Inclusive Teaching

Inclusive Teaching
Author: J. Michael Peterson
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Inclusive education
ISBN: 9780137152186

The second edition of Inclusive Teaching takes a uniquely different approach. Organized around the profound question, “How can we create schools and classrooms where vastly diverse students learn well together?” the text strives to provide a myriad of creative answers to this question for our future teachers–leaders of the classroom impacting positive change for tomorrow’s schools. Centrally focused on how to create an effective school for all learners–students with mild to severe disabilities, gifted and talented students, racially and culturally diverse students, students with differing sexual preferences and more--the authors have offered strategies for including and supporting all students to learn effectively in the general education classroom. The text synthesizes a vast array of strategies from many different sources, including workshop approaches to learning, differentiated instruction, universal design for learning, multicultural education, positive behavior support, anti-bullying practices, reducing the learning gap between minority and majority groups, and more. Clearly organized around the way in which teachers think, from arranging the physical classroom to dealing with the social-emotional needs of students, to designing effective, multi-level, differentiated instruction, the text remains positively devoted to teaching change and impacting the future of all students learning together.

Rookie Dad

Rookie Dad
Author: David Jacobsen
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2009-05-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310298067

When I found out my wife, Christine, was pregnant, I had no idea what I was thinking or feeling, and no clue what I should be thinking or feeling. Christine had daily heart-to-hearts with her girlfriends and a stack of parenting books by her bed. I had lots of questions with no answers. So I started writing. It was either that, or try to ignore the whole thing – a choice that became increasingly difficult as Christine’s belly became increasingly swollen.Rookie Dad is the story of a young husband and father learning how to pay attention to his family’s changing size and shape. It’s a story filled with hard questions, with laughter and tears, and with the unexpected joy of first-time fatherhood. It’s my story – the story of how I became a dad.

Being Active Citizens

Being Active Citizens
Author: Susan Watson
Publisher: Black Rabbit Books
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781583403983

Explains the role of young people as citizens and how they can make a difference in the global system.

Ancient Oaxaca

Ancient Oaxaca
Author: Richard E. Blanton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1999-05-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521577878

This book investigates the emergence of social complexity and state formation in a New World region. Around 500 BC, the Valley of Oaxaca, in present-day Mexico, was the site of one of the earliest Native American states, when a new regional capital was established at Monte Alban. Today one of Mexico's most famous and spectacular archaeological sites, Monte Alban signalled an important series of changes in regional political structure in the direction of greater political complexity and integration within a larger domain. The four authors of this introductory text have over the years produced much of the most important primary information we have about developing complex societies in this region. Drawing on the abundance of excavated remains and a survey of regional archaeological settlement patterns, they provide a succinct account of the causes and consequences of political change in the region.

Historama

Historama
Author: Diza Sauers
Publisher: Outpost19
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2011-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1937402177

HISTORAMA is a brilliant thrill ride, bringing the forces of legend and the fury of nature to bear on one messed-up family's future. A remote desert homestead becomes a roadside attraction celebrating the night Calamity Jane once spent with Wild Bill. Now a young girl and a young woman witness the legacies of those who came before them, some against their will, some despite better instincts. HISTORAMA gives us a new novel of the West, recasting landscapes of gunslinger desolation with the indignities of the desert tourist trade. Blending uncompromising wit with the sweep of legend, Sauers delivers a profound new vision of the American West.