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Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom
Ronald A. Beghetto · Teachers College Press
Format: Print book |
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Creativity and the Common Core State Standards are both important to todays teachers. Yet, for many educators, nurturing students creativity seems to conflict with ensuring that they learn specific skills and content. In this book, the authors outline ways to adapt existing lessons and mandated... |
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This is Frank Lloyd Wright
Ian Volner · Laurence King Publishing
Pages: 78
Format: Print book |
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Frank Lloyd Wright wasn't just an architect. He was a prophet, a poseur; a beloved teacher, a failed businessman. During his long, eventful life he experienced both incredible misfortune and great success. This Is Frank Lloyd Wright brings his projects and persona into vivid focus.... |
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Disconnected: Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap
Carrie James · The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Fresh from a party, a teen posts a photo on Facebook of a friend drinking a beer. A college student repurposes an article from Wikipedia for a paper. A group of players in a multiplayer online game routinely cheat new players by selling them worthless... |
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How Things Work
Chartwell Books · Chartwell Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover |
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This book shows through illustrated spreads and other graphic material, the function of machines, devices and technological systems such as i.e. the computer, the telephone, hybrid carsâ?¿among many others.How Things Work analyzes equipment of our days, but it also presents all the great... |
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1,001 Praxis Core Practice Questions For Dummies With Online Practice
Consumer Dummies · For Dummies
Pages: 432
Format: Print book |
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Score higher on the Praxis Core exam Test your skills with practice problems for every question type Practice problems online, from easy to hard Track your progress, pinpoint your strengths, and work through your weaknesses |
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Unboxing IT: A Look Inside the Information Technology Black Box
Christopher McCay · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 135
Format: Print book |
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Computers and technology have reached a level of invisibility in our lives that is equal to indoor plumbing and electricity. We don't think about the mechanics of how they work, but when any of those systems breaks it is a MASSIVE disruption in our lives. All of us understand the basics... |
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Summer versus School: The Possibilities of the Year-Round School
James Pedersen · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover |
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As American educational reformers continue to find innovative ways to address the global achievement gap, many experts seem to agree that increasing instructional time is a viable option. In addition to extending the school day, some educational leaders have looked to modifying the traditional... |
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Becoming a Professor: A Guide to a Career in Higher Education
Marie Iding · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover |
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Becoming a Professor is designed primarily for graduate and undergraduate students and others – instructors, lecturers and new tenure-track professors – contemplating careers as professors in post-secondary education at colleges, institutes, and universities. The book identifies... |
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Diversity in the College Classroom: Knowing Ourselves, Our Students, Our Disciplines
Eugene Oropeza Fujimoto · Common Ground Publishing
Pages: 217
Format: Print book |
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Diversity in the College Classroom is a collection of first-person narratives by multi-disciplinary faculty at the most racially diverse campus in the University of Wisconsin System. It reveals the complex, interior lives of college professors: how their experiences inform their teaching,... |
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