Education : Curricula

Good listening skills are vital to learning and to everyday life. Educational research shows a direct link between the ability to listen effectively, and measurable intelligence. If we improve listening skill, we improve IQ. Yet though we often complain about students’ listening skills, do we apply focused teaching to improve them? The Learning To Listen series increases student ability to sustain retentive listening over time. Each book consists of 20 appealing, high-interest stories to be read to students. After listening to each story, students complete a related listening comprehension activity. These require students to retain specific information from the story to answer given questions. Details requiring recall relate to such details as colour, order of events, sounds, sights and characters discussed in the story. Activities can be completed as a class, in groups or individually. Initially, as written or aural clues, students are given particular information to listen for before the story is read. As their listening ability develops, memory cues are reduced. Creative expression extension activities accompany each story. Don’t just talk about how students should learn to listen. Do something about it. more...

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Reading Reinforcement Games – Book 2. A 2 book series which provides games that a teacher can use to provide worthwhile activities for groups of students to be engaged in while they work with other groups. Each book provides a variety of games in ascending levels of difficulty with increasing difficulty of vocab. They are aimed at giving students the opportunity to practice word recognition and reading skills in a simple fun way. Book 2 games cover:. • matching words to a picture. • completing cloze activities using given words and a picture. • riddles. • reading and acting out cards. • jumbled stories – sentences and pictures that students put together in the correct sequence so the story makes sense. Teachers need to copy the games onto light card and cut them up to have for the classroom a good range of games that can easily be replaced if they are lost or become worn. The simplicity of the rules and challenges in each game make them very easy and quick to explain and for students to learn. more...

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Aimed at non specialist primary teachers, this book offers support for the two attainment targets of the National Curriculum in art: investigating and making, and knowledge and understanding. more...

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This book explores current trends in assessment, with particular reference to secondary schools as well as providing a background to theory and practice relevant to both new and established teachers. more...

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Philosophers and educationalists of international repute celebrate the professional career of Paul Hirst, covering themes ranging from the nature of good teaching to Wittgensteinian aesthetics. more...

Price: $260.00