Through engaging assignments, this integrated curriculum course design introduces the physics of sound and music, with the exploration of musical styles and their biological effect, along with the newer disciplines of Music Therapy and Sound & Vibrational Healing. While the course is designed for grades 5-6, educators will find a variety of applications and inspiration from individual units, as well as the full eight week cycle. This course is designed...

La elaboración de un currículo intercultural para las comunidades afrocolombianas, parte de la convicción de ser capaces de revalorar lo propio, cristalizado en los saberes que se han heredado por medio de la palabra "dicha" de una generación a otra. La obra explora los significados que estas poblaciones le atribuyen a su legado cultural, como detonante de los procesos formativos que se dan en sus escuelas.

In The Teacher's Gradebook, Barry Raebeck, a practicing secondary school English teacher, shares the grading strategies that he uses so successfully with his own students. Ample discussion is given to not only grading techniques, but also to other important issues surrounding the philosophy and ethics of grading. These include test construction, rubric creation, "grade-friendly" projects, assessment without grades, and cultivating student ownership...

"Las tensiones del curriculum" hace visible un problema actual en el campo del curriculum relacionado con su reconocimiento como disciplina. Aborda el estado de situación del campo en Argentina y México, como muestra de dos países latinoamericanos que cuentan entre sí con rasgos de colaboración académica. Su contenido está impregnado de preocupaciones epistemológicas vigentes que consideran la tensión entre los paradigmas de la modernidad...

Black Lives Matter in US Schools critically examines the relationship between schooling and sociocultural abolitionist movements like #BlackLivesMatter. Aligning with a long history of education scholars who have insisted on the enmeshed nature of schools and society, the book addresses the role of various forms of curricula that perpetuate anti-Blackness while simultaneously shaping Black ways of being, knowing, and doing. While its focus tends toward...

Now there's a way to blend balanced literacy and formative assessment. This book infuses research-based best practices of formative assessment through the lens of Common Core, with assessment support in these areas: read-alouds, guiding language into reading, language and literacy centers, and independent reading and writing. It also includes the "how" for novice and veteran K-8 teachers, administrators, and school literacy teams. Resources are included...

Provides firsthand perspectives from yoga practitioners and educators on the promises and challenges of school-based yoga programs. The yoga-in-schools movement has been gaining momentum in recent years as adult practitioners realize the benefit of yoga in their personal lives and want to share it with children and youth. As the movement has grown, so has the need to understand how yoga works and its effects on individuals, groups, and school culture....

Estudios críticos del currículo. Educación, toma de conciencia y políticas del conocimiento ofrece un marco novedoso para pensar cómo el currículo se relaciona con la comprensión de los estudiantes acerca del mundo que los rodea. Wayne Au reúne la teoría del currículo, los estudios educativos críticos y la teoría del punto de vista en la perspectiva feminista con ejemplos prácticos de la enseñanza de la justicia social para debatir un...

Es fundamental que directivos, docentes, estudiantes y sus familias cuenten con los medios para comprender la estructura y el alcance de las Pruebas Saber, de tal manera que les sea posible orientar, intencional y pertinentemente, los currículos escolares y avanzar en el mejoramiento sistemático de los resultados obtenidos por los estudiantes. Por ello es importante disponer de una propuesta editorial integral que incluya, tanto guías para el profesor,...