Education Theory Books

Educational Psychology (with MyLabSchool) (10th Edition) (MyLabSchool Series)

Anita Woolfolk

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Filled with practicality 5 out of 5 stars.
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Although I did not use the 10th edition due that it was delivered to a neighbor, I borrowed a 9th edition that is similar. It was an excellent resource for teaching. It has practical guidelines for class prep, updated guidelines for students with disabilities and much much more. I highly recommend this book for teachers of all levels. You may not be taking this class; Educational Psychology, the book is practical to use throughout a school year.

educational psychology 5 out of 5 stars.
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the book is what I need for class, cheeper than the book store and showed up at my door! What more could you ask for? I guess there is good information, or that is what my teacher said!

2007 books 4 out of 5 stars.
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This book came new,however, I guess it is my fault not knowing what my lab series is. I saw that the book is paperback, but i assumed it would at least be bound.For those who are just returning back to college after 7 years for grad school, just know this book will have to be put in a binder.On the flip side it is whole punched already for you. Other than this, very smooth transaction and fast shipping. Great seller-Thanks!

Qualitative Reading Inventory-4 (4th Edition)

Lauren Leslie, JoAnne Schudt Caldwell

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great Assessment Tool 4 out of 5 stars.
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If you are familiar at all with the Flynt & Cooter IRI, you will love the QRI-4. You have stories with pictures, and without pictures, and now you do not need to find words lists like "San Diego Quick." This books gives you everything you need. Why didn't I give it a 5 then? I wish they would have organized it better than they did.

QRI-4 Review 5 out of 5 stars.
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An easy to read, understand, and user friendly manual to conduct Informal Reading Inventories on struggling readers. Plenty of material to facilitate and instruct reading.

This seller is great!!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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The book was exactly what I needed for class and I received it in just a few days!!! This was a great experience, getting a quality item in a timely fashion.

Just a little bit better than the old ones 4 out of 5 stars.
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I had to buy this book for a graduate class. I used the QRI II all the time in my school. As the special education teacher, it was a quick and easy assessment for those first meetings. The new one is a little more organized.
Overall it is a quick and easy assessment tool.

Qualitative Reading Inventory-4 5 out of 5 stars.
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Great informal reading inventory. It is a little tricky to administer but gets easier with repeated usage. Comes with CD that has sample videos of administering and the necessary recording forms.

Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition

Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe

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Total reviews: 29 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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The highly anticipated second edition of Understanding by Design poses the core, essential questions of understanding and design, and provides readers with practical solutions for the teacher-designer. The book opens by analyzing the logic of backward design as an alternative to coverage and activity-oriented plans. Though backward from habit, this approach brings more focus and coherence to instruction. The book proposes a multifaceted approach, with the six “facets” of understanding. The facets combine with backward design to provide a powerful, expanded array of practical tools and strategies for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that lead students at all grade levels to genuine understanding. The second edition, a refined work, has been thoroughly and extensively revised, updated, and expanded, including improvement of the UbD Template, the key terms of UbD, dozens of worksheets, and some of the larger concepts. The authors have successfully put together a text that demonstrates what best practice in the design of learning looks like, enhancing for its audience their capability for creating more engaging and effective learning, whether the student is a third grader, a college freshman, or a faculty member.

Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement

Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis

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Total reviews: 36 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

The Best book for the classroom 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is an AWESOME book. I had the opportunity to listen to Stephanie Harvey talk and she is amazing! This book makes such perfect common sense. We use the Comprehension toolkit in our school and this book goes right along with it. I actually want to expand and use this book more. It is great not only for the language arts classroom but for all content area classes. This is a must have for your professional library!!!!

Excellent comprehension lessons 5 out of 5 stars.
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I absolutely love the lessons in this book. There are excellent modeling lessons and ideas to help your students increase their reading comprehension skills. You won't regret buying this book.

Strategies That Work 5 out of 5 stars.
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A wonderful teaching resource for teaching reading comprehension strategies. A must read for all elementary teachers!

Engaging Children Through Understanding What They Read 5 out of 5 stars.
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Engaging children in books and loving reading is a natural next step when they understand and go to a deeper level to embrace books. Another must-have for kids 4-8 are 2 fabulous pieces of children's literature with invaluable teaching guides for parents and teachers:The Big Squeal: A Wild, True, and Twisted Tail and
Life's Little Lessons: An Inch-By-Inch Tale of Success...which teach those all important early reading skills and develop a love for reading !

Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement

Robert J. Marzano, Debra Pickering, Jane E. Pollock

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Total reviews: 22 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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What works in education? How do we know? How can teachers find out? How can educational research find its way into the classroom? How can we apply it to help our individual students? Questions like these arise in most schools, and busy educators often don't have time to find the answers. Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, and Jane E. Pollock have examined decades of research findings to distill the results into nine broad teaching strategies that have positive effects on student learning:

* Identifying similarities and differences.
* Summarizing and note taking.
* Reinforcing effort and providing recognition.
* Homework and practice.
* Nonlinguistic representations.
* Cooperative learning.
* Setting objectives and providing feedback.
* Generating and testing hypotheses.
* Questions, cues, and advance organizers.

This list is not new. But what is surprising is finding out what a big difference it makes, for example, when students learn how to take good notes, work in groups, and use graphic organizers. The authors provide statistical effect sizes and show how these translate into percentile gains for students, for each strategy. And each chapter presents extended classroom examples of teachers and students in action; models of successful instruction; and many "frames," rubrics, organizers, and charts to help teachers plan and implement the strategies.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire

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Total reviews: 33 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

A must-read one if you are keen on Education 4 out of 5 stars.
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You will see how his idea is very influential in the educational discourse. Intrigued particularly by the Chapter 2, I would say that his revlutionary notion of education will be alive and well-adapted in the contemporary educational practices.

Freire wants to critisize the idea of narrative education in which teachers just impose students with plentiful information without encouraging them to think cirtically and to search for realilty, and students just listen passively, try to memorize, and repeat teacher's words and lessons accordingly. In fact, education should be to forster students' creativity, transformation ,and knowledge so that it helps them to become fully human being. In the ideology of oppression, teacher is the oppressor, and students are the oppressed. It means it is not neccessary for students to argue, ask questions, have their own position, and the roles of teacher are to preach students and to dominate their opinions. In other words, it is called the banking concept of education used by oppresors to change the mind of the oppressed in order to easily cotrol them. Conversely, the concept of liberian education entails deeper cooperation between teachers and students. Teachers and students can learn from each other because students must be seen as people who have prior knowlege and raise their opinions influencing teachers'.

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

Jonathan Kozol

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Over the last 15 years, the state of inner-city public schools has been in a steep and continuing decline. Since the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation of black children has reverted to its highest level since 1968. In many inner-city schools, a stick-and-carrot method of behavioral control traditionally used in prisons is now used with students. Meanwhile, as high-stakes testing takes on pathological and punitive dimensions, liberal education has been increasingly replaced by culturally barren and robotic methods of instruction that would be rejected out of hand by schools that serve the mainstream of society.

Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.

Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum (9th Edition)

Richard T. Vacca, Jo Anne L. Vacca

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Book Review 4 out of 5 stars.
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The book was approrpriate for the class I was taking. It is a very dry read, but it covers the topics that were needed and it was informative.

Excellent Product & Prompt Delivery 5 out of 5 stars.
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This item was exactly as described in the item description. It was in the original packaging and is in excellent condition. I am very satisfied and I highly recommend this seller and product to everyone.

Good book. 4 out of 5 stars.
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This book arrived in a timely manner. When it arrived it looked new, however only after a few days the spine started falling apart and all the pages began to come apart. I had to glue to book to keep it from all falling out of the cover.

Got my money's worth 5 out of 5 stars.
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the book arrived promptly and in good condition. the transaction was very smooth, no hassle. would definitely do business again.

Editorial Review:

With the underlying belief that students learn with texts, not necessarily from them, this respected text is designed to be an active learning tool, complete with real-world examples and research-based practices. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening processes to learn subject matter across the curriculum. Content Area Reading.

Practical Research: Planning and Design (8th Edition)

Paul D. Leedy, Jeanne E. Ormrod

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Very Well Written; Awkward Size 4 out of 5 stars.
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Excellent choice for a short (6-week) graduate research and report writing course. Extremely well written: doesn't put me to sleep immediately and succinctly conveys concepts. Extensive bibliography at the end of each chapter.

Only two observed drawbacks: price and physical size. While I know that (almost) all students think that their textbooks are overpriced, I don't quite understand how a new 8.5 x 11 inch paperback text, running 324 pages, with few line-art illustrations and no photographs or images, and 2 color text should be priced in the $80 range?

The size, 8.5 x 11 inches, as a paperback makes the book awkward for reading in an easy chair or when in bed.

Editorial Review:

Written in uncommonly engaging, lucid, and elegant prose, this book is an “understand-it-yourself, do-it-yourself” manual designed to help readers understand the fundamental structure of quality research and the methodical process that leads to genuinely significant results.

It guides the reader, step-by-step, from the selection of a problem to study, through the process of conducting authentic research, to the preparation of a completed report, with practical suggestions based on a solid theoretical framework and sound pedagogy. This book will show readers two things: 1) that quality research demands planning and design; and, 2) how their own research projects can be executed effectively and professionally. For researchers and research analysts in any discipline.

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Jonathan Kozol

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Total reviews: 147 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Eye opening 4 out of 5 stars.
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I needed this book for a class I was taking. WOW!, it was a real eye-opener. As it was really hard to read because it is sad. How amazing that there are schools here in the United States that are in dire need. I would reccomend it, but be prepared to cry.

Must Read 5 out of 5 stars.
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Kozol's Savage Inequalities paints a frightening picture of urban schools in the United States. He describes schools that are overcrowded, dilapidated, and flooded with sewage. He asks why we allow our children to go to schools in conditions where none of us would choose to work. He deeply explores the issue of inequality in funding. While he does suggest equalizing funding, he is careful to mention that the problems facing schools are complex and require innovative solutions. I know many teachers have read this book, but we need policymakers and elected officials to read it as well.

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National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the American educational system in this stunning New York Times bestseller, which has sold more than 250,000 hardcover copies.