This text teaches students the skills they need to effectively collaborate with parents and families to ensure a child's success in the classroom by taking a lifespan approach with a special emphasis on the critical transition points in a child's life.

For busy classroom teachers, this practical book makes manageable the process of differentiating mathematics instruction to maximize each student's learning potential, ultimately leading to improved test scores.

This updated bestseller offers a roadmap for reflective practice that presents research-based information and ideas and strategies for engaging in reflective practice alone, with partners, in small groups, and even schoolwide.

Two renowned educators show teachers how to mine what readers write and say for clues that guide follow up lessons.

This book will show teachers what engages students, and how to do it in their classrooms everyday. Each chapter includes an overview of the strategy (with relevant research), and several lesson ideas for implementing it in the classroom.

This resource explores how mindfulness can improve teaching and learning, and helps students develop 21st century skills including creativity, entrepreneurship, innovation, and communication.

With 75 tasks on full-color pages, this book offers a literacy instruction plan that ensures students benefit from independent effort and engagement.

Drawing on research exploring new media practices, this book explains and encourages classroom activity that makes purposeful and appropriate use of new media and is underpinned by a set of guiding principles for teaching literacy in contemporary times.

This book explores what reasoning is and what it is not. It includes background theory and a rationale for primary teachers alongside examples of how reasoning in primary mathematics and science classes can develop.

Gvosdev and Marsh's text covers not only contemporary Russian policies towards the various regions of the world, but also looks at the interactions between the various constituencies that shape and influence Russian foreign policy.