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Direct linkSujung Kim, Editor; Leigh Garrison-Fletcher, Editor; Kaysi Holman, Editor – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
This book provides concrete examples of humanizing collectivist critical pedagogy, which creates a learning space with students, values their mutual-agency, and invites them to play a leading role in remaking higher education. It redefines student success to include an understanding of positionality, macro social structures, and agency. Each class…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Collectivism, Social Structure, Class Activities
Pahl, Ron H. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
Teaching history should not be reciting an endless list of dead men, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, "Breaking Away from the Textbook" offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's…
Descriptors: World History, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Textbooks
Lamping, Sally; Blase, Dean Woodring – Teachers College Press, 2012
This innovative guide shows teachers how to transform high-school English students into passionate readers with a trust-based approach that honors both student choice and teacher expertise. The authors begin with a series of reflective invitations to help teachers rediscover trust in themselves and in their students. The book offers methods for…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Independent Reading, English Instruction, Thematic Approach
Pahl, Ron H. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
Teaching history should not simply be an endless recitation of irrelevant facts, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, "Breaking Away from the Textbook" offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book instead focuses on exciting classroom activities, methods for students to…
Descriptors: World History, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Textbooks
Serim, Ferdi – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2012
This comprehensive book offers a practical pathway for developing twenty-first-century skills while simultaneously strengthening content-area learning. "Digital Learning" contains a wealth of research-based practices to integrate the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) National Education Technology Standards (NETS) for both…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Student Projects, Active Learning, Educational Technology
Butt, Donna Sabino; Thurman, Kathy Barlow – 2003
Interactive books have parts or pieces that children can manipulate while reading the text. In the interactive books described in this classroom resource book for students in grades PreK-1, the pieces are attached to Velcro and can be moved from one part of the book to another, while the text consists of verses set to familiar tunes so that…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Early Childhood Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Winter, Dave, Ed.; Robbins, Sarah, Ed. – National Council of Teachers of English, 2005
Emphasizing writing and student inquiry, this rich collection offers teachers ready-to-use classroom resources with a sound basis in best practice. Student engagement with community becomes the centerpiece of the book, an engagement that takes place across disciplines through projects involving history, environment, culture, and much more. Editors…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Place Based Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Download full textPugh, Sharon L.; And Others – 1997
This book explores the subject of metaphor, using the imagery of cartography to set a course. It explores the creative aspects of thinking and learning through literature, writing, and word play, drawing connections between English and other content areas. Theory and practical applications meet in the book, linking activities and resources to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English, Imagination, Interdisciplinary Approach
Millstone, David H. – 1995
Adopting an interdisciplinary, story-centered approach, this book suggests new ways for elementary school students to study the ancient world. The book focuses on "The Odyssey," approaching the epic poem by having students create their own rough cartoons, vivid murals, and elaborate dioramas of Greek culture. The book suggests class…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Design, Elementary Education, Greek Civilization
Norris, Ruby Lee, Ed.; Sange, Sally Harris, Ed. – 1975
The essays in this book concern successful experiences with interdisciplinary education during the 1972-73 school year at the Humanities Center in Richmond, Virginia. The first section of the book focuses briefly on the program's seven humanities-related subjects (including the directors of each subject): filmmaking; printmaking; mime, dance and…
Descriptors: Art, Class Activities, Dance, Films
Peters, Richard O. – 1976
An environmental education program that combines the social studies curriculum, community interaction, and the study of environment is described. Since man and nature live in a complex, continuous, and inseparable partnership, every environmental program should stress the interrelationships that exist between man and nature. Several ways by which…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Descriptions, Ecology, Elementary Secondary Education
Britsch, Barbara M.; Dennison-Tansey, Amy – 1995
This book offers teachers a practical and theoretical classroom guide to the many ways music and stories may be explored, both independently and in tandem, to give students a better understanding and appreciation of each art form separately and of their power together. The crucial aspect of activities described in the book is original productions…
Descriptors: Books, Class Activities, Creative Activities, Elementary Education
Seely, Amy E. – 1995
Explaining that an integrated curriculum is one that makes explicit the ways in which connections between ideas are perceived, this book provides background and offers practical suggestions for implementing and managing an integrated curriculum in the classroom. The book notes that the integrated curriculum approach goes by many names--integrated…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Design, Elementary Education
Maccagnano, Ann Marie – Corwin Press, 2007
Educators can identify children's strengths early on and gain insight into each student's unique abilities by using the numerous ideas and informal assessments in this exciting guide. Gifted and talented specialist Ann Maccagnano offers K-8 teachers challenging activities and engaging lessons to develop and nurture gifted learners' talents.…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Writing Skills, Skill Development, Spatial Ability
Fleming, Margaret, Ed.; McGinnis, Jo, Ed. – 1985
Prepared by experienced classroom teachers from all levels, the articles in this book explain how to use biography and autobiography as a basis for the thorough study of a topic in literature, history, the social sciences, or other subject areas. The nine articles in the first section of the book use Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biographies, Class Activities, Content Area Writing
