[PDF] Progress In Learning 2 eBook

Author : Allie Ticktin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0593191935

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A game-changing book on child development--and the importance of physical play--for this digital and screen age. For children to develop to their fullest potential, their sensory system—which, in addition to the big five of sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell, includes movement and balance (vestibular), body awareness (proprioception), and internal perception (interoception)—needs to be stimulated from the time they are born. Their senses flourish when they explore their environment by touching new textures, including their food, running, jumping, climbing, and splashing outside. As an occupational therapist with a specialty in sensory integration, Allie Ticktin has seen an increase in cases of children who struggle to sit in circle time or at their desk upright and who are delayed in walking, talking, and playing by themselves and with their peers. In the recent past, kids spent their days playing outside and naturally engaging their sensory system and building key developmental skills. But with increasing time pressures for both kids and parents, children are spending more time in front of screens and less time exploring and interacting with their environment. The good news is that boosting your child’s sensory development doesn’t take enormous amounts of time or supplies, or any special skills. Here, Ticktin discusses the eight sensory systems and how a child uses them, and offers easy, fun activities—as well as advice on setting up a play area—that will encourage their development so that your little one will be better able to respond to their emotions, build friendships, communicate their needs, and thrive in school. That’s the power of sensory play.

Author : Kim Morris
Publisher : Progress in Learning 3
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781726680530

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Progress In Learning Book 3 is the third in a series of reading workbooks, designed to provide students with a simple yet effective way to improve their literacy skills. Based on the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading, the series is:* Phonics based* Structured* Sequential* Cumulative* MultisensoryLearning is achieved in small sequential steps in which students can experience a high success rate. This in leads to increased self esteem and motivation for independent learning. Students learn to decode carefully graded word lists and read these accurately within the context of a sentence. Useful suggestions to develop visual and auditory processing skills, memory, cognitive fluency and comprehension are included. Passionate about helping students who struggle with their learning skills, Morris empowers educators, parents and students to make a difference in their lives. This is reflected in improved in academic achievement and emotional well being. Kim Morris is a well-qualified, specialist teacher with many years of teaching experience, trained to work with children who have learning differences. Her educational resources provide a much needed 'Back to basics' approach to learning.

Author : Barbara Croft
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2003-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547346522

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A stunning, cinematic debut novel set at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Moon's Crossing explores a unique time in American history, when the romantic heritage of the nineteenth century merged with the industrial temperament of the modern age. Jim Moon, an idealistic Union Army veteran, leaves his young wife and son to visit the World's Columbian Exposition, which has attracted America's greatest artists and thinkers as well as its drifters and schemers. Nick, a fast-talking con man, takes Moon to Pullman Town, a model city south of Chicago that is the site of the complex labor strike of 1894. Moon comes to see that the bright future the fair promised is compromised by greed. Unable to recapture his early vision of America, he takes his own life, and in so doing generates a surprising love story between a common young woman and a corrupt policeman as well as a major upheaval in the life of his neglected son. Kaleidoscopic and fast-paced, Moon's Crossing draws on such sources as the traditional tall tale to present a unique narrative style. Moon's adventures are completely American, and the legacy he leaves is, ironically, more significant than his failed life would have foretold.

Author : Daisy Christodoulou
Publisher : Oxford University Press - Children
Page : pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 0198413904

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Making Good Progress? is a research-informed examination of formative assessment practices that analyses the impact Assessment for Learning has had in our classrooms. Making Good Progress? outlines practical recommendations and support that Primary and Secondary teachers can follow in order to achieve the most effective classroom-based approach to ongoing assessment. Written by Daisy Christodoulou, Head of Assessment at Ark Academy, Making Good Progress? offers clear, up-to-date advice to help develop and extend best practice for any teacher assessing pupils in the wake of life beyond levels.

Author : Kim Morris
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2023-02
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Progress In Learning Book 2 is the second in a series of reading workbooks, designed to provide students with a simple yet effective way to improve their literacy skills. Based on the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading, the series is: - Phonics based - Structured - Sequential - Cumulative - Multi-sensory. Learning is achieved in small sequential steps in which students can experience a high success rate. This in turn leads to increased self esteem and motivation for independent learning. Students learn to decode carefully graded word lists and read these accurately within the context of a sentence. Useful suggestions to develop visual and auditory processing skills, memory, cognitive fluency and comprehension are included. Passionate about helping students who struggle with their learning skills, Kim Morris empowers educators, parents and students to make a difference in their lives. This is reflected in improved academic achievement and emotional well being. She is a well-qualified, specialist teacher with many years of teaching experience, trained to work with children who have learning differences. The course includes the teaching of words with triple blends, consonant digraphs, pseudo words, sentences, final silent -e, vowel digraphs, vowel-modified -r, and the next 200 commonly used words. Decodable sentences containing the words taught, are included. The educational resources provide a much needed 'Back to basics' approach to learning.

Author : Rachelle Doorley
Publisher : Shambhala
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 083482986X

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Encourage tinkering, curiosity, and creative thinking in children of all ages with these 55 hands-on activities that explore art, science, and more The creator of the highly popular creativity site for kids, Tinkerlab.com, now delivers dozens of engaging, kid-tested, and easy-to-implement projects that will help parents and teachers bring out the natural tinkerer in every kid—even babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. The creative experiments shared in this book foster curiosity, promote creative and critical thinking, and encourage tinkering—mindsets that are important to children growing up in a world that values independent thinking. In addition to offering a host of activities that parents and teachers can put to use right away, this book also includes a buffet of recipes (magic potions, different kinds of play dough, silly putty, and homemade butter) and a detailed list of materials to include in the art pantry.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 49,25 MB
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309324882

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Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.

Author : Robert J. Marzano
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 25,46 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 1416606580

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Presents a model for ensuring quality teaching that balances the necessity of research-based data with the equally vital need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of individual students.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 2001-10-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 0309293227

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Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight's dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. While there are many strategies for improving the educational process, we need a way to find out what works and what doesn't work as well. Educational assessment seeks to determine just how well students are learning and is an integral part of our quest for improved education. The nation is pinning greater expectations on educational assessment than ever before. We look to these assessment tools when documenting whether students and institutions are truly meeting education goals. But we must stop and ask a crucial question: What kind of assessment is most effective? At a time when traditional testing is subject to increasing criticism, research suggests that new, exciting approaches to assessment may be on the horizon. Advances in the sciences of how people learn and how to measure such learning offer the hope of developing new kinds of assessments-assessments that help students succeed in school by making as clear as possible the nature of their accomplishments and the progress of their learning. Knowing What Students Know essentially explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment. These advances suggest ways that the targets of assessment-what students know and how well they know it-as well as the methods used to make inferences about student learning can be made more valid and instructionally useful. Principles for designing and using these new kinds of assessments are presented, and examples are used to illustrate the principles. Implications for policy, practice, and research are also explored. With the promise of a productive research-based approach to assessment of student learning, Knowing What Students Know will be important to education administrators, assessment designers, teachers and teacher educators, and education advocates.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2018-10-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 0309459648

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There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades have seen an explosion of research that has important implications for individual learning, schooling, workforce training, and policy. In 2000, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition was published and its influence has been wide and deep. The report summarized insights on the nature of learning in school-aged children; described principles for the design of effective learning environments; and provided examples of how that could be implemented in the classroom. Since then, researchers have continued to investigate the nature of learning and have generated new findings related to the neurological processes involved in learning, individual and cultural variability related to learning, and educational technologies. In addition to expanding scientific understanding of the mechanisms of learning and how the brain adapts throughout the lifespan, there have been important discoveries about influences on learning, particularly sociocultural factors and the structure of learning environments. How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures provides a much-needed update incorporating insights gained from this research over the past decade. The book expands on the foundation laid out in the 2000 report and takes an in-depth look at the constellation of influences that affect individual learning. How People Learn II will become an indispensable resource to understand learning throughout the lifespan for educators of students and adults.