Resources by Teachers College Press
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'Eyes on math' is a teaching resource that provides engaging, full-colour graphics and pictures with text showing teachers how to use each image to stimulate mathematical teaching conversations around key K-8 concepts.
Teachers using the book can download the images for projection onto classroom white boards...
This work presents the latest findings on how constructivist theory can inform science and maths education. It covers techniques for determining students' understanding, and successful attempts to improve teaching and learning by reorganising the curriculum and through teacher education.
This text discusses late 20th-Century science education and addresses the teaching of science in the new millennium. It asks such questions as: how has society moved from an industrial age to a "knowledge-intensive" era?; and how will science education develop as we move past the year 2000?
Designed for teachers-to-be and practicing teachers of science, this work presents an inquiry-oriented method that capitalizes on children's natural curiosity by emphasizing scientific exploration. It uses a model...
This work, based on a model professional development programme, gives powerful proof that urban teachers can ignite curiosity and promote deep understanding in children when provided with the necessary intellectual...
This text examines: the roots of STS education; the pragmatic heart of STS, projects and programmes as they actually exist in classrooms; the cultural aspects of science education; the reasons women often feel alienated from existing "valid and neutral" science; and research into STS education.
Talking their way into science: hearing children's questions and theories, responding with curricula
This text provides insights into how elementary students think and talk about science. It provides a window into the children's thinking about the world, enabling the reader to see how students build complex theories...
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
This text focuses on the difficulties that developing adolescents have in adjusting to life in the modern science and technology driven society. Middle schools were founded to deal specifically with the adaptive...