Back in the mid-twentieth century, George A. Miller (1956) published a paper that has become something of a classic in cognitive psychology. His paper was entitled, The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our ...
The second edition of Positive Learning Environments: Creating and Maintaining Productive Classrooms introduces the key concepts teachers need to know to create and maintain their classroom as a positive learning environment.
This book looks into various ways of creating this culture at district, school, and classroom levels.
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Note: This is the loose-leaf version of Creating Environments for Learning and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText.
Learning Science in Informal Environments is an invaluable guide for program and exhibit designers, evaluators, staff of science-rich informal learning institutions and community-based organizations, scientists interested in educational ...
Implementing new teaching practices can feel like juggling. This book shows you how to balance standards-based learning, social-emotional learning, and cognitive development and build realistic plans for success.
With the influence and pressures of the globalized economy, education systems are at a crossroads and need to find a place and/or identity that reflect new or transformed realities for learning environments.
Learning Environments by Design deeply explores today’s workplace learning. This book empowers you to customize learning for your workforce and unearths the answers to the questions you’ve been asking: How does learning happen?
If there's one thing teachers can agree on, it's that social and emotional learning is a hot topic in education. But beyond this, questions still remain. Many educators find themselves...