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The goal of Best Practices in STEM Education: Innovative Approaches from Einstein Fellow Alumni, Second Edition is to improve the state of STEM education, not only in the United States, but internationally as well: good education anywhere is good for education everywhere.

What motivates us to direct our behaviors toward certain goals? To what extent can rewards and/or punishments induce us toward and away from specific actions? This title provides a summary overview of research in this area as well as a forward look into the future of research.

Based on both theory and personal teaching experiences, Teachers and Students as Co-Learners: Toward a Mutual Value Theory will help readers develop a deeper understanding of learning, re-ignite their enthusiasm, and, most importantly, create powerful teaching and learning in the classroom.

Educational Psychology Reader

How do young children learn to read, write, speak, and listen in two languages? How do emergent readers and writers make meaning within multilingual communities? This book examines the emergent biliteracy development of two kindergarteners growing up in a New Mexican neighborhood.

Through a case study of the five-year teacher education program at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and selected research articles and convention presentations related to the program, this title documents the evolution and achievements of a program that is a model of the best practices for teacher preparation.

Through a case study of the five-year teacher education program at the University of New Hampshire [UNH] and selected research articles and convention presentations related to the program, this title documents the evolution and achievements of a program that is a model of the best practices for teacher preparation.

Illustrates the problems and opportunities the American nation faces in education, economics, and the global arena. In this book, the authors propose a framework of transformation that would render American culture no longer a culture of conflict, but one whose purpose is to achieve metacultural cohesion.

Designed to appeal to all educators, this book was written to help prospective educators address socio-cultural questions, ideas, issues, and curiosities they encounter in multicultural education.

Becoming an Integrated Educational Leader is a must-read for current K-12 educators, preparing and current teachers who want to be leaders in their schools and communities. This book provides insights into gaining a better understanding of our educational system and describes a better understanding of the physical and emotional blockades experienced by educators and how to be a complete leader.

Designed to complement the dominant discourse of school reform by presenting a compendium of critical pedagogical writings that analyze the issues in urban education and demonstrate alternative praxis for failing schools, this title employs a critical pedagogy and praxis in calling for wholesale changes within our urban schools.

Anxiety in Schools

The revised edition of Educational Psychology Reader: The Art and Science of How People Learn presents an exciting amalgam of educational psychology's research-based reflections framed in twenty-first century critical educational psychology. Featuring a collection of renowned international authors, this text will appeal to scholars across the globe for research and course use.

Examines some of the inquiry related to the study of emotions in educational contexts. This book represents research on emotions and education, and has the potential to impact research in this area.

Summarizing research in education, social, developmental, and counseling psychology, this title examines the personality and background of both those who become bullies and those most likely to become their victims. It also discusses bullying similarities and differences in elementary and middle school.

Answers the challenge of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 by promoting evidence-based educational methods designed to improve student learning. This book details each of the approaches to education based on the principles of behavior analysis. It is written by scientist-practitioners.

Designed to accompany or replace traditional textbooks in educational psychology, educational foundations, cognition and learning, human development, and other related fields, this book is suitable for educators and those seeking non-traditional ways of approaching learning and educational practices.

The second edition of Vygotsky and Creativity: A Cultural-historical Approach to Play, Meaning Making, and the Arts presents an enriched Vygotskian perspective on children's and adults' symbolic engagement with imagination, artistic expression, and multi-modal forms of expression.

Effective Education for All deals with cultural-linguistic diversity and how to work in classrooms with culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. This book is both practical and helpful for educators and their schools in offering Positive Behavior Support (PBS), illustrating key steps in understanding the problem and research on cultural-linguistic diversity.

Effective Education for All deals with cultural-linguistic diversity and how to work in classrooms with culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. This book is both practical and helpful for educators and their schools in offering Positive Behavior Support (PBS), illustrating key steps in understanding the problem and research on cultural-linguistic diversity.

African American Students in Urban Schools

African American Students in Urban Schools

Traces the experiences of one cohort of Teach For America (TFA) corps members as they reconcile their hopes for their students with the reality of teaching in a district that favors compliance over compassion.

Encouraging Metacognition

Featuring scholarship from professors and graduate and undergraduate students actively involved in the work they profess, this book intends to make the practice of hip-hop feminist activism practical in our everyday lives that is both compelling and unapologetic.

Cultural Collision and Collusion

Revolutionary STEM Education: Critical-Reality Pedagogy and Social Justice in STEM for Black Males by Jeremiah J. Sims, an educator, researcher, and administrator from Richmond, California, is calling for a revolutionary, paradigm shift in the STEM education of and for Black boys.

This book proposes a framework for critically examining dominant and taken-for-granted ideas in educational psychology, then applies that framework to the examination of Self-regulated learning (SRL) to show how it endorses middle-class conventions, aligns with neoliberal logic, and renders individuals subordinate to oppressive educational structures.

A companion volume to "Teaching Science for Understanding", this book explores how to assess whether learning has taken place. It discusses a range tools for assessment including concept maps, vee diagrams, clinical interviews, problem sets, performance-based assessments, computer-based methods, visual and observational testing, and more.

Surviving and Thriving with Teacher Action Research is an outstanding companion for educators embarking on the action research journey. The book shares the collected wisdom of more than thirty experienced teacher researchers.