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How do I learn which 'guitar chords' go together?
Okay. I'd say that Im pretty good at guitar, but when It comes to writing my own music I use very basic chord progressions. How do I spice things up a bit? Any tips? How do I learn which chords go together? For example I have this song. Its simple- Dm A# C, F, and A.....
One more little question. When playing jazz what else can I add for an E major 7 song (jazz sounding)
Jazz is pretty much based on 2-5-1 progressions. Here's an example in the key of C major: Dm7-G7-Cmaj7 or in E major like you asked: F#m7-B7-Emaj7
If you want it to sound more jazzy, add extensions (9th, 13th) and alter some notes (#5, b9...etc). To compose jazz, you really have to understand music theory, so grab yourself a theory book and start studying.
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Thames and Kosmos 602093 Little Labs- The Human Body from $ 33.30 Learn about the human body by doing experiments with your five senses that show you how your body works. By exploring the outside of your body with hands-on experiments you can learn a lot about the inside anatomy of the body. Examine your fingerprints to learn how you are unique. Build a stethoscope and listen to your heartbeat to learn how your heart pumps blood and listen to your gurgling tummy to learn how your stomach works. With the stethoscope you can investigate how your ears hear with a listening game and a sound memory experiment. Test your lung capacity to learn about how your lungs work. Examine your diet and your digestive functions to learn how your body processes nutrients to give you the energy to do more experiments!. Try a blindfolded exercise to find out about hand-eye coordination. Take a tickle test to learn about your skin and sensory receptors. Monitor your pulse to learn about your circulatory system. Follow your nose in a smell memory game to learn about your sense of smell. Stock Status : In 1 Stores
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How to Lead Teachers to Become Great: It's All About Student Learning
USD 28.00 How To Lead Teachers To Become Great: It's All About Student LearningA New Book By Studer Group Brings The "Best Practices" From Healthcare to Education ... And Students Are The Biggest Winners of All.Great teachers make great schools. They are the ones who work tirelessly to help students learn, grow and achieve, the ones who make sure parents are satisfied with their children's learning experience, and the ones who never give up.But what role do great school and district leaders play? Quite simply, they create the conditions that foster and nourish a school full of great teachers.As a new leader, or a seasoned one, your mission is to hire only the best teachers you can to support everyone under your directorship to consistently turn in a performance that has a profound impact on students. That's where this new book comes in. How To Lead Teachers to Become Great, by Janet Pilcher and Robin Largue, helps education leaders create great places for teachers to teach, students to learn, and places for parents to send their children. The book is structured around five Evidence-Based Classroom Learning Principles-and 14 Tactics that fall underneath them-which result in improved learning results, improved parental satisfaction and improved teacher performance. It will:Help school leaders recruit and retain highly effective teachersProvide techniques for dealing with low performing teachersHelp leaders create a results-driven cultureGuide teachers on what they can expect from leadersFocus teachers on what students are learning rather than what they, themselves, are teachingUltimately, every idea in How to Lead Teachers to Become Great is aimed at helping students achieve outstanding results-which is, after all, the goal of everyone involved. 
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Ready to Learn: How to Help Your Preschooler Succeed
USD 55.00 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.
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Learning to Teach in the Primary School (Learning to Teach in the Primary School Series)
USD 42.95 How can you become an effective primary school teacher? What do you need to be able to do? What do you need to know? Flexible, effective and creative primary school teachers require subject knowledge, an understanding of their pupils and how they learn, a range of strategies for managing behaviour and organising environments for learning, and the ability to respond to dynamic classroom situations. This second edition of Learning to Teach in the Primary School, fully updated since the introduction of the QTS standards, provides valuable support to trainee teachers during both the taught component and the school placement element of their initial teacher education course. It provides an accessible and engaging introduction to teaching and learning that every student teacher needs to acquire in order to gain Qualified Teacher Status, as well as the underlying theory. Written by experts in primary school teaching, this edition is divided into 37 units each covering essential concepts and skills, including: approaching planning understanding early years practice NEW assessment for learning e-learning NEW inclusive approaches personalised learning and pupil voice NEW research and further qualifications NEW responding to ethnic diversity and gender differences teaching modern foreign languages NEW the professional standards of teaching working with others. Each unit offers a range of learning activities for trainee teachers in the form of tasks. Masters Level challenges – new to this edition – and annotated lists of further reading are provided for those who want to explore topics in more detail. This comprehensive textbook is essential reading for all students training to be primary school teachers, including those on undergraduate teacher training courses (BEd, BA with QTS, BSc with QTS), postgraduate teacher training courses (PGCE, SCITT), and employment-based teacher training courses (GTP, RTP, Teach First), plus those studying Education Studies.
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Learning How to Improve Vocabulary Instruction Through Teacher Study Groups
USD 29.95 Professional development with proven positive effects on vocabulary instruction and student achievement that s what the Teacher Study Group (TSG) model delivers! With the nine complete TSG sessions, K 8 teachers will form dynamic in school learning groups with their fellow educators and discover the best ways to apply scientifically based vocabulary research to classroom practice. The TSG model works because it is proven effective. Sessions are patterned after a 2 year study of teachers assigned to a study group or a control group in which participants reported improved teaching practices and higher student achievement. There s no busy work: the homework assignments are innovative teaching methods that teachers can try with their students right away to improve literacy outcomes. In this practical professional development book, teachers discover what current research says about vocabulary instruction, compare the research with their current practices, and collaboratively plan ready to use lessons that incorporate the research concepts. Strategies in the TSG sessions are designed to enrich not replace what teachers are already doing in the classroom, and the book promotes teacher community and collaboration through active group learning. Teachers will benefit from each other s success stories and help resolve each other s challenges. Key points from the previous sessions are reviewed and reinforced over the course of the program, so it s easy for teachers to retain what they learn. Participants will get dozens of worksheets and group activities that give them hands on practice with the concepts, and thought provoking discussion questions. With this collaborative professional development model, reading teachers will learn proven, research based ways to deliver high quality vocabulary instruction and improve literacy outcomes for all of their students
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On Equal Terms: How to Make the Most of Learning Contracts in Grades 4-9
USD 25.00 With thoughtful teacher guidance, children can be trusted to make good choices. So believes Scott Greenwood and in this book he tells why he believes the teacher-student contract is a good thing. A teaching veteran, he has used learning contracts successfully with his own middle school students. Beginning with his first year of teaching, he entered into a contract in which four students "taught" a novel. They led discussions, assigned chapters, chose important vocabulary, wrote the final test, and were responsible for assessment. Most important, they were engaged. In this unique handbook for middle-level teachers, Greenwood provides the practical wherewithal to implement learning contracts, along with the inspiration and theory to convince us of their value. He takes us into his classroom and explains contracts inside and out: how to get started how to be smart about organizing and managing how to maximize benefits through a flexible approach how to respond to students needing extra support. Greenwood's warmth and lively style, his "teacher-down-the-hall" wisdom and no-nonsense advice make it clear why his learning contracts have been so successful-and why they can work for us, too. Get students active and engaged in their learning. Give them a measure of choice and control. Actually gain more power by gradually relinquishing it. Just sign learning contracts-then watch as a new kind of teaching and learning begins.
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How Children Learn to Learn Language
USD 49.95 Studies of language acquisition often assume that children will simply begin to learn language, without questioning what sets the whole process in motion. In How Children Learn to Learn Language, Lorraine McCune thoroughly examines the often-neglected topic of how children discover the possibility of language and demonstrates that pre-language development involves a dynamic system of social, cognitive, and vocal variables that come together to enable the transition to referential language. The relationship with a caregiver is integral to this development because language is a system of symbolic communication that can emerge only with children's recognition that they are separate from others. McCune sees language learning as constructed equally from needing to develop meanings and learning to produce the sound sequences that represent them. In order for this dual construction to be effective, however, children must discover their capacity to refer to objects and events in the world by having their internal states of focused attention accompanied by an autonomic, physiologically based vocalization, which is the grunt that results from physical or mental effort. When the grunt is intensified and directed at a conversational partner, as when children attempt to convey an internal state, it becomes their first protoword. How Children Learn to Learn Language will be a valuable resource on pre-language development for students and researchers in developmental psychology.
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LEARNING For-Your-Kids/ The Learn-How-To-Learn Program
USD 29.99 Release Date: 1999-09-01
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Have A Ball Learning: How Juggling Helps Kids Overcome Their Learning Disabilities
USD 129.51 Have a Ball Learning is a handbook for parents and teachers who want to help kids (and adults) with learning disabilities improve their reading and concentration. By exercising the brain directly through juggling, kids improve their learning skills making it easier to succeed in school and in life. Juggling helps students: * Increase focus * Master motor skills * Raise test scores * Boost reading and comprehension * Control ADD/ADHD symptoms * Improve behavior problems Have a Ball Learning empowers parents and teachers with activities and tools that have a double payoff: physical exercise that burns off energy and brain exercise that enhances learning skills. Readers will learn: * Step-by-step instructions on teaching juggling * Fun and easy games for building concentration * The four cornerstones of having a healthy brain * New scientific research on juggling s effect on the brain * Why professional athletes learn to juggle The book is appropriate for ages 6 through adulthood. Imagine not being able to read a newspaper, a book, or any written word. That s how it was for me for the first 29 years of my life. I was teased in elementary school and humiliated in middle school. By the time I was in high school, shame drove me to fight back. Discrimination at work for not being able to read or write meant losing my job. But that all changed after I learned to juggle. I learned to read, increased my focus, and raised all my test scores. Anybody can do this and it works. Paul Phariss
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Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs
USD 79.95 Words are the building blocks of language. An understanding of how words are learned is thus central to any theory of language acquisition. Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning focus primarily on object nouns. Word learning theories must explain not only the learning of object nouns, but also the learning of other, major classes of words - verbs and adjectives. Verbs form the hub of the sentence because they determine the sentence's argument structure. Researchers throughout the world recognize how our understanding of language acquisition can be at best partial if we cannot comprehend how verbs are learned. This volume enters the relatively uncharted waters of early verb learning, focusing on the universal, conceptual foundations for verb learning, and how these foundations intersect with the burgeoning language system.
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Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs
USD 30.00 Words are the building blocks of language. An understanding of how words are learned is thus central to any theory of language acquisition. Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning focus primarily on object nouns. Word learning theories must explain not only the learning of object nouns, but also the learning of other, major classes of words - verbs and adjectives. Verbs form the hub of the sentence because they determine the sentence's argument structure. Researchers throughout the world recognize how our understanding of language acquisition can be at best partial if we cannot comprehend how verbs are learned. This volume enters the relatively uncharted waters of early verb learning, focusing on the universal, conceptual foundations for verb learning, and how these foundations intersect with the burgeoning language system.
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Raising Able: How chores empower families
USD 210.55 Set up a chore system in your home so you can retire from being the house servant while empowering your children. Young people will learn self-discipline, responsibility and teamwork when parents implement the strategies in Raising Able. Watch in amazement when children take the lead in family meetings and volunteer for jobs around the home. Parents can count on children to contribute while youngsters gain competence, confidence and learn to cooperate with others. Parents get a break from waiting on children. Stories from contributors across the country describe how childhood chores impacted their lives, along with colorful examples to illustrate how to have a harmonious home by using family meetings, chores and dinner, along with encouragement, natural and logical consequences, setting limits with kindness and firmness, and mutual respect. Raising Able is more than a handbook on children and chores. It lays the foundation for a positive family environment, healthy parent-child relationships, and the development of good decision making. It is the ultimate anti-entitlement guide because cleaning toilets and scooping up dog manure counteract entitlement. Parents will learn to influence tots-to-teens without bribery, begging, berating, belligerence or beating. Children will learn to contribute without getting paid by the chore. Parents, educators and day care providers will learn new strategies to old challenges that nurture the child s spirit, not stifle it, while learning responsibility. The sensible guide is written by the mother of four children whose goal was to teach children to make good decisions when they were young so when they became teens and were 60 miles away going 60 miles an hour. They chose to wear a seatbelt, drive sober and have good friends. Implementing a chore system is a key component to teaching good decision making skills, according to Susan Tordella, M.A., a parenting expert, former journalist, program director, full-time mother and homemaker. The whole family benefits from chores, which identify a place in the family for each child to belong, contribute and feel good about themselves. The author s survey to more than 500 people ages 11 to 90 affirmed that chores teach responsibility and create family unity. The bonus is that mothers and fathers can retire from being the family servant and set a team work environment where everyone benefits. The book is based on Adlerian Psychology, the works of Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs. Adler was a member of Freud's famous Wednesday Afternoon group that included Carl Jung. Both Jung and Adler broke away to form their own psychological theories. Adler's theory is based on the idea that people are motivated to belong to their social group. Belonging is fundamental to Adler's approach combined with natural and logical consequences, family meetings, chores, dinner, mutual respect and encouragement. Encouragement is one of the most important and powerful ways to raise children. It focuses on effort and not on accomplishment and how the accomplishment reflected on parents, like praise does. Raising Able shows parents how to involve children in chores so parents can retire as the house servant. They learn to do chores without pay or praise, using family meetings and encouragement. Children and teens learn to moderate family meetings, a cornerstone of setting up a long-term relationship, responsibility and mutual respect. Family meetings are fun and productive. Chores will change a child's attitude towards herself. It is impossible to feel entitled if you clean toilets, do dishes and take out the trash. The parenting approach in Raising Able will transform your family atmosphere, change your relationship with your children, and give them lifelong skills and a work ethic.
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How to Assess Authentic Learning
USD 33.83 This updated edition helps K–12 teachers build observation checklists, develop unit plans, and design performance tasks and rubrics that address mandated academic standards.
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Picturing Learning: Artists & Writers in the Classroom
USD 26.56 Picturing Learning is the story of how Karen Ernst, a former middle school English teacher, developed an artists workshop parallel to a writers workshop, integrating reading and writing into an elementary art program. The artists workshop includes literature and writing, student choice and collaboration, portfolio as a means of assessment, and exhibition. Students are empowered to learn as they make choices selecting topics and media, discuss art, and share their writing. The artists workshop shows what is possible as students use writing and picturing as partners to express their meaning and has implications for expanding the writers workshop to include visual ways of knowing. The author's experiences teaching writing to eighth graders and her evolution as an artist influenced and propelled the emerging artists workshop described here. Picturing Learning is rich with examples of student expressions in words and pictures as well as the author's drawings from her research journal, where she captured the learning in her classroom. Teachers who are knowledgeable of writing process as it relates to whole language can use this book to expand the idea of writers workshop to include the visual ways of knowing. Art teachers eager to integrate the arts in the curriculum will find this book invaluable. Because the author discusses a live classroom with practical methodologies, it is ideal for use as a preservice text. Picturing Learning describes an entire framework for incorporating the arts into the literacy conversation. Showing clearly how the visual can be a vital component of literacy, it is a prime example of how close observation and teacher research can bring important changes to classrooms and schools.
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How Children Learn at Home
USD 32.95 In his Educating Children at Home, Alan Thomas found that many home educating families chose or gravitated towards an informal style of education, radically different from that found in schools. Such learning, also described as unschooling, natural or autonomous, takes place without most of the features considered essential for learning in school. At home there is no curriculum or sequential teaching, nor are there any lessons, textbooks, requirements for written work, practice exercises, marking or testing. But how can children who learn in this way actually achieve an education on a par with what schools offer?
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Thames and Kosmos Electronics: Learning Circuit
USD 36.00 Electronics: Learning Circuit from Thames and Kosmos - Fun Circuit Building Experiments for Beginners Construct circuits with colorful electric building blocks to learn about electricity and how electronic devices work. With the innovative snap-together blocks in the ElectronX building system, children eight and up can safely and easily begin experimenting with electronic circuits. These building blocks are specially designed to make learning electronics fun and accessible. Because the blocks are brightly colored and have unique shapes, it is easy to follow the assembly diagrams to construct functional circuits. And because the circuit symbols are printed directly onto the blocks, you can quickly become familiar with the symbols and learn how to read circuit diagrams. The fun building projects include an alternating blinker, a police siren, an ambulance siren, an alarm system, a light detector, a conductivity tester, a rain warning system, a timer, and logic circuits. The electronic components in this kit include capacitors, resistors, transistors, LEDs (light emitting diodes), a photo-transistor, a switch, 30 contact blocks, cable blocks, a battery holder, a speaker, and a sound integrated circuit. The 64-page, full-color experiment manual guides you through 70 circuit building experiments with easy-to-follow diagrams. This kit provides kids with the tools and instructions they need to experiment with their own hands and learn firsthand how electronics work. Ages 8 and up. 70 experiments
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Thinking Children: Learning about Schemas (Debating Play)
USD 40.00 What are schemas and how can they be used effectively to enhance learning? How can adults best support schema learning to extend children's thinking? This book explores the frequently observed schemas of young children - patterns of behaviour from which understanding and growth is derived - and draws out the nature of this learning. It is essential that adults working with young children are able to recognise and identify schema learning, and understand the opportunities for learning, as well knowing how to support and develop the schema appropriately, in order to extend children's thinking. Good observations skills are a key element and the book features a Child Observation Schedule. Rich with case studies and examples, the authors provide an accessible insight into: The theory behind schemas and memory development Curriculum and pedagogy Supporting schema learning Schemas and early literacy They show how schema learning is enhanced when children can choose what they play with and for how long in a varied play environment, and emphasize the important role of the adult in supporting schema-related learning. Thinking Children will help you feel more confident and knowledgeable about extending schema learning, whether you are a student on a course in early childhood or whether you are a more experienced practitioner in an early years setting.
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Hooked on Phonics Presents Hooked on Handwriting
USD 25.99 Hooked on Handwriting Learn to Print teaches kids ages 4 to 6 how to print uppercase and lowercase letters. The programs systematic approach begins by getting kids ready to print by drawing straight and curved lines. It then progresses to teaching kids how to print uppercase and lowercase letters using workbooks and a CD ROM. Featuring three activity packs kids get to show off their new skills with fun family focused activities that include postcards certificates and personalized party invitations to share with friends and family. What s Included: 2 workbooks CD ROM 2 activity packs Progress posters and stickers Parents guide From the Publisher Hooked on Phonics operated by HOP LLC a division of Educate Inc. is a leading creator of educational products for families that are fun and easy to use and get results. The company works with educators interactive designers writers artists and parents to develop step by step learning systems that help teach children critical reading math and study skills. Since the company was founded in 1987 more than two million families and thousands of schools have turned to Hooked on Phonics library of award winning programs. Our team of parents leading educators interactive designers writers and artists are dedicated to creating the most effective enjoyable and easy to use educational products that deliver success in learning for children. We know how important it is for our children to master basic math and reading skills and we re passionate about providing the right educational products to make that happen. Parents everywhere tell us about the exciting progress their children are making while having fun at the same time and gaining confidence and self esteem. Our products meet the child as his or her level and take them on to the next step giving them a unique feeling of achievement that is exciting to see.
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Native Grammar: How Languages Work
USD 133.81 Learn how grammar works in any language through engaging explanations, clear examples and plenty of hands-on exercises. Seven graded chapters introduce the major properties of words and word classes, including nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, particles and how to put them together. Lots of examples from world languages (Hawaiian, Chinese, Spanish, Navajo, Maltese, Luiseño and more). Learn all about key concepts in the linguistic fields of morphology and syntax, including morphemes and allomorphs, noun cases, pronoun persons, verb tenses, aspects and moods, focus and transitivity, and many others. Interesting examples and informative insights drawn from the careful study of foreign languages. This reference guide offers a unique trip through the world of grammar for enthusiasts of linguistics and students of foreign languages. 28 activities and 6 detailed review tests covering a wide range of languages. Appendix with answers to every exercise and review exam. Glossary with all key terms defined. Maps showing major world language families mentioned in the course. Index.
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Schools for Thought: A Science of Learning in the Classroom
USD 27.56 If we want to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for all children, we must start applying what we know about mental functioning - how children think, learn, and remember - in our schools. We must apply cognitive science in the classroom. Schools for Thought provides a straightforward, general introduction to cognitive research and illustrates its importance for educational change.Using classroom examples, Bruer shows how applying cognitive research can dramatically improve students' transitions from lower-level rote skills to advanced proficiency in reading, writing, mathematics, and science. Cognitive research, he points out, is also beginning to suggest how we might better motivate students, design more effective tools for assessing them, and improve the training of teachers. He concludes with a chapter on how effective school reform demands that we expand our understanding of teaching and learning and that we think about education in new ways. Debates and discussions about the reform of American education suffer from a lack of appreciation of the complexity of learning and from a lack of understanding about the knowledge base that is available for the improvement of educational practice. Politicians, business leaders, and even many school superintendents, principals, and teachers think that educational problems can be solved by changing school management structures or by creating a market in educational services. Bruer argues that improvement depends instead on changing student-teacher interactions. It is these changes, guided by cognitive research, that will create more effective classroom environments.John T. Bruer is President of the James S. McDonnell Foundation.A Bradford Book
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Learning and Teaching in the Primary Classroom
USD 33.91 Providing a framework for understanding the individual needs of pupils, this book describes how you can tailor your teaching methods to maximise learning. You will learn how to take account of your pupils' knowledge, skills and attitudes when selecting and applying principles of instruction, in order to make learning in your classroom as successful as possible. Packed with informative case studies and classroom examples, this book explores how learning is conceptualised, direct instruction, interactive teaching, teaching as scaffolding, and how to overcome obstacles to learning. This is a must-read for all practitioners and students of primary education who wish to understand how to best apply theories of instruction, and provide effective, dynamic teaching.
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Lens on Outdoor Learning
USD 32.97 The outdoors is full of rich learning experiences for preschool and pre-kindergarten children. Lens on Outdoor Learning is filled with stories and colorful photographs that illustrate how the outdoors supports children's early learning. Each story is connected to an early learning standard such as curiosity and initiative; engagement and persistence; imagination, invention, and creativity; reasoning and problem-solving; risk-taking, responsibility, and confidence; reflection, application, and interpretation; and flexibility and resilience. Much of the teaching in these experiences is indirect and involves provisioning, observing, and conversing with children as they spend quality time in nature. Children's dialogue and actions are included in each story to show just how engaged they became during these experiences. Lens on Outdoor Learning will inspire early childhood professionals to use this outdoor approach in their own setting.Wendy Banning is coordinator of Irvin Learning Farm, an inquiry-based, hands-on outdoor learning space for children and adults in North Carolina. She is also an educational consultant, teacher, trainer, and photographer.Ginny Sullivan is co-principal of Learning by the Yard, a partnership of landscape architects and educators that helps schools develop their grounds as habitat, focusing on native plants. Ginny consults, trains teachers, and involves schools and centers in the design of their outdoor spaces to help children learn about the natural world.
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Annual Envirothon gives county teams opportunity to compete, and learn how to protect environment
Envirothon is a chance for students to compete with one another while learning about the environment. "It's a competition," coordinator Jean Gomory, watershed specialist for the Warren County Conservation District, said. "They learn every aspect of the environment."
Think about your childrens ages and the unique educational needs they currently have. Learn How A three year old should be learning different things than an eight year old. Learn How If you are unsure of what educational toys to buy for your kids, do a little research to see what kinds of needs your kids have and then find educational games to fit those needs.
