Projects with Young Learners - Primary Resource Books for Teachers

Projects with Young Learners - Primary Resource Books for Teachers

Author: Diane Phillips

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-05-20

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0194426017

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Contains practical, tried-and-tested ideas and materials for planning, organizing, and carrying out project work with children aged between 5 and 13. Combines language and skills development with activities which challenge young learners and motivate them to be independent.


Teaching Practices and Equitable Learning in Children's Language Education

Teaching Practices and Equitable Learning in Children's Language Education

Author: Giannikas, Christina Nicole

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2021-03-26

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1799864898

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Educating children and leading them towards the path of bilingualism is a valuable and challenging task for any educator. Effective language teaching can contribute to young learners’ cognitive growth, develop their problem-solving skills, enhance their comprehension abilities, and provide children with the satisfaction of succeeding in the challenge of learning a foreign language. All these issues must be taken under consideration when researching children and their teachers. The current literature indicates that further material is needed to provide professionals with different classroom situations and enhance the art of teaching children. Teaching Practices and Equitable Learning in Children's Language Education focuses on various perspectives of efficient practices, approaches, and ideas for professional development in the field of young language learners. The chapters in this book link the theoretical understanding and practical experience of teaching children languages by concentrating on teaching practices, material design, classroom management, reading, speaking, writing, and more. This book is designed for inservice and preservice teachers, administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the field of early language learning and applied linguistics at large.


Young Investigators

Young Investigators

Author: Judy Harris Helm

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0807751537

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This bestselling book has been completely updated and expanded to help teachers use the project approach in child care centers, in preschools, and in kindergarten, 1st grade, and early childhood special education classrooms. For those new to using projects, the book introduces the approach and provides step-by-step guidance for conducting meaningful projects. Experienced teachers will find the teacher interviews, children's work, photographs (including full colour), and teacher journal entries used to document the project process in actual classrooms very useful. This popular, easy-to-use resource has been expanded to include these new features: explicit instructions and examples for incorporating standards into the topic selection and planning process; a variety of nature experiences, with examples that show how project work is an excellent way to connect children to the natural world; an update of the use of technology for both documentation and investigations, including use of the Web as well as and video and digital cameras; and more toddler projects that reflect our increased knowledge from recent mind/brain research about toddler understanding and learning.


Engaging Children's Minds

Engaging Children's Minds

Author: Lilian Gonshaw Katz

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781567505016

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This new edition incorporates many insights and strategies the authors have learned while working extensively with teachers to implement the project approach. Since the popular first edition was published in 1989, the authors have continued to help teachers around the world understand the benefits of this approach. Katz and Chard discuss in great detail the philosophical, theoretical, and research bases of project work. The typical phases are presented and detailed suggestions for implementing each one are described. Using specific examples, this book clarifies and articulates the process and benefits of the project approach. These specific examples outline how children's intellectual development is enhanced. Years of working with teachers and young children from preschool to primary age provide the authors with first hand experience for employing the project approach. Helpful guidelines will aid teachers in working with this approach comfortably in order to gain the interset of children and in order for those to grow and florish mentally.


Art Lab for Little Kids

Art Lab for Little Kids

Author: Susan Schwake

Publisher:

Published: 2013-06

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1592538363

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Developed for the younger set (4-6 year olds) and targeting one of the most critical developmental periods for children, Art Lab for Little Kids is the perfect book for both parents and teachers who are seeking enriching and unique experiences to offer this age group.


The Kid's Guide to Service Projects

The Kid's Guide to Service Projects

Author: Barbara A. Lewis

Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781575423388

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"Ten Steps to Successful Service Projects" plus hundreds of up-to-date ideas for projects–from simple to large-scale.


Quick-n-Fun Writing Activities Just for Young Learners

Quick-n-Fun Writing Activities Just for Young Learners

Author: Martin Lee

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2001-05

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780439170338

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"Give kids practice with 26 fun forms of writing, including alphabet books, pet tales, weather reports, super silly recipes, book reviews, color descriptions, character comparisons, and everything in between!"--Page 4 of cover


Teaching Young Learners in a Superdiverse World

Teaching Young Learners in a Superdiverse World

Author: Heather Lotherington

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-04-07

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1317233913

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This book documents a collaborative action research project in one school where researchers and practitioners worked together to develop multimodal literacies and pedagogies for diverse, multilingual elementary classrooms. Following chronologically from Lotherington’s Pedagogy of Multiliteracies (2011), this volume picks up after teachers and researchers have learned how to work efficiently as a learning community to offer project-based learning approaches. This edited collection relates how teachers and students of different grade levels, language backgrounds, and abilities developed a shared agenda and created a framework for effective and inclusive practices. Contributors demonstrate that collaboration, creative pedagogical solutions and innovative project-based learning are all essential parts of learning and teaching socially appropriate and responsive literacies in a multimodal, superdiverse world.


Assessing Young Learners of English: Global and Local Perspectives

Assessing Young Learners of English: Global and Local Perspectives

Author: Marianne Nikolov

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-29

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 3319224220

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This volume documents international, national, and small-scale testing and assessment projects of English language education for young learners, across a range of educational contexts. It covers three main areas: age-appropriate ‘can do statements’ and task types for teaching and testing learners between the ages of 6 to 13; innovative approaches to self-assessment, diagnostic testing, self- perception, and computer-based testing; and findings on how young learners perform on vocabulary, listening, speaking, pronunciation, and reading comprehension tests in European and Asian contexts. Early language learning has become a major trend in English language education around the globe. As a result of the spread of teaching English to a growing number of young children, assessment of and for learning have emerged as key issues. In line with this development, there is a clear and emerging need to make early language programs accountable and to assess both the progress children make over time and to quantify their achievement at various stages of development. This volume informs stakeholders about the realistic goals of early language learning, their efficiency, and how much progress children make over time.