active learning

Presents a guided journal that encourages readers to explore and analyze the world around them by conducting interviews, taking notes on interesting objects, collecting objects, observing patterns, and engaging in other artistic and scientific activities.

Practical strategies designed for developing a high-quality early childhood program including information on phonemic awareness, preschool reading, family involvement, team planning, language and literacy, and social relations.

The creators of Chicago's Best Practice High School, a small public high school guided by the national standards of state-of-the art instruction, address eleven issues, assertions, or principles they believe hold the key to good high schools, including size, climate, teaching, curriculum, and scheduling.

A collection of practical strategies and techniques for creating an effective learning atmosphere including role-playing, working with art, and using drama and electronic media.

A guide to assist parents in preparing their pre-school age children for school. Addresses such issues as what determines a child's readiness for school and how to ensure the child's social and emotional readiness. Suggested activities are organized by age group.

Describes forty-five literacy skill-building strategies that may be used to help students from elementary through high school learn in all curricular areas, each including a list of resources.

Provides different ways for involving high school students in research, with the first part telling what resource-based learning is and the second part giving activity plans that have been used successfully by secondary teachers and librarians.