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Brazelton on parenting Core curriculum video libraries (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Core curriculum video library Internet marketing and advertising strategies Learning playground Math sense Promises and paradoxes Small gas engines Social and emotional learning Teaching tools for economicsSummary: This program describes and demonstrates specific examples of instructional conversation and other types of cognitive coaching; identifies instructional arrangements that are used to promote active learning by students; models questioning techniques and student interactions, including the ways in which cognitive coaches keep student discussion focused and productive; and considers the role that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: With American schools struggling to boost mathematics scores, math teachers need all the guidance they can get. This bilingual program contains a powerful tool-chest full of lesson demonstrations, professional development videos, and an interactive quiz-all designed to help educators develop real-world teaching examples and applications. Five segments feature a high-energy middle-school teacher...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Booth, Char
Summary: Whether or not "instruction" appears in their job titles, librarians are often in the position of educating their users, colleagues, and peers to successfully locate and evaluate information. Because MLIS education tends to offer less-than-comprehensive preparation in pedagogy and instructional design, this book tackles the challenge of effective teaching and training head-on. In this book the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Library Association 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.7 BOOSummary: This down-to-earth program shares the hard-won experiences of an award-winning special ed teacher. Speaking with an engaging mix of candor, earnestness, and passion, he explains how personal introspection, collaboration with other staff members, promoting trust, structuring the academic environment, instilling success, and developing teacher/student interdependence have transformed his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: If diversity and special needs are prominent factors in a learning environment, teachers may have to juggle mandated standards with students' personal challenges. This video addresses that balancing act, demonstrating how experienced educators have mastered it. Focusing on multilevel instructional planning, the program explores the use of educational channels, individualized support, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Cohen, David K.
Summary: "Ever since Socrates, teaching has been a difficult and even dangerous profession. Why is good teaching such hard work? In this provocative, witty, and sometimes rueful book, David K. Cohen writes about the predicaments that teachers face. Like therapists, social workers, and pastors, teachers embark on a mission of human improvement. They aim to deepen knowledge, broaden understanding,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.102 COHSummary: Dispelling the belief that click-through rate is the ultimate online benchmark, this program identifies which factors e-tailers need to measure, how they should go about quantifying them, and how they should interpret and apply the resulting data. The interrelationship between impressions, click-through, and conversions is clearly explained by e-commerce experts, along with the use of Internet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In this remarkable anthology, some of the world's greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize'winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and poets "render school life in all its complexity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEAMitchell, Robert
Summary: This book is designed to help students gain the range of math skills they need to succeed in life, work, and on standardized tests; overcome math anxiety; discover math as interesting and purposeful; and develop good number sense. Topics covered in this book include measurement and data analysis such as measuring distance, space, time, capacity, weight, temperature, organizing and summarizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Readers Press 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.8 MATCall number: 530.8 MAT Teacher's Guide
Summary: Do the rich get a break at tax time-or do they pay more than their share? Who benefits and who suffers when sweatshops are allowed to operate? Are gas prices as outrageous as everyone thinks? This compilation of ABC News stories features 20/20 anchor John Stossel, who uses real-world situations to address provocative macroeconomic questions. In a straightforward style well-known to viewers of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Summarizes how to inspect each part during a major rebuild of a small gas engine and how to find part damage and measure wear accurately so students know which parts should be replaced and which can be reused. Live-action video and computer graphics explain part clearances-which are critical to engine life. Clear visuals show the proper use of cleaning tools and equipment. The last part of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: What exactly is a degree of temperature? How is it defined and measured in the strictest scientific sense? Will answering these questions shed light on the complexities of climate change? This program explores the mysteries of temperature and energy with engaging demonstrations and high-level expert commentary. Beginning with a visit to Britain's National Physical Laboratory, the institution...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Krekelberg, Alyssa
Summary: "Shares three stories of children learning about self-discipline. Vibrant and colorful photos help tell the stories. Additional features include a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, and an index." -- Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 179.9 KRESummary: Are prescription drug prices as outrageous as they are made out to be? Should farmers receive government subsidies, simply because they grow certain crops? What does it mean to be poor in America? This compilation of ABC News stories features 20/20 anchor John Stossel, who explores microeconomic questions through challenging, real-world examples. In his trademark down-to-earth style, Stossel...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This fascinating comparison between Japanese and American educational systems examines both the differences in goals between the two and the different ways in which they seek to achieve the same goal. With American producers photographing in Japan and Japanese producers photographing in the U.S., this documentary explores efforts in both countries to balance creativity and discipline in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Henshaw, John M.
Contents: Of love and luminescence : what, why, and how things get measured -- Doing the math : scales, standards, and some beautiful measurements -- The ratings game : "overall" measurements and rankings -- Measurement in business : what gets measured gets done -- Games of inches : sports and measurement -- Measuring the mind : intelligence, biology, and education -- Man : the measure of all things --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.8 HENSummary: In the first lesson, the different forms of English measurement are discussed and displayed as they would appear on a ruler. The viewer also learns how to understand fractions when measuring and how to find exact measurements using a ruler. The second lesson deals with the metric system by introducing the meter and other metric measurements. Viewers learn how to read a meter stick, and common...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Boaler, Jo
Summary: "Mathematical Mindsets provides practical strategies and activities to help teachers and parents show all children, even those who are convinced that they are bad at math, that they can enjoy and succeed in math. Jo Boaler--Stanford researcher, professor of math education, and expert on math learning--has studied why students don't like math and often fail in math classes. She's followed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass & Pfeiffer Imprints 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 510 BOASummary: As in times past, many people today still believe that spirituality provides the deepest level of meaning to life. Profiling Augustine of Hippo, Hildegard von Bingen, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Martin Luther, Waldo, and Mother Teresa, this program explains how devoted seekers of God's truth-saints? reformers? heretics?-have altered the course of Christianity. The inspirational power of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Moore, Leonard N.
Summary: "How do we talk about Black history and racism in the United States on college campuses? In a series of essays, Professor Leonard Moore outlines how he has taught courses on African American history at colleges with a largely white student body. As an African American professor, he has had to find ways to teach to a diverse classroom, but one that is often dominated by white students with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 MOOSummary: Emphasizing hands-on practice, this program is an excellent tool for introducing the basics of linear measurement: its history, terminology, systems, and practical applications. Using both customary and metric rulers, Measurement: The Long and the Short of It will guide your students through the process of taking measurements, performing related calculations using whole numbers and fractions,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: "An activity-based volume that introduces different animal groups and their characteristics. Features include a glossary, additional resource list, and an index"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Cognitive science has provided exciting breakthroughs in child development. This video demonstrates how children are learning much more, at much earlier ages than many experts thought possible-and that learning is rooted in emotion as well as logic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Their popularity in the online business and publishing world is well known, but wikis and blogs are also increasingly used as tools in the classroom-and not just because young learners can easily access them. They are easy to create as well, giving students another powerful method of communication and self-expression. This program presents the basic concepts behind wikis and blogs. It also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010