Help students move from surface-level learning to the transfer of understanding. How do social studies teachers maximize instruction to ensure students are prepared for an informed civic life? VISIBLE LEARNING for Social Studies, Grades K-12 shows how the field is more than simply memorizing dates and fact's it encapsulates the skillful ability to conduct investigations, analyze sources, place events in historical context, and synthesize divergent points of view. The Visible Learning framewor...

Starting Strong: Evidence-Based Early Literacy Practices shows teachers how to use four proven instructional approaches—standards based, evidenced based, assessment based, and student based—to improve their teaching practice in all areas of early literacy.

This book provides a critical discussion of the development of Inclusive Education bringing together issues of theory, research, policy and practice with an explicit international dimension.

Do you teach English as a foreign or second language? Are your students at an intermediate or advanced level? If so, this book will save you a lot of lesson prep time. With 50 role plays that span a wide variety of topics, you'll almost always be able to find a role play that will fit your lesson topic.

Inside are role plays that cover everything from government regulation to messy roommates. With commonly taught topics like technology, music, job interviews, and movies. As well as more varie...

Our world has changed a great deal since we first (or last) designed education. The current educational setting – a bunch of students in a classroom, at a set time and place, with one teacher sharing their knowledge as an omniscient authority – is still very much the same as it was a century ago.

In the Netherlands, the educational landscape provides, at least in theory, a great deal of freedom for schools to transform the contemporary learning environment as well as our vision of learnin...

Classically, regulation targets human behavior. In an era of Big Data, artificial intelligence, and robotics which shape and sometimes even replace human behavior, however, the classic regulatory paradigm is challenged in fundamental ways. This research program aims to map, understand, and – to the extent possible – help shape the shift from a human-centric regulatory paradigm to a data-centric regulatory paradigm. This project recognizes the importance of human behavior and human decisio...

Heritage and Education are often cited together as two areas that could equally benefit from co-application and dialogue. This book includes some of the papers that were presented at the ‘Education VIA Culture’ conference, which was held online in December 2020. The chapters of this volume focus on how people can learn about heritage and engage with heritage through educational (formal or non-formal) processes.

In the VIA Culture understanding, the best way to create awareness about cultu...

This book explores the contribution made by art and creativity to early education and learning, by reflecting upon and understanding more about the role of the 'atelier' in the pioneering pre-schools of Reggio Emilia.

This publication provides essential reading for any language teacher. Pupil engagement in the language-learning process is key to success, and with this in mind the authors provide a comprehensive list of ideas as well as explaining the underlying principles of successful language-learning. Neil Jones, Assistant HeadteacherLearning a language, especially in a class or group, is an intensely practical subject.

Active participation by students is the key to successful language learning at any a...