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Many curriculum books treat teaching as something teachers do to or for children Deb Curtis and Margie Carter, best-selling authors in the early learning field, believe teaching is a collaborative process in which teachers reexamine their own philosophies and practices while facilitating children's learning.

Each chapter in this curriculum framework includes a conceptual overview followed by classroom stories and photographs to illustrate the concepts.

The book helps teachers create materials and a classroom culture reflective of their values: Teach through observation, reflection, inquiry, and action, and encourage children to represent their learning in multiple ways, including songs, stories, and drama.

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The major theme of The Principalship is leadership based on reflective practice and moral authority This book also emphasizes school culture, standards, and building community. This edition aims to inform future principals about the decisions they will make about their practice and how those decisions will affect students and teachers. Extensively updated with new emphasis given to diversity as a part of community building, school character as an important ingredient in school effectiveness, new definitions of school effectiveness, and a new view of the process of change. For anyone interested in educational administration..
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Well known for its emphasis on reflection, this very accessible K-12 general methods book has updated its model for reflective planning in teaching to better illustrate the connection between planning and professional standards. In addition to reflective teaching, this edition explores classroom management, diversity, standards, curriculum and lesson planning, active and authentic learning, technology in education, assessment, and working in the school community. General K-12 Inservice Teachers..
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Over a decade ago, Jeffrey Wilhelm s groundbreaking book showed educators how to think of reading as a personally meaningful, pleasurable, and productive pursuit. In the 13 years since its publication, the author has experimented with and further developed all of the techniques he first explored in You Gotta BE the Book, including visual techniques, drama and action strategies, think-aloud protocols, and symbolic story representation/reading manipulatives. In this expanded edition, Wilhelm adds a new commentary to each chapter in which he reflects on the research and insights he introduced in his now classic text..
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This book applies behavior management principles to classroom teaching, with an emphasis on analyzing behavior management as an instructional problem. Managing Classroom Behavior summarizes principles of good instruction, the acting-out cycle, and how to work with students, other teachers, and parents. Behavioral principles and practices based on empirical research are illustrated with numerous examples. This book gives teachers practice in applying principles through analysis of actual case studies through self-questioning and reflection. Topics include identifying and analyzing behavior problems, basic behavior change strategies, talking with students, using the peer group, and working with other educators and parents. For educators, special educators, and educational psychologists..
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This book explores, from both the teacher's and the student's perspectives, how emergent curriculum principles and practices can improve any early childhood program. Sections on observation, documentation, assessment, and relationships that support learning provide a complete subject overview.

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"This book is an essential tool in the effort to construct teaching on a foundation of thought and care. Rejecting the simple, connect-the-dots view of teaching so prevalent today, Nancy Dana and Diane Yendol-Silva invite us into a world of teaching that is deeply intellectual and fundamentally ethical. They show us how to achieve this, offering practical, concrete steps any teacher or group of teachers can decide to take as they work to transform what they already do informally and privately into something intentional, systematic, and public."
William Ayers, Senior University Scholar, Distinguished Professor of Education
University of Illinois at Chicago

"This thoughtful and well crafted guide to classroom research is, quite simply, the best book on the topic I have encountered. It is clearly written and jargon-free; it de-mystifies the process of discipline inquiry without sacrificing its complexity and power. I will use this volume in my graduate classes and recommend it to others."
Lynne Miller, Professor of Educational Leadership
University of Southern Maine

"This book is both scholarly and practical, offering university and school-based researchers a comprehensive, theoretical, and practical foundation for teacher inquiry. Dana and Yendol-Silva have written a book that is a 'must have' for all those who are interested in bridging the gap between theory and practice."
Frances Kochan, Interim Dean, College of Education
Auburn University

The how-to guide to educator research, from "Where Do I Begin?" to your published results!

Educator research and classroom inquiry are the gold standard for how the most highly qualified, committed, and passionate educators construct their own knowledge about teaching, learning, content, curriculum, classroom practice, professional growth, and social justice. This how-to guide to classroom inquiry takes educators through the process step by step, from beginning to end, answering critical questions on developing the research plan, collecting the data, analyzing the data, writing the results, and publishing the results. This is sure to be an essential guide for teachers, teacher trainers, teacher educators, and professional development schools. The Reflective Educator's Guide to Classroom Research leads prospective and veteran educators alike on a journey that includes:

• Questioning teaching, learning, and school reform
• Sharing your questions, insights, and processes with other educators
• Researching through interviews, journals, and surveys
• Analyzing data and developing a write-up of your results
• Communicating your findings to the educational community

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