Caring Hearts And Critical Minds

Author : Steven Wolk
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003841869

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Imagine if going to school meant more than preparing kids for a test, teaching a canned curriculum, and training students for their future as workers. What if school were also about cultivating students to be caring, community-involved citizens and critical, creative thinkers who love to read? In Caring Hearts & Critical Minds, teacher-author Steven Wolk shows teachers how to help students become better readers as well as better people. I want [my students] to be thinkers and have rich conversations regarding critical issues in the text and be able to formulate opinions regarding these issues, says Leslie Rector, a sixth-grade teacher who collaborated with Wolk on some of the units featured in this book. Wolk demonstrates how to integrate inquiry learning, exciting and contemporary literature, and teaching for social responsibility across the curriculum. He takes teachers step-by-step through the process of designing an inquiry-based literature unit and then provides five full units used in real middle-grade classrooms. Featuring a remarkable range of recommended resources and hundreds of novels from across the literary genres, Caring Hearts & Critical Minds gives teachers a blueprint for creating dynamic units with rigorous lessons about topics kids care about'sfrom media and the environment to personal happiness and global poverty. Wolk shows teachers how to find stimulating, real-world complex texts called for in the Common Core State Standards and integrate them into literature units. I know from experience that a great book changes the reader, says Karen Tellez, an eighth-grade teacher featured in the book. For me, books have helped me escape, fall in love, recover from heartbreak, and have broken open my mind from the age of twelve. . . . I hope [my students] gain better reading comprehension, confidence as readers, connections to the characters and events, a curiosity for the world, and tolerance for others. Caring Hearts & Critical Minds shows teachers how to turn these hopes and goals into reality.

Author : Steven Wolk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : EDUCATION
ISBN : 1032680776

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"Wolk demonstrates how to integrate inquiry learning, exciting and contemporary literature, and teaching for social responsibility across the curriculum. He takes teachers step-by-step through the process of designing an inquiry-based literature unit and then provides five full units used in real middle-grade classrooms. Featuring a remarkable range of recommended resources and hundreds of novels from across the literary genres, Caring Hearts & Critical Minds gives teachers a blueprint for creating dynamic units with rigorous lessons about topics kids care about--from media and the environment to personal happiness and global poverty. Wolk shows teachers how to find stimulating, real-world 'complex texts' called for in the Common Core State Standards and integrate them into literature units."--Publisher's website.

Author : Judit Szente
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319628875

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Assisting Young Children Caught in Disasters by Judit Szente Pdf

This volume discusses 14 different types of disasters and their implications on the social, emotional and academic development of young children, from birth through age eight. It focuses on human-related crises and disasters such as community violence exposure; war and terrorism; life in military families; child trafficking; parent migration; radiation disasters; HIV/AIDS; and poverty. The environment-related disasters addressed in this book include hunger; hurricanes; earthquakes; frostbites; wildfires; and tornadoes. The volume includes suggestions for interventions, such as using picture books with young children in coping with natural disasters and human crises. In addition, each chapter provides research-based strategies for early childhood and related professionals to be used in the classroom. Many children in our world today experience some type of disasters and/or crises. These crises or disasters can either be human- or environment-related and can interrupt children’s daily lives. They often negatively impact children’s development, education, and safety. Bringing together authors representing a variety of countries including Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Haiti, Hungary, Kenya, USA, and Zimbabwe, this book provides truly global perspectives on the various types of disasters and their implications for our work with young children.

Author : R. Joseph Rodríguez
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781498536455

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Enacting Adolescent Literacies across Communities by R. Joseph Rodríguez Pdf

Through an innovative approach of critical ethnography and literacy research via case-study methodologies, Enacting Adolescent Literacies across Communities: Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites analyzes Latino/a adolescents’ engagement with the elements of literacy for English language arts learning and understanding. How young people enact literacies in their bicultural lives and understand literary traditions today reveals their own interests in democracy, equity, and opportunity. Moreover, the rites they perform often recover buried histories, mirrors, and stories similar to the pre-Columbian scribes whose intellectual legacy is relevant in the twenty-first century. R. Joseph Rodríguez illustrates how adolescents experience scribal identities and language pluralism that sustains their cultural knowledge as they make meaning and enact literacies with diverse audiences in civic and schooling communities.

Author : Richard L. Kaplan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521006023

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Politics and the American Press by Richard L. Kaplan Pdf

Politics and the American Press takes a fresh look at the origins of modern journalism's ideals and political practices. The book also provides fresh insights into the economics of journalism and documents the changes in political content of the press by a systematic content analysis of newspaper news and editorials over a span of 55 years. The book concludes by exploring the question of what should be the appropriate political role and professional ethics of journalists in a modern democracy.

Author : Brian D. Schultz
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807758311

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Teaching in the Cracks by Brian D. Schultz Pdf

This engaging book shows how teachers and schools are creating emergent, democratic, progressive education amidst the current context of high stakes accountability. In this follow-up to his bestseller, Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way, Schultz explores how today’s rhetoric and restrictive mandates result in curriculum that fails to capture the attention of students. For meaningful learning that develops transferable skills and engages students, teachers and sometimes whole schools need to find spaces to “teach in the cracks” so that students can connect with issues relevant to their lives. Teaching in the Cracks provides both a theoretical and practical foundation for incorporating an action-focused curriculum that meets academic standards and provides students with opportunities for agency and to use their voices in their own learning. Book Features: Specific tools and strategies to help teachers engage students in democratic participation and action. Examples from varied teaching contexts, including elementary and secondary classrooms and independent, charter, and public schools. Recommended organizations and resources for integrating justice-oriented civic engagement in classrooms.

Author : Sarah Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351683180

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Creating Citizens by Sarah Cooper Pdf

Engage students in meaningful civic learning and encourage them to become active and informed citizens. With this essential book, co-published by Routledge and MiddleWeb, you will gain a variety of practical strategies for teaching civics and current events to your middle school students. Author and expert teacher Sarah Cooper takes you into her school and shares her classroom-tested methods and tools. Topics include: Fitting current events into an already-packed history curriculum Staying nonpartisan and fostering balanced discussions Helping students find their stake in the news Teaching civic literacy through primary sources, then and now Encouraging students to invest in analytical writing Fostering student ownership of our classrooms through discussion and debate Cultivating citizenship through empathy and community engagement Throughout the book, you’ll find student examples, handouts, and rubrics, so that you can easily implement the ideas in your own classroom. By getting your students to think critically about current events, you will help them become passionate writers, thinkers, and involved citizens.

Author : Brenda A. Shearer,DeBorah A. Carr,MaryEllen Vogt
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781478637967

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Reading Specialists and Literacy Coaches in the Real World by Brenda A. Shearer,DeBorah A. Carr,MaryEllen Vogt Pdf

Now more than ever, the roles and responsibilities of today’s literacy professionals are expanding. Many recent developments require a closer look at the changing careers of reading specialists, coaches, and administrators leading to an emphasis on increased collaboration and coaching, integration of standards, and student improvement initiatives. Both scholarly and practical, Reading Specialists and Literacy Coaches in the Real World provides the support and guidance both literacy and content area teachers need. The learning goals and outcomes in each chapter are aligned with ILA’s Standards for the Preparation of Literacy Professionals 2017, providing opportunities for group inquiry and new perspectives on professional learning. The authors examine the historical, political, and social forces that shape evidence-based practice and incorporate significant developments in intervention, assessment, and adolescent literacy. Their impact on instruction and the needs of students are studied in conjunction with RtI/MTSS programs, progress monitoring and differentiation, instructional technologies related to twenty-first century literacies, updated information about effective academic language instruction for English learners, and a moral imperative for fostering equity, social justice, and global perspectives. The Fourth Edition also provides Resource Materials to support the text, giving it a great deal of flexibility to explore projects for portfolios and self-assessment. In the real world, as learners among learners, literacy professionals use their experiences and voices for advocacy to help prepare students for success in their lives and careers.

Author : Penny Silvers,Mary C. Shorey
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781571108753

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Many Texts, Many Voices by Penny Silvers,Mary C. Shorey Pdf

On any given day, a visitor to Mary Shorey's classroom will find elementary students using a variety of learning tools, from books to wikis and blogs, to pose critical questions about the world and take action to make a difference in the lives of others. Whether sponsoring a book drive for victims of Hurricane Katrina, using a multimedia presentation to persuade the principal to adopt their recycling plan, or challenging a senior citizen's eviction, it's all in a day's work for Mary's students. Her young learners are becoming conscious consumers, creative thinkers, and effective communicators even while fulfilling the mandated curriculum and Common Core Standards. As Shorey and coauthor Penny Silvers write in Many Texts, Many Voices, "Critical literacy requires that the reader/consumer examine multiple perspectives and ask, 'Whose interests are being served?' and 'Whose voice is heard--or silenced?'...Rather than an addition to a lesson or curriculum, critical literacy is a way of thinking, communicating, analyzing, and living a literate life. Critical literacy also implies the possibility of taking some kind of social action in order to support a belief, make a difference, or simply help during a time of need." Always mindful of what is appropriate for young children, Shorey and Silvers continually search for opportunities to embed critical literacy and inquiry in the everyday lives of primary students. Through a rich array of rubrics, sample lessons, text sets, unit designs, and professional resources, Silvers and Shorey share their reflective practices so that all teachers can use print, visual, and digital tools to transform student learning.

Author : Leanne Aitken,Andrea Marshall,Wendy Chaboyer
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 1109 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780729587181

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Critical Care Nursing by Leanne Aitken,Andrea Marshall,Wendy Chaboyer Pdf

Endorsed by the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN) ACCCN is the peak professional organisation representing critical care nurses in Australia Written by leading critical care nursing clinicians, Leanne Aitken, Andrea Marshall and Wendy Chaboyer, the 4th edition of Critical Care Nursing continues to encourage and challenge critical care nurses and students to develop world-class practice and ensure the delivery of the highest quality care. The text addresses all aspects of critical care nursing and is divided into three sections: scope of practice, core components and specialty practice, providing the most recent research, data, procedures and guidelines from expert local and international critical care nursing academics and clinicians. Alongside its strong focus on critical care nursing practice within Australia and New Zealand, the 4th edition brings a stronger emphasis on international practice and expertise to ensure students and clinicians have access to the most contemporary practice insights from around the world. Increased emphasis on practice tips to help nurses care for patients within critical care Updated case studies, research vignettes and learning activities to support further learning Highlights the role of the critical care nurse within a multidisciplinary environment and how they work together Increased global considerations relevant to international context of critical care nursing alongside its key focus within the ANZ context Aligned to update NMBA RN Standards for Practice and NSQHS Standards

Author : Laurie Rubin
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781571109927

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To Look Closely by Laurie Rubin Pdf

Laurie invites you to join her class of twenty-one second graders as they visit a small stream in the woods behind a suburban elementary school, and she shares her reflections on class discussions, activities, and learning experiences. From setting a tone of inquiry-based thinking in the classroom to suggesting specific units of study for reading, writing, and science, Laurie guides teachers step-by-step through the basics of how to integrate the skills acquired through nature study into every subject. You will also discover all the ways this purposeful work nurtures "green" citizens who grow up determined to value and protect the natural environment.

Author : Candace Calvert
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781414325439

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Critical Care by Candace Calvert Pdf

"After her brother dies in a trauma room, nurse Claire Avery can no longer face the ER. She's determined to make a fresh start--new hospital, new career in nursing education--move forward, no turning back. But her plans fall apart when she's called to offer stress counseling for medical staff after a heartbreaking day care center explosion. Worse, she's forced back to the ER, where she clashes with Logan Caldwell, a doctor who believes touchy-feely counseling is a waste of time. He demands his staff be as tough as he is. Yet he finds himself drawn to this nurse educator -- who just might teach him the true meaning of healing"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Susan Smith
Publisher : Brantford : WRMS, 1991. (Peterborough : Ontario Audio Library Service)
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Communication
ISBN : UOM:39015029252668

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Communications in Nursing by Susan Smith Pdf

"Communications in Nursing" is a comprehensive communications textbook providing a thorough explanation of all essential communications behaviours, and instructs nurses in specific methods for handling difficult interpersonal situations. Each chapter provides exercises that incorporate actual nursing situations to help students learn to communicate assertively and responsibly. This new edition presents the impact of the patient's and family's feelings and illustrates how those feelings should be handled by the caring nurse. It includes a new section on providing specific documentation, presents new content on the relationship between social support and health and features a section on the effects of culture on value systems and the psychosocial characteristics of various cultures. The book is intended for trained and student nurses in all specialities.--Amazon.com.

Author : Jeff Schmidt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742516857

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Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt Pdf

In this book about the world of professional work, Jeff Schmidt demonstrates that the workplace is inherently political and is a battleground for the very identity of the individual, as is graduate school where professionals are trained.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000010540247

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf