Want to write informative and interesting articles? Learn how to choose a solid subject, perform research, organize facts, get your first words on paper, and more! Whether you're writing about kangaroos, Kansas, kickball, or ketchup, we'll guide you through. View More...
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This new edition of Secondary Schooling in a Changing World continues to provide a comprehensive framework for teachers' understanding of secondary schools, their focuses and practices. It challenges ideas about secondary schooling and offers positive strategies for addressing difficult problems. As well as incorporating the latest research and ideas, this valuable text provides an accessible forum for pre-service educators to debate issues that will impact upon their future careers. View More...
Reading Box Blue has been designed by experienced teachers to support students in Years 2 to 4. It is a comprehensive multi-level, multi-text type, reading comprehension kit. It has been created and written by a team of very experienced Australian primary school teachers and headmasters. Reading Box Blue aims to provide students with a broad range of high-interest texts that will engage even the most reluctant reader. The kit also provides the teacher with another means to enhance the operation of reading groups within a literacy block. The beauty of all Reading Boxes is that students genuinel... View More...
Reading Box Green has been designed to help senior primary students and lower secondary students strengthen their comprehension skills. Older readers are faced with more complex reading decisions, with the difference between text types becoming more subtle. The challenges presented by Reading Box Green help students to develop and strengthen their skills for negotiating and comprehending these textual forms, as well as provide strong examples for them to follow when expressing their own ideas in clearly defined formats. High-interest subject matter and beautiful illustrations complete each car... View More...
Reading Box Red has been created by a team of experienced Australian primary school teachers to sit between, and support, Reading Box Blue and Reading Box Green. It is designed for students in Years 4 to 5/6 and is a complete reading comprehension kit in a box. The box contains 150 carefully levelled cards that provide graded texts and related exercises.
The questions found on Reading Box Red cards are carefully cultivated to give students valuable practice at literal, interpretive, inferential and critical levels. Question types include multiple choice, true-false, sequencing, cloze pass... View More...
Reading Box Yellow is designed for students in Years 1 and 2. Just like Reading Boxes Red and Blue, Reading Box Yellow includes 150 high quality illustrated cards over a span of 15 expertly graded levels. Reading Box Yellow also functions as a self-managing classroom resource. Reading Box Yellow : Is suitable for Years 1 and 2. Covers reading levels 6 to 27+. caters for reading ages 5.6 to 11. Is designed to cater for all reading abilities in infant school classrooms, from emergent readers to highly capable readers. Is the first Reading Box to feature six-frame illustrated cards. These six-fra... View More...
Mantle of the Expert is an education approach that uses imaginary contexts to generate purposeful and engaging activities for learning.
Mantle of the Expert works by the teacher planning a fictional context where the students take on the responsibilities of an expert team. As the team, they are commissioned by a client to work on a assignment, which has been planned to generate tasks and activities that will involve them in studying and developing wide areas of the curriculum.
For example, a class of students are cast as a team of archaeologists excavating an Egyptian tomb for the Ca... View More...
Translated by Alan Leslie Cockerill. Vasily Sukhomlinsky's My Heart I Give to Children is an educational classic that has sold millions of copies in 30 languages. It describes Sukhomlinsky's ground-breaking work with thirty-one students in rural Ukraine, during an experimental preschool year and the subsequent four years of their primary schooling. Sukhomlinsky wrote over thirty books, all based on his personal experience as a teacher and school principal at Pavlysh Secondary School in rural Ukraine during the 1950s and 1960s. His school became famous in educational circles and hosted tho... View More...
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