Visualization in Mathematics Reading and Science Education by Linda M. Phillips (2010)

Linda M. Phillips, Stephen P. Norris, John S. Macnab - Visualization in Mathematics, Reading and Science Education
Published: 2010-09-17 | ISBN: 9048188156 | PDF | 120 pages | 3 MB

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Visualizations—either self-created or external visual stimuli used as an aid to learning—are probably as old as learning itself. Yet surprisingly little research has been done either into how precisely they help us learn, or how to produce ones that are effective pedagogical tools. This volume, a comprehensive review of theory and research on the use of visualization in mathematics, science and reading, contrasts the two dominant theoretical paradigms of how people construct and interpret visualizations. However, the authors never lose sight of practical applications, providing frequent, accessible synopses of research findings in addition to succinct summaries of how the research affects practice. Written by a team with decades of experience in research and practice in the three subjects, the chapters show how cognitive psychology can enhance practical pedagogy, place visualizations in their proper historical context, and analyze in detail the effectiveness of paper-, computer- and video-based visualizations, with some surprising results. The book is published at a time when, it seems, there is no limit to the art of creating visualizations, as powerful computers make graphics ever more colorful and realistic and ‘interactivity’ is firmly established as a buzzword in the educational lexicon. The aim of the volume is to explore some central questions in the field, including how to evaluate visualizations and whether or not they can act as an aid to reading development, and to mathematics and science learning.

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Curriculum: From Theory to Practice by Wesley Null (2011)

Wesley Null, "Curriculum: From Theory to Practice"
2011 | ISBN-10: 1442209143, 1442209151 | PDF | 344 pages | 3,7 MB

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Curriculum: From Theory to Practice introduces readers to curriculum theory and how it relates to classroom practice. Wesley Null provides a unique organization of the curriculum field into five traditions: systematic, existential, radical, pragmatic, and deliberative. He discusses the philosophical foundations of curriculum as well as historical and contemporary figures who have shaped each curriculum tradition. Additionally, after a chapter on each of the five perspectives, Null presents case studies that describe realistic and specific curriculum problems that commonly arise within elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and universities. Scholars and practitioners alike are given opportunities to practice resolving curriculum problems through deliberation. Each case study focuses on a critical issue such as the implementation of state curriculum standards, the attempt to reform core curriculum within universities, and the complex practice of curriculum making.

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Wasting Minds: Why Our Education System Is Failing and What We Can Do About It by Ronald A. Wolk

Ronald A. Wolk - Wasting Minds: Why Our Education System Is Failing and What We Can Do About It
Published: 2011-02-15 | ISBN: 1416611312 | PDF | 199 pages | 3 MB

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Why has successful school reform been so difficult to achieve, despite decades of well-intentioned efforts, endless rhetoric, and billions of dollars of investment? Why do most U.S. schools continue to produce disappointing results? Why is there such a disconnect between the schools we need and the schools we have?
In this thoughtful and insightful book, Ronald A. Wolk tackles these questions head-on, identifying key assumptions that have shaped the debate on school reform for the past several decades, including the emphasis on standards and testing, calls for a longer school day and year, the push to enroll more students in advanced math classes, and the quest to place a highly qualified teacher in every classroom. Backed by research and other evidence, he points out the flaws in each assumption, and then proposes alternative assumptions as the basis for new, innovative schools that would emphasize such elements as
* Individualized instruction, with various pathways for learning;
* Real-world contexts for learning;
* Performance assessment;
* A restructuring of public education to expand preschool; and
* Transformation of the teachers' role from instructor to advisor.
Acknowledging that the current system is too entrenched to accept radical reform, Wolk suggests incorporating his assumptions into a separate, parallel strategy for new schools. The result is a provocative proposal for teachers, administrators, policymakers, parents, and others to consider as they contemplate the future of public education in the United States.

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A Toolkit for Action Research by Sandra M Alber

Sandra M. Alber, "A Toolkit for Action Research"
Ro wman & Littlef ield Pub lishers | 2010 | ISBN: 1442206934 | 214 pages | PDF | 3 MB  

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This book facilitates the completion of action research studies by providing a series of tasks that guide action researchers from the beginning of a project and selecting a topic for study, to completion of the project and editing final reports. All too often, students and practicing professionals in professional development schools are overwhelmed by the thought of doing an action research project and resort to using quasi-experimental designs. A Toolkit for Action Research puts an end to both, with the result being a life-long learning and reflection tool for teachers. This workbook can be used alone, or in conjunction with traditional action research texts, such as Daniel Tomal's Action Research for Educators.

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Becoming a Successful Scientist: Strategic Thinking for Scientific Discovery, by Craig Loehle

Craig Loehle, "Becoming a Successful Scientist: Strategic Thinking for Scientific Discovery"
Cambridge University Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0521735068 | 258 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

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Scientific research requires both innovation and attention to detail, clever breakthroughs and routine procedures. This indispensable guide gives students and researchers across all scientific disciplines practical advice on how to succeed. All types of scientific careers are discussed, from those in industry and academia to consulting, with emphasis on how scientists spend their time and the skills that are needed to be productive. Strategic thinking, creativity and problem-solving, the central keys to success in research, are all explored. The reader is shown how to enhance the creative process in science, how one goes about making discoveries, putting together the solution to a complex problem and then testing the solution obtained. The social dimension of science is also discussed from the development and execution of a scientific research program to publishing papers, as well as issues of ethics and science policy.

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The Still Divided Academy : How Competing Visions of Power, Politics, and Diversity Complicate the Mission of Higher Education by Stanley Rothman, April Kelly-Woessner, Matthew Woessner

Stanley Rothman, April Kelly-Woessner, Matthew Woessner, "The Still Divided Academy: How Competing Visions of Power, Politics, and Diversity Complicate the Mission of Higher Education"
R..man & L..field P..shers | 2011 | ISBN: 1442208066 | 296 pages | PDF | 3,6 MB  

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The Still Divided Academy is a wonderful examination of the academic community that shows their inner workings by addressing a broad range of issues including: academic politics, tenure, perceived and real political imbalance, academic freedom, and diversity. Administrators, professors, and students have very different priorities, values, and expectations and therefore, often have conflicting opinions on these issues. Drawing on data collected in a specially commissioned public opinion survey as well as other recent research on higher education, Rothman, Kelly-Woessner, and Woessner, create an incredibly readable presentation of both the similarities and differences between those running our universities and those attending them. The authors manage to remain impressively neutral; instead they give us a fuller perspective of the people on our college campuses.

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Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers: How Teachers and Parents Can Lead the Way by Jeffrey Pflaum

Jeffrey Pflaum, "Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers: How Teachers and Parents Can Lead the Way"
2011 | ISBN-10: 1610480333, 1610480325 | PDF | 282 pages | 4 MB

Masa remaja merupakan masa krusial bagi anak-anak karena masa ini merupakan masa peralihan, karena itulah para remaja memerlukan bimbingan dan tuntunan yang dapat mengarahkan mereka di arah yang benar. Sobat, buku ini memberikan cara bagaimana para guru dan orangtua memotivasi anak-anak mereka yang sedang beranjak remaja. Buku ini dapat didownload di : http://adf.ly/HDNGn

Deskripsi Buku : 
Computer games, video games, Internet, iPods, DVDs, CDs, texting, social media, and surfing: No wonder reading has a hard time competing for adolescents' attention. Research studies find that interest in reading diminishes after the fourth grade and continues through high school. Throw in a testing culture with all its drill lessons and you still wind up with 50% of college freshman unable to comprehend the textbooks. Whatever happened to motivation? You can lead a horse to water, but…

Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers: How Teachers and Parents Can Lead the Way contains over 1,000 diverse, original, fun, creative, absurd, challenging questions on reading that will inspire adolescent reading lives from the inside out. The four books of questions contained in this volume are designed to help kids help themselves find their ways to a desire to read. Weekly questions, discussions, and raps, a one-year journey into the worlds of reading compel preteens and teens to face their demons peacefully and to re-create a passion for reading, of course, with a little guidance from their friends: teachers, parents, and this book. Check out some questions:

— What was the first book you remember reading by yourself? What thoughts are triggered by this book? What feelings come back to you?
— Think of a word that makes you feel "good." Silently say the word over and over again to yourself. Describe what you experienced.
— Athletes say they're in-the-zone when playing at their best. Describe your reading when you're reading-in-the-zone.
— Reading everyday quietly changes your world. Explain.
— Mind-pictures: reading's little miracles. Explain

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Educating from the Heart - Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Transforming Education by Aostre N Johnson and Marilyn Webb Neagley

Aostre N. Johnson, Marilyn Webb Neagley, "Educating from the Heart: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Transforming Education"
2011 | ISBN-10: 1610483162, 1610483154 | PDF | 196 pages | 3 MB

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Deskripsi Buku : 
Educating from the Heart: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Transforming Education is based on the questions: "What does it mean to educate from the heart? What does it mean to educate with spirit?" It offers both theoretical overviews and practical approaches for educators, academics, education students and parents who are interested in transforming schools. Well-respected voices in the field of education provide a framework that includes recent findings from the world of neuroscience, as well as fresh perspectives about traditional wisdom. Practicing educators describe methods directly applicable in classrooms. In addition, many chapters emphasize the importance of educators attending to their own inner lives. The book encourages reinvigorating approaches to learning and teaching that can easily be integrated into both public and private K-12 school classrooms, with many ideas also applicable to higher education. It supports an educational system based on the beliefs that heart and spirit are intertwined with mind and intellect, and that inner peace, wisdom, compassion, and conscience can be developed together with academic content and skills.

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Educator or Bully? Managing the 21st Century Classroom by Marie Menna Pagliaro

Marie Menna Pagliaro, "Educator or Bully?: Managing the 21st Century Classroom"
2011 | ISBN-10: 1610484517, 1610484509 | PDF | 138 pages | 5,4 MB

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Deskripsi Buku : 
Educator or Bully? offers a comprehensive approach to classroom management for both novice and veteran teachers who are interested in examining their current classroom management performance, especially with respect to how it reflects the characteristics of the 21st century classroom. Practices presented are based on sound educational theory. There is an emphasis on the responsibility the student should have in successful classroom management.
Part I covers the guidelines that deal with everyday classroom management interactions with a focus on contemporary approaches. These chapters discuss preventive measures followed by reactive procedures that teachers can implement once problems have occurred.
Punishment and logical consequences are distinguished and educative techniques in handling misbehavior are demonstrated. Part I concludes with a thorough consideration regarding how to organize and maintain the physical classroom environment and how to prepare for the beginning of school.
Part II reviews students through teacher-centered strategies (systems) to deal with diverse classroom needs. These strategies are tailored so that the least intrusive to those in which the teacher has more control reflect 21st century attributes.

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Talk Thinking and Philosophy in the Primary Classroom by John Smith

John Smith, "Talk, Thinking and Philosophy in the Primary Classroom"
2010 | ISBN-10: 1844452972 | PDF | 128 pages | 3 MB

Bagi sobat yang sedang berkecimpung dalam dunia pendidikan, buku ini merupakan buku yang sangat membantu karena memberikan filosofi cara berkata-kata dan membentuk cara berpikir anak-anak di kelas. Buku ini dapat dowonload secara Gratis di : http://adf.ly/HDGKb

Deskripsi Buku : 

Talk, thinking and philosophy are crucial components of children’s learning. This book is a practical and readable guide to the ways in which teachers can provide children with the opportunities to develop and use these skills to their greatest effect. It begins by asking why talking and thinking should be taught and examines current approaches in this area. It goes on to look at how teachers can develop talking and thinking skills across the six Areas of Learning to help children gain confidence and deepen understanding.

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