Looking to Learn

Looking to Learn
Author: Frances Mary D'Andrea
Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780891283461

This handbook provides teachers with practical tips and advice on improving literacy skills for students with low vision. The book provides easy-to-understand explanations of vital topics such as interpreting eye reports, performing functional vision assessments, working with low vision service providers, and more. The valuable resource section, tables, sample reports and sidebars offer essential information on assessing low vision students and helping them use their vision effectively.

A B C Look at Me

A B C Look at Me
Author: Roberta Grobel Intrater
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Alphabet books
ISBN: 9780843108392

Lift the letters and discover an expression for every mood.

Looking Closely and Listening Carefully

Looking Closely and Listening Carefully
Author: Heidi Mills
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN:

In Looking Closely and Listening Carefully: Learning Literacy through Inquiry, teacher researcher Tim O'Keefe teams up with university partners Heidi Mills and Louise B. Jennings to bring to life insights and strategies from Tim's class at the Center for Inquiry, a small elementary magnet program in Columbia, South Carolina. Mills and O'Keefe's earlier book (with Diane Stephens), Looking Closely, focused on phonics in Tim's holistic, transition-first-grade classroom; Looking Closely and Listening Carefully expands and refines this earlier work by painting a portrait of the ways in which Tim's second and third graders learn literacy through inquiry. While Tim has been engaged in careful kidwatching, Heidi and Louise have been teacherwatching. Their combined perspectives illuminate the relationship between literacy and inquiry and demonstrate the power of a balanced literacy curriculum in an inquiry-based classroom. The authors take us through a typical day in Tim's classroom, describing the curricular structures and instructional strategies that make a difference as Tim supports his readers and writers through exploration, morning meetings, reading and writing workshops, read-alouds, math workshop, focused study, and end-of-day activities. Because Tim teaches the same students for two full years, the authors take the opportunity to track the paths of literacy learning across the lives of two students. They also explore the role of state standards in Tim's teaching and provide clear demonstrations of the strategies he uses to promote democracy and community in his classroom. Additionally, the authors use a letter written by Tim directly to his fellow teachers to explicate the assessment, reporting, and parent communication strategies Tim employs. Tim is never willing to settle for what is typical in education, so this journey through his classroom, rich with stories, vignettes, and classroom examples, illustrates "what is possible when teachers, parents, university partners, and children inquire together." Looking Closely and Listening Carefully is both a theoretically sound and a practically relevant book.

To Want to Learn

To Want to Learn
Author: Jackson Kytle
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2012-07-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230338208

Lack of learner motivation is the single greatest challenge before American schools and colleges. When students are self-motivated, they invest more and work harder at learning even if resources are inadequate. Jackson Kytle's provocative book argues that students and teachers waste time and human energy because the conventional curriculum rests on flawed mental models. Hope for change requires a searching critique of modernity as well as expanded theories of human motivation and learning based on advances in neurobiology and cognitive studies. After consideration of existentialism and choice of life purposes, and the dynamics of psychological involvement, Kytle closes his ambitious, interdisciplinary book with ten considerations for better learning.

Look, Listen, Learn, LEAD

Look, Listen, Learn, LEAD
Author: Jeffery Smith
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1648022677

Look, Listen, Learn, LEAD: A District-Wide Systems Approach to Teaching and Learning in PreK-12 lays out the transformational journey of Hampton City Schools (HCS), an urban school division of 30 schools in southeastern Virginia. Our school district faces numerous challenges, such as 62% of students receiving free and reduced-price lunch and 14% of students holding an IEP, and in 2015-2016, Hampton City Schools’ state accreditation rate was approximately half the statewide rate and on a downward trend. In only three years, that was turned around and HCS exceeded the statewide accreditation rate, a more than 100% improvement with 100% of our schools accredited without conditions. We attribute this in large part to our dedicated educators and their implementation of district-wide systems for curriculum, instruction, checking for student understanding, climate, and culture. The goal of this book is to break down the process of what it takes to bring about large-scale educational change that is sustainable. We describe a process for developing a strong mission and vision to undergird the work around a variety of district-wide systems. This book provides insights into how to improve climate and culture, create a guaranteed and viable written curriculum, establish a process for evaluating its implementation, and create a balanced assessment framework to measure student success. Complete with example templates, action plans, and lessons learned, this book is a true example of theory-into-practice to bring about sustained improvement for all learners.

What Learning Looks Like

What Learning Looks Like
Author: Reuven Feuerstein
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2015-04-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807771031

The authors bring to life the theory of mediated learning. Through numerous examples and scenarios from classrooms and museums, they show how mediated learning helps children to become more effective learners. --from publisher description.

Success in Store

Success in Store
Author: Geoffrey Heard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781875750184

This book offers "practical advice on how to start or buy a retail business, enjoy running it and make money - by people who have done it and helped others do it. Just one example : how a smallstore turned a sale into a community event - cleared old stock, sold more, made a profit, raised cash for charity, had fun and had customers making sure they were on the invitaiton list for next year. - back cover.