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View Contents View Information Sheet   Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading 9781742394916SOT4916 Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading that will enhance your teaching and your students’ learning. Dr. Robert J. Marzano details the specific benefits of formative assessment—assessment that is used during instruction rather than at the end of a course or unit. He explains how to design and interpret three different types of formative assessments, how to track student progress, and how to assign meaningful grades, even if a school or district continues to use a traditional grading system. Detailed examples brings each concept to life, and exercises help reinforce the content. $42.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   Professional Development for Differentiating Instruction 9781742394626109042 This resource contains more than 45 tools and activities that make it easier for staff developers, teacher leaders, and other professional development leaders to show teachers and administrators how to successfully implement and maintain differentiated instruction. Use these tools in workshops, professional learning communities, and small-group settings to: establish a learning environment that is welcoming to educators at all levels of experience and expertise; plan staff development activities that model differentiated instruction; group teachers flexibly for their learning experiences; increase your colleagues’ capacity to use differentiated practices; and use ongoing assessment to guide your staff development. $95.00
View Information Sheet   Differentiated Instruction in Action Program 3 High School 9781742395005608083 Join Carol Ann Tomlinson and classroom teachers as they bring Differentiated Instruction to life in this practical, easily implemented Professional Development Program for the High School level. Carol Ann Tomlinson guides viewers as they observe classroom examples of the non-negotiables of Differentiated Instruction. Use the integrated professional development plan, including accompanying PowerPoint presentation and handouts, to empower educators as they lead for student success. $189.00	View Contents View Information Sheet   Failure is Not an Option, Second Edition 9781742393506CO3500 Alan M. Blankstein has documented how educators have closed gaps, turned schools around and sustained overall success. This book outlines how to become a high-performing school and learning community, shows how to avoid ten common routes to failure, includes many new case stories and examples, and offers new emphasis on: diversity, assessment for learning, intervention and support for students at risk, schooling as a community endeavour. The second edition of Failure Is Not an Option® tells more than the story - it gives specific tools, insights and processes that others have used to ensure that success is the ONLY option! $49.95
View Contents View Information Sheet   Web 2.0: new tools, new schools 9781742394022IST4022 What is Web 2.0? Once upon a time, Web sites were isolated information, ‘silos’ - all content and no functionality. Today, the next generation of Web sites gives power to the end-user; providing visitors with a new level of customisation, interaction, and participation. Many Web sites now allow users to upload, categorise, and share content easily. Weblogs and podcasts allow anyone to publish or broadcast on any topic. Wikis provide information that is constantly updated by the end-user. Open-source software is free and customisable. These new technologies are changing our relationship to the Internet. $50.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   Literacy & Learning Vol 3: Capturing All of the Reader Through the Reading Assessment System: Practical Applications for Guiding Strategic Readers 2nd Edition 9781742394305RB4305 Strategic readers develop in classrooms where self-assessment and mutual assessment are routine practices. The Reading Assessment System provides a new look at a measurable, alternative form of reading assessment intended for P–12 students in all content areas. The Reading Assessment System incorporates: traits of a strategic reader, narrative and informative attributes, P–3 continuum and 3–12 scoring guides for narrative and informative text, and 17 cumulative assessment tasks. This book enables educators to examine the components of the Reading Assessment System, practise using reading strategies as assessment tools in all content areas, and develop reading assessment tasks. $41.95
View Contents View Information Sheet   Research-Based Methods of Reading Instruction, Grades K-3 9781742394657104134 Get your reading program on the right track using research-based teaching strategies from this helpful guide. Learn what you need to know about five essential elements of reading, why you should teach them, and how. A treasure chest of research-based instructional activities helps you: build students' phonemic awareness, teach phonics and word study, improve students' reading fluency, develop students' vocabulary acquisition skills and help students improve their reading comprehension. Charts, timelines and step-by-step guides help you implement these approaches in the most effective way. This book will expand your repertoire and help you put students on the road to literacy. $32.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   Successful Teaching in the Differentiated Classroom 9781742394718HB4718 Successful Teaching in the Differentiated Classroom is the most comprehensive, practical resource you will need to successfully implement the concept of differentiation in your classroom. Following a brief overview of the components, and a teacher self-assessment awareness checklist, are chapters with reproducibles, forms and practical examples for administrators, teachers, students and parents. This comprehensive resource can be used in the school and tertiary classroom, with professional learning communities, as a study group resource and in staff development workshops. The accompanying CDROM includes customisable Word files of forms and handouts contained within the book for use by both teachers and students. $35.95
View Contents View Information Sheet   Cooperative Learning & Pre-Algebra Years 6-10 9781741707410KA7410 Motivate your students to excel with teamwork. You’ll be amazed at how well your students will work in teams. They’ll pay attention, solve problems together, help each other, and discuss pre-algebra concepts every day! Master maths teacher Becky Bride shares her step-by-step cooperative learning activities and explorations with you. Becky takes all the prep work out of teamwork. Chapters cover: whole numbers; integers; decimals; fractions; ratio, proportion and percentages; coordinate planes, and chance and data. See why students overwhelmingly prefer working together to working alone. Watch your test scores soar. This terrific resource includes reproducible blacklines for transparencies and activities. $44.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   Cognitive Coaching Foundation Seminar Learning Guide, 8th Edition 9781742392936CG2936 Successful schools work to develop a culture of student and leadership learning success. Cognitive Coaching is integral to this. This learning guide is designed to accompany and support a seminar intended to develop participants’ understanding, skilfulness, capacities and identity as a mediator who can, in turn, produce self-directed persons with the cognitive capacity for high performance both independently and as members of a community. Participants will learn about and practise a set of strategies, a way of thinking and a way of working that invites themselves and others to shape and reshape their thinking and problem-solving capacities to achieve success. $19.95
View Information Sheet   Breakthrough: A Multimedia Kit for Professional Development 9781742393490CO3490 Featuring classroom practices that promote individualised and focused instruction, Breakthrough’s Multimedia Kit provides: the companion book, Breakthrough, an educator's guide to transforming daily instruction; a 42-minute, content-rich DVD – with easy stop-and-search control of video content – that features discussions with the authors and presents the Triple P Breakthrough Model in action; a step-by-step facilitator's guide connecting the book's core content to the DVD and including segment prompts, workshop outlines, extended workshop activities, key points and discussion questions; a CD-ROM that contains the entire facilitator’s guide including printable outlines, handouts, agendas, an evaluation form and other materials for easy reproduction. $299.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   Quick-Spell: Beginning Thesaurus (Set of 5) 9781742394459CA4445 The QUICK-SPELL: Beginning Thesaurus is a book of useful writing words and their synonyms. It is a helpful writing tool for beginning writers. They go to the QUICK-SPELL Beginning Thesaurus when they want to use a different word. Or, they go to the thesaurus when they need a word with a more precise meaning. The thesaurus helps a writer avoid using the same words over and over. It contains 550 entry words, printed in bold type and listed alphabetically. Beside each entry word are the word’s part of speech, common synonyms and a sentence showing the entry word in context. $20.00
View Contents View Information Sheet   Facilitator's Guide to Failure Is Not an Option, Second Edition 9781742395111CO5111 An ideal companion to the second edition of the bestseller, Failure Is Not an Option®, this step-by-step guide provides staff developers and workshop facilitators with all the tools to help school leaders create successful, sustainable high-performing schools. Aligned with the chapters of Alan M. Blankstein’s award-winning book, these activities, discussion questions, and field-tested resources demonstrate how to avoid 10 common routes to failure, and are designed around six guiding principles. The Facilitator’s Guide to Failure Is Not an Option®, Second Edition is ideal for staff developers, or anyone leading groups of any size - pairs, small workshops, or large seminars. $25.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   Designing Professional Development for Teachers of Science and Mathematics 9781742395517CO5517 This book, one of the most widely cited resources in the field of professional learning for mathematics and science educators, demonstrates how to design professional development for teachers that is directly linked to improving student learning. Presenting a professional development (PD) planning framework, it incorporates current research on PD design, underscores how beliefs and local factors can influence the design, illustrates a wide range of PD strategies and emphasises the importance of: continuous program monitoring; combining strategies to address diverse needs; and building cultures that sustain learning. This book blends theory and practice to improve professional practice and student achievement. $52.95
View Contents View Information Sheet   A Guide to Mathematics Leadership: Sequencing Instructional Change 9781742395548CO5548 A Guide to Mathematics Leadership presents a process-based approach to improving mathematics instruction based on five principles identified by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) – equity, curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment – and four leadership principles from the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) – equity leadership, teaching and learning leadership, curriculum leadership, and assessment leadership. These principles are applied during the program improvement cycle. Filled with practical advice, tips, tools and resources for each stage of the process, this book guides readers in the next steps to excellence in mathematics instruction and learning. $37.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   Models of Professional Development: A Celebration of Educators 9781742395609CO5609 AA successful school is one in which the learning of educators is as highly valued as the learning of students. PD nurtures and encourages such growth, maximising educators' professional effectiveness. This comprehensive resource identifies five major contemporary PD models that can be implemented and tailored to meet the diverse needs of any school. With emphasis on the essential connection to student outcomes, this volume provides an in-depth analysis of each approach, plus concrete guidelines for effective implementation and program evaluation. Based on the belief that all models can succeed if properly implemented. Staff developers, principals and other education leaders will find Models of PD a valuable and insightful road map for successfully navigating the field of PD and growth. $37.95
View Contents View Information Sheet   The Power of SMART Goals 9781742395456SOT5456 This comprehensive yet easy-to-read book by the authors of The Handbook for SMART School Teams shows readers how to transform their schools into places where each and every student is meeting and exceeding standards by shifting thinking to a focus on results. Four real stories from primary, middle, and high schools that are implementing SMART goals give you a firsthand look at their “probletunities” - how they are turning challenges into opportunities for learning and improvement. The authors also provide templates and forms for implementing the SMART goals process in your own schools and classrooms. $32.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   Differentiating Instruction with Technology in Middle School Classrooms 9781742395739IST5739 This book reviews research on the uniqueness of middle years students and illustrates the importance of using technology to create differentiated lessons, especially with this age group. It lists the fundamental components of Differentiated Instruction (DI), student traits that guide DI, and Web 2.0 resources that can help make DI a reality in the middle school classroom. It includes sample activities for incorporating DI in maths, science, social studies and English. The strategies and lessons in this book will ensure that students receive a tailored education that also equips them with the technology skills they need for a successful future. $49.95
View Information Sheet   Literacy & Learning Vol 2: Enlighten your Thinking: 48 Questions for 16 Habits of Mind 9781742394206RB4206 48 Enlighten Your Thinking questions that focus on the Habits of Mind. Categories of questions include: thinking flexibly, thinking about thinking, listening with understanding and empathy, managing impulsivity, persisting, striving for accuracy, questioning and posing problems, , applying past knowledge to new situations, taking responsible risks and creating, imagining, innovating.. $15.00	View Contents View Information Sheet   10 Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Coach and Mentor Successful Teachers 9781742394558CO4558 As all educators face the pressures of accountability, filling our schools with effective teachers has never been more important. Elaine McEwan explores the ten characteristics that lead to success in the classroom, increased school morale, satisfied parents, and eager, high-achieving students. This user-friendly guide shares practical insights into these ten crucial traits through real-life examples and personal reflections from students, parents and educators. Administrators will value the numerous tools provided for hiring, coaching, mentoring and motivating effective teachers, while new and experienced teachers will be inspired to fully embody the ten traits and renew their zeal for teaching.. $42.95
View Contents View Information Sheet   Begin With the Brain: Orchestrating the Learner-Centered Classroom, Second Edition 9781742395531CO5531 Seasoned educator Martha Kaufeldt helps teachers understand current findings in neuroscience research and apply them to all aspects of their classroom practice, from behaviour management to curriculum design. Using what we know about optimal learning conditions for the brain, this ready-to-go resource provides practical guidance to new and experienced teachers on how to create a learner-centred classroom, including: setting up a classroom; establishing routines and procedures; fostering students’ intellectual curiosity; reducing learned helplessness in students, developing students’ respect for one another’s cultural and educational backgrounds; and building a classroom community. This guide will help maximise instruction by making it brain-compatible. $49.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   The Choreography of Presenting: The 7 Essential Abilities of Effective Presenters 9781742395586CO5586 Like a great dance partner, an excellent presenter leads others with ease and confidence. By showing how verbal and nonverbal communication shapes every aspect of a successful presentation, this engaging book helps readers develop the underlying skills for polished, successful public speaking. Readers will discover how to use body language, tone of voice, and other subtle, physical behaviour to convey credibility, capture the audience's attention and support learning. Appropriate for any level of presenter, from novice to expert. Take your presentation skills to a higher level, and begin a new partnership with your audience! $39.95
View Contents View Information Sheet   Building Teachers' Capacity for Success: A Collaborative Approach for Coaches and School Leaders 9781742394633109002 Pete Hall and Alisa Simeral lay out a practical pathway towards higher student achievement. Increase instructional effectiveness by implementing the principles of strength-based school improvement. Filled with clear, proven strategies and organised around two easy-to-use tools – the innovative Continuum of Self-Reflection and a feedback-focused walk-through model – this book offers a differentiated approach to coaching and supervision centred on identifying and nurturing teachers’ individual strengths and helping them reach new levels of professional success and satisfaction. Anecdotes and examples from the field ensure you know what to look for, do and say in order to start seeing positive results. $39.95	View Information Sheet   Connecting Differentiated Instruction, Understanding by Design and What Works in Schools: An Exploration of Research-Based Strategies (DVD) 9781742394930609012 For the first time on one stage, the experts on Differentiated Instruction, Understanding by Design, and What Works in Schools speak about these powerhouse educational approaches and share the underpinnings of their work and the implications for educators who use these models during a panel discussion recorded live at the 2008 ASCD Summer Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. This DVD features: Carol Ann Tomlinson on Differentiated Instruction; Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe on Understanding by Design; and Robert Marzano on What Works in Schools. This recording gives you a front row seat and backstage access to interviews with the panellists. $130.00
View Information Sheet   Brigance: Self-Help and Social-Emotional Scales, 2 years - 5 years 11 months 9781742392929CA2929 The Self-help and Social-Emotional Scales provide a standardised measure of self-help skills in eating, toileting, prevocational and dressing; and social and emotional skills in playing and getting along with others. These scales can be used as a means of gaining a broader understanding of a child's developmental level and, if needed, to derive standardised scores in these two areas. The Self-help and Social-Emotional Scales have been validated based on extensive research and field-testing. Standard score, percentile and age equivalent can therefore be determined by adhering to the directions given, forming a useful and highly valuable picture of a child’s development. $29.95	View Information Sheet   Literacy & Learning Vol 2: Unwrap your Thinking: 40 Questions for Question-Answer Relationships 9781742394213RB4213 This item is a companion piece to Rachel Billmeyer’s Literacy and Learning Trilogy; particularly its second volume - Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner: Building Strategic Learners. This item includes forty ‘Unwrap Your Thinking’ cards on durable cardboard. Each card contains a question that informs the Question-Answer Relationships strategy from Rachel Billmeyer’s work, focusing on different textual elements and encouraging the recollection of prior knowledge and extension of new information found while reading. Questions are narrative and informative, and cards are colour-coded. These cards can be used to facilitate active and ongoing small group discussion or individual reflection. $15.00
View Information Sheet   Literacy & Learning Vol 2: Chat and Go: 30 Cards to Facilitate Talk About Books and Articles 9781742394251RB4251 This item is a companion piece to Rachel Billmeyer’s Literacy and Learning Trilogy; particularly its second volume - Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner: Building Strategic Learners. This item includes thirty Chat and Go Cards on durable, coloured cardboard. Cards contain Chat and Go narrative and informative questions to facilitate conversation about a selection read. These can be used and re-used with groups or individuals, providing insight into students’ reading proficiency and level of understanding of a text, as well as providing fuel for further reflection and building future knowledge. Pack contains 30 cards and 29 unique questions. $15.00	View Contents View Information Sheet   Building Classroom Reading Communities: Retrospective Miscue Analysis and Socractic Circles 9781742393162CO3162 Building Classroom Reading Communities presents a successful approach to motivating students as individual readers. By using Retrospective Miscue Analysis (RMA) and Socratic Circles together, teachers can create a sense of community in the classroom and promote achievement for every student. This book offers assessment strategies and step-by-step guidance for implementing RMA and Socratic Circles; insights into improving student skills in vocabulary, language structure, comprehension; flexible, adaptable techniques for readers of all abilities; numerous vignettes showing the use of RMA with Socratic Circles in the classroom. Discover a fresh approach to teaching literacy that is well-grounded in theory and practice! $45.95
View Contents View Information Sheet   inFormative Assessment: When It's not About a Grade 9781742393315CO3315 Use assessment as a powerful tool to inform instruction and learning! With practical, informed assessment techniques, you can increase instructional effectives and demonstrate improvements in student learning. This research-based book provides, in a nutshell, a succinct yet substantive discussion about formative assessments and how they impact the teaching/learning cycle. Robin Fogarty and Gene Kerns present results-oriented methods, offer invaluable tips and examine three types of inFormative assessments: Routine inFormative assessments to weave into everyday instruction, Reflective inFormative assessments to foster self-assessment for students and teachers, and Rigorous inFormative assessments to provide continuous tools that inform teaching practices and student learning. $30.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   Talk About Teaching!: Leading Professional Conversations 9781742395494CO5494 Ongoing informal dialogue between school leaders and educators is the foundation for improved classroom instruction, increased learner achievement and more formal discussions about education. This breakthrough work helps school leaders understand the value of reflective professional conversations in promoting a positive environment of inquiry, support and professional development. Organised around the ‘big ideas’ of successful teaching, this guidebook: explains the function of informal professional conversations in ongoing teacher learning; explores the interaction of power and leadership in schools; outlines the conversation skills that school leaders need to engage in successful conversations; and includes mental maps, sample topics and conversation activities. $37.95
View Contents View Information Sheet   The High-Performing School: Benchmarking the 10 Indicators of Effectiveness 9781742394824SOT4824 This book summarises the research behind the on-site school review and the 10 Effectiveness Indicators used to establish guidelines for improvement. The on-site school review is a cooperative venture between an external review team and a school’s administrators, teachers and students. The authors explain the process, identify the 10 Effectiveness Indicators and provide the rubrics they have developed for assessing a school’s performance on each indicator. They include step-by-step instructions for conducting a school review. The book also includes a CD-ROM containing 59 tools developed by the authors for planning and coordinating the review, collecting evidence for evaluation, and communicating. $55.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   The Handbook for SMART School Teams 9781742395449SOT5449 This resource puts quality improvement at your fingertips by providing you with information covering all aspects of teaming-from types of teams, member roles and team ground rules to data collection, data analysis and data interpretation. This book and companion CD-ROM will help you set the stage for collaboration and teamwork by teaching you how to become a SMART school and improve processes and systems. You and your team members will learn: Structures for teamwork; the basics of effective teamwork; group processes and planning tools; the benefits of thinking like a system; and the role of professional development in learning communities. $69.95
View Contents View Information Sheet   Productive Group Work: How to Engage Students, Build Teamwork, and Promote Understanding 9781742395814109018 Although there’s nothing new about collaborative group work, it doesn’t always come close to fulfilling its potential as a powerful learning strategy. Here’s a book that explains how to create the right circumstances for group learning so that students build on one another’s understanding and end up knowing more than they would have working alone. Discover how aligning research-based principles with practical classroom actions makes it much easier. Lots of classroom illustrations across year levels and disciplines ensure you know the best ways to form groups, accommodate mixed readiness levels, and make collaborative learning routines a sure-fire success every time. $25.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age 9781742393032IST3032 Reinventing Project-Based Learning offers educators an accessible guide for maximising the benefits of project-based learning in today’s technology-rich learning environment. This reader-friendly book speaks directly to educators, administrators and professional development specialists who want to transform learning into a more active, student-driven experience, using technology tools for inquiry, collaboration and connection to the world beyond the classroom. Examples from educators in many different countries showcase this new vision of instructional design. Reinventing Project-Based Learning shows how to design authentic projects that make the most of available and emerging tools and technologies. $49.95
View Contents View Information Sheet   National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators 9781742393810IST3810 First released in 2002 by the Technology Standards for School Administrators Collaborative, the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators are indicators of what school leaders should know and be able to do to optimise the effective use of ICT in education. ISTE is proud to present the refreshed NETS•A, a consensus among educational stakeholders of what best indicates accomplished school leadership for comprehensive and effective use of ICT in schools. $21.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   National Educational Technology Standards for Students, Second Edition 9781742393896IST3896 Introduced in 1998, the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project is an ongoing initiative of the International Society for Technology in Education. The NETS Project works to define standards for students, integrating curriculum, technology and standards for student assessment and evaluation of technology use. As technology, resources, practices and assessments changed over time, it became necessary to review and refresh the standards. This book includes the revised text of the National Educational Technology Standards for Students, as well as discussion of the need for technology standards, a project overview, student profiles and examples, and the results of a scenario survey. $21.95
View Contents View Information Sheet   National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers 9781742393926IST3926 First published in 2000, the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS•T) introduced ISTE’s technology standards for teachers and included profiles for each stage of teacher education from general preparation to first-year teaching. This new edition of the NETS•T includes the new standards for students with their emphasis on skills and expertise supported by technology. Profiles are now included for all teachers in addition to the four previous stages of teacher preparation. Examples and scenarios demonstrate ways in which the standards facilitate effective teaching and learning strategies for prospective and beginning teachers, teacher candidates, current teachers and teacher educators. $21.95	View Information Sheet   Brain-Compatible Activities Maths: Set of 3 CO3160CO3160 This set of 3 includes: Brain-Compatible Activities for Mathematics, Years P-1 (CO3131), Brain-Compatible Activities for Mathematics, Years 2-3 (CO3148) and Brain-Compatible Activities for Mathematics, Years 4-5 (CO3155). Brain-Compatible Activities for Mathematics provide ready-to-use, brain-friendly lessons for mathematics instruction. Each step-by-step lesson includes detailed instructions for the teacher, maths activities, and all the necessary reproducibles. These resources use concrete models to make concepts meaningful, incorporate graphic organisers to help students organise their thinking and teach creative problem solving. Deepen and revitalise instruction using Sousa’s proven brain-compatible approach for helping every child develop self-confidence in mathematics. $90.00
View Information Sheet   Brain-Compatible Activities Maths: Complete Set with Theory CO316XCO316X This set of 4 includes: How the Brain Learns Mathematics (CO457X), Brain-Compatible Activities for Mathematics, Years P-1 (CO3131), Brain-Compatible Activities for Mathematics, Years 2-3 (CO3148) and Brain-Compatible Activities for Mathematics, Years 4-5 (CO3155). How the Brain Learns Mathematics covers the cognitive mechanisms for learning mathematics, the environmental and developmental factors that contribute to mathematics difficulties, and ways to differentiate mathematics instruction. Brain-Compatible Activities for Mathematics provide ready-to-use, brain-friendly lessons for mathematics instruction. Deepen and revitalise instruction using Sousa’s proven brain-compatible approach for helping every child develop self-confidence in mathematics. $140.00	View Information Sheet   STEM CIP: Chip Off the Old Block: Complete Set CUR5260CUR5260 In this biotechnology module, students explore basic concepts of cell structure, cell reproduction (mitosis and meiosis), and genetics, including DNA. Concepts of genetic engineering, including recombinant DNA, gene therapy, genetically-engineered plants and the Human Genome Project are included. Students demonstrate their understanding of these concepts by designing a hypothetical baby, deciding genetic characteristics and determining how they would manifest in a real person. Complete set includes Chip Off the Old Block: Student Data and Response Book (CUR5298), Chip Off the Old Block: Student Curriculum Module (Set of 5) (CUR5272) and Chip Off the Old Block: Teacher’s Guide with CD (CUR5265). $250.00
View Contents View Information Sheet   STEM CIP: Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics Curriculum Integration Program: Chip Off the Old Block: Teacher's Guide with CD 9781742395265CUR5265 In this biotechnology module, students explore basic concepts of cell structure, cell reproduction (mitosis and meiosis), and genetics, including DNA. Concepts of genetic engineering, including recombinant DNA, gene therapy, genetically-engineered plants and the Human Genome Project are included. Students demonstrate their understanding of these concepts by designing a hypothetical baby, deciding genetic characteristics and determining how they would manifest in a real person. See also Chip Off the Old Block: Student Data and Response Book (CUR5298), Chip Off the Old Block: Student Curriculum Module (Set of 5) (CUR5272) and Chip Off the Old Block: Complete Set (CUR5260). $89.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   STEM CIP: Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics Curriculum Integration Program: Chip Off the Old Block: Student Module Set of 5 9781742395272CUR5272 In this biotechnology module, students explore basic concepts of cell structure, cell reproduction (mitosis and meiosis), and genetics, including DNA. Concepts of genetic engineering, including recombinant DNA, gene therapy, genetically-engineered plants and the Human Genome Project are included. Students demonstrate their understanding of these concepts by designing a hypothetical baby, deciding genetic characteristics and determining how they would manifest in a real person. See also Chip Off the Old Block: Teacher’s Guide with CD (CUR5265), Chip Off the Old Block: Student Data and Response Booklet (Set of 5) (CUR5289) and Chip Off the Old Block: Complete Set (CUR5260). $29.95
View Contents View Information Sheet   STEM CIP: Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics Curriculum Integration Program: Chip Off the Old Block: Student Data and Response Book Set of 5 9781742395289CUR5289 In this biotechnology module, students explore basic concepts of cell structure, cell reproduction (mitosis and meiosis), and genetics, including DNA. Concepts of genetic engineering, including recombinant DNA, gene therapy, genetically-engineered plants and the Human Genome Project are included. Students demonstrate their understanding of these concepts by designing a hypothetical baby, deciding genetic characteristics and determining how they would manifest in a real person. See also Chip Off the Old Block: Teacher’s Guide with CD (CUR5265), Chip Off the Old Block: Student Curriculum Module (Set of 5) (CUR5272) and Chip Off the Old Block: Complete Set (CUR5260). $29.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   Brain-Compatible Activities for Mathematics, Years 4-5 9781742393155CO3155 Brain-Compatible Activities for Mathematics, Years 4-5 provides ready-to-use, brain-friendly lessons for mathematics instruction. Each step-by-step lesson includes detailed instructions for the teacher, maths activities, and all the necessary reproducibles. Through activities like Scuba Division and Parachute Drop, intermediate learners will enjoy developing skills connected with multiplication and division, fractions and decimals, geometry and measurement, algebra, data analysis, and more. This resource uses concrete models to make concepts meaningful, incorporates graphic organisers to help students organise their thinking and teaches creative problem solving. Deepen and revitalise instruction using Sousa’s proven brain-compatible approach for helping every child develop self-confidence in mathematics. $32.95
View Contents View Information Sheet   Digital Citizenship in Schools 9781742395852IST5852 Technological interaction has created a digital society that affords its members opportunities for education, employment, entertainment and social interaction. As in any society, it is expected that digital citizens act in a certain way. Digital Citizenship in Schools is an essential introduction to digital citizenship. Mike Ribble (author of Raising a Digital Child) and Gerald Bailey explore the nine elements of digital citizenship. They provide a useful audit and professional development activities to help educators determine how to go about integrating digital citizenship concepts into the classroom. Activity ideas and lesson plans round out this timely book. $50.95	View Information Sheet   Literacy & Learning Vol 2: Strategies Blackline Masters CD 9781742394121RB4121 This item is a companion piece to Rachel Billmeyer’s Literacy and Learning Trilogy; particularly its second volume - Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner: Building Strategic Learners. This CD-ROM includes the blackline masters, or reproducible worksheets, for the seventy one activities, worksheets and reproducibles featured in Rachel Billmeyer’s book. Presented in PDF format, these black and white files are taken directly from the book itself, and can be quickly and easily printed out for use in the classroom with your students. In this way they perfectly compliment the use of Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner. $25.00
View Information Sheet   Literacy & Learning Vol 2: Tent: Reading Rocks (set of 32) 9781742394220RB4220 This item is a companion piece to Rachel Billmeyer’s Literacy and Learning Trilogy; particularly its second volume - Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner: Building Strategic Learners. This set includes 32 double-sided bookmarks for primary students on durable cardboard. Each folded bookmark contains questions to support and enhance comprehension Before Reading, During Reading and After Reading, and also a handy reading ‘Place Marker’ for students to use while reading new printed text. These bookmarks serve as an aid to comprehension and as a quick resource for beginning or uncertain readers that can be kept within the book itself. $15.00	View Information Sheet   Literacy & Learning Vol 2: Bookmark: Think and Read (set of 30) 9781742394268RB4268 This item is a companion piece to Rachel Billmeyer’s Literacy and Learning Trilogy; particularly its second volume - Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner: Building Strategic Learners. This set includes 30 double-sided bookmarks for primary students. Each Think and Read Strategies bookmark contains a quick summary of the strategies that students can use to: better comprehend what they are reading; deal with unfamiliar words; and relate new reading to their own lives. These bookmarks serve as an aid to comprehension and as a quick resource for beginning or uncertain readers that can be kept within the book itself. $15.00
View Information Sheet   Literacy & Learning Vol 2: Bookmark: Guided Reading (set of 30) 9781742394282RB4282 This item is a companion piece to Rachel Billmeyer’s Literacy and Learning Trilogy; particularly its second volume - Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner: Building Strategic Learners. This set includes 30 single-sided bookmarks for primary students on durable cardboard. Each Guided Reading bookmark contains information on the ‘Guided Reading’ strategy from Rachel Billmeyer’s work, relating the process of interpreting new information, dealing with it and incorporating it into a reader’s own understanding. These bookmarks serve as an aid to comprehension and as a quick resource for beginning or uncertain readers that can be kept within the book itself. $15.00	View Contents View Information Sheet   Power Tools for Adolescent Literacy: Strategies for Learning 9781742393483SOT3483 This accessible, well-organised compendium is the ultimate resource for secondary teachers who seek to improve student learning, making it easy for teachers of any content area to find and use the right research-based strategies. Each chapter explores the research foundation for a particular aspect of literacy, suggests key resources, defines critical issues and then provides concrete strategies for actively engaging students in reading, writing, talking and listening. It includes the most relevant classroom research; tools to aid reflection and implementation; over 50 strategies for engaging adolescent learners; and more than two dozen activity sheets and resources for teacher and students. $39.95
View Contents View Information Sheet   Making Maths Accessible: Incorporating the 5Es and Enabling ELLs - Years 9-12 9781742394817SOT4817 Using this practical tool, teachers can accelerate all students’, including English language learners’, acquisition of academic English and proficiency in meaningful mathematics. This book provides an overview of the 5E instructional model (engage, explore, explain, elaborate and evaluate), sample 5E lesson plans and examples of how to adapt textbook lessons to the 5E model. Throughout the book, readers will find opportunities for reflection to increase personal awareness of both the teacher’s role and students’ needs. Tasks provide interaction with the content of the book, and hot tips inspire ideas for real-world situations $39.95	View Contents View Information Sheet   Quick-Spell: Word Finder (Set of 5) 9781742394473CA4447 Help your students improve their spelling and writing skills with these easy-to-use reference guides. The QUICK-SPELL Word Finder lists 3000 words alphabetically and includes their suffix forms, totalling more than 10,000 of the most common words used in writing. Students independently check spelling and vary word choices in writing. It's like a mini-dictionary for young writers, and a quick, easy-to-use guide as to the best way to use words that they might be uncertain of. QUICK-SPELL is also a useful tool for ESL students, as its list of word suffixes can eliminate confusion for those unsure of which to use. $20.00
View Information Sheet   Literacy & Learning Vol 2: Tent: Strategic Reader (set of 32) 9781742394237RB4237 This item is a companion piece to Rachel Billmeyer’s Literacy and Learning Trilogy; particularly its second volume - Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner: Building Strategic Learners. This item includes 32 double-sided bookmarks for secondary students on durable cardboard. Each folded bookmark contains ideas to support comprehension – Before Reading, During Reading and After Reading, as outlined in the books themselves, and a reading "Place Marker" to help guide the eye while reading actual content. The detailed questions asked on each bookmark support reading comprehension and the reading strategies outlined in Rachel Billmeyer’s works, a useful guide for readers. $15.00	View Information Sheet   Literacy & Learning Vol 2: Tent: Reciprocal Teaching 9781742394244RB4244 This item is a companion piece to Rachel Billmeyer’s Literacy and Learning Trilogy; particularly its second volume - Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner: Building Strategic Learners. This item includes eight sets of foldable Reciprocal Teaching Tents, four tents per set and 32 tents total. Tents include sentence starters for the four reading attributes described in the books themselves: predict, clarify, question, and summarise. Use the tents to facilitate active and ongoing small group discussion. Organise students into groups of four with each student sharing ideas from their reading based on the reading attribute outlined on the tent. $19.95
View Information Sheet   Literacy & Learning Vol 2: Bookmark: Reading to Solve Story Problems (set of 30) 9781742394275RB4275 This item is a companion piece to Rachel Billmeyer’s Literacy and Learning Trilogy; particularly its second volume - Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner: Building Strategic Learners. This item includes 30 double-sided bookmarks on durable cardboard. Each bookmark contains icons and ideas to support problem solving and key questions. One side serves as an aid to student reading comprehension, outlining strategies for engaging with difficult or misunderstood text. The other, questions to ask oneself, ensures complete comprehension and understanding of stated ideas. Together, they form a useful package of questions students can use to aid their own comprehension. $15.00	View Information Sheet   Literacy & Learning Vol 2: Bookmark: Reciprocal Teaching (set of 30) 9781742394299RB4299 This item is a companion piece to Rachel Billmeyer’s Literacy and Learning Trilogy; particularly its second volume - Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner: Building Strategic Learners. This item includes 30 double-sided bookmarks. Each bookmark contains key verbs and questions for the reading attributes - predict, clarify, question, visualise and summarise - used throughout the Reciprocal Teaching strategy. Bookmarks can be used to stimulate thinking when reading. They can be useful in stimulating further discussion and reading or writing activities, or simply as a handy guide that students refer to when reading – right inside the very book itself. $15.00