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English
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"Since 1999, the movement to differentiate instruction to the needs, interests, and abilities of individual students has been guided by this monumental work written by Carol Ann Tomlinson, the leading authority in the field. This new edition updates the original book's timeless advice with Tomlinson's fresh insights drawn from years of supporting differentiation in various grade levels, all subjects, and all types of schools: Learn how to apply the...
3) Passion-driven education: how to use your child's interests to ignite a lifelong love of learning
Author
Publisher
Libertas Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Schooling has become a disaster. Your child's interests and uniqueness are disregarded, and structured curriculum and standards like Common Core place them on a conveyor belt that treats all children the same. This system crushes a child's curiosity. Your child deserves better! There is a better way: one that ensures your child sees learning as a joy and provides you, the parent, with a much less stressful way to educate and empower your son or daughter"--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Judith Dodge effectively blends her years of experience and the latest research on differentiated instruction to provide teachers with innovative tools that generate immediate impact on classroom teaching and learning. In this book she helps teachers to: Translate research into action, inform their instruction through on-going and frequent assessments, access multiple pathways for learning, foster "intrinsic" motivation, use "instructional intelligence"...
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Publisher
International Society for Technology in Education
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"It started with a simple observation: Students need their teachers present to answer questions or to provide help if they get stuck on an assignment; they don't need their teachers present to listen to a lecture or review content. From there, Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams began the flipped classroom: Students watched recorded lectures for homework and completed their assignments, labs, and tests in class with their teacher available. Bergmann...
Author
Publisher
[Createspace]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This book contains free advertising techniques and tutor referral services that will find students for you. Two full chapters on setting up an online tutoring system show you, step-by-step, how to set up your computer and what online teaching platforms are best to use. Guidance on how to talk to parents who children are in trouble at school, how to talk to the student to encourage them and how to uncover the reasons why a student is not doing well...
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English
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"Diane Tavenner, founder of Summit Public Schools, offers a blueprint for a better way to educate our children, based on the revolutionary lessons, insights, and methodology she and her faculty developed over 15 years at their famously successful charter schools in California and Washington, which she is now introducing to public school systems across the country that Summit is partnering with to transform education and better prepare our children...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the seventh grade, Todd Rose was suspended--not for the first time--for throwing stink bombs at the blackboard. At eighteen, he was a high school dropout, stocking shelves at a department store. Today, Rose is a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His book illuminates the struggles of millions of bright young children--and their frustrated parents and teachers--who are stuck in a one-size-fits-all school system that fails...
Author
Publisher
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Explains how the curriculum planning model Understanding by Design (UbD) and the teaching model Differentiated Instruction (DI) fit together and can be integrated for student success, discussing such topics as responsive teaching with UbD and assessment in academically diverse classrooms.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
At a time when standardized testing businesses are raking in huge profits, when many schools are struggling, and students and educators everywhere are suffering under the strain, Ken Robinson argues for an end to our outmoded industrial educational system. He proposes instead a highly personalized, organic approach that draws on today's unprecedented technological and professional resources to engage all students, develop their love of learning, and...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In 2020--21, the number of students ages 3--21 who received special education services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was 7.2 million, or 15 percent of all public school students. Among students receiving special education services, the most common category of disability was specific learning disabilities (33 percent). The DoE reports that a student may be a candidate for an Individualized Education Plan if diagnosed with ADHD,...
