Oxford Mini School Dictionary and Thesaurus Combined (2007)

Author: Robert Allen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199113736
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Oxford Mini School Dictionary and Thesaurus is a major new title from Oxford especially written for 10+ years that offers a dictionary and a thesaurus in one volume, in colour. It is the best quick reference tool available today and will be particularly useful for primary school leaverswho are preparing to start secondary school. Packed with information, the dictionary includes over 40,000 words and phrases, up-to-date words from the curriculum, international vocabulary, and new words from ICT, and the thesaurus includes over 100,000 synonyms and alternative words. The clear andaccessible design, the alphabet down the side of every page, and matching dictionary and thesaurus entries on the same page, makes finding the word you are looking for quick and easy. A special supplement on tricky words, confusable words, overused words and idioms, will give pupils all the readingand writing support they need. The Oxford Mini School Dictionary and Thesaurus is compact enough to fit into any pocket, has a durable, vinyl cover and is perfect to use at home and at school.

Mini School

Author: Sabine Ellinger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781570764523
Category : Miniature horses
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Discussing the highly trainable and versatile miniature horse, this training guide advocates for a new vision of their value and skills. Providing all the steps necessary to train minis to be amazing performance animals, this study shows that these animals should no longer simply be dismissed due to their size or delegated to roles such as lawnmower and stable mate. Using classical training methods, this manual explores a wide range of topics--from feeding practices and carriage driving to harness training and dressage movements such as levade.

Monsters Go to School

Author: Zanna Davidson
Publisher: Billy and the Mini Monsters
ISBN: 9781474978354
Category : Bullying
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
Billy's Mini Monsters really want to go to school with him. But Billy really doesn't want them to. He's got enough trouble with the school bully, Basil Brown. But perhaps having MONSTERS around will be more helpful than Billy imagines... Original, illustrated fiction with easy reading texts and full colour illustrations throughout. With entertaining comic strips to encourage reading, and pet monsters for added child appeal. Series deals with everyday fears, including fear of swimming, fear of the dark and bullying at school. Now in paperback, this is a new edition of 9781409593409.

My First Day

Author: Leilani Sparrow
Publisher: little bee books
ISBN: 9781499807301
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Get ready for the first day of school with this sweet, reassuring board book. Follow one little boy as he experiences all the firsts a first day of school brings, from his first story to his first friend. When it's time to leave, he can't wait for another day at school!

Mini-society, Experiencing Real-world Economics in the Elementary School Classroom

Author: Marilyn L. Kourilsky
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
Teachers will learn how to set up and operate a "mini-society", a popular approach for teaching youngsters about economics and government through their own experiences.

The New American School

Author: John C. Hill
Publisher: R&L Education
ISBN: 1461732468
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
The New American School will emerge from the ashes of the old. An underlying premise of the present book is that such a rebirth will occur in the process of restructuring. Restructuring in education is the designing, staffing, programming, and building of the school around learning, the central function of every educational organization. In the following pages, this definition will be elaborated, and methods will be offered for restructuring schools in order to realize a truly New American School.

The Mini-school Experiment

Author: James J. Morisseau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description

Technology and Education Reform

Author: Barbara Means
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788126326
Category : Educational change
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
Addresses the question of whether technology can provide significant support for constructivist, project-based teaching and learning approaches and the associated issue of the elements needed for an effective implementation of technology within an educational reform context. Includes case studies of 9 sites that have been using technology in ways that enhance a restructuring of the classroom around students' needs and project-based activities. Sites selected were those that emphasized education reform and provided challenging, authentic activities for students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Illustrated.

Improving Schools and Educational Systems

Author: Alma Harris
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000948773
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
School improvement has become a dominant feature of educational reform in many countries. The pressure upon schools to improve performance has resulted in a wide-range of improvement programmes and initiatives which can provide both inspiration and advice to everyone involved in school improvement. This book draws together the most effective school improvement projects from around the world in one comprehensive text, including detailed comparative analysis of a wide variety of initiatives. Drawing on examples from the UK, the USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia this book gives both an international snapshot and a coherent synthesis of initiatives that have given achievable results.

The Future of Us All

Author: Roger Sanjek
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801484612
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492

Book Description
Before the next century is out, Americans of African, Asian, and Latin American ancestry will outnumber those of European origin. In the Elmhurst-Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York City, the transition occurred during the 1970s, and the area's two-decade experience of multiracial diversity offers us an early look at the future of urban America. The result of more than a dozen years' work, this remarkable book immerses us in Elmhurst-Corona's social and political life from the 1960s through the 1990s. First settled in 1652, Elmhurst-Corona by 1960 housed a mix of Germans, Irish, Italians, and other "white ethnics." In 1990 this population made up less than a fifth of its residents; Latin American and Asian immigrants and African Americans comprised the majority. The Future of Us All focuses on the combined impact of racial change, immigrant settlement, governmental decentralization, and assaults on local quality of life which stemmed from the city's 1975 fiscal crisis and the policies of its last three mayors. The book examines the ways in which residents--in everyday interactions, block and tenant associations, houses of worship, small business coalitions, civic rituals, incidents of ethnic and racial hostility, and political struggles against overdevelopment, for more schools, and for youth programs--have forged and tested alliances across lines of race, ethnicity, and language. From the telling local details of daily life to the larger economic and regional frameworks, this account of a neighborhood's transformation illuminates the issues that American communities will be grappling with in the coming decades.