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Now even more complete, with updated lists of available resource materials, this manual is your access guide to home schooling- maximizing our family life while providing a quality education for your children. If you're considering homeschooling, this book is a must-read before you decide; and if you've been at it for awhile, it's a fresh perspective, with plenty of tactics for renewing your energy and motivating your kids. With wit and wisdom gleaned...
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Contemporary education research suggests that experiential learning is a primary component of academic success. School campuses around the globe (elementary- university) are abuzz with terms like collaborative development, project-based learning and kinesthetic processes. The common denominators:
• A universal desire to place students into Actively Doing vs. Passively Knowing learning environments
• A universal frustration as to how to implement...
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Michael Bonner knew he wanted to be a teacher after his favorite college professor, Dr. Poulson, inspired him. The professor's passion and love for teaching prompted Michael to change his major and his life's direction. But nothing prepared Michael for the reality of a Title One school. Teaching is fun until a 7-year-old is assaulting you or you're dodging furniture being thrown at you. When you mix the craziness of a classroom with a marriage that...
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What will it take to create truly contemporary learning environments that meet the demands of 21st-century society, engage learners, and produce graduates who are prepared to succeed in the world? What skills and capacities do teachers and leaders need to create and sustain such schools? What actions are necessary? Bold Moves for Schools offers a compelling vision that answers these questions-and action steps to make the vision a reality. Looking...
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Quien lleva su noviazgo en serio, sabe que va mucho más allá de una simple relación: es un verdadero compromiso. En noviazgo Blindado, Renato y Cristiane Cardoso traen consejos para cualquier etapa del noviazgo. Antes, durante y después, y para cualquier edad, desde adolescentes hasta la tercera edad. Al final, nunca es demasiado temprano (ni tarde) para aprender el amor inteligente.
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In 1972, an intrepid group of teachers and students at New Trier High School (Winnetka, IL) formed the Center for Self-Directed Learning. Each student would design their own program instead of following the daily grind of standardized courses with off-the-shelf textbooks, canned lectures, and, of course, the all-important final exam. Approximately 600 students took the plunge into the unknown during the Center's 10 years. Now, more than 35 Center...
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EVALUACIN INSTITUCIONAL BASADA EN LOS SISTEMAS SUAVES Los niveles de desarrollo y crecimiento de una nacin, estn sustentados en gran medida por la calidad de su educacin. Sin educacin de calidad, un pas no podr progresar de manera sustantiva y sostenida. As, la educacin es reconocida como palanca de desarrollo, como factor de innovacin, como ventaja estratgica para la produccin y como medio insustituible para asegurar la identidad nacional. Por consiguiente,...
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Un problema fundamentalmente complejo sobre cómo evaluar el conocimiento de un niño no se puede reducir a una simple calificación de prueba. Ese es el argumento principal del libro Más allá de las pruebas, que describe siete formas de evaluación más efectivas que los resultados de las pruebas estandarizadas: (1) autoevaluaciones de los estudiantes, (2) observaciones directas del maestro sobre los estudiantes y su trabajo, (3) revisiones descriptivas...
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The Art of Self-Directed Learning is a collection of 23 stories and insights that will help you become a more motivated and self-guided learner. Drawing on a decade of research, adventures, and interviews conducted by Blake Boles (author of College Without High School and Better Than College), this book will inspire you to craft your own unconventional education, no matter whether you're a young adult, recent graduate, parent, or simply someone who...
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The 21st-century manual for before, during and after dating.
Imagine waking up one day to find out that you married the wrong person, or that you lost your true love because you ruined your relationship, or that you'd missed it when that special person came into your life. For those, who don't want to spend the rest of their lives regretting a bad decision, Bulletproof Dating is a must-read.
No matter what stage of singleness you're in, whether...
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Students need guidance to succeed academically, but they also need our help to survive and thrive in today's turbulent world. They need someone to model the attributes that will help them win not just in school but in life as well. That someone is you. With forty-eight short, inspiring chapters, this book is suited for improving your personal practice daily. Or focus on a chapter each week to encourage your staff at meetings.
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The Montessori method revolutionized how children were educated. In 'Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook', Maria Montessori explains the basics of her system, how it works and why it works. There are dozens of figures to help illustrate her points. "My method is scientific, both in its substance and in its aim. It makes for the attainment of a more advanced stage of progress, in directions no longer only material and physiological."
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'Towards a Philosophy of Education' is Charlotte Mason's final book in her Homeschooling Series, written after years of seeing her approach in action. This volume gives the best overview of her philosophy, and includes the final version of her 20 Principles. This book is particularly, directed to parents of older children, about ages 12 and up, but is a valuable overview for parents of younger children as well. Part I develops and discusses her 20...
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One size does not fit all in education – Education Transformation shows us how technology can be used to accommodate individual's needs rather than making each student force fit into the traditional classroom model which works for many but not for all. Like so many other modern conveniences, education can benefit from technological advancement, and only technology can provide personalized instruction affordably.
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Are you ready to break out of the lesson-and-worksheet rut? Use The EduProtocol Field Guide to create engaging and effective instruction, build culture, and deliver content to K–12 students in a supportive, creative environment. Smart Start activities set your students up for success with useful skills and a strong culture. The customizable EduProtocols frames can be used with nearly all subjects and grade levels and are UDL (Universal Design for...
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This book is an academic and a scientific research project that was conducted for my Masters Degree. It was accepted by North West University in South Africa by a number of panel of examiners. When reading this book one will realize that not much has been alternated or tempered of its original stated, the intention was that it must always retain its academic and scientific status. That it must maintain its original authenticity to the reader as researched...
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In Stop. Right. Now. authors and education leaders Jimmy Casas and Jeffrey Zoul identify 39 practices, programs, processes, philosophies, and people problems that schools must eliminate in order to improve education for students-and the entire school community. The status quo and average results are no longer acceptable! There are some "best practices" that we simply need to stop right now.
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This book is a collection of essays that reflect the desire and determination guiding many practitioners and researchers as they work together in more meaningful and relevant ways for literacy. The essays are organized as three series of dialogues in which an academic scholar works with a practitioner, or community leader, on a particular struggle toward teaching, learning and literacy. Together they portray the reflexive relationships involved in...
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Organic vocabulary is a term that describes a child's inner source of thoughts. Based on the early work of Sylvia Ashton-Warner in New Zealand with Maori children, organic vocabulary can help promote early literacy among children who have little connection and prior experiences with print. This book connects the early research and methodology to today's classrooms. These connections are applied to Title 1 schools (indicating low socioeconomic status),...
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¿La escuela educa? ¿Y los padres? ¿Es maleducado el que no acepta las normas? ¿Y el que las acata sin cuestionar? ¿Decir lo que se piensa es mala educación? ¿Puede la escuela seguir exigiendo puntualidad, prolijidad y orden? ¿Qué pasaría si no fuese obligatoria? ¿Funciona como una guardería para que los padres puedan trabajar? ¿Podríamos maleducar a los chicos en casa? ¿Puede haber autoridad sin confianza? ¿Y confianza sin autoridad?...
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