Tag: Classrooms

How to Stop Bullying in Classrooms and Schools


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English | ISBN: 0415630274 | 2013 | 264 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The premise of this guidebook for teacher educators, school professionals, and in-service and pre-service teachers is that bullying occurs because of breakdowns in relationships. The focus of the 10-point empirically researched anti-bullying program it presents is based on building and repairing relationships. Explaining how to use social architecture to erase bullying from classrooms, this book

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Classrooms and Playgrounds Mapping Educational Change, Kerala


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2010 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 1443823767 | PDF | 2 MB
What is schooling in our contemporary societies? Is it to equip students for functioning in an information culture and to develop skills that would enable them to become productive agents in a fast globalizing world? Or is it to develop the capability to think and analyze? Mapping the complex transitions that mark the primary education today in the state of Kerala, South-West India, this book offers fresh insights, both empirical and theoretical. Schooling here implies a set of cultural practices that cannot be reduced to processes of teaching and learning of prescribed texts and topics. With playground and classroom as the axis points that extend beyond their conventional meanings and temporal and spatial properties, the book sites schooling as a cultural practice that shape our everyday lives.

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Children’s experiences of classrooms Talking about being pupils in the classroom


Free Download Eleanore Hargreaves, "Children’s experiences of classrooms: Talking about being pupils in the classroom"
English | ISBN: 1473957168 | 2017 | 152 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
If children are to succeed and progress at school, schools and teachers need to understand how children experience the classroom. What do they think? How does school make them feel?

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Children’s experiences of classrooms Talking about being pupils in the classroom


Free Download Eleanore Hargreaves, "Children’s experiences of classrooms: Talking about being pupils in the classroom"
English | ISBN: 1473957168 | 2017 | 152 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
If children are to succeed and progress at school, schools and teachers need to understand how children experience the classroom. What do they think? How does school make them feel?

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Loose Parts Learning in K-3 Classrooms


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English | ISBN: 0876599277 | 2021 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 29 MB
Loose parts. You have heard the term, probably in the context of promoting engaging play with open-ended, natural, and manufactured materials that can be manipulated with limitless possibilities. In this book, discover how a loose parts mindset promotes active learning in the early elementary classroom, enhancing curriculum and ensuring connection to state standards. Offering inspiration and guidance on developing, applying, and teaching a loose parts mindset, the authors break down common myths of using loose parts for learning and walk you through getting started in the classroom and on the school grounds. Examine your role as an educator, address safety concerns, and explore how you might evaluate and assess loose parts in the classroom. The inspiring photographs in this book showcase ways to apply the loose parts mindset to science, technology, reading and literacy, engineering, art, and math lessons. Use this book as a smorgasbord of ideas-pick and choose ones that work for you, your students, and your community. None of us is too old for a little loose parts play!

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Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms


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English | 2022 | ISBN: 1681407078 | 261 Pages | EPUB (True) | 11 MB
Thinking made visible: That’ s what happens when elementary students record their thoughts in science notebooks. This practical guide shows how notebooks can become a tangible record of their emerging understanding of and proficiency in science. Students can use their notebooks to pose questions, write down observations, work through puzzling data, or think through new ideas. You can use them to ascertain each student’ s strengths and challenges in participating in the academic work of science.

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