Putting All Students on the Graduation Path: New Directions for Youth Development, No. 127
Nettie Legters (Editor), Robert Balfanz (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-470-93322-0
Paperback/144 pages
November 2010, Jossey-Bass
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At no other time in our nation's history has graduating from high school been a more important prerequisite for adult success. Young people who fall off the graduation path are more prone than ever before to experience chronic unemployment, poverty, ill health, dependence on social welfare, and a lifetime of struggle. The enormous costs to these individuals, their communities, and our society call on us to invest in systems that accurately identify young people at risk of dropping out of school and provide the supports necessary to keep them on track to graduation.
This issue of New Directions for Youth Development offers perspectives and strategies for engaging American youth in learning, keeping them on the graduation path, and preparing them for success in college and career. The ideas, practices, and programs set out in this volume advance innovations in such areas as using data to identify and support at-risk youth; pedagogical approaches and technology that motivate youth to learn; organizing and resourcing schools, school systems, and partnerships to support every student; and galvanizing communities and our nation around creating responsive, aligned, and effective educational opportunities for all youth.
This is the 127th volume of New Directions for Youth Development, the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series dedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helping young people, including scholars, practitioners, and people from different disciplines and professions. The result is a unique resource presenting thoughtful, multi-faceted approaches to helping our youth develop into responsible, stable, well-rounded citizens.
How to Reach and Teach Children with Challenging Behavior (K-8) : Practical, Ready-to-Use Interventions That Work
Kaye Otten, Jodie Tuttle
ISBN: 978-0-470-50516-8
Paperback/336 pages
November 2010, Jossey-Bass
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Interventions for students who exhibit challenging behavior
Written by behavior specialists Kaye Otten and Jodie Tuttle--who together have 40 years of experience working with students with challenging behavior in classroom settings--this book offers educators a practical approach to managing problem behavior in schools. It is filled with down-to-earth advice, ready-to-use forms, troubleshooting tips, recommended resources, and teacher-tested strategies. Using this book, teachers are better able to intervene proactively, efficiently, and effectively with students exhibiting behavior problems. The book includes research-backed support for educators and offers:
Instructions for creating and implementing an effective class-wide behavior management program
Guidelines for developing engaging lessons and activities that teach and support positive behavior
Advice for assisting students with the self-regulation and management their behavior and emotions
The Science Teacher's Activity-A-Day, Grades 5-10: Over 180 Reproducible Pages of Quick, Fun Projects that Illustrate Basic Concepts
Pam Walker, Elaine Wood
ISBN: 978-0-470-40881-0
Paperback/288 pages
October 2010, Jossey-Bass
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A hands-on and fun-filled resource for teaching science to middle and high school students
New in the 5-Minute Fundamentals Series, The Science Teacher's Activity-A-Day, Grades 6-12, includes 180 easy, five-minute hook or sponge activities to capture learners' attention and introduce lessons. Divided into three units, Physical Science, Life Science, and Earth and Space Science; the activities cover topics based on the National Science Education Standards.
Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education
David N. Perkins
ISBN: 978-0-470-63371-7
Paperback/272 pages
September 2010, Jossey-Bass
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New in Paperback! Make learning more meaningful by teaching the "whole game"
David Perkins, a noted authority on teaching and learning and co-director of Harvard's Project Zero, introduces a practical and research-based framework for teaching. He describes how teaching any subject at any level can be made more effective if students are introduced to the "whole game," rather than isolated pieces of a discipline. Perkins explains how learning academic subjects should be approached like learning baseball or any game, and he demonstrates this with seven principles for making learning whole: from making the game worth playing (emphasizing the importance of motivation to sustained learning), to working on the hard parts (the importance of thoughtful practice), to learning how to learn (developing self-managed learners).
Vividly explains how to organize learning in ways that allow people to do important things with what they know
Offers guidelines for transforming education to prepare our youth for success in a rapidly changing world
Filled with real-world, illustrative examples of the seven principles
At the end of each chapter, Perkins includes "Wonders of Learning," a summary of the key ideas.
Children's Moral Emotions and Moral Cognition: Developmental and Educational Perspectives, New Directions for Child and adolescent Development, No. 129
Brigitte Latzko (Editor), Tina Malti (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-470-90388-9
Paperback/112 pages
September 2010, Jossey-Bass
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Children's emerging morality involves the development of moral emotions and moral cognition. Developmental research suggests that emotions play an important role in dealing with moral conflict situations, and they help children differentiate moral concepts from other social judgments. However, emotions and their role in moral cognition and moral behavior have yet to be addresses systematically in empirical research. In this volume, the authors show how integrative developmental research on children's moral emotions and moral cognition can help us understand how children's morality evolves. As both moral emotions and moral cognition are related to children's moral, prosocial behavior, as well as to their immoral, aggressive behavior, studying how moral emotions and moral cognition interact is not only of conceptual significance to developmental researchers, but also of practical importance to educators. A central premise of the volume is that moral emotions interact with moral cognition in different ways across development. An integrative developmental perspective on moral emotions and moral cognition thus offers an important conceptual framework for understanding children's emerging morality and designing developmentally sensitive moral intervention strategies. The authors summarize the empirical literature linking moral emotions to moral cognition and discuss promising conceptual avenues and methodological approaches to study children's moral emotions and moral cognition. They also provide examples illustrating how the principles of integrative moral education can be applied in educational practice.
This is the 129th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. The mission of New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in the field of child and adolescent development. Each volume focuses on a specific "new direction" or research topic, and is edited by an expert or experts on that topic.
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