The Everything Parent's Guide to Common Core Math Grades 6-8

The Everything Parent's Guide to Common Core Math Grades 6-8
Author: Jamie L Sirois
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2015-01-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1440583579

If you learned math the "old" way, the new teaching methods may be unfamiliar to you. Sirois and Wiggin provide examples and exercises that correspond to each standard of the new Common Core national standards for math in grades 6 to 8, so you'll have the confidence you need to help your kids succeed and thrive. --

Targeting Maths for Victoria

Targeting Maths for Victoria
Author: Judy Tertini
Publisher: Pascal Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781740201704

The Targeting Maths for Victoria scheme is VELS compliant. It has been written for CSF II and provides complete coverage of the course with student books that are clear, fun and easy to use.

NSW Targeting Maths

NSW Targeting Maths
Author: Judy Tertini
Publisher: Pascal Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781920728090

Creating Content With Your Tablet

Creating Content With Your Tablet
Author: Susan J. Brooks-Young
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2013-12-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483320588

Transform students from content consumers to content creators! This comprehensive guide gets to the heart of effective mobile technology use in today’s classroom. Internationally recognized education expert Susan Brooks-Young provides manageable, research-based strategies to help teachers and administrators: Confidently plan and manage mobile technology activities across grade levels Explore new uses and applications for multiple devices Use rubrics and checklists to evaluate appropriate, cross-platform educational apps Manage content-specific tablet use in learning centers or small groups Tap student ingenuity and improve critical thinking skills Time-saving tips cover a wide range of apps to help busy teachers easily incorporate tablets into daily classroom use. Includes step-by-step instructions across content areas for digital photography, video, ePublishing, QR codes and more. Transform students from content consumers to content creators with this must-have resource! "Creating Content With Your Tablet provides educators with simple, easy steps to implement tablet technology with the Common Core Standards. I am encouraged to try the apps in this book. It makes the connection between modern technology and what teachers are already doing in the classroom seem seamless." —Michelle Strom, Language Arts Teacher Fort Riley Middle School, KS "Very practical. The discussion questions at the end of each chapter are excellent for a book study or district that is moving towards tablet implementation." —David Fife, Vice Principal Tweedsmuir Public School, London, Ontario, Canada

Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability

Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability
Author: Karrie A. Shogren
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317566246

The Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability provides an integrated, transdisciplinary overview of research-based practices for teaching students with intellectual disability. This comprehensive volume emphasizes education across life stages, from early intervention in schools through the transition to adulthood, and highlights major educational and support needs of children and youth with intellectual disability. The implications of history, recent research, and existing information are positioned to systematically advance new practices and explore promising possibilities in the field. Driven by the collaboration of accomplished, nationally recognized professionals of varied approaches and philosophies, the book emphasizes practices that have been shown to be effective through multiple methodologies, so as to help readers select interventions based on the evidence of their effectiveness.

Tools, Techniques and Assessment in Biology

Tools, Techniques and Assessment in Biology
Author: John Adds
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780174482734

Nelson Advanced Science Biology is a complete series of lively, high quality, affordable student books for senior secondary students of Biology and Human Biology.

The Bilingual Advantage

The Bilingual Advantage
Author: Rebecca M. Callahan
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1783092424

Using novel methodological approaches and new data, The Bilingual Advantage draws together researchers from education, economics, sociology, anthropology and linguistics to examine the economic and employment benefits of bilingualism in the US labor market, countering past research that shows no such benefits exist.