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December 21, 2024

What About Rose Using Teacher Research to Reverse School Failure

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Free Download Susan L. Lytle, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, ""What About Rose?" Using Teacher Research to Reverse School Failure"
English | 2007 | pages: 217 | ISBN: 0807747882 | PDF | 0,6 mb
Every year, thousands of urban minority students enter college academically underprepared to meet the challenges that await them. In this book, Smokey Wilson shares her 30-year-long search for better instructional strategies to help these adult learners (many of them African Americans) develop the basic literacy skills needed to succeed in college. Through detailed portraits of students in an urban community college, Wilson shows us when learning happens, why it happens, and what happens when it fails to appear. The text features "A Guide to Classroom Research for Teachers" that outlines the five stages of research and contains exercises to help jumpstart teachers who are tentative about doing research.

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December 16, 2024

Teaching About Geometric Optics Teacher’s Notes

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Free Download Teaching About Geometric Optics Teacher’s Notes by Jane Bray Nelson and Jim Nelson
English | January 1, 2020 | ISBN: 0735422737 | 336 pages | PDF | 15 Mb
Teaching About Geometric Teacher’s Notes guides physics teachers to help students develop a foundational understanding of geometric optics. The cornerstone of photonics systems, geometric optics, have applications in a wide range of industries including technology, medical, and military sectors. This book covers the basics of light propagation, reflection and refraction and the use of simple optical elements such as mirrors, prisms, lenses, and optical fibers. Key elements 46 activities on geometric optics, covering a wide range of topics Easy implementation, with a copy-ready student sheet and teacher notes included References to appropriate Next Generation Science Standards Physics educators and teachers in other science disciplines will fi nd this book to be an invaluable resource to teach the fundamentals. This volume contains only the notes for Teaching About Geometric Student Edition.

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November 28, 2024

Lighting the Global Lantern A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Haiku and Related Literary Forms

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Free Download Terry Ann Carter, "Lighting the Global Lantern: A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Haiku and Related Literary Forms"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 098654731X | PDF | pages: 195 | 24.0 mb
This guide for secondary school and college educators leads them through the history, forms, and beauty of Japanese poetry. Most of the work is on haiku, but there are also chapters on haibun, tanka, and haiga. Traditional and contemporary examples of all four forms appear throughout, along with ideas for classroom instruction and a wealth of print and web-based resources.

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October 4, 2024

Kabul Classroom Memoir of an American Teacher in Afghanistan

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Free Download P.B. Travis, "Kabul Classroom: Memoir of an American Teacher in Afghanistan"
English | ISBN: 0786476370 | 2013 | 244 pages | EPUB | 15 MB
The author, at age 60-something, decided she was ready to do tackle something different, somewhere completely different. This book recounts the school year she spent in Kabul, teaching at the American University of Afghanistan. She tells of her life at the school, in the guesthouse, and out and about in the city-all within the security parameters necessary in a war zone. Life with the threat of kidnapping and bombings was not so easy.

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