Curriculum as Conversation
Title | Curriculum as Conversation PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur N. Applebee |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 1996-05-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780226021232 |
“Applebee's central point, the need to teach 'knowledge in context,' is absolutely crucial for the hopes of any reformed curriculum. His experience and knowledge give his voice an authority that makes many of the current proposals on both the left and right seem shallow by comparison.”—Gerald Graff, University of Chicago
Curriculum as Conversation
Title | Curriculum as Conversation PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur N. Applebee |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 1996-05-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780226021218 |
“Applebee's central point, the need to teach 'knowledge in context,' is absolutely crucial for the hopes of any reformed curriculum. His experience and knowledge give his voice an authority that makes many of the current proposals on both the left and right seem shallow by comparison.”—Gerald Graff, University of Chicago
Curriculum as Conversation
Title | Curriculum as Conversation PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur N. Applebee |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2008-05-28 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 022616182X |
“Applebee's central point, the need to teach 'knowledge in context,' is absolutely crucial for the hopes of any reformed curriculum. His experience and knowledge give his voice an authority that makes many of the current proposals on both the left and right seem shallow by comparison.”—Gerald Graff, University of Chicago
Conversation Skills on the Job and in the Community
Title | Conversation Skills on the Job and in the Community PDF eBook |
Author | Marilyn Banks |
Publisher | Attainment Company Incorporated |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781578615452 |
Nondisabled workers usually lose their jobs because of character issues, but workers with developmental disabilities often lose them because of poor conversation skills and the subsequent isolation from coworkers that results. Conversation Skills, authored by speech and language therapist Marilyn Banks, covers the gamut of basic and essential communication skills and helps young people enjoy successful job experiences and fulfilling, independent lives. With 50-plus self-managed lessons, Conversation Skills is self-paced and takes only 12 weeks of bi-weekly, 10 minute training sessions during which students acquire a ready social repertoire. Includes a Win/Mac CD with a printable PDF that contains all the reproducibles in the book.
Teaching Talk
Title | Teaching Talk PDF eBook |
Author | Kara Pranikoff |
Publisher | Heinemann Educational Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780325086767 |
Talk is part of every classroom, regardless of grade, content area, or school location. So how can teachers harness the energy of talk to spark discussion, strengthen student dialogue, and deepen comprehension? Teaching Talk is a practical resource that will help you focus your lens on classroom talk, making the most of the student voices and ideas that are already part of your classroom, and increasing the potential for learning. Kara Pranikoff offers suggestions and strategies that can be used immediately, starting with a comprehensive list of questions to help teachers assess and reflect on student talk. Each chapter addresses an element of classroom talk along with concrete examples to help you: collect and analyze artifacts of talk provide opportunities for students to share their ideas create conversations orchestrated by students and grounded in their ideas strengthen both talking and listening in conversation reflect on progress, set goals and refine instruction. Conversation is the currency of most ideas in the world. With Teaching Talk as your guide, you'll help students develop the skills they need to be inquisitive, independent, and critical thinkers in all aspects of their lives.
Huh
Title | Huh PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Myatt |
Publisher | John Catt Educational |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2021-09-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781913622732 |
Mary Myatt and John Tomsett discuss each of the national curriculum subjects with a subject leader, providing an insight into how they go about ensuring that knowledge, understanding and skills are developed over time, how they talk about the quality of the schemes in their departments and the support they would welcome from senior leaders.
Conversation Club
Title | Conversation Club PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn M. Cannon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2018-03 |
Genre | Autism spectrum disorders |
ISBN | 9781942197355 |
This curriculum offers an innovative, data-based method of teaching both the "how" and "why" of conversation to students with high-functioning autism and other social cognition challenges. We invite students to become club members, teach them the constellation of skills required for successful conversation, and include a cast of kid-friendly characters designed to facilitate thinking about the social significance underlying each skill. For each of the eight units, we include an engaging story book that introduces students to the target skill being taught.--Publisher.