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Gathers the genealogies of more than seventeen thousand classical composers in a single volume. Functioning as its own fully cross-referenced index, this volume lists composers and their dates, followed by their teachers and notable students. A short introduction presents the parameters by which composers were selected and provides a survey of the literature available for further study.
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"Based on extensive research as well as the author's own teaching and mentoring experience, this lively book covers best practices in the essentials of teaching-from organizational tips to proven pedagogic and classroom management techniques. It combines insights from some of the most respected psychologists and educational thinkers with hundreds of firsthand discussions. In style, the book combines the intellectual rigor of a college textbook with...
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Publisher's description: For many years, new teachers have complained that they were not well prepared for many of the daily realities of classroom teaching. Based on Singer's personal experience as a teacher, dean, counselor, and administrator, this book will provide specific tools and insights to help new teachers become successful in assisting students with a variety of issues including drug abuse, legal matters, and communication with parents....
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In this book, the author explores the complex, and sometimes confusing, intersection of children, teachers, and the world of the classroom. Based on years of conversations with children and teachers, he shows how classroom relations affect the growth, development, and learning of children.
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"Relationships have always been integral to teaching and learning. In today's diverse school settings, this means building healthy connections with students, parents, co-workers, and community members. Improving Teaching and Learning provides educators with the necessary tools to develop a better "relationship quotient"--Allowing them to serve as positive role models for the next generation of culturally competent citizens."--Jacket.
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"The Courage to Teach builds on a simple premise: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher. Good teaching takes myriad forms but good teachers share one trait: they are authentically present in the classroom, deeply connected with their students and their subject. These connections are held in the teacher's heart -- the place where intellect, emotion, spirit, and converge in the human...
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"Written in a style that speaks directly to today's teacher, The Ethics of Teaching, Third Edition uses realistic case studies of day-to-day ethical dilemmas. The book covers such topics as punishment and due process, intellectual freedom, equal treatment of students, multiculturalism, religious differences, democracy, teacher burnout, professional conduct, parental rights and child abuse/neglect."--Jacket.
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"Trusting What You Know shows that building genuine trustworthy relationships between teachers and students is pivotal in students' capacity to learn. Based on an extended research study by Miriam Raider-Roth - an educational researcher and former elementary school teacher - Trusting What You Know reveals what students think about their relationships in the classroom and how these relationships shape their ability to learn. The book includes guiding...
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This text aims to counter the rush towards standards and test-taking. Instead of a "one-size-fits-all" strategy that constricts learning, Schultz advocates a nuanced approach based on listening - attending to individuals, the rhythm of classrooms and the out-of-school worlds of students.
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"To Teach is the soon-to-be classic story of one teacher's odyssey into the ethical and intellectual heart of teaching, and at the same time an invitation to teachers to more thoughtfully and carefully map their own pathways. This second edition offers new resources and addresses the small schools movement, as well as new challenges facing teachers in conceptual and practical ways. To Teach narrates an essential journey all teachers must take if,...
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Explores nearly two hundred strategies for teaching and classroom management for any grade level that will help students make positive changes including improving their work habits, connecting curriculum with individual interests, boosting self-worth, and opening lines of communication.
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"In presenting their experiences, black teachers go on the record about mixed-race classrooms, the losses and gains accompanying desegregation, repeated cycles of attempted and abandoned reform efforts, and the differing attitudes toward and perceptions of black students among black and white teachers."--Jacket.
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