A Voice For The Children In The Back Row

Author : Kathleen Robinson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781469190891

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A Voice for the Children in the Back Row by Kathleen Robinson Pdf

Through these reflective episodes, the writer draws the reader into the real life of teachers who must move beyond the visible hopelessness and apathy that some students exhibit, and crack that veneer. In so doing, the teachers conjure up the potential that resides in those students. The narratives surrounding Ixora, John, Akeem and Victoria are developed against the backdrop of the evolution of the education system of the country. A Voice for the Children in the Back Row also represents the transformational process that the reflective educator undergoes. The author, Kathleen Robinson, has taken us along an episodic journey in order to arouse our consciousness and conscientiousness as educators. Our society needs texts like A Voice for the Children in the Back Row where the new teacher as well as the seasoned practitioner can identify with authentic experiences and see the hope that still exists in the midst of deep despair. Lynette T. Noel, reading instructor, University of Trinidad and Tobago Author, The Night Nopat was Left Out In an examination-oriented, mass education system, where one size seldom fits all, the ubiquitous drive obsession almost - to complete the syllabus conspires to ensure that some passengers are ultimately left sitting disconsolately in the back row. To get to their destination they must, invariably, either take another taxi or walk. Kathleen Robinsons A Voice for the Children in the Back Row mirrors, in many ways, my own experience in the classroom for more than three decades. The gifted and the disadvantaged suffer equally as the teacher struggles, virtually on his own, to fulfill mainstream societal expectations. In A Voice for the Children in the Back Row, I find solace in the fact that this issue has been so well articulated and documented but more importantly, I feel a renewed sense of hope that, with this latest insightful presentation, some authorized institutional engineers will finally assume the mantle to oversee meaningful, coherent and sustainable change at the systemic level. J.Baisden, educator

Author : Kathleen Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1952617219

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A Voice For The Children In The Back Row by Kathleen Robinson Pdf

My partly-fictional stories embrace the words of Abraham Maslow, "we must understand love, we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion..." The stories/episodes take place between middle 1950's to early 2000's. Further readings are suggested for a deeper understanding of the overall educational system in the Caribbean. The theme is mainly on the impact of the interactions between teachers and students. The children in the Back Row could be seated in any part of the classroom; however, they are often generally relegated to the back row by the teacher so that they could be ignored - they may become 'invisible' for the non-progressive teacher. Many of those Back Row children are usually the ones with socio-psychological issues and there are others who are too challenging for the teacher who is incapable of readjusting eclectic methods to benefit all students. This is the story, based on the actual experience of the Voice.

Author : T. Styppas
Publisher : Petra Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781985017757

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Occupation Child by T. Styppas Pdf

Told through the eyes of an observant and resilient boy, the book begins with the German seizure of Athens in 1941. Grim events of war, displacement, and exile never extinguish the curiosity – even the joys – of his childhood. Compelling writing mixes reality and fantasy to concoct a memorable tribute to the human spirit, from Asia Minor to Greece to Canada. — Douglas Babington, the Bivouac Prayers. “The ugliest phases of the Civil War were just beginning. It would pit household against household, village against village, and sometimes, brother against brother. The blood-letting would go on and on. The adults seemed to sense that all of this was going to happen and they only spoke in muted tones.” — Tasouli With curiosity and humor Tasouli tells us about his life, including stories about his cat the Resistance hero, the intricate relationships between a young Jewish physician, German officers, and Greek partisan communists and their British captives. A strange character appears in his dreams, sometimes supportive, sometimes terrifying, and they develop a strong bond. Occupation Child is ultimately about how a child views hunger, language, politics and love.

Author : Mike Jung
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781646140121

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Boys in the Back Row by Mike Jung Pdf

Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol—a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course, their final adventure together is more than just that—really, it's a way for the boys to celebrate their friendship, and their honest love and support for one another. That's exactly what we love so much about The Boys in the Back Row: it's an unabashed ode to male friendship, because love between boys, platonic or otherwise, is something to celebrate. And of course, because this is Mike Jung, we'll be celebrating it with hilariously flawed hijinks and geekiness galore!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082165261

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The Musical Herald and Tonic Sol-fa Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anna Jacobs
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444714432

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Hallam Square by Anna Jacobs Pdf

**Book four in the heart-melting Gibson Family series, perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Catherine Cookson and 'Call the Midwife'** Lancashire, 1858. Annie Hallam has at last found complete happiness. She has three healthy babies and adores her husband Frederick. After years of struggling to make a living in the small town of Bilsden, Annie knows she deserves to sit back and enjoy her life - after all, she's not yet forty, and still in her prime. But worries are on the horizon. Frederick has been looking rather pale lately. Her brother Tom hasn't moved on after the death of his wife. Rebecca, her half-sister, is longing for something more than her work in the salon. And William, her son, isn't happy at university. And something much more dangerous is looming - a threat not only to Annie's peace of mind, but to her life . . . ***************** Praise for Anna Jacobs: 'Catherine Cookson fans will cheer!' - Peterborough Evening Telegraph 'Anna Jacobs' books have an impressive grasp of human emotions' - Sunday Times 'Anna Jacobs' books are deservedly popular. She is one of the best writers of Lancashire sagas around' - Historical Novels Reviews

Author : Aaron Shepard
Publisher : Shepard Publications
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781620352175

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Adventures in Writing for Children by Aaron Shepard Pdf

Fifteen years after publishing "The Business of Writing for Children" -- the all-time online bestseller among guides to children's writing -- award-winning author Aaron Shepard returns with a new collection of articles on the art and business of creating literature for young people. Topics include managing time in stories, structuring a chapter book, retelling folktales and legends, obtaining permissions, databases and business forms for children's writers, performance tips for author readings, online interaction with young readers, reviving a book with print on demand, converting from picture book to ebook, and more. Whether you're aiming at traditional publishers or choosing to self publish, let "Adventures in Writing for Children" help you pursue an adventure of your own. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Aaron Shepard is the author of "The Legend of Lightning Larry," "The Baker's Dozen," and sixteen more picture books and early readers, along with several chapter books for middle grades, extensive resources for storytelling and reader's theater, and a graphic novel. His publishers have included Atheneum, Scribners, Clarion, Lothrop, Dial, and HarperCollins, as well as Cricket and Australia's School Magazine. Aaron's work has been honored by the American Library Association, the National Council for the Social Studies, the American Folklore Society, The New York Public Library, and the Bank Street College of Education. He has been a judge for the Golden Kite Awards of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// "Simply stated, anyone aspiring to write a book -- any kind of book -- for a child should read Aaron Shepard's 'Adventures in Writing for Children.' This little volume fully lives up to its hype. An invaluable addition to personal and community library collections and reading lists." -- Small Press Bookwatch, March 2015 ///////////////////////////////////////////////// CONTENTS Real Time Break It Down, Build It Up The Art of Retelling Building a Legend The Perils of Permissions Databases for the Children's Writer Business Forms for the Children's Writer The Magic of Reading to Children Tinker, Tailor, Writer, Storyteller Works in Progress Saving "The Sea King's Daughter" From Picture Book to Ebook This Is Not a Test What's Good for Business . . . Real Books Kidwriting Quotes ///////////////////////////////////////////////// SAMPLE My earlier book on children's writing, "The Business of Writing for Children," was drawn mainly from two sources: handouts from the classes and workshops I used to give, and my articles for "Once Upon A Time" and the "SCBWI Bulletin" (earlier called the "SCBW Bulletin") -- the newsletter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. In selecting the articles to include in that book, I tried to keep a balance among its main subject areas -- writing, publishing, marketing -- and to avoid domination by my personal specialties. I also chose to omit my more controversial articles, to make the book more generally accessible. Naturally, these criteria left out a number of articles I considered valuable. I'm pleased to offer at least some of them now, in this second collection. I've also included later articles, with some brand new ones -- some of which I've meant to write for years. (There's nothing like publishing a book to help you tie up loose ends.) And as an added treat, I've thrown in the children's writer quotations featured on my Web site.

Author : Charles Riborg Mann,Floyd Marion McDowell,John Haywood Francis,Lorne Webster Barclay,Peter Henry Pearson,Sheldon Emmor Davis,Theresa Bach,Thomas Jesse Jones,United States. Office of Education,Walter Alexander Montgomery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UIUC:30112037648083

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Training Little Children by Charles Riborg Mann,Floyd Marion McDowell,John Haywood Francis,Lorne Webster Barclay,Peter Henry Pearson,Sheldon Emmor Davis,Theresa Bach,Thomas Jesse Jones,United States. Office of Education,Walter Alexander Montgomery Pdf

Author : Brynjulf Stige
Publisher : Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 1409410102

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Where Music Helps by Brynjulf Stige Pdf

Explores how people may use music in ways that are helpful for them, especially in relation to a sense of wellbeing, belonging and participation. This book contributes to the discourse on music, culture and society and it is developed in dialogue with related areas of study, such as music sociology, ethnomusicology and community psychology.

Author : Arne Zeschel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110274844

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Incipient Productivity by Arne Zeschel Pdf

How do speakers vary established patterns of language use and adapt them to novel contexts of application? This study presents a usage-based approach to linguistic creativity: combining detailed qualitative with large-scale quantitative analyses of corpus data, it traces the emergence of partial productivity in clusters of conventional collocations. Focusing on English and German intensification constructions, it proceeds in three steps: having first inventoried the lexical means (of a given semantic type) that are recruited for signalling intensity in both languages, collostructional analysis is then used to identify entrenched intensity collocations involving these formatives in three different syntactic constructions. Third, multi-rater manual classification methods as well as distribution-based automatic classification methods are employed to uncover semantic generalisations over the attested types on different levels of abstraction. Collocational expansion is shown to proceed through local analogies within sets of semantically similar stored instances of a construction. Synthesising insights from research on language acquisition, variation and change, it is thus argued that creative extensions of linguistic conventions are intrinsically bound up with aspects of memory and repetition.

Author : Len Hansen
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781928314486

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Preaching Promise withing the Paradoxes of Life by Len Hansen Pdf

Paradoxes have become characteristic of the world we live in - poverty and privilege, empire and oppression, migration and enclaveseeking, war and peace, justice and injustice, reconciliation and revenge. During the 2016 Societas Homiletica annual conference held in South Africa, these paradoxes served as a rediscovery of the calling of preachers to deliver the promise that lies within life's contradictions. A divine promise brought forth by the grace of God and the gospel of Christ - embodied in and through us by the Spirit of Christ. This promise may take many forms and calls for discernment and often interrupts the status quos in surprising, shocking ways. It is a promise that interrupts, in order to comfort.

Author : R. L. Stevenson,R. M. Ballantyne,Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
Publisher : Palimpsest Book Production Limited
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910486085

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Scottish Children's Adventure by R. L. Stevenson,R. M. Ballantyne,Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Pdf

A Scottish lost treasures collection of classic adventure stories for the young reader. Bundled by subject matter rather than author, the books complement each other and create a compelling trilogy. "Palimpsest's eClassics series, Scottish Lost Treasures, shows us how much poorer Britain's cultural heritage would be without Scottish writers ... The best example I've seen of how curation and presentation can bring old books to new audiences" - The Observer "This strikes me as a fantastic venture, and one I hope will expand further" - Professor Willy Maley, University of Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Teachers
ISBN : UOM:39015050470932

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Speaking Out by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lee Austin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781445261683

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Fortune's Child by Lee Austin Pdf

Lucas Fortune is left on the steps of a children's home before his first birthday. He grows up under the corrupt, watchful eye of the Home's staff, doing all the normal things a young boy does. One night he and a group of children all experience the same dream and wake up with newfound abilities and powers. They must come to terms with these changes; some revel in it, whilst others turn nasty. Old childhood rivalries develop into something sinister and destructive, until eventually they must leave the home and face the big world outside the gates. Guided by the voice of a mysterious entity who talks only in dreams, and pursued by some of his former schoolmates as well as the agents of a sinister agency who seem to know a lot about him, Lucas must lead his friends along a trail of clues towards the ultimate truth behind their experience; a revelation somehow connected to Lucas's unknown father, an ancient intelligence and a terrifying force which will threaten everyone on the planet...

Author : Jo Bath
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750958585

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Voices of Geordie Childhood by Jo Bath Pdf

Voices of Geordie Childhood is a remarkable compilation of oral history extracts drawn from the extensive Beamish Museum Audio Archive, revealing what childhood was like as recalled by over one hundred Tynesiders born at the turn of the century and onwards.Vivid memories are recounted, including stories of family and friends, of play, school, home and work, of sheltering from air raids and trips to the seaside. This delightful compendium of memories offers a child’s-eye view of life, from staying in hospital to making Christmas decorations, from watching street entertainers to wearing charity boots – revealing a Geordie childhood now fading from memory.Richly illustrated with over sixty pictures from the museum archive, many previously unpublished, this volume is sure to bring back wonderful reminiscences of childhood, and jog memories for those who grew up in Tyne and Wear.