Making the Grade

Author: Martin V. Covington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521342612
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
Achievement behaviour in schools can best be understood in terms of attempts by students to maintain a positive self-image. For many students, trying hard is frightening because a combination of effort and failure implies low ability, which is often equated with worthlessness. Thus many students described as unmotivated are in actuality highly motivated - not to learn, but to avoid failure. Students have a variety of techniques for avoiding failure, ranging from cheating to setting low goals which are easily achieved. In Making the Grade, Martin Covington extracts powerful educational implications from self-worth theory and other contemporary views of motivation that will be useful for everyone concerned with the educational dilemmas we face. He provides a comprehensive, insightful review of research and theory, both contemporary and historical, on the topic of achievement motivation, and arranges this knowledge in ways that lead to imminently practical recommendations for restructuring schools.

Making Words, Grade 1

Author: Cunningham
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN: 1604184949
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
Facilitate meaningful, multilevel lessons for students in grade 1 using Making Words: Lessons For Home or School. This 64-page resource includes 50 Making Words lessons and a reproducible sheet of instructions. It supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model and is a great addition to any classroom.

Making the Grade

Author: Tony Wagner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135957967
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 167

Book Description
This book provides a guide for a long-overdue public dialogue about why and how we need to reinvent our nation's schools. How has the world changed for our children; what do all students need to know in light of these changes; how do we hold students and schools accountable for results; what do good schools look like; and what must leaders do to create more of these schools? These are some of the questions that drive this book. The answers emerging to these questions may surprise many. The most successful public schools of the 21st century look a lot more like our 19th century village schools than our current factory model of schooling. This book describes these "new village schools" that have been created in the last decade and suggests that they are a prototype for the schools of the future.

Making the Grade

Author: William A. Fischel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226251314
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
A significant factor for many people deciding where to live is the quality of the local school district, with superior schools creating a price premium for housing. The result is a “race to the top,” as all school districts attempt to improve their performance in order to attract homebuyers. Given the importance of school districts to the daily lives of children and families, it is surprising that their evolution has not received much attention. In this provocative book, William Fischel argues that the historical development of school districts reflects Americans’ desire to make their communities attractive to outsiders. The result has been a standardized, interchangeable system of education not overly demanding for either students or teachers, one that involved parents and local voters in its governance and finance. Innovative in its focus on bottom-up processes generated by individual behaviors rather than top-down decisions by bureaucrats, Making the Grade provides a new perspective on education reform that emphasizes how public schools form the basis for the localized social capital in American towns and cities.

Making Words

Author: Patricia Marr Cunningham
Publisher: Making Words
ISBN: 9780866538060
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Contains one hundred sixty lessons for teachers to use when teaching language arts to grades 1-3. Includes reproducibles.

Duck on a Bike

Author: David Shannon
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545530032
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

Book Description
In this off-beat book perfect for reading aloud, a Caldecott Honor winner shares the story of a duck who rides a bike with hilarious results. One day down on the farm, Duck got a wild idea. “I bet I could ride a bike,” he thought. He waddled over to where the boy parked his bike, climbed on, and began to ride. At first, he rode slowly and he wobbled a lot, but it was fun! Duck rode past Cow and waved to her. “Hello, Cow!” said Duck. “Moo,” said Cow. But what she thought was, “A duck on a bike? That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever seen!” And so, Duck rides past Sheep, Horse, and all the other barnyard animals. Suddenly, a group of kids ride by on their bikes and run into the farmhouse, leaving the bikes outside. Now ALL the animals can ride bikes, just like Duck! Praise for Duck on a Bike “Shannon serves up a sunny blend of humor and action in this delightful tale of a Duck who spies a red bicycle one day and gets “a wild idea” . . . Add to all this the abundant opportunity for youngsters to chime in with barnyard responses (“M-o-o-o”; “Cluck! Cluck!”), and the result is one swell read-aloud, packed with freewheeling fun.” —Publishers Weekly “Grab your funny bone—Shannon . . . rides again! . . . A “quackerjack” of a terrific escapade.” —Kirkus Reviews

First Grade, Here I Come!

Author: D. J. Steinberg
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 044848921X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
Follows a child through all the big first grade moments.

Silver Burdett Making Music

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781418253691
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Making the Grade in BGCSE English

Author: Ministry of Education Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780435988029
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The ideal companion for students taking the Bahamas GCSE English language examination. Provide expert guidance on how to master the skills necessary in the examination with this companion which has been written in conjunction with the Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture. - Build and consolidate knowledge with an opening chapter summarising current grammar and sentence construction, correct spelling, word choice and punctuation. - Prepare students for the exam with chapters providing guidance on Continuous Writing (Paper 1), Listening Skills (Paper 2) and Comprehension and Directed Writing (Papers 3and 4). - Send students into the exam with confidence with activities to test skills, 'exam-type' exercises, student answers and comments from examiners, as well as practice examination papers and answers.

Making the Grade

Author: Meredith D. Gall
Publisher: Prima Lifestyles
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Discusses specific study techniques, relating them to such larger tasks as taking notes, writing papers, taking tests, & others.