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How Students Learn: Mathematics in the Classroom
How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical functions are relevant to their everyday lives? In this volume, practical questions that confront every classroom teacher are addressed using the latest exciting research on cognition, teaching, and learning. "How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom" builds on the discoveries detailed in the bestselling "How People Learn". Now, these findings are presented in a way that teachers can use immediately, to revitalize their work in the classroom for even greater effectiveness. Organized for utility, the book explores how the principles of learning can be applied in teaching history, science, and math topics at three levels: elementary, middle, and high school. Leading educators explain in detail how they developed successful curricula and teaching approaches, presenting strategies that serve as models for curriculum development and classroom instruction. Their recounting of personal teaching experiences lends strength and warmth to this volume. The book explores the importance of balancing students' knowledge of historical fact against their understanding of concepts, such as change and cause, and their skills in assessing historical accounts. It discusses how to build straightforward science experiments into true understanding of scientific principles. And, it shows how to overcome the difficulties in teaching math to generate real insight and reasoning in math students. It also features illustrated suggestions for classroom activities. "How Students Learn" offers a highly useful blend of principle and practice. It will be important not only to teachers, administrators, curriculum designers, and teacher educators, but also to parents and the larger community concerned about children's education..
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Strategic Prayer: Applying the Power of Targeted Prayer
Intercessors and church leaders who want to become more effective in praying for their community and nation will find time-tested principles and strategies in Strategic Prayer. The principles in this practical handbook include warring in spiritual realms, spiritual strategy, the battleground of the mind, and pro-active prayer. A practical, comprehensive "Reconnaissance Survey" assists readers in identifying the prayers that most need to be prayed to shape the future of their city, state, or nation..
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Packaging Yourself: The Targeted Resume (Packaging Yourself)
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Breakthrough in Beginning Reading and Writing: The New Evidence-Based Approach for Pinpointing Students' Needs and Delivering Targeted Instruction (Theory and Practice)
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Breaking Strongholds in Your City: How to Use Spiritual Mapping Tomake Your Prayers More Strategic, Effective and Targeted (Prayer Warriors)
Take a moment to look around your community--the parks, the malls, they key points of interest Look at the downtown, the uptown, the back alleys and across the tracks. What are the institutions that dominate the life of your city? Do they glorify God? Or is your city infiltrated by pockets of idolatry and corruption? You can bring light to the darkest parts of your community by breaking down the enemy's strongholds through prayer. Finding solid information will ensure that your prayer is on-target and much mroe effective. This book shows you how to identify the enemy's territory in your area, and provides practical steps on how to pray against these dark strongholds---making it perfect for pastors, church leaders and intercessors on each level. Whether you are being called to frontline warfare or behind-the-scenes prayer support, discover how you can target your prayers to God's glory in your neighborhood..
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Turn Your Words Into Traffic: Finally! the Secret to Non-Stop Free Targeted Website Traffic
Teach people how to create lasting, steady and dependable flow to their website while positioning themselves in the marketplace as an expert. It's not a get rich quick scheme, but a very effective way for people with low or no budget to create content that can get you traffic ? ezines, RSS feeds, blog, ezine announcement sites, newsletter, website. Point is that most people can?t write very well and have phobia about writing. Don?t know right way to write to get people to take action without a big sales pitch. Can actually sell people better because you?re flying under the radar. People are more apt to click on the resource box in an article to get more info. Jim's dad has written for years, so they both have excellent credentials to teach people how to write..
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Scientific Reading Assessment: Targeted Intervention and Follow-Up Lessons
I expect to see dog-eared copies of this book on many classroom teachers' desks for years to come. - Frank Serafini,Author of Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days Targeted intervention for targeted instruction. That's the goal. But in busy, unpredictable classrooms where students have a variety of needs, a simple, smart idea like that can seem impossible to achieve. You need to isolate the source of readers' difficulties and determine the best way to address them. Complicating matters is an education climate with ever-increasing calls for accountability. You need assessment strategies that lead to both effective, differentiated instruction and that document individual student progress. You need Scientific Reading Assessment. Scientific Reading Assessment is both a practical guide to the whys and wherefores of assessment and a goldmine of more than thirty-five follow-up reading lessons. First Manning, Underbakke, and Hurt-Chumley ask and answer some of the toughest questions about the types, uses, and pitfalls of various assessment instruments. They offer big-picture thinking about the small observations that lead you to new insights about your readers. Then the authors show you how to map your assessments onto planning and instruction, offering not only thirty-five proven, effective lessons, but also strategies for identifying exactly which works best for specific kinds of reading difficulties. These powerful lessons incorporate widely known children's literature, include specific instructional cues and reproducible forms, are based on psycholinguistic theory and research, and offer extensions that get families and other caregivers involved in a child's literacy learning. Target the needs of your students and use the right intervention to help them. Read Scientific Reading Assessment, take its advice on assessment and instruction, and find just-the-right lesson to help all students overcome their reading obstacles. .
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