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A Learning Community in the Primary Classroom
This richly detailed description and analysis of exemplary teaching in the primary grades looks at how a teacher establishes her classroom as a collaborative learning community, how she plans curriculum and instruction that features powerful ideas and applications to life outside of school, and how...
Published May 16th 2010 by Routledge
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Motivating Students to Learn
3rd Edition
Written specifically for teachers, this book offers a wealth of research-based principles for motivating students to learn. Its focus on motivational principles rather than motivation theorists or theories leads naturally into discussion of specific classroom strategies. Throughout the book these...
Published February 11th 2010 by Routledge
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Inside the Social Studies Classroom
EDUCATION/ SOCIAL STUDIES "… a much-needed addition to elementary social studies that will move the field ahead." Keith C. Barton, University of Cincinnati "This text fills a valuable niche and should quickly become a leading reference for teachers and teacher educators." Linda S. Levstik,...
Published July 21st 2008 by Routledge
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Children's Thinking About Cultural Universals
Drawing on interview data, the authors describe K-3 students' knowledge and thinking about basic aspects of the social world that are addressed in the elementary social studies curriculum. The interviews focused on human activities relating to nine cultural universals that are commonly addressed in...
Published September 6th 2005 by Routledge
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Motivating Students to Learn
2nd Edition
Written specifically for teachers, this book offers a wealth of research-based principles for motivating students to learn within the realities of a classroom learning community. Its focus on motivational principles rather than motivational theorists or theories leads naturally into discussions of...
Published May 24th 2004 by Routledge
