allow children the broadest skills development; and how to create backyard play spaces that encourage vigorous movement and a wide sensory palette. Through art, storytelling, and the festival celebrations, this book is a guide to build a "family culture" based on the guiding principle of love. Such a culture supports children and allows the free development of each unique soul.
Responding to parents' questions from more than twenty years of teaching, Oppenheimer has created a gift from the heart. This is a practical, inspiring resource that brings her informed, intuitive understanding of young children into the heart of the home.
Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility
by Thomas Lickona
from Bantam
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