Kindergarten Readiness for All
This book provides a framework for kindergarten teachers to support young children in their transition to school. It offers strategies to involve families, use assessment information, and teach social skills, providing concrete supports for children with a wide range of needs.
Tackling Online Education
Leading experts from eight countries discuss how national policy responses to COVID-19 shaped higher education. This book offers solutions to common problems like Zoom fatigue and lack of student engagement, and provides techniques for effective online teaching and learning.
Becoming an Effective Teacher in America
Should you become a teacher? This book helps you decide and shows you how to become an effective resource for your students. Learn how to build a teaching philosophy, motivate learners, manage your classroom, and navigate the challenges facing today’s teachers.
Untold Stories of Black Leadership in Higher Education
Black leaders from within academia share candid stories of their journey to becoming skilled leaders. Their narratives provide meaningful insight into leadership at the college level and offer a guide for handling conflict and change.
University assessment efforts have failed to enhance educational quality. Plagued by questionable reliability and validity, the prevalent summative approach may not be the best method. This book suggests alternatives that yield more meaningful, quality-driven information.
Leadership and Policy in Urban Education
The Urban Education Sourcebook explores 21st century controversies in K-12 education. Topics include trauma pedagogy, principal support, school boards, and segregation policies. This text also includes activities, key vocabulary, and suggested readings.
This book explores the intertwining worlds of social media and educational pedagogy. It critically examines the benefits, challenges, and ethical considerations of integrating platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok into the modern educational landscape.
Higher Education and Research in the Post-Knowledge Society
How will higher education evolve to underpin sustainable societies? This book explores future scenarios against a background of transformation, including digital advances, globalization, socio-economic inequality, and climate change.
A concise, practical introduction to learning and teaching in higher education. It covers key issues from how students learn and assessment to curriculum design and technology, while keeping a critical eye on the pressures faced by teachers and students today.
This book examines the social and emotional challenges faced by autistic students in college. Viewing autism from the inside through the lens of neurodiversity—as a human variation, not a disorder—it offers practical advice for those who work with autistic students.
This book tells the ‘USC story’: the challenges faced and pedagogical enhancements made in embracing new technology to teach social work online. It details how faculty converted traditional courses for a virtual program that grew to over 2,200 students.
The Importance of Listening to Children and Adolescents
This publication highlights the importance of teaching adults to listen to children and adolescents, illustrating the principles and contexts that define young people’s tangible and intangible rights and ideals.
Voices from Far Away Lands
In an era of global tension, stories from international lives offer vital insights. These compelling essays explore our search for identity, community, and belonging in a changing world.
Inorganic Synthesis
This book develops practical skills for synthetic chemistry. It teaches techniques for the preparation, handling, and characterisation of inorganic, coordination, and air-sensitive compounds through safe, step-by-step lab experiments illustrated with colour photos and figures.
The Emotional Lives of Young People with Autism
This study questions the American Psychiatric Association’s definition of autism, offering evidence that even non-verbal children have an emotional life. Drawing on interviews with parents from three cultures, it shows children with autism have emotional competence.
Global Learning at Small Institutions
This volume of essays offers models for effective global learning at small institutions. It provides guidelines and practical steps for educators and administrators, showing how challenges like limited resources can inspire creative, thriving programs.
Emergent Bilingual Students and Their Academic Performance
Emergent Bilinguals are a fast-growing but underserved subgroup. Based on multiyear studies of their reading and mathematics performance, this book provides educational leaders, researchers, and policymakers with vital pre-pandemic baselines to inform changes in instruction.
This book analyzes the Israeli educational system, focusing on the pivotal role of mathematics education in its improvement. It explores innovative teaching methods that promote deep understanding and critical thinking, offering valuable insights for educators and policymakers.
This volume assists educational professionals in disciplines from preschool to higher education, leadership, and multicultural studies. An excellent resource for university coursework, this text is of particular interest to educators, administrators, psychologists, and students.
Transforming Computing Education with Problem-Based Learning
This book argues that Problem-Based Learning (PBL) can develop professional computing competencies. It proposes a methodology to implement PBL in a manageable way and reports on teaching and learning experiences, providing a realistic picture of this methodology.