Download or read book Teach the Best and Stomp the Rest written by William C. Knaak and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an experienced analysis of the failures of American schools to provide learning for a majority of its students including those known as the forgotten halfand the reasons for those failures. It explores who is being educated, and what is known about learning in terms of prerequisites, brain differences and cultures. The book describes the failed initiatives of more money, class size reduction, school choice, magnet schools, vouchers, and merit pay for teachers. Charter schools dont cut it for a majority of our children. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race To the Top (RTT) are expensive, unmitigated disasters. The American schools have mostly missed the promise of change and technology and are now engaged in massive fallacious testing, resulting in little benefit to the nation and significant harm to the children. Outrageously priced Higher Education has little to offer to improve the national education malaise, and lumbers on in its dismal, disorderly state. However, American schools in their INNOCENCE are a product of and restricted by their governmental, economic, civic, and ecologic environment. As described in the closure of the book, The Future, the major structural changes needed to re-create our national learning system have overrun national planning and thinking capacity. Fortunately, there are promising patterns of change in progress.
Download or read book Responsive Classroom for Music Art PE and Other Special Areas written by Responsive Classroom and published by Center for Responsive Schools, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-07-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responsive Classroom practices have helped thousands of special area teachers for more than 30 years. Here you'll find practical suggestions, charts, planners, and examples from experienced special area teachers who use Responsive Classroom practices every day. You'll learn how to: Open and close each period in calm, orderly waysSet students up for success by modeling and practicing skills and routinesUse positive teacher languageEngage students more deeplyRefocus and recharge students with quick, fun, movement breaksRespond to misbehavior to get students back to learning
Download or read book Teaching Critical Thinking written by Laura Billings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help students meet today’s literacy demands with this new book from Terry Roberts and Laura Billings. The authors show how a seminar approach can lead students deeper into a text and improve their speaking, listening, and writing skills, as recommended by the Common Core State Standards. Roberts and Billings provide easy-to-follow information on implementing Paideia Seminars, in which students discuss a text and ask open-ended questions about it. When teachers use this lesson format, students are exposed to a wide range of increasingly complex texts. They also learn how to collaborate, talk about, and reflect on what they’re reading, to make meaning independently and together. Seminars can be done in English class and across the curriculum, using social studies documents or math problems as the texts under discussion. Teaching Critical Thinking also offers an array of practical resources: teacher lesson plans student samples a list of possible ideas and values for discussion a guide to asking good questions during a seminar six full seminar plans (including the texts), covering literature, social studies, and science topics
Download or read book The Grace of Kings written by Ken Liu and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time Two men rebel together against tyranny—and then become rivals—in this first sweeping book of an epic fantasy series from Ken Liu, recipient of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. Hailed as one of the best books of 2015 by NPR. Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, and shapeshifting gods. Once the emperor has been overthrown, however, they each find themselves the leader of separate factions—two sides with very different ideas about how the world should be run and the meaning of justice. Fans of intrigue, intimate plots, and action will find a new series to embrace in the Dandelion Dynasty.
Download or read book One on One written by Jack Temchin and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Acting Series). Over 75 monologues for women from the contemporary stage, written by these and other major dramatists: David Mamet * Brian Friel * Steve Tesich * Harold Pinter * Alan Ayckbourn * Timberlake Wertenbaker * Neil Simon * John Patrick Shanley * Jane Anderson * Elizabeth Swados * Ariel Dorfman * Craig Lucas.
Download or read book Teaching Children Dance written by Susan M. Flynn and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-two new dance learning experiences for K-12 students of all ability levels. Wide variety of dance styles. Instructional videos and online resources to make teaching effective and smooth. Strategies in developing learning experiences and planning lessons and units.
Download or read book Modern Reading Text in 4 4 written by Louis Bellson and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1963 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has become a classic in all musicians' libraries for rhythmic analysis and study. Designed to teach syncopation within 4/4 time, the exercises also develop speed and accuracy in sight-reading with uncommon rhythmic figures. A must for all musicians, especially percussionists interested in syncopation.
Download or read book All the Teacher s Prisoners written by N.J. Adel and published by Salacious Queen Publishing. This book was released on with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I investigate a murder at a paranormal prison and end up behind bars with four psycho inmates. Flynn Native American, half vampire, half lion shifter, in prison for double homicide (and my student) Ronan Black, silver hair, violet eyes, treacherous fae, in prison for identity theft and possible murder Marco Dangerously sexy, bisexual Italian demon, and one of the devil's bastards, in prison for armed robbery Aedan HUGE Irish golden dragon, in prison for arson They will use me in ways I never thought possible. But they don't know who I really am. What I really am. My family has danced with the devil, and I inherited the darkness. When in danger, when my family is in danger, I don't just bite, I don't just kill, I'm more psycho than all of you, and I won't hesitate to bring the world upside down. Enjoy this 110k-word (500-page) standalone. You don't have to read the previous books in this universe first to read All the Teacher's Prisoners, but download the big finale, All the Teacher's Little Pets, next for the closure you'll seek after reading this book! You like vampires, shifters, monsters, devils and demons, faes, dragons and dark stories, this paranormal why choose romance is definitely for you. Download your copy now. Because you have to.
Download or read book The Earth Is Enough written by Harry Middleton and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this touching memoir of his boyhood on a farm in the Ozark foothills, Harry Middleton joins the front rank of nature writers alongside Edward Hoagland and Annie Dillard. It is the year1965, a year rife with change in the world and in the life of a boy whose tragic loss of innocence leads him to the healing landscape of the Ozarks. Haunted by indescribable longing, twelve year old Harry is turned over to two enigmatic guardians, men as old as the hills they farm and as elusive and beautiful as the trout they fish for with religious devotion. Seeking strength and purpose from life, Harry learns from his uncle, grandfather, and their crazy Sioux neighbor, Elias Wonder, that the pulse of life beats from within the deep constancy of the earth, and from one’s devotion to it. Amidst the rhythm of an ancient cadence, Harry discovers his home: a farm, a mountain stream, and the eye of a trout rising.
Download or read book Diligence written by Nichole M Willden and published by anonymous. This book was released on 2023-09-09 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do to get the truth? Emma has spent her life steeped in secrets. She’s suffocating on lies and drowning in the depths of her secretive double-life. When the Guild splits, and Emma is separated from her only friends, she finds Obedience and Diligence stifling. After years of learning to hide in plain sight and obey without question, Emma has reached her limit. Diligence takes us on a roller-coaster of Emma’s angsty search for answers. From fistfights to fishnets, a new school brings challenges Emma has never faced. And if her regular teen life was not difficult enough, the appearance of the CIA complicates everything further. They tempt her with what she has always wanted: a family who loves her and accepts her the way she is. All she has to do to get it is betray Leader. Now, the secrets belong to Emma. If Leader won’t give her the truth she deserves, she will find out for herself. No matter the cost. When faced with the truth, will Emma finally find a way to get free, or will she once again succumb to Leader’s demand for Diligence? Buy Diligence today to delve deeper into Emma’s life in the mysterious and dangerous cult, The Guild
Download or read book The Humane Gardener written by Nancy Lawson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.
Download or read book Re Purposing Suzuki written by Maria Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-Purposing Suzuki: A Hybrid Approach to Actor Training introduces a system of text analysis that synthesizes physical, psychological, and vocal components in order to truthfully embody heightened texts and contexts. By understanding how the author has re-purposed Suzuki and other physical training methods, as well as Stanislavski, readers will gain an awareness of how to analyze a particular training method by extrapolating its key components and integrating it into a holistic, embodied approach to text analysis. The book explores a method of physical scoring via Rules of the Body and Rules of Composition, as well as a method of approaching heightened texts from Greek drama to post-modern playwrights that draws on the individual actor’s imagination and experience and integrates voice, mind, and body. Readers will be able to either replicate this approach, or apply the logic of its building blocks to assemble their own personal creative process applicable to a variety of performance genres. This is a source book for actors, theatre students, practitioners, and educators interested in assembling tools derived from different sources to create alternative approaches to actor training. While the process outlined in the book evolves in a classroom setting, the components of the pedagogy can also be practiced by individuals who are interested in finding new ways to explore text and character and bring them into their own personal practice.
Download or read book The Best Teacher 15 written by qingqing and published by HAROBER INC. This book was released on with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It tells the story of Fang Qin stopping a robbery on a bus in Qinhe City, showing his wisdom and courage, and creating an emotional resonance with the heroine Luo Yunshan. Fang Qin used survival skills in a series of incidents and finally chose to become a teacher. In his interactions with Zhang Lin, Zheng Xiaoyun and others, he showed friendship and emotional entanglement, solved various problems at the same time, and established a deep friendship. Fang Qin also helped Zhang Lin learn fighting skills and handled many crisis incidents, including rescuing Zhang Lin who was under siege and handling Zhong Tai'an's corruption case.
Download or read book The Best Teacher 18 written by qingqing and published by HAROBER INC. This book was released on with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It tells the story of Fang Qin stopping a robbery on a bus in Qinhe City, showing his wisdom and courage, and creating an emotional resonance with the heroine Luo Yunshan. Fang Qin used survival skills in a series of incidents and finally chose to become a teacher. In his interactions with Zhang Lin, Zheng Xiaoyun and others, he showed friendship and emotional entanglement, solved various problems at the same time, and established a deep friendship. Fang Qin also helped Zhang Lin learn fighting skills and handled many crisis incidents, including rescuing Zhang Lin who was under siege and handling Zhong Tai'an's corruption case.
Download or read book Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005 written by JT LeRoy and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Da Capo Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues and more, it is essential reading for anyone who loves great music and accomplished writing. Scribes of every imaginable sort-novelists, poets, journalists, musicians-are gathered to create a multi-voiced snapshot of the year in music writing that, like the music it illuminates, is every bit as thrilling as it is riveting.Past writers have included:Elizabeth MEndez Berry * Ta-Nehisi Coates * Michael Corcoran * Robbie Fulks * Michaelangelo Matos * Alex Ross * Roni Sarig * Joel Selvin * Tour8E * Lynn Hirschberg * Chuck Klosterman * Elizabeth Gilbert * Jay McInerney * Elvis Costello * Susan Orlean * Jonathan Lethem * David Rakoff * Mike Doughty * Lorraine Ali * Greil Marcus * Richard Meltzer * Robert Gordon * Sarah Vowell * Nick Tosches * Anthony DeCurtis * William Gay * Whitney Balliett * Lester Bangs * Rosanne Cash * Eddie Dean * Selwyn Seyfu Hinds * Kate Sullivan * Alec Wilkinson * David Hadju * Lenny Kaye * The Onion * Mark Jacobson * Gary Giddins * John Leland * Luc Sante * Monica Kendrick * Kalefa Sanneh
Download or read book Writing Strategies That Work written by Lori G. Wilfong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the ten keys to effective writing instruction! In this dynamic book, bestselling author Lori G. Wilfong takes you through today’s best practices for teaching writing and how to implement them in the classroom. She also points out practices that should be avoided, helping you figure out how to update your teaching so that all students can reach success. You’ll discover how to... Make sure students have enough work in a genre before you assign writing Develop thoughtful, short writing prompts that are "infinite" and not finite Have students read and learn from master authors in the genre they are writing Create a writing community so that writing is not an isolated activity Use anchor charts and minilessons, along with rubrics and checklists Implement revising strategies, not just editing strategies, taught in context Use conferencing to grow students as thoughtful, reflective writers Let narratives be personal and creative, focusing on details and imagery Let informational writing explore a topic creatively and in depth Let argument writing be situated in real-world application and not be limited to one-sided, "what-if" debates Every chapter begins with an engaging scenario, includes the "why" behind the practice and how it connects to the Common Core, and clearly describes how implement the strategy. The book also contains tons of handy templates that you can reproduce and use in your own classroom. You can photocopy these templates or download them from our website at http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138812444.
