Curriculum Integrated Language Teaching


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A guide on how to implement CLIL in the classroom to foster motivation, engagement and progress in language learning.







Bushfires


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"It provides an understanding of bushfire, increasing the awareness about the threat of these events to people and places."--Introd.







Humanities Alive Geography


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Humanities Alive Geography 1 is the first of a two-book series catering for the new Victorian Essential Learning Standards, specifically as they apply for the Humanities - Geography domain. Humanities Alive Geography 1 caters for Level 5 and Humanities Alive Geography 2 for Level 6. The visually stimulating content is presented to engage learners and help them to understand and adapt essential information and skills. Interdisciplinary learning, through the four domains of Communication, ICT, Thinking and Design, Creativity and Technology are embedded in the activities and extended through a range of supporting worksheets. Links are also made to domains within the Physical, Personal and Social Learning strand. Key features: Structured activities, geared to the essential learning standards, catering for a wide range of abilities and intelligences Skillbooster activities that address inquiry-based reasoning and interpretation, and skills (including geospatial skills) Check and challenge sections at the end of every chapter to revise, apply and extend understanding and knowledge A supporting CD-ROM that includes an electronic copy of Humanities Alive Geography 1, links for all activity panels to Microsoft Word files, and a range of interactive multimedia programs to reinforce and test recall and higher order skills. The complementary text, Humanities Alive Geography, Level 5, Teacher Support Kit contains a wealth of material to support the busy teacher. This includes answers for all textbook activities, suggested teaching and assessment strategies, links between chapter content and the VELS framework, and a diversity of photocopiable worksheets that extend learning opportunities for geography students. Humanities Alive - bringing the Victorian Essential Learning Standards to life!




Nelson Essential Geography Skills Workbook


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Updated to meet the requirements of the Australian Curriculum: Geography A write-in workbook featuring activities that allow students to learn and practise essential geography skills Introduces essential geography terms, map skills, graphing techniques, field work and surveying skills Full-colour to make the study of maps and other geographical images clearer Includes an answer insert.




AV Guide


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Understanding by Design


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What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.




Teaching History in Primary Schools


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This book introduces trainees and newly qualified teachers to the teaching of history in primary schools, and covers key concepts, skills and knowledge for the history curriculum at Foundation Stage, KS1 and KS2. Contents include planning, teaching and learning strategies, assessment, reflection and evaluation, as well as a range of practical ideas for classroom activities and cross-curricular themes. Each chapter is underpinned by national and international research; also included are links to important themes such as citizenship, out-of-school learning, sustainability, diversity and inclusive practice. Throughout, content is related to new initiatives such as Every Child Matters and Excellence and Enjoyment.




Roadmap to Restructuring


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