Prominent educators and researchers propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining cultural practices rather than eradicating them. Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of how schools can support Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, South African, and immigrant students as part of a collective movement towards educational justice in a changing world.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780807758342 20170522

• List of Figures. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction.
• 1. Backward Design.
• 2. Understanding Understanding.
• 3. Gaining Clarity on Our Goals.
• 4. The Six Facets of Understanding.
• 5. Essential Questions: Doorways to Understanding.
• 6. Crafting Understandings.
• 7. Thinking like an Assessor.
• 8. Criteria and Validity.
• 9. Planning for Learning.
• 10. Teaching for Understanding.
• 11. The Design Process.
• 12. The Big Picture: UbD as Curriculum Framework.
• 13. "Yes, but..." Afterword: Getting Started. Appendix: Sample 6-Page Template. Endnotes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. About the Authors.
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The highly anticipated second edition of Understanding by Design poses the core, essential questions of understanding and design, and provides readers with practical solutions for the teacher-designer. The book opens by analyzing the logic of backward design as an alternative to coverage and activity-oriented plans. Though backward from habit, this approach brings more focus and coherence to instruction. The text proposes a multifaceted approach, with the six "facets" of understanding. The facets combine with backward design to provide a powerful, expanded array of practical tools and strategies for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that lead students at all grade levels to genuine understanding. The second edition, a refined work, has been thoroughly and extensively revised, updated, and expanded, including improvement of the UbD Template, the key terms of UbD, dozens of worksheets, and some of the larger concepts. The authors have successfully put together a text that demonstrates what best practice in the design of learning looks like, enhancing for its audience their capability for creating more engaging and effective learning, whether the student is a third grader, a college freshman, or a faculty member.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780131950849 20160606

In this second edition of her educational text, Noddings suggests that if we make the responsiveness characteristic of caring more basic than accountability, we can accommodate both traditional and progressive preferences in one school system to the benefit of all... especially the children.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780807746097 20160528

• Each chapter begins with "Background." Most chapters conclude with "Teaching Scenarios, " "Summary" and "Discussion Questions." Preface and Acknowledgments. Overview of the Book. Overview of the Chapters. Acknowledgments.
• 1. Introducing Sheltered Instruction. Objectives. Changes in Instructional Practice. The Sheltered Instruction Approach. A Model for Sheltered Instruction. Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol. Overview of the Chapters. Using the SIOP: Getting Started.
• 2. Lesson Preparation. Content Objectives. Language Objectives. Supplementary Materials. Adaptation of Content. Meaningful Activities. Using the SIOP. The Lesson.
• 3. Building Background. Concepts Linked to Students Background. Links Made Between Past Learning and New Concepts. Key Vocabulary Emphasized. Developing Content Language. Developing School Language. The Lesson.
• 4. Comprehensible Input. Appropriate Speech for ELLs. Explanation of Academic Tasks. Use of Techniques. The Lesson.
• 5. Strategies. Strategies. Scaffolding Techniques. Questioning. The Lesson.
• 6. Interaction. Opportunities for Interaction. Grouping Configurations. Wait Time. Clarify Key Concepts in L1.
• 7. Practice/Application. Hands-On Materials and/or Manipulatives for Practice. Application of Content and Language Knowledge. Integration of Language Skills. The Lesson.
• 8. Lesson Delivery. Content Objectives. Language Objectives. Student Engagement. Pacing. The Lesson.
• 9. Indicators of Review/Assessment. Review of Key Vocabulary. Review of Key Content Concepts. Providing Feedback on Student Output. Assessment of Lesson Objectives. The Lesson.
• 10. Issues of Reading Development and Special Education for English Learners. Issues of Reading Development. Issues Related to Special Education. Special Education Referral, Assessment and Placement. Students with Special Needs.
• 11. Scoring and Interpretation of the SIOP. SIOP Heading. How to Score the SIOP. Sample Lesson. Using SIOP Scores. Reliability and Validity of the SIOP. Appendix A. Appendix B. References.
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Like no other text on the market, Making Content Comprehensible presents an empirically validated model of sheltered instruction. This text provides the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model, which provides school administrators, staff developers, teachers, teacher candidates, university faculty, and field experience supervisors with a tool for observing and quantifying a teacher's implementation of quality sheltered instruction. Making Content Comprehensible presents a coherent, specific, field-tested model of sheltered instruction that specifies the features of a high-quality sheltered lesson that teaches content material to English learners. Each of the 30 items from the SIOP model are illustrated through vignettes. Three different lessons for each item are rated and discussed, allowing the book to be applied to a variety of content areas and grade levels.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780205386413 20160611

• The importance of everyday assessment / Paul Black
• Learning through assessment: assessment for learning in the science classroom / Anne Davies
• Examining students' work / Cary I. Sneider
• Assessment of inquiry / Richard A. Duschl
• Using questioning to assess and foster student thinking / Jim Minstrell and Emily van Zee
• Involving students in assessment / Janet E. Coffey
• Reporting progress to parents and others: beyond grades / Mark Wilson and Kathleen Scalise
• Working with teachers in assessment-related professional development / Mistilina Sato
• Reconsidering large-scale assessment to heighten its relevance to learning / Lorrie A. Shepard
• Reflections on assessment / F. James Rutherford.

The second in NSTA's Science Educator's Essay Collection, Everyday Assessment is is designed to build confidence and enhance every teacher's ability to embed assessment into daily classwork. The book's insights will help make assessment a dynamic classroom process of fine-tuning how and what you teach.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780873552172 20190128

• Part I: Perspectives. Curriculum Work. Traditions of Curriculum Practice. Curriculum Theories. Curriculum Reform. Curriculum Studies. Part II: Practice. Curriculum Practice. Improving Curriculum Practice. Improving Classroom Curriculum. Improving School Curriculum.
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Intended for graduate students and teachers of introductory graduate courses in curriculum, this text provides information and resources educational professionals may need to effectively deal with the urgent and important curriculum problems they face in schools today. Readers are acquainted with the major schools of thought, value systems, lines of activity and forms of inquiry in the field. Research and scholarship on curriculum studies is cited, described and used to ground discussions of curriculum questions.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780805835021 20160528

• "The kids were on fire" : on the nature of inspired learning and potent teaching
• Spans of time that don't glow : a portrait of everyday life at Stanton High
• Seeing the world in a plot of grass : discovering the enchanting power of the aesthetic
• Forging community : an episode of deep connection
• Grasping insight : an episode of coming to know yourself
• Doing good : an episode of enacting virtue
• Tangling with the unspeakable : an episode of facing conflict in conversation
• Caught! common features in the episodes
• A letter to a colleague
• Author's note and methods.

Every teacher has powerful memories of becoming swept up in an electric moment when the classroom hums with energy and students are wholly engaged in learning. During such moments of real learning, teenagers find genuine meaning, worth, and value in their academic experiences. And their teachers find in these heightened and exuberant moments the embodiment of their best hopes and ideals as educators. How can such "teachable moments" be encouraged? What can teachers do to inspire more of these educationally vital episodes? In this book, Sam Intrator scrutinises powerful learning moments in a high school classroom. He offers five detailed portraits of these experiences, describing in each case how the teacher shaped the culture of the class, made critical pedagogical decisions, and connected students to the subject matter. Intrator confirms that seemingly magical learning moments can be cultivated, and he suggests numerous practical ideas to help teachers do so.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780300100228 20160528

• 1. Schooling in America: Where Are We Headed?
• 2. Some Concepts, Distinctions, and Definitions.
• 3. Curriculum Ideologies.
• 4. The Three Curricula That All Schools Teach.
• 5. Educational Aims, Objectives, and Other Aspirations.
• 6. Dimensions of Curriculum Planning.
• 7. On the Art of Teaching.
• 8. The Functions and Forms of Evaluation.
• 9. Reshaping Assessment in Education.
• 10. The Forms and Functions of Educational Connoisseurship and Educational Criticism.
• 11. Some Examples of Educational Criticism.
• 12. A Criticism of an Educational Criticism.
• 13. Summing Up Some of the Major Points. Index.
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For graduate level courses in curriculum development. This is a paperback reprint of the 1994 edition.This highly regarded curriculum development text by one of the most prominent figures in the field is designed to help readers understand the major approaches to curriculum planning and the formation of educational goals. In this edition, Eisner provides a conceptual framework that shows students the different ways in which the aims of education can be regarded...and, describes their implications for curriculum planning and teaching practices. Coverage is grounded in the belief that the appropriateness of any given educational practice is dependent upon the characteristics and context of the school program, and the values of the community that program serves.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780130942876 20160527

This book offers a highly revealing and troubling view of today's high school students and the ways they pursue high grades and success. Denise Pope, veteran teacher and curriculum expert, follows five motivated and successful students through a school year, closely shadowing them and engaging them in lengthy reflections on their school experiences. What emerges is a double-sided picture of school success. On the one hand, these students work hard in school, participate in extracurricular activities, serve their communities, earn awards and honours, and appear to uphold school values. But on the other hand, they feel that in order to get ahead they must compromise their values and manipulate the system by scheming, lying, and cheating. In short, they "do school", that is, they are not really engaged with learning nor can they commit to such values as integrity and community. The words and actions of these five students - two boys and three girls from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds - underscore the frustrations of being caught in a "grade trap" that pins future success to high grades and test scores. Their stories raise critical questions that are too important for parents, educators, and community leaders to ignore. Are schools cultivating an environment that promotes intellectual curiosity, cooperation, and integrity? Or are they fostering anxiety, deception, and hostility? Do today's schools inadvertently impede the very values they claim to embrace? Is the "success" that current assessment practices measure the kind of success we want for our children?
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780300090130 20160527
This book offers a revealing-and troubling-view of today's high school students and the ways they pursue high grades and success. Veteran teacher Denise Pope follows five highly regarded students through a school year and discovers that these young people believe getting ahead requires manipulating the system, scheming, lying, and cheating. On the one hand, they work hard in school, participate in extracurricular activities, serve their communities, earn awards and honors, and appear to uphold school values. But on the other hand, they feel that in order to get ahead they must compromise their values. In short, they "do school"-that is, they are not really engaged with learning nor can they commit to such values as integrity and community. The words and actions of these five students-two boys and three girls from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds-underscore the frustrations of being caught in a "grade trap" that pins future success to high grades and test scores. Their stories raise critical questions that are too important for parents, educators, and community leaders to ignore. Are schools cultivating an environment that promotes intellectual curiosity, cooperation, and integrity? Or are they fostering anxiety, deception, and hostility? Do today's schools inadvertently impede the very values they claim to embrace? Is the "success" that current assessment practices measure the kind of success we want for our children?
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780300098334 20190204

• A personal introduction: an education for all human beings
• Educational constants
• Education in the future
• Perspectives of mind and brain
• How cultures educate
• Designing education for understanding
• Disciplined approaches
• Close looks
• "Multiple intelligences" approaches to understanding
• Getting there
• In closing.

The brilliant educator who revolutionized our thinking with his theory of multiple intelligences now asks what--and how--we should be teaching our children.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780140296242 20180416

The aim of this book is to document the dynamic tension between Americans' faith in education as a panacea, and the moderate pace of change in educational practices.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780674892835 20160528

This book challenges the traditional organization of high school studies around the academic disciplines. Noddings argues that such emphasis shortchanges not only the noncollege-bound whose interests are almost ignored, but even those who are preparing for college. The latter receive schooling for the head but little for the heart and soul. Noddings counteracts this condition, insisting "that our aim should be to encourage the growth of competent, caring, loving and lovable persons", a moral priority that our educational system ignores. She argues that liberal education dictates what areas of pedagogy are socially acceptable - ignoring a student's wider range of abilities - and undervalues skills, attitudes and capacities traditionally associated with women. Contrarily, it is "precisely" the competence for caring, Nodding posits, that will prepare our students for the environment of the school, the world of work, the realm of ideas, and ultimately, for each other.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780807731789 20160527

• Instructional materials in the twentieth century: Textbooks, textbook publishers, and the quality of schooling; Textbooks and the curriculum during the progressive era, 1930-1950; Textbooks and the curriculum in the postwar era, 1950-1980; Textbooks and challenge.
• The textbook industry: Writing and editing textbooks; The small publisher in a national market; Small publishers; The elementary and high school market today.
• Textbooks and society: The politics of textbook publishing, adoption, and use; Textbooks consensus and controversy; Textbook evaluation and selection; Textbook use and teacher professionalism.
• Curriculum and instructional materials in the future: Alternative technologies as textbooks and the social imperatives of educational change; Textbooks, curriculum and school improvement.

• 1. Introduction.
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In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to foster such early intuitions and then build on them in increasingly formal and abstract ways as education progresses. Bruner's foundational case for the spiral curriculum has influenced a generation of educators and will continue to be a source of insight into the goals and methods of the educational process.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780674710016 20190129