Schools and Instruction Books

Arthur L. Costa's THE SCHOOL AS A HOME FOR THE MIND: CREATING MINDFUL CURRICULUM, INSTRUCTION, AND DIALOGUE tells how to foster thinking in an educational environment, and uses the author's most recent research and theory to support insider tips in curriculum mapping, teaching behaviors, and performance standards. It's a collection educators will find even more invaluable, appearing in its second updated edition.

very good and difficult book for advanced students, works with shifting, 4th finger, second position ect. speed and agility are key in many of these exercises. intonation is difficult to master but if one can through this book they will be a better player for it. higly recommended

I was a student of Dr. Joseph Schmmuckler (one of the authors) at Haverford Senior High School when he first started developing the techniques described in this book. At that time he was developing the experiments for the new Chem Study Text Book for high school. I had the privilege of being among a small group of students who worked directly with him on these experiments. This team also worked with him through the summer and visited a variety of laboratories. We learned how to learn real science from a real scientist and a fantastic teacher of both other teachers and students.

Among his favorate sayings "Chance favors the prepared mind ..." (attributed to L. Pasteur) was an integral part of everything we learned by actually living through the discovery process. The years that I spent learning science with him were the best preparation I could have had for life after high school!

This book is an essential element for teaching science in high school as a foundation for whatever follows.

I learned a lot from it. You will too!

The book "The Seventeen Guide To Sex and Your Body is based on the columm "Sex and Body" from seventeen magazine. The first section of the book talks about various topics such as : shaving, birth control, your peroid and body odor. It even includes a part about what boys go through. The second half of the book is the thousands of letters Seventeen gets from their readers every month. This is a approite book for a teenage girl who wants to learn what changes her body will go through over the next 4 to 5 years. Ages 11-17.

Being a doctor and a teen counselor, I found The Sex Book to be extremely helpful when educating young adults. The tone is measured without being preachy, and the topics exhaustive. Whether a teenager is already having sex, or only thinking about it, I recommend this book as a resource for complete, non-judgemental information about sex.

This is a classic historical work in the sexualty education field by Lester Kirkendall, who taught what is believed to be the first undergraduate course in human sexuality in the USA, at Orregon State College in 1960. A co-founder of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States, Kirkendall's contributions to early efforts at bringing sex education to the public are significant. This book details Kirkendall's pioneering work in developing teaching methods in sex education. It provides a rationale for such teaching, emphasizing the goal of building positive relationships.

I bought this book just for some ideas on how to change how I did shared reading. Even though this book is for younger students, I used it many times with my fourth graders.

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The book has a set of well-written essays that cover a range of topics. The essays also have good bibliographies. The book is dated 1995, but still seems completely relevant -- I just hope they do a year 2000 version. Highly recommended for people thinking about, or designing products, that are intended to increase student learning.