This indispensable guide combines proven curriculum design with teaching methods that encourage students to learn concepts as well as content and skills for deep understanding across all subject areas.
This updated edition provides practical structures, planning tools, and specific classroom examples of effective teaching strategies. The author focuses on the need for curriculum and instruction that allows students to move beyond factual learning to a level of understanding where knowledge transfers readily to new situations and thinking becomes integrated. --From publisher's description.
In this book the author provides specific strategies for designing and developing a seamless learning programme that teaches students to grasp broad concepts and integrate the information they have learned. This is a companion volume to the author′s Stirring the Head, Heart, and Soul Second Edition and an ideal resource for teachers, curriculum developers, and staff developers who must guide students toward higher academic standards for content knowledge, process abilities, quality performance, and school-to-work transitions.
Exciting. Moving. Another page-turner by the author of Aspen and Night Whispers Bless the beasts and children…especially at Christmas! After nearly a hundred years, there are wolves in Colorado again. And Brigitte Hartman, a field biologist working with the Fish and wildlife Service, is one of the people responsible. The reintroduction of a wolf pack to the Flat Tops Wilderness area is her job—but it's also her passion. Local ranchers, like Steve Slater, are passionate about the project, too…though not in quite the same way. They're against it. They believe the wolves are a threat to their cattle, their livelihood. Considering how he feels about the wolves, Steve finds that his life is complicated—to say the least—by his attraction to Brigitte. Falling for Steve complicates her life, too. Particularly when she grows close to his young daughters and begins dreaming of a family Christmas. This family. This Christmas. And a husband called Steve…
A cutting-edge model for 21st century curriculum and instruction Looking for that one transformative moment when a student’s eyes light up, signaling he or she has finally grasped that big idea behind critical academic content? Concept-based curriculum and instruction is a way to make those moments many. H. Lynn Erickson and Lois Lanning offer new insight on: How to design and implement concept-based curriculum and instruction across all subjects and grade levels Why content and process are two equally important aspects of any effective concept-based curriculum How to ensure students develop the all-important skill of synergistic thinking
Demonstrate how teachers can use a "conceptual lens" to design instructional units and differentiated lessons that deepen students' thinking skills and inspire a genuine love of learning.
With a serial rapist and killer on the loose in Western ski towns, burned-outpolice sketch artist Jane Russo joins FBI agent Ray Vanover on the case. Withhis help, she must confront a demon from her own past to give this new madmana face of his own. Original.
The Lost Springs Ranch for troubled boys is at stake, and it's a man's duty to give back... Bachelor #2 Name: Mase LeBow, 34 Occupation: Homicide detective, Denver Biggest Achievement: Living to adulthood after a too-wild adolescence
Jack Devlin is a man on death row, convicted of murdering his socialite wife. Eve Marchand is the public defender who believes that the evidence against him is all too-cut-and-dried. When Jack escapes and contacts Eve, she's forced to make a decision that changes her life. Now they're both on the run, and the only hope is to find the real murderer before their time runs out.
Sports hero Robbie Childress had been acquitted of killing his wife. Now his father-in-law, Tom Bergen, stands accused of killing him. As a power hungry prosecution and an infamous defense team square off in court, a bigger battle is raging in Tess Bergen's soul. Somehow she must choose between her love for her father and her knowledge of his guilt--and between her passion for P.I. Dan Hadley and her terror that he will discover her secret.
Berkley's new Berkley Sensation romance line features this chilling tale by the bestselling author of "On the Edge." Twenty years after she was kidnapped, a woman must relive her worst nightmare when her tormentor is paroled and her own daughter is now missing. Original.
Ben Tanner made sense of the inexplicable every day. But when he met Julie Hayden, he finally ran into an enigma even he couldn't explain. At her New Mexico ranch he confronted two mysteries--that of a hidden valley with strange occurrences ... and the deeper, more compelling enigma of the woman Julie. With a flash of her golden hair, she awakened Ben's desires--but her dark eyes kept mysterious secrets. But then, solving mysteries was Ben's business.-p.4 of cover.
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