Author: Shelley Pasnik Publisher: ISBN: 9781138572584 Category : Early childhood education Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
Getting Ready to Learn describes how educational media have and are continuing to play a role in meeting the learning needs of children, parents, and teachers. Based on years of meaningful data from the CPB-PBS Ready To Learn Initiative, chapters explore how to develop engaging, playful, and developmentally appropriate content. From Emmy-Award-winning series to randomized controlled trials, this book covers the media production, scholarly research and technological advances surrounding some of the country¿s most beloved programming.
Author: Martyn Rawson Publisher: Hawthorne Books ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 198
Book Description
Martyn Rawson, author of Waldorf Education and Find Your Child's True Potential, here considers how pre-school children can be prepared for starting school.
Author: Peggy J. Grafwallner Publisher: ISBN: 9781949539325 Category : Classroom management Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
"In F.R.A.M.E.: How to F.R.A.M.E. (Focus, Reach, Achieve, Model, and Encourage) Your Class for Optimum Learning, author Peg Grafwallner emphasizes the importance of designing and delivering lessons that create a motivating and engaging learning experience for all students. This book describes the FRAME protocol, a five-step model educators can use to combat student boredom and create classroom communities, structured for optimal learning. The protocol's five steps--(1) focus, (2) reach, (3) ask and analyze, (4) model and instruct, and (5) encourage--support teachers in launching engaging lessons, articulating clear expectations, and offering meaningful feedback. By reading F.R.A.M.E., K-12 teachers will receive the tools and strategies needed to support effective learning for all students across all grade levels and content areas"--
Author: Josh Kaufman Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101623047 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less? Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills—time you don’t have and effort you can’t spare? Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy? To make matters worse, the early hours of practicing something new are always the most frustrating. That’s why it’s difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It’s so much easier to watch TV or surf the web . . . In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition— how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct complex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By completing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you’ll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. Kaufman personally field-tested the methods in this book. You’ll have a front row seat as he develops a personal yoga practice, writes his own web-based computer programs, teaches himself to touch type on a nonstandard keyboard, explores the oldest and most complex board game in history, picks up the ukulele, and learns how to windsurf. Here are a few of the simple techniques he teaches: Define your target performance level: Figure out what your desired level of skill looks like, what you’re trying to achieve, and what you’ll be able to do when you’re done. The more specific, the better. Deconstruct the skill: Most of the things we think of as skills are actually bundles of smaller subskills. If you break down the subcomponents, it’s easier to figure out which ones are most important and practice those first. Eliminate barriers to practice: Removing common distractions and unnecessary effort makes it much easier to sit down and focus on deliberate practice. Create fast feedback loops: Getting accurate, real-time information about how well you’re performing during practice makes it much easier to improve. Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an airplane, or juggle flaming chainsaws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the basics of any skill in record time . . . and have more fun along the way.
Author: Anne Burke Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited ISBN: 1551382490 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 130
Book Description
"This timely book explores innovative ways teachers can use play-based activities to build a strong literacy foundation for young learners. It is committed to creating classrooms that feature collaborative learning spaces where children work with their peers, assume roles and viewpoints, and communicate naturally with each other. This comprehensive approach to learning looks at functional and constructive play as well as more structured dramatic play and games with rules. Observations of children's play moments and activities directed by children themselves are shared, along with practical suggestions for how adults can guide students in planned and informal activities to enrich their early literacy skills."--Publisher.
Author: Stanley Goldberg Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198037457 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 330
Book Description
Do you tell your preschooler one thing and they do the opposite? Are they easily distracted or unable to focus? If you suspect that your child may have a learning problem--or if you simply want to help them be ready--here is the book to read before he or she enters the school system: a realistic, humorous, and kind-hearted guide to helping your little one learn. In Ready to Learn, Stan Goldberg draws on thirty years of clinical experience (and personal experience as the father of two kids with learning differences) to provide an easy-to-use guide to helping children overcome any problems and improve their learning skills. Illustrating his discussion with many anecdotes about teaching both his own children and children in his private practice, Goldberg walks readers through the process of learning and shows how to identify a learning problem. He focuses on four major areas--problems of attention, understanding, storage, and retrieval--presenting each problem through the eyes of the child, in everyday terms that a parent can understand. He looks at seven down-to-earth strategies that will allow you to create the best plan to help your child overcome their problem and he provides many handy charts and figures that will help you organize your efforts. The book also includes a list of useful web sites and a chart of development milestones, outlining motor skills, cognitive-sensory skills, and language and social skills. Written in a style that blends humor, insightful stories, and practical experience, Ready to Learn provides a flexible, time-tested approach, using step-by-step strategies that will help your preschoolers become confident and love learning--before they enter the classroom.
Author: Tara Beteille Publisher: World Bank Publications ISBN: 1464813396 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 364
Book Description
Countries that have sustained rapid growth over decades have typically had a strong public commitment to expanding education as well as to improving learning outcomes. South Asian countries have made considerable progress in expanding access to primary and secondary schooling, with countries having achieved near-universal enrollment of the primary-school-age cohort (ages 6†“11), except for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Secondary enrollment shows an upward trend as well. Beyond school, many more people have access to skilling opportunities and higher education today. Although governments have consistently pursued policies to expand access, a prominent feature of the region has been the role played by nonstate actors—private nonprofit and forprofit entities—in expanding access at every level of education. Though learning levels remain low, countries in the region have shown a strong commitment to improving learning. All countries in South Asia have taken the first step, which is to assess learning outcomes regularly. Since 2010, there has been a rapid increase in the number of large-scale student learning assessments conducted in the region. But to use the findings of these assessments to improve schooling, countries must build their capacity to design assessments and analyze and use findings to inform policy.
Author: James M. Jeffords Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 0788188518 Category : Languages : en Pages : 76
Book Description
Senate hearing on the Elementary & Secondary Education Act. The hearing focuses on how children learn at an early age, & provides different perspectives on early educ. It delves into the importance of early childhood longitudinal studies which will focus on education, health & development of children & how to understand the results of such studies. It also discusses the role of child care centers in early childhood education & the role of early childhood educators & how to improve their training. Witnesses: Pascal Forgione, Commissioner, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Education; & Faith Wohl, Executive Director, Child Care Action Campaign, New York, NY.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources Publisher: ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 80
Book Description
These hearing transcripts present testimony before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the 105th Congress on early childhood education and related services. Participants provided different perspectives on early education, focusing on the academic achievement of American students, especially in comparison to students in other countries; the importance of early childhood longitudinal studies; the role of child care centers; and improving early childhood educators' qualifications. Speakers included Senators James Jeffords (Vermont), Tim Hutchinson (Arkansas), Susan Collins (Maine), and Jack Reed (Rhode Island). Providing expert testimony were the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics and the executive director of the Child Care Action Campaign. Witnesses indicated that basic measures from the National Household Education Survey document tremendous variation in the skills children bring to kindergarten. Studies of child care in the United States report that the vast majority of centers provide poor to mediocre care. One participant compared U.S. child care programs to early education programs in France, noting differences in caregiver qualifications and compensation, as well as other programmatic differences. This witness also recommended accelerating the move toward universal prekindergarten programming and increasing accreditation efforts. A report on data needs for early childhood development and learning readiness is appended. (KB)
Author: OECD Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9264201173 Category : Languages : en Pages : 524
Book Description
This third volume of PISA 2012 results explores students’ engagement with and at school, their drive and motivation to succeed, and the beliefs they hold about themselves as mathematics learners.
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Author: Shelley Pasnik
Author: Martyn Rawson
Author: Peggy J. Grafwallner
Author: Josh Kaufman
Author: Anne Burke
Author: Stanley Goldberg
Author: Tara Beteille
Author: James M. Jeffords
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Author: OECD