Subjects:  1. Curricula    2. Education    3. Education / Teaching    4. English as a Second Language    5. Teaching Methods & Materials - Foreign Language    6. Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading    7. ELT: teaching theory & methods    8. Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language    9. Language and languages--Study and teaching   

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A Different Kind of Classroom : Teaching w/ Dimensions of L
I really enjoyed the concept that the book was trying to convey, but found the book tedious and difficult to understand.I would definitely need a workshop or class in order to implement the ideas into my classroom. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Curricula    2. Curriculum planning    3. Education    4. Education / Teaching    5. Educational Psychology    6. Educational tests and measurem    7. Learning, Psychology of    8. Teaching    9. Teaching Methods & Materials - Classroom Planning    10. United States    11. Teaching skills & techniques   

Subjects:  1. Curricula    2. Curriculum planning    3. Education    4. Education / Teaching    5. Elementary School Curricula    6. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    7. Parent Participation    8. Parenting - General    9. Sixth grade (Education)    10. United States    11. Education / Parent Participation   

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Clear guidelines for a stronger community
As a former student at Nueva, a school that included Self Science in their curriculum, I was constantly amazed while reading this book by its accuracy and specificity.The book clearly, with many examples and guidelines, laysout a year-long (or two-year) curriculum that allows students to learnabout and make connections with others as well as themselves.Self Scienceis one of the most valuable classes I've ever taken. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Curricula    2. Education    3. Education / Teaching    4. Educational Psychology    5. Elementary    6. Emotional intelligence    7. Self-perception    8. Study and teaching (Elementary    9. Study and teaching (Elementary)   

Subjects:  1. Classroom Management    2. Curricula    3. Education    4. Education / Teaching    5. Problems, exercises, etc    6. Teaching    7. Teaching Methods & Materials - General    8. United States    9. Curriculum planning & development    10. Education / Curricula    11. Industrial or vocational training    12. Teacher training   

Editorial Review

Everyone wonders why American schools have gone bad. E.D. Hirsch, author of Cultural Literacy, offers a compelling explanation.Schools do a lousy job of transmitting "core knowledge" to their students, he says.To improve, they must abandon all of their feel-good theories about "critical thinking" and work harder to endow kids with intellectual capital at an early age. It may sound like common sense, but this important book shows why so many educators appear to have lost theirs. ... Read more

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Best thing about this book is the glossary
While Hirsch does a good job of listing most of the trends in public school education, he does a truly dismal job of explaining why they don't work. In fact, even though I lean towards more traditional learning, I thought he was so off base with his reasons as to *why* this or that educational technique doesn't work, that actually I found I agreed in several cases with his opponents, which I don't think was the aim of his book, lol.
A rebuttal to post-modern educational theory
As I read this book I reflected on how current formalistic educational theory parallels post-modernism in literature and visual art. In art and literature, the importance of formalism grew until content became nothing more than an mannequin for displaying the artist's cleverness, giving us conceptual art and critically impeccable novels that were totally devoid of plot or ideas. This parallels the conflict between "critical thinking" against "cultural capital." Cultural capital says that you have to know what the human experience talking about before you can join in the conversation. Critical thinking says that this conversation is no more than a laboratory for testing various forms of analysis.
They've Spent Years Telling Me What My Learning Style Is....
... When the hell are they going to teach me something?!Read more

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Subjects:  1. Activity programs    2. Curricula    3. Education    4. Education / Teaching    5. Science    6. Secondary    7. Study and teaching (Secondary)    8. Teaching Methods & Materials - Science & Technology    9. United States    10. Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Science & Technology   

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An Essential Book for Writing Teachers
This book makes it possible for teachers of writing to sit beside Judy Davis and Sharon Hill as they teach in their classrooms in the Manhattan New School.As the title suggests, this book is full of practical strategies for teaching students to write well.But the book ismuch more ambitious than that.It gives us a window into how these two incredible writing teachers think about children and curriculum in a writing workshop. For all of that, readers of this book will be thankful each time they return to the pages of the book to learn more and more. ... Read more

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Subjects:  1. Child development    2. Cognitive Psychology    3. Curricula    4. Early Childhood Curriculum    5. Early childhood education    6. Education    7. Education / Teaching    8. Intelligence    9. Multiple intelligences    10. Preschool & Kindergarten    11. United States    12. Curriculum planning & development    13. Education / Curricula    14. Industrial or vocational training   

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Curriculum Mapping
Easy read and quick to finish.I ordered this book to fulfill my master's class, EXED590 at Western Kentucky University requirement. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Curricula    2. Curriculum evaluation    3. Curriculum planning    4. Education    5. Education / Teaching    6. Curriculum planning & development    7. Education / Curricula   

Subjects:  1. Aims & Objectives    2. Children with disabilities    3. Curricula    4. Education    5. Education / Teaching    6. Individualized education progr    7. Individualized education programs    8. Medical    9. Methods Of Instruction In Special Education    10. Special Education - General    11. Special education    12. Teaching Methods & Materials - Classroom Planning    13. Education / Special Education / General   

Subjects:  1. Education    2. Education / Teaching    3. General    4. Study And Teaching Of Specific Subjects    5. Teaching Methods & Materials - Classroom Planning    6. Teaching Methods & Materials - General    7. Teaching Methods & Materials - Language Arts    8. Education / General   

Subjects:  1. Aims & Objectives    2. Aims And Objectives Of Education    3. Aims and objectives    4. Curricula    5. Education    6. Education / Teaching    7. Evaluation    8. Lesson planning    9. Methods Of Instruction And Study (General)    10. Teaching Methods & Materials - Classroom Planning    11. Education / Evaluation    12. Examinations & assessment    13. Primary / junior schools    14. Secondary schools   

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Good reference for teachers and parents.
I am a parent and bought this book for use with my children. I would recommend it to all parents. You never know when it would come in handy.

The BestGraphic Organizer Resource I Have Found
As a reading teacher, I use graphic organizers a great deal with my K-6 students.Although I own several graphic organizer resource books, this is the one I use most often.The organizers are unique, fun, and very easy to use.If you are going to purchase just one graphic organizer resource, this is the one I most highly recommend.

Love It!
I must say that this is one of the better graphic organizer books that I have purchased. I have many of them but this one seems to be one of my tried and true graphic organizer books. I have used it for different stories, different subject areas, and different grade levels. This is a book that will not have time to collect dust! I recommend this book! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aids and devices    2. Curricula    3. Education    4. Education / Teaching    5. Elementary    6. Teaching    7. Teaching Methods & Materials - Classroom Planning    8. Teaching Methods & Materials - General    9. Teaching Methods & Materials - Workbooks    10. Education / General    11. Graphic organizers   

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If you want a book that will help you in the classroom...
...I don't believe this is a book you will want.
Fashionable Nonsense
Glasser takes an idea that has some merit and then keeps pushing it long after it becomes unhelpful.Glasser would have teachers quit using rewards and punishments to motivate students.He tries to justify this warm and fuzzy theory by pointing out misuses of rewards and punishments but its hard to understand how he could be blind to productive and fair uses of rewards and punishments that many teachers use.I know a poor teacher that use Glasser's model and a teacher that is good despite using it.If you want more objective research on schooling check out Stevenson and Stigler's the Learning Gap.

It's "Control Theory" all over again.
This book is the updated of "Control Theory in the Classroom". If you have that book, you don't need this one. If you don't, this is a great book for educators. ... Read more

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good but not specific to short stories
I wanted a book to show me the difference in technique between a short story and novel length. This book didn't help me. If you want an overall view of how to write, this book is simple and arranged well, but I'm not sure why the title empahsis is on short story.

Good Quick Reference Guide
Schaum's guide is a good quick reference guide in the same sense a good gourmet cookbook may serve as a quick reference guide for getting a creative meal started. It is helpful in recalling key incredients and in just what portions and in what order they should be presented but as far as a guide to inspire, I must report this guide is NOT!Sadly, what is needed is a chapter entitled, "Ideas!!! And how to put form to them."
This book is a gem
Over the past few months I have collected and read many books on creative writing with a slant towards the art and technique of fiction. All the while I write and read everyday improving my writing and improving my understanding. I can certainly recommend many books that I have recently read and studied and I must say that this book has a welcome place in my library.All of the books on fiction that I have are highly geared toward the novel.I had been struggling to write just one short story with the knowledge and experience imparted from other books.Things just didn't fit.I bought this book with three others not expecting anything special.I started with the book and a page and a half of short story.By the time I finished reading the first chapter, everything was so clear that I put the book down, and, with surprising success, finishedmy short story.It only took a matter of hours.I am a page and a half into another story told entirely from the omniscient point of view.I would also like to say that many of the books I have include a pre-amble or first section on the struggle of writing well.I have found many of these depressing even when I am shining with hope.The first chapter of this book approaches the subject of writers struggle with interspersed anecdotes of hope and quotes about the struggle and joy of writing from famous writers.If you buy this book for only one reason, let it be the first chapter.It is truly original.The rest of the book goes on to talk about many of the common elements in general creative writing that can be found in any collection.This book freed my style and showed me that I can use un-common technique to make an engaging story of less than 5,000 words.Read more

Subjects:  1. Composition & Creative Writing - Fiction    2. Composition & Creative Writing - Newspapers/Magazines    3. Curricula    4. Essays    5. Literary Collections    6. Literary Criticism    7. Reference    8. Short story    9. Technique    10. Language Arts & Disciplines / Composition & Creative Writing    11. Rhetoric    12. Writing & editing guides   

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Great Book For New Subs
I think this book would be great for new subs, but I was a little disappointed with the lesson plans.I've found myself in several situations where the teacher left me no instructions and I don't think these lesson plans would be very useful.It does have lots of great tips and some classroom management ideas though.

BEST SUB BOOK OR SHALL I SAY TEACHING BOOK AROUND!
This book has it all for new subs like me! It was written by a Mother/Daughter team who has taught for over 35 years. It has tons of things to do to make up for non-existent lesson plans and even a much needed Sub List Kit on what subs should pack in their briefcase daily. It provided great ideas and some tried and true examples. They had everything in there that you could think of and also some sample situations that you can learn a lot from. It is a well thought out book and organized very nicely with cute little illustrations. I purchased the Teacher's Bag of Tricks and Instant Success in the Classroom (the yellow book) as well and they were mainly full of lessons plans (that were so-so) or Sponge Activities (most of which needed to be reproduced). They didn't provide any examples or practical advice at all. I would say stick with this book and you will definitely have your classroom going places!!!

If Not a Super Sub, Surely a Great One!
Considering that this is a 90 pg. book on such a broad topic, the authors did a great job of putting together both relevant advice and lesson plans for subs (gr. 1-6). The book is divided into 3 main parts: tools &advice, lesson plans in 8 subject areas,& a small section on timefillers. The lessons are very meaningful & easy to implement, and theadvice is great for starters. While you still need to supplement this bookw/ other activities & ideas (no 1 book can cover it all), it'sdefinitely worth having in your collection! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aims & Objectives    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    3. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    4. Curricula    5. Teaching Methods & Materials - Classroom Planning   

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Nothing new under the sun
I thought this book was going to intruduce NEW teaching strategies for foreign languages, but in the end, it came out as a summary of methodologies and activities already being in use. If you want a better book (and not so expensive!!!) get Superteaching by Eric Jensen (co-author of Joyful Fluency). I think the book is EXTREMELY expensive for the "new" information it provides.

Old hat - expensive new coat!
"Joyful Fluency" is a visually beautiful book, and it would need to be to make up for the fact that there is not one unique or new idea in it! The content is merely a rewording of material you will find in books by Colin Rose and Ostrander and Schroeder, at a fraction of the price I might add! If you are looking for a book with lots of fuzzy ideas that avoid the subject of tackling a language head on, then this book is for you! It is ideas such as these that, in my opinion as a self-made polyglot and experienced language teacher, that have devalued effective and exacting language education and left us with ideas that can only really lead to pidgin fluency. I have seen it happen! The idea that language acquisition will just "happen" of it's own accord is a very common one in language education today. Any linguist worth his salts, or any language teacher - any REAL language teacher who has matered his or her language, that is, will tell you that the only way you become excellent at a language (as an adult) is to study it! The "learn as you did as a child" premise is nothing more than a gimmick! But because it smacks of the easy path to success it is welcomed with open arms. It doesn't work. Period. Rediscover your love of teaching and learning
When you see "The Brain Store, Inc.", you can expect a handsome, very readable, practical and somewhat expensive book, with illustrations, charts, and captivating sidenotes. At the beginning of each chapter of this book, there is a pie-chart of key ideas. Just flip through these 14 charts, the summaries, and "Guiding Assumptions" on p. 33, you get a good over-view. Read more

Subjects:  1. Curricula    2. Education    3. Education / Educational Psychology    4. Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General    5. Foreign Language Study / General    6. Language    7. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    8. Language and languages    9. Linguistics    10. Second language acquisition    11. Study and teaching    12. Brain    13. Education / Curricula    14. Education / Teaching    15. Educational Psychology    16. Foreign Language Study    17. Language (General)    18. Language teaching theory & methods    19. Learning    20. Learning (Psychology)    21. Teaching    22. Teaching Methods - General    23. Teaching skills & techniques   

Subjects:  1. California Basic Educational Skills Test    2. Professional - General    3. Research    4. Study Aids    5. Study And Teaching Of Specific Subjects    6. Study Guides    7. Test Prep    8. Study Aids / Professional