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Language and Learning: The Home and School Years (4th Edition)  Once again, this comprehensive, easy-to-read book explores the way in which children learn language, the way language is taught to children, and how these two roads to language sometimes diverge?always giving equal treatment to first and second language learning. Piper tracks language acquisition, from birth through the school years, presenting numerous cases studies of children's experiences as a means of illustrating stages of language development and the sequence of skills attainment. In addition, she thoroughly covers bilingualism, paying particular attention to the differences between second language learning at home and in a school setting. For ESL and elementary school speech teachers.Author: Terry Piper Paperback: 432 pages Company: Prentice Hall (2006-05-20) ISBN: 0131728644 List Price: $73.60 Amazon Price: $66.94 Used Price: $45.89 Home, School, and Community Relations  This practical text is designed to meet the needs of administrators, as well as current and practicing teachers across all grade levels who are trying to create effective partnerships with families. It provides an overview of modern families and their complex roles, to sensitize teachers to the diversity and needs of families they will encounter. The text fully discusses both the benefits of creating productive partnerships and the barriers that teachers must work beyond. Practical and effective communication strategies are described, with abundant examples. Emphasis is placed on current developments in the field of early childhood education, legislative mandates in education, and position statements from professional organizations. A discussion of No Child Left Behind and updated NAEYC Code of Ethics accreditation standards for programs and for teacher education supports this emphasis.Author: Carol Gestwicki Paperback: 654 pages Company: Delmar Cengage Learning (2009-01-09) ISBN: 1435401085 List Price: $97.95 Amazon Price: $62.50 Used Price: $62.54 Home, School and Community Relations: A Guide to Working with Families  This practical text is designed to meet the needs of students, administrators, and teachers of children of all ages who are trying to create effective partnerships with families. It provides an overview of modern families and their complex roles, to sensitize teachers to the diversity and needs of families they will encounter. The text discusses fully both the benefits of creating productive partnerships and the barriers that teachers must work beyond. Practical and effective communication strategies are described, with abundant examples. Emphasis is placed on current developments in the field of early childhood education, legislative mandates in education, and position statements from professional organizations. A discussion of No Child Left Behind and updated NAEYC Code of Ethics accreditation standards for programs and for teacher education supports this emphasis.Author: Carol Gestwicki Paperback: 688 pages Company: Delmar Cengage Learning (2006-06-21) ISBN: 1418029742 List Price: $97.95 Amazon Price: $24.99 Used Price: $12.65 Teaching Montessori in the Home: The School Years  Author: Elizabeth G. Hainstock, Lee Davis Paperback: 192 pages Company: Plume (1997-09-01) ISBN: 0452279100 List Price: $11.95 Amazon Price: Used Price: $7.99 Home-School Relations: Working Successfully with Parents and Families (3rd Edition)  Home-School Relations examines the nature of the contemporary family and its relationship to the school and provides practical advice for developing strong home-school relationships. This book discusses the need for educators to have positive working relationships with the students they teach and describes the techniques they must use to understand the families from which their students come. In addition to covering the traditional topics of ethnic families, change in families, and parent-teacher communication, Olsen, Fuller, and their contributors delve further into the issues facing families today. Poverty, advocacy, fathering and domestic violence and their effect on families are covered opening new paths of understanding for educators. In addition, diversity (cultural, racial, religious, and sexual orientation) is discussed.Author: Glenn W. Olsen, Mary Lou Fuller Paperback: 432 pages Company: Allyn & Bacon (2007-01-20) ISBN: 020549840X List Price: $66.67 Amazon Price: $55.00 Used Price: $42.50 Take Five!: Staying Alert at Home and School  This book was written for parents and teachers, providing activities that are helpful to keep children alert at home and school. Many therapists recommend these low budget, easy-to-use activities. Teachers, parents, and therapists will love the quick movement breaks and other suggestions to expand their repertoire of self-regulation strategies for use in a variety of settings. This book does not teach children about their engine levels, but it is organized around the five ways to change how alert we feel.Author: Mary Sue Williams, Sherry Shellenberger Spiral-bound: 86 pages Company: Therapy Works Inc (2001-04-02) ISBN: 0964304112 List Price: $44.00 Amazon Price: $33.19 Used Price: $33.19 Supporting Children in Their Home, School, and Community  While most texts touch lightly on families, Sailor's text provides in-depth readable coverage of diverse family forms, cultural differences, early care and education, schooling, the media, community services, and social policies affecting the development of children.Author: Dorothy Holin Sailor Paperback: 456 pages Company: Allyn & Bacon (2003-11-14) ISBN: 0205360920 List Price: $68.00 Amazon Price: $29.62 Used Price: $28.95 Teaching Montessori in the Home: Pre-School Years: The Pre-School Years  Author: Elizabeth G. Hainstock, Lee Havis Paperback: 128 pages Company: Plume (1997-09-01) ISBN: 0452279097 List Price: $13.00 Amazon Price: $4.43 Used Price: $4.13 Bridging Cultures Between Home and School: A Guide for Teachers  Bridging Cultures Between Home and School: A Guide for Teachers is intended to stimulate broad thinking about how to meet the challenges of education in a pluralistic society. It is a powerful resource for in-service and preservice multicultural education and professional development. The Guide presents a framework for understanding differences and conflicts that arise in situations where school culture is more individualistic than the value system of the home. It shares what researchers and teachers of the Bridging Cultures Project have learned from the experimentation of teacher-researchers in their own classrooms of largely immigrant Latino students and explores other research on promoting improved home-school relationships across cultures. The framework leads to specific suggestions for supporting teachers to cross-cultural communication; organization parent-teacher conferences that work; use strategies that increase parent involvement in schooling; increase their skills as researchers; and employ ethnographic techniques to learn about home cultures. Although the research underlying the Bridging Cultures Project and this Guide focuses on immigrant Latino families, since this is the primary population with which the framework was originally used, it is a potent tool for learning about other cultures as well because many face similar discrepancies between their own more collectivistic approaches to childrearing and schooling and the more individualistic approach of the dominant culture.Author: Elise Trumbull, Carrie Rothstein-Fish, Patricia M. Greenfield, Blanca Quiroz Paperback: 200 pages Company: WestEd (2001-04-01) ISBN: 0805835199 List Price: $26.95 Amazon Price: $18.00 Used Price: $16.99 Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School  See how the brain works while using it in the process of reading this book! Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know - like that physical activity boosts your brain power.How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget - and so important to repeat new information? Is it true that men and women have different brains?In "Brain Rules", Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule - what scientists know for sure about how our brains work - and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives.Medina's fascinating stories and sense of humour breathe life into brain science. You'll learn why Michael Jordan was no good at baseball. You'll peer over a surgeon's shoulder as he proves that we have a Jennifer Aniston neuron. You'll meet a boy who has an amazing memory for music but can't tie his own shoes.Author: John Medina Paperback: 301 pages Company: Pear Press (2009-03-31) ISBN: 0979777747 List Price: $15.00 Amazon Price: $8.64 Used Price: $8.64 |