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The Brigance IED-III Box of Materials contains items needed for administering the Brigance IED-III, all packaged in a sturdy and easy-to-transport carry case. It includes: Pencils (4); Blank sheets of paper for covering items; Box of crayons; Coloured blocks (12); Coloured pencils (five, each a different colour); Nesting containers; Rattle; Shapes (circles and squares) of two colours (16); Counters (12); and a Squeaking toy. The Brigance IED-III Box of Materials is a handy toolkit for administering the IED-III in the easiest and most painless way possible.

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The activities in this book have been designed to enable lower primary school students to work in small groups with a minimum of instruction. The activities have been graded according to the developmental stages of reading in the early years. These recommendations are fluid and can be altered depending on the needs and strengths of the students. The cards can be used with the children's take-home books or any book appropriate to their reading level.

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Standards, curricula and assessment have been built and rebuilt to provide excellence and achievement. Now we're faced with the one variable that can turn all this effort into ash: the students. Navigate the hot topic of student engagement with a true expert. The author explores the many factors involved in bringing out the best in students, such as relationships, emotions, environment and expectations. Discover how to create an environment in which students feel confident and safe enough to take risks, make mistakes and immerse themselves in learning experiences. Above all, become empowered to demand an authentic joy for learning in your classroom.

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This comprehensive book will help early childhood practitioners consider the 'why' and 'how' of setting up classrooms and other learning spaces to create environments that are most conducive to child development. Using a practice-based focus and a researcher lens, the contributors consider the ways in which environments for children enhance or diminish educational experiences, how social constructs about what is good for children influence environmental design and what practitioners can do in their own work when creating learning environments for young children. Included are examples from practice, lessons learned, and illustrations and photographs of key aspects of the environments they discuss.

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Transformative Talk assists an aspirant Cognitive Coach in building their coaching capabilities. It draws upon each of the insights and experiences of Cognitive Coaching training associates and agency trainers who are 'walking the talk' in their own lives and careers. Each chapter at varying degrees reflects personal journeys shared with the explicit intention to assist you in making connections to your own work and your growth as a coach.Talk is critical to the complex, challenging and intrinsically satisfying work of educators. This book provides you with the opportunity to continue transforming your talk so you can transform the thinking of others in the process of education.

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Teach Them Thinking Mental Menus for 24 Thinking Skills. If you are convinced of the importance of teaching thinking skills in the classroom, this is a must have resource. Twenty-four skills are presented along with ready to use sample lessons.

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Designed for primary students, this resource incorporates the ideas of blooms taxonomy and multiple intelligences in a practical and fun way. The activities cover themes such as seasons, measuring time and cycles in our world and can be used by teachers to supplement their own classroom ideas. Each interdisciplinary unit of work includes activities that are individually coded for multiple intelligences. The activities have defined learning outcomes, promote creative thinking, draw out students' intellectual capabilities.

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Marzano Research combines Dr Robert Marzano's 40 years of educational research with continuous action research in all major areas of schooling in order to provide effective and accessible instructional strategies, leadership strategies and classroom assessment strategies that are always at the forefront of best practice. Marzano Research provides teachers and school leaders with the tools they need to effect profound improvement in student achievement. This series is a collection of Marzano Research's invaluable resources.

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ASCD Arias publications provide concise answers to challenging questions that you need to solve today—in a convenient format that you can read in one sitting and immediately put into practice. They’re the next-generation, immediate-need resources for everyone committed to the success of each learner.

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This practical book will help early childhood teachers (preK-2) understand and respond to the multiple influences (school, home, and societal) that affect emergent bilingual children’s academic achievement. Chapters address incorporating first-language strengths, acquiring a second language, learning to read, building vocabulary, comprehending and thinking with text and language, helping children persevere, and more. Approaches for collaborating with families accompany each chapter. This book is designed to help teachers understand the underlying principles so they can modify, develop, and adjust their practice to be most effective for the emergent bilingual children they teach. It is a valuable resource for developing bilingual programs, teacher preparation, and professional development Learn More

Focus on Maths is a mathematics-strategy practice series. The series features six mathematics strategies each containing both a teacher guide and student workbook. Each student book in the series provides brief instruction and concentrated practice for students in one targeted mathematics strategy. The teacher guides provide instructions for using the student workbook effectively in the classroom. The guide enables teachers to explain mathematical theory to a whole class or individual student with sections for both student self-assessment and teacher assessment. Each guide contains mathematics strategy tips for the teacher, with tips for additional discussion related to understanding and using the mathematics strategy. This set contains one teacher book covering Using Estimation for levels A, B, C, D and E. Learn More

In this revised Australian edition of The Focus Factor, author James Bellanca examines the importance of an essential set of thinking skills that supports the Australian Curriculum and ensures future success for students in 21st-century life, school and work. Each chapter introduces the what, the why and the how to do it for explicit incorporation of content-crossing competencies. The text features practical how-to classroom examples that make it easy for teachers to integrate the development of important cognitive functions into their daily lessons.

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