Product Description: This philosophical commentary explores the meaning and significance of care in education, demonstrating how teaching with care enriches the art and soul of pedagogy. Wilde draws upon Western and Eastern philosophies that envision an integrated image of care to illuminate the value of cultivating understanding in the form of awareness, and compassion leading to right action...read more

Product Description: Research shows that for long-term retention and real-world application spelling instruction needs to be more than the memorization of word lists. Offering an alternative to the traditional word-list approach, Sandra Wilde's Spelling Strategies and Patterns brings joy and teaching to spelling instruction...read more

Product Description: What's the difference between a norm-referenced and a criterion-referenced test? If newspapers say only 50% of kids are reading at grade level, should you be worried? When does getting kids ready to take tests cross the line into cheating? In today's educational climate, teachers have a lot of questions about where standards and tests come from, what they mean, and how they're used...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Dorothy Watson, the first president of the Whole Language Umbrella, is recognized across North America not only as a brilliant, student centered educator, but also as a champion of teachers and children. Her writing collected in this anthology is in some ways a history of the concerns and interests-as well as the excitement-of the whole language movement over the last few decades...read more

Product Description: Cloth Edition. Dorothy Watson's writing collected in this anthology is in some ways a history of the concerns and interestsas well as the excitementof the whole language movement over the last few decades. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This long-overdue anthology ranges from Yetta Goodman's first article about her own daughter's early spelling to her most recent, previously unpublished piece about turn-of-the century educator Lucy Sprague Mitchell and the lives of female educators in general...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers ideas for using books in teaching mathematics, lists titles in chapters according to math concepts, and includes subject bibliographies (view table of contents)

Product Description: How do children raised in the powerful oral traditions of a Native American community use writing to construct meaningful learning experiences? That provocative question sent the authors into the classrooms of Arizona's Tohono O'odham community for a year-long research study, integrating classroom, family, home and community experiences...read more

Suggests fiction and nonfiction works which can be used to teach an assortment of mathematical concepts, such as addition, multiplication, fractions, and measurement

Product Description: Elementary school teachers have begun to rethink how children learn about spelling and punctuation and what the role of the school should be in that process. You Kan Red This! is a comprehensive handbook for K-6 teachers that answers questions like these: How can I integrate spelling and punctuation into writing? How do I know if my students are learning and improving? Can (or should) I throw out the spelling books? How can I show that invented spelling works? When, if ever, should I tell kids how to spell words? Are there ways to focus on spelling and punctuation that won't be boring?...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)