Tag: Learners

Free Download Robert Crosnoe, Claude Bonazzo, Nina Wu, "Healthy Learners: A Whole Child Approach to Reducing Disparities in Early Education"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0807757098 | PDF | pages: 169 | 1.6 mb
The early childhood field has long understood that targeting the intersection of health and learning is integral to serving children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Yet this developmentally informed educational philosophy has been jeopardized by an increased emphasis on standards-based accountability. In this book, the authors explain why healthy learning is good for children, schools, and society, and they suggest concrete ways to make it happen. Moving back and forth between national statistics and the intimate voices of parents, teachers, and service providers in a large urban school district, they formulate an action plan for educating the whole child and reducing educational inequities. While the book covers a broad spectrum of American children, special attention is given to the growing population of Mexican immigrant children. Chapters include: Issues to Ponder, Keywords, Take-Home Messages, and Next Questions.

Free Download Making content comprehensible for English learners: the SIOP model By Jana J. Echevarria, MaryEllen J. Vogt, Deborah J. Short
2008 | 281 Pages | ISBN: 0205518869 | PDF | 29 MB
One of the most influential books in the field in years! Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP® Model presents a coherent, specific, field-tested model of sheltered instruction that specifies the features of a high quality sheltered lesson that teaches content material to English language learners. For twelve years, educators have turned to Jana Echevarría, MaryEllen Vogt, and Deborah Short for an empirically validated model of sheltered instruction. In the Third Edition of this best-seller, the authors include new research findings and studies on the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP®) Model, which offers school administrators, teachers, teacher candidates, coaches, university faculty, and field experience supervisors a tool for observing and quantifying a teacher’s implementation of quality sheltered instruction. Ringing Endorsements "A framework that will engage, support, and increase the academic achievement of our culturally and linguistically diverse students. The [SIOP Model went] from good to great!"-Socorro Herrera, Kansas State University "Readability, organization, and practicality! The SIOP addresses precisely the needs that my beginning teachers face…the CD for SIOP…makes it all understandable. I love the book!"-Danny Brassell, California State University, Dominguez Hills Take a Glimpse Inside the Third Edition:New, user-friendly format of the SIOP® protocol. Background Sections include descriptions of the eight components and thirty features of the SIOP® Model, and are updated to reflect recent research and best practices to help readers plan and prepare effective sheltered lessons.Practical Guidelines to help readers develop effective language and content objectives.Discussion Questions have been rewritten and are appropriate for portfolio development in pre-service and graduate classes, for professional development workshops, or for teacher reflection and application.A groundbreaking CD-ROM with video clips, interviews of the authors, and reproducible resources (e.g., lesson plan formats), make this the perfect professional development asset for any grade level or content area teacher!

Free Download 99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP Model By MaryEllen Vogt, Jana Echevarria
2008 | 201 Pages | ISBN: 0205521061 | PDF | 12 MB
The Perfect Companion to Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP® Model!!! This long-awaited new book by acclaimed authors MaryEllen Vogt and Jana Echevarria offers research-based, SIOP®-tested techniques for lessons that include the eight SIOP® components. The 99 ideas and activities in this book include a few familiar techniques that have been shown to be especially effective for ELLs, as well as many new ideas for SIOP® teachers. All promote student-to-student and teacher-to-student interaction and involvement proven to be so necessary for English language acquisition and content development. This book is surely to become an indispensable resource for teachers of English learners.

Free Download Anna Cassalia, "Evaluative Thinking for Advanced Learners, Grades 3-5 (Integrated Lessons in Higher Order Thinking Skills)"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 103219927X, 1032214236 | PDF | pages: 201 | 166.4 mb
Evaluative Thinking for Advanced Learners, Grades 3-5 will teach students to think critically about values, issues, and ideas while creating defensible arguments.

Free Download Business English for Intermediate English learners
Published 1/2024
Created by Edward Abrahams
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 17 Lectures ( 1h 45m ) | Size: 1.76 GB

Free Download Ana Sofia Gonzalez, "The Influence of Cultural Contexts in Learners’ Attributions for Success and Failure in Foreign Language Learning"
English | ISBN: 1443874477 | 2015 | 350 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Attribution theory has attracted considerable attention in recent years, especially in the field of language learning. A great share of the research conducted in this area has attempted to uncover factors that could influence learners’ perceptions of success and failure in foreign language learning. Particular emphasis has been given to factors like age, gender, perceived level of success, and language studied, and some suggestions that learners’ cultures also play a part have been made, although conclusions based on researchers’ assumptions of learners’ culture characteristics can run the risk of falling into stereotyping. This book is the result of research conducted to show that learners’ cultural characteristics (previously researched and analysed by means of grounded theory and factor analysis) may influence not only the attributions mentioned by them for their successes and failures in learning English, but also the way learners see these attributions in terms of their dimensions of locus of causality, stability and controllability (a classification that has been regarded as common-sense and has, therefore, often been made by researchers themselves). This book will be of interest to scholars whose research focus is in theories of motivation and self-theories, especially as they are applied to learning in general, and language learning in particular. It will also be useful to language teachers, especially those working in foreign language learning contexts as they are in a good position to identify reasons for their learners’ lack of motivation caused by their success and failure perceptions, and may have some ideas on how to retrain learners’ attributions, particularly those which are more external and stable.

Free Download Anna Cassalia, "Divergent Thinking for Advanced Learners, Grades 3-5 (Integrated Lessons in Higher Order Thinking Skills)"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032199245, 1032213485 | PDF | pages: 183 | 109.2 mb
Divergent Thinking for Advanced Learners, Grades 3-5 will develop students’ specific creative thinking skills.

Free Download Yingmei Luo, "A New Representation of Chinese Learners: Experiences of Chinese Learners of English in Tertiary Sino-Australian Program"
English | ISBN: 9811621519 | 2021 | 155 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines Chinese tertiary students’ experiences of learning English in Sino-Australian programs in China. Using an institutional ethnography, the book examines one well-established Sino-Australian program based at a Chinese university. The book explores the ways that participant students used the Chinese words, tropes and their meanings to describe their English learning experiences with both local Chinese and foreign English teachers. This book introduces an innovative theoretical framework, "representation theory with a multilingual perspective", to analyse how Chinese students’ everyday experiences are constructed and mediated through language, discourse and identity. This framework also highlights graphic examples of how concepts are created in both Chinese and English, and thus serves as a powerful tool for deconstructing dichotomies between China and the West. The aim of this book is, then, two-fold: to show how a novel theoretical lens can help us to develop more nuanced understandings of Chinese students, and to propose a new methodological and theoretical framework through which one can challenge the monolingual subjectivity and parochial views of both Chinese and Western conceptions.

Free Download Sandra Ratcliff Daffron, Ronald M. Cervero, "Planning Programs for Adult Learners: A Practical Guide"
English | 2013 | pages: 633 | ISBN: 0470770376 | PDF | 4,7 mb
Planning Programs for Adult Learners, Third Edition covers the development of adult education programs in clear, specific detail. This popular step-by-step guide contains information on every area of program planning for adult learners, from understanding the purpose of educational programs to obtaining suitable facilities to incorporating technology appropriately. For educators and practitioners for whom planning programs is a full-time responsibility or only a part of their jobs, as well as volunteers in a variety of organizations, will find this book to be an essential tool.

Free Download Brad Garner, "Engaged Learners and Digital Citizens"
English | ISBN: 1443897302 | 2016 | 190 pages | PDF | 689 KB
The world of higher education is entering a new phase in its history. Now, and in the coming decades, the ubiquitous role of digital technology will dramatically influence the manner in which teaching and learning are designed and delivered. This book encourages faculty to adopt a proactive stance in relation to technology through the use of engaging digital tools that promote skill acquisition and inspire critical thinking in todays college students (and tomorrows leaders). The book delineates a conceptual model for digital learning, and provides specific examples of digital tools and their possible applications for teaching and learning. It will also assist faculty in making the leap to operationalizing that model within the context of the courses they teach, by highlighting how to identify instructional priorities and match digital tools with identified needs.