Intelligent Life in the Classroom

Intelligent Life in the Classroom
Author: Karen L. J. Isaacson
Publisher: Great Potential Press, Inc.
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0910707758

This teacher book will provide lots of laughs as well as some good insights into the nature, quirks and vulnerabilities of gifted kids. It's a fun read that includes information about helpful teacher traits and much more. This book will be useful for teacher training with its extensive list of books and resources. This book contains the following chapters: (1) All That Potential; (2) Curiosity; (3) Intensity; (4) Asynchrony; (5) Attention to Detail; (6) Sense of Humor; (7) Creativity and Divergent Thinking; (8) Persistence; (9) Sensitivity; (10) Idealism; (11) Humility; (12) Honoring the Child; and (13) In Their Own Voices. The following are also included: (a) Karen's Acknowledgments; (b) Tamara's Acknowledgments; (c) Foreword; (d) Karen's Preface; (e) Tamara's Preface; (f) Gifted Education Resources; (g) Endnotes; and (h) About the Authors.

The Smartest Kids in the World

The Smartest Kids in the World
Author: Amanda Ripley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 145165443X

Following three teenagers who chose to spend one school year living in Finland, South Korea, and Poland, a literary journalist recounts how attitudes, parenting, and rigorous teaching have revolutionized these countries' education results.

Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors

Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors
Author: Beverly Park Woolf
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2010-07-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0080920047

Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors discusses educational systems that assess a student's knowledge and are adaptive to a student's learning needs. The impact of computers has not been generally felt in education due to lack of hardware, teacher training, and sophisticated software. and because current instructional software is neither truly responsive to student needs nor flexible enough to emulate teaching. Dr. Woolf taps into 20 years of research on intelligent tutors to bring designers and developers a broad range of issues and methods that produce the best intelligent learning environments possible, whether for classroom or life-long learning. The book describes multidisciplinary approaches to using computers for teaching, reports on research, development, and real-world experiences, and discusses intelligent tutors, web-based learning systems, adaptive learning systems, intelligent agents and intelligent multimedia. It is recommended for professionals, graduate students, and others in computer science and educational technology who are developing online tutoring systems to support e-learning, and who want to build intelligence into the system. - Combines both theory and practice to offer most in-depth and up-to-date treatment of intelligent tutoring systems available - Presents powerful drivers of virtual teaching systems, including cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and the Internet - Features algorithmic material that enables programmers and researchers to design building components and intelligent systems

Intelligent Disobedience

Intelligent Disobedience
Author: Ira Chaleff
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1626564280

Torture in Abu Ghraib prison. Corporate fraud. Falsified records at Veterans Administration hospitals. Teachers pressured to feed test answers to students. These scandals could have been prevented if, early on, people had said no to their higher-ups. Ira Chaleff discusses when and how to disobey inappropriate orders, reduce unacceptable risk, and find better ways to achieve legitimate goals. He delves into the psychological dynamics of obedience, drawing in particular on what Stanley Milgram's seminal Yale experiments-in which volunteers were induced to administer shocks to innocent people-teach us about how to reduce compliance with harmful orders. Using vivid examples of historical events and everyday situations, he offers advice on judging whether intelligent disobedience is called for, how to express opposition, and how to create a culture where citizens are educated and encouraged to think about whether orders make sense. --

Teaching for Intelligence

Teaching for Intelligence
Author: Barbara Z. Presseisen
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 673
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412955548

A wonderful collection that addresses issues important in today's classrooms. This is an invaluable tool for any educator willing to strive for personal, student, and schoolwide excellence." Gayla LeMay, Social Studies Teacher Louise Radloff Middle School, Duluth, GA "Presseisen has skillfully assembled an exceptionally fine collection of articles." Burt Saxon, Adjunct Professor Yale University and Southern Connecticut State University A vast world of thought, inquiry, and wisdom for educating all learners. This remarkable collection features an interview with Howard Gardner and includes contributions from such luminaries as Robert J. Sternberg, Robert R. Spillane, Arthur L. Costa, Linda Darling-Hammond, Dorothy Strickland, Joseph S. Renzulli, and Joyce VanTassel-Baska. The insightful articles encourage educators to examine their perspectives about the nature of intelligence, standardized testing, and curriculum requirements. Readers will be able to evaluate critical questions such as: What does teaching for intelligence mean? Who is the intelligent learner? What do educators and scientists have to say about teaching for intelligence? Updated with current research, this thought-provoking resource looks closely at current classroom instructional practice, students' intellectual development, and how educators view students in the learning process.

The Educator's Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement

The Educator's Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement
Author: Maurice J. Elias
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2006-01-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412914817

Tap the power of emotional intelligence and watch school-wide achievement soar "Bringing all this information together in one spot is quite a contribution. There isn't too much research or theory here, but lots

Suffering and the Intelligence of Love in the Teaching Life

Suffering and the Intelligence of Love in the Teaching Life
Author: Sean Steel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2019-03-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030059588

This book shares insights drawn from the diverse voices of public school teachers, community outreach education workers, professors, writers, poets, artists, and musicians on suffering in school and the classroom. Teachers speak about their own encounters with and perceptions from suffering using critical-analytic textual works, as well as first-hand personally reflective accounts. By sharing their stories and reflections, the editors and contributors shed light upon the dark areas that often are not addressed in Teacher Training Programs, and that generally remain unaddressed and unacknowledged even as teachers become well-established as professionals in the field of education.

Constructing Regional Smart Education Ecosystems in China

Constructing Regional Smart Education Ecosystems in China
Author: Haijun Zeng
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2023-12-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9819962250

This book enriches the understanding of regional smart education in China and promotes sharing of smart education case studies in China and abroad. It presents 46 case studies selected from a total of 644 case studies collected nationwide in China. These selected case studies focus on regional construction, research findings, and solutions. The case studies on regional construction mainly focus on the sustainable development mechanism of regional smart education. The research findings case studies showcase research results produced by research teams and individuals, which involve theories, models, technologies, practical investigations, or international comparisons related to smart education. Lastly, the solution case studies are technical solutions provided by enterprises for the development of smart education, which include application scenarios, methods, and effects in regions or schools around smart educational equipment, platforms, networks, tools, resources, or integrated solutions.

Emotional Intelligence in Everyday Life

Emotional Intelligence in Everyday Life
Author: Joseph Ciarrochi
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2013-10-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 113520571X

Since the release of the very successful first edition in 2001, the field of emotional intelligence has grown in sophistication and importance. Many new and talented researchers have come into the field and techniques in EI measurement have dramatically increased so that we now know much more about the distinctiveness and utility of the different EI measures. There has also been a dramatic upswing in research that looks at how to teach EI in schools, organizations, and families. In this second edition, leaders in the field present the most up-to-date research on the assessment and use of the emotional intelligence construct. Importantly, this edition expands on the previous by providing greater coverage of emotional intelligence interventions. As with the first edition, this second edition is both scientifically rigorous, yet highly readable and accessible to a non-specialist audience. It will therefore be of value to researchers and practitioners in many disciplines beyond social psychology, including areas of basic research, cognition and emotion, organizational selection, organizational training, education, clinical psychology, and development psychology.

Creative Teaching: Science in the Early Years and Primary Classroom

Creative Teaching: Science in the Early Years and Primary Classroom
Author: Ann Oliver
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2013-06-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136793046

Practical, useful and informative, this book provides ideas and suggestions on how to interpret and develop the primary science curriculum in an interesting and challenging way. Bringing together creative thinking and principles that still meet National Curriculum requirements, the themes in the book encourage teachers to: teach science with creative curiosity value the unpredictable and unplanned thrive on a multiplicity of creative approaches, viewpoints and conditions be creative with cross-curricular and ICT opportunities reflect on their own practice. For teachers new and old, this book will make teaching and learning science fun by putting creativity and enjoyment firmly back onto the primary agenda.