 | A Level Mindset: 40 activities for transforming student comm
A Level Mindset : 40 activities for transforming student commitment, motivation and productivity
Authors - Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin
Over their thirty plus years of teaching and coaching, Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin have discovered something important. Those students who make real and sustained progress at A level aren’t necessarily the ones with superb GCSEs. You might think those students who succeed at the end of Year 11 continue this upward trajectory, and those with more modest results begin to struggle. Instead, some students leap from average results in Year 11 to outstanding results in Year 13. Others seem to hit a ceiling. But why? The answer is mindset.
Successful students approach their studies with the right behaviours, skills and attitudes. They’re no different cognitively, but they work more effectively, they’re determined and organised, they give more discretionary effort, and they get top results. Success at A level is a result of character, not intelligence. In The A Level Mindset Teacher Resource, Martin and Steve share the secrets of coaching your students to grow their mindsets and get the best grades.
Suitable for teachers, tutors, heads of sixth form or anyone else who wants to help A-level students achieve their potential, The A Level Mindset Teacher Resource offers forty easy-to-use activities that will supercharge your learners’ ambition, persistence and determination. It could be your key to transforming student outcomes.
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| 9781785830242 |
 | Action Research for Improving Educational Practice
Author: Valsa Koshy Action Research for Improving Educational Practice: A Step-by-Step Guide 2ed Which topics are right for Action Research in an education context? How do you go about planning a project, collecting and analysing your data? What's the best way to present your research findings to parents, colleagues or funding bodies?
Whether you are a busy teacher doing research in your classroom, a PGCE student starting your research project, or a Masters level student writing up your dissertation, this step-by-step guide takes you through every stage involved in carrying out Action Research to improve educational practice.
In this brand new edition, you will find additional guidance on;
- the challenges of being an insider researcher
- searching and analysing literature from the internet
- children's participation and children's rights in action research projects in educational settings
- validity and authenticity in action research
- writing for publication
This book draws on Valsa Koshy's extensive experience of supervising researchers at all levels and includes examples of Action Research carried out by practitioners across a range of topics and age groups. Case studies include UK, US and international examples, allowing you to reflect on multiple perspectives of Action Research in education.
Those new to Action Research, and those looking for a straightforward explanation of the methods involved, will find this book invaluable.
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| 9781848601604 |
 | Action Research Guidebook: A Four-Stage Process for Educator
Action Research Guidebook: A Process for Pursuing Equity and Excellence in Education 3ed
by Richard Sagor and Charlene Williams
Action research is your essential tool for designing and building a better classroom or school. You know your students best, and by digging deeper into a challenge or research question and then taking informed action, you can achieve far more than any cookie-cutter curriculum or canned program. This empowering introduction to action research is ideal for new and veteran teachers, as well as principals, counselors, and other educators who are committed to school improvement. In the third edition of this bestselling guidebook, you’ll find:
•New insights on how to use reflective practice, qualitative and quantitative methods, and culturally responsive teaching to improve the success of all students
•A field-tested, four-stage action research process to lead you from brainstorming to breakthrough, with step-by-step instructions in plain English
•More illustrative examples, charts, handouts, worksheets, and sample action research reports to demystify and simplify the action research process
By tapping into the power of action research, you can improve overall student performance, eliminate achievement gaps, and enhance your own efficacy and morale.
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| 9781506350158 |
 | Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators
Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators 5ed
by Craig Mertler
Craig Mertler’s Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators introduces practicing educators to the process of conducting classroom-based action research. Practical and comprehensive, the book focuses on research methods and procedures that educators can use in their everyday practice. This Fifth Edition adds enhanced coverage of rigor and ethics in action research, means of establishing quality of both quantitative and qualitative data, as well as strengthened pedagogical features. New material includes discussions of social justice advocacy as an application of action research and the inclusion of abstracts in research reports.
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| 9781483389059 |
 | Adolescent Literacies: A Handbook of Practice-Based Research
by Kathleen Hinchman and Deborah Appleman
Showcasing cutting-edge findings on adolescent literacy teaching and learning, this unique handbook is grounded in the realities of students' daily lives. It highlights research methods and instructional approaches that capitalize on adolescents' interests, knowledge, and new literacies. Attention is given to how race, gender, language, and other dimensions of identity--along with curriculum and teaching methods--shape youths' literacy development and engagement. The volume explores innovative ways that educators are using a variety of multimodal texts, from textbooks to graphic novels and digital productions. It reviews a range of pedagogical approaches; key topics include collaborative inquiry, argumentation, close reading, and composition.
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| 9781462527670 |
 | An Introduction to Educational Research: Connecting Methods
Introduction to Educational Research: Connecting Methods to Practice
by Chad Lochmiller and Jessica Lester
Expand your understanding of educational research with this practice-first introduction. Written specifically for education practitioners, An Introduction to Educational Research: Connecting Methods to Practice approaches research methods from a practice-first perspective that aligns research with professional experiences and identifies the tools and resources readers can use when conducting their own research.
Throughout the book, the authors illuminate complex research concepts using problems of practice confronting educators to help readers make meaningful connections with key concepts and research practices. The authors present balanced coverage across research methodologies that is linked to practice, so readers clearly see research as a tool they can use to improve classrooms, schools, districts, and educational organizations.
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| 9781483319506 |
 | Asia-Pacific Education: Diversity, Challenges and Changes
Author: Philip Chan Education in Asia Pacific countries is being transformed by globalisation and the market economy. Most economies within the region have flourished due to increased regional capital flow, trade and other forms of economic and political interaction. The Asia Pacific also has rich and unique traditions, which create cultural diversity as well as common challenges, including obstacles of language and geographical separation. While these countries are well documented in Western scholarship, there is a growing reaction to the predominance of Western social theories. This response is fuelling recognition of and movement towards theories that reference the wide range of contextual and cultural perspectives available in the East.
The contributors to this volume are currently researching contemporary education in Asia Pacific countries. They offer Eastern-oriented perspectives on teacher education, parent participation, government withdrawal, textbook content, uses of modern technology, the challenges of the migrating families and tertiary students who travel from overseas for study. These commentaries highlight the issues of equity, identity and social justice and also open up dialogue between social theories that reference East as well as West.
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| 9781921867408 |
 | Assessing the Common Core: What's Gone Wrong--And How to Get
Assessing the Common Core: What's Gone Wrong--and How to Get Back on Track
Author: Robert Calfee, Kathleen Wilson, Milton Chen
From distinguished educators, this book imagines what our schools could look like if an authentic vision of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were put in place, and thoughtfully critiques how and why implementation has faltered. The authors outline a curriculum framework that focuses on student-based inquiry and the use of formative assessment to monitor and guide student learning. They provide workable, innovative alternatives to the packaged instructional programs and summative tests that have come to be associated with the English language arts (ELA) standards. Vignettes of diverse schools and districts highlight a range of successful approaches to making the CCSS work.
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| 9781462524327 |
 | Case Studies and Case Based Learning
Case Studies and Case-Based Learning :
Inquiry and Authentic Learning That Encourages 21st-Century Skills
Todd Stanley
Case-based learning brings authentic, real-world learning to the classroom. A prominent educational strategy in professions such as medicine and law, case-based learning has long been an effective way to master knowledge. Doctors study past cases to plan successful treatments and learn from mistakes, while lawyers often review old cases to understand important legal precedents. Case studies are a valuable part of their education – just as they can be for your students. Like inquiry-, problem- and project-based learning, case-based learning is a crucial component of any authentic classroom. Students study problems that have occurred or could occur in the real world and develop solutions, utilising critical thinking, creativity and imagination to answer questions that don’t always have one right answer. This book provides strategies, examples and resources for implementing case-based learning across the disciplines, as well as a detailed walkthrough of how to create your own lessons that use case studies to transform students’ thinking and foster 21st-century skills.
ISBN: 9781760940690
No of Pages: 166
Publish Date: 29 November 2019
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 | Contemporary Challenges for Religious and Spiritual Educatio
Contemporary Challenges for Religious and Spiritual Education
by Arniika Kuusisto & Terry Lovat
From being on the margins of scholarly debate for much of the past century and a half, religion is being recognized once again as an area of concern for scholars, politicians, and public policy makers, and thus, the role of religious and spiritual education has taken on a new importance.
Apart from its socio-political ramifications, the place of religiousness and spirituality in the make-up of individuals has been given renewed prominence through updated brain science, and neuroscientists regularly refer to elements of this brain science in terms such as spiritual intelligence and even mystical consciousness.
This book explores many of the new directions being taken in the field of religious and spiritual education, as new developments challenge the priorities of formal education, and open up new avenues for incorporating religion and spirituality into the modern curriculum.
It asks whether the educational aims of teachers should be focused on specifically personal development, or whether religious education should be used to develop understanding of more global and social issues such as citizenship, conflict, and ethics.
The book also addresses neuroscientific insights, which suggest a need to engage with cognition and emotion in order to create a rich learning environment, something to which a particularly contested subject area like religion and spirituality is well-placed to contribute. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Beliefs & Values.
CONTENTS
Introduction Arniika Kuusisto and Terence Lovat
1. The development and dissemination of Council of Europe policy on education about religions and non-religious convictions Robert Jackson
2. The potential impact of the neurosciences on religious and spiritual education: ramifying from the impact on values education Peter Mudge, Daniel Fleming and Terence Lovat
3. Pupils’ views of religious education in a pluralistic educational context Arniika Kuusisto and Arto Kallioniemi
4. What should religious education in Germany be about and how does religiosity fit into this picture? An empirical study of pre-service religious education teachers’ beliefs on the aims of RE Ulrich Riegel and Hans Mendl
5. Creating metacognitive environments in primary school RE classrooms Shirley Larkin, Rob Freathy, Karen Walshe and Jonathan Doney
6. The core of religious education: Finnish student teachers’ pedagogical aims Elina Kuusisto and Kirsi Tirri
7. Altruistic values in children’s spirituality: a study of children’s responses to the terror attacks in Oslo and on Utøya and issues of education Sturla Sagberg
8. The Little Prince – an introduction to spirituality: a moving experience in religious education for primary school children in a secularised world Ina ter Avest and Roseanne McDougall
9. Prayer as a cause of recovery from illness Dimitris Pnevmatikos
10. Religious and spiritual education in disability situations in Italy Valeria Friso and Roberta Caldin
11. Towards international comparative research on the professionalisation of Religious Education Rob Freathy, Stephen G. Parker, Friedrich Schweitzer and Henrik Simojoki
12. Measuring religious social capital: scale properties of the modified Williams Religious Social Capital Index among Friends of cathedrals Judith A. Muskett
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