This resource helps raise awareness of ethical issues and guides teachers and teacher leaders in approaching difficult ethical dilemmas

Based on the workshop, Nurturing Creativity: Seven Practices for Educators and Students, this book affirms the conviction that creative teachers are effective teachers and emphasizes that every child's creative self must be valued-regardless of a child's cultural and linguistic background.

A clear, unbiased, and rigorous description of the major curriculum philosophies that have influenced educators and schooling over the last century.

A critical overview of key issues and areas within early years for those training or working in the sector, focused on policy and practice.

Through the analysis of theory, research and practice, this Handbook provides the reader with a clear, global picture of workplace learning.

Enables practitioners, scholars and academics to understand how to re-design or suggest changes to curriculum structure, shape and content.

By examining the historic background of observing and planning, and describing examples of good practice in different group settings, this book will help to monitor a child's progress - what is needed now and to work out what is needed next.

This text covers all historically and current classroom assessment approaches and includes a review of compelling evidence for the use of each classroom assessment approach, demonstrating why the approaches are considered best practice and research-based.

Explore the four approaches to co-teaching with updated discussions of RTI, discussions of the roles of paraprofessionals and administrators, and lesson plans linked to the Common Core.

A must-have for teachers, curriculum designers, and school leader, providing them with everything they need to know about developing curriculum and instruction for the K-12 classroom, tying in with the Common Core State Standards.