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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Working toward the goal of making schools better places where more students succeed and satisfaction in learning and teaching prevail, Arthur L. Costa and Robert J. Garmston let you know about their own learning, and how new research and practice can support individuals and schools in reaching higher, more satisfying, and more holistic performance. Organinzed into four sections, this book clearly and effectively presents these concepts: the meanings...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The founder and director of the Thirty Million Words Initiative, Professor Dana Suskind, explains why the most important--and astoundingly simple--thing you can do for your child's future success in life is to talk to him or her, reveals the recent science behind this truth, and outlines precisely how parents can best put it into practice.
Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Kersting explores the device-dependent world our children live in and its effects on their mental and emotional well-being. Research shows that too much time in the cyber world is re-wiring kid's brains, affecting their ability to flourish in the real world as anxiety, depression, and attention issues soar. Strategies to help reduce screen-time as well as meditative and mindfulness techniques may help our children reclaim their brains, and their lives,...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Discover why and how schools must become places where thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted.
As educators, parents, and citizens, we must settle for nothing less than environments that bring out the best in people, take learning to the next level, allow for great discoveries, and propel both the individual and the group forward into a lifetime of learning. This is something all teachers want and all students deserve. In Creating Cultures...
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Offers a parent-friendly explanation of Howard Gardner's theory and of the ways that kids are word smart, picture smart, music smart, body smart, logic smart people smart, and self-smart. Provides ways to create an environment in which to cultivate these seven intelligences.
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
Español
Description
Este libro abre una puerta al verdadero crecimiento emocional a través de los cuentos, para que los niños sientan su gran capacidad para cambiar y ser verdaderos caballeros/as de todo un reino, donde, por encima de todo, reina su corazón contento. Niños apasionados por su superación ante los retos del Capitán Enfado, Tristeza, Pesadilla o Tontería acompañados de la Amazona Esperanza o Amable Confianza. Gracias al reino, aprenderán a darse...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this enduring classic, rich with deep, original insight into the nature of early learning, John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, "learning is as natural as breathing." In his delightful book he observes how children actually learn to talk, to read, to count, and to reason, and how, as adults, we can best encourage these natural abilities in our children.
14) Se necesita
Author
Series
Publisher
EDAF
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Español
Description
The opportunity to learn vocabulary with amazing windows that children have to open. Riddles easy to discover thanks to the related explanatory text and the imagination. Four books that awaken in your child the spirit of observation and the ability to relate images and words.
La oportunidad de conocer vocabulario con sorprendentes ventanas que han de abrir los niños. Adivinanzas fáciles de descubrir con las relaciones gracias al texto explicativo...
Author
Publisher
Square One Publishers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The How to teach your baby to read kit shows just how easy and pleasurable it is to teach a young child to read by providing skills that are basic to academic success. It explains how to begin and expand the reading program, how to make and organize necessary materials, and how to more fully develop your child's reading potential.
Author
Publisher
Baker Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author and neuroscientist offers simple, scientifically proven steps to help parents show their children how to overcome the unhealthy thinking habits that contribute to anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts, so they can replace them with positive thinking that leads to health, happiness, and success"--
18) Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
-- Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines?small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps?as well as the documentation of student thinking. Using...
Author
Publisher
The Guilford Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to "pick up the pace"? Does he or she seem to take longer than others to get stuff done--whether completing homework, responding when spoken to, or getting dressed and ready in the morning? Drs. Ellen Braaten and Brian Willoughby have worked with thousands of kids and teens who struggle with an area of cognitive functioning called "processing speed," and who are often mislabeled as lazy or unmotivated....
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