Training Teachers in Emotional Intelligence provides pre- and in-service teachers with foundational knowledge and skills regarding their own and their students' emotions. Teachers are increasingly charged with providing social-emotional learning, responding to emotional situations in the classroom, and managing their own stress, all of which have real consequences for their retention and studen…
This book addresses Problem-based Learning (PBL) in elementary schools and reveals how this can promote elementary students development in critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration, and citizenship, also known as the 5 Cs. Through teachers interviews, the book explores which PBL strategies promote skills and knowledge gains when students collaboratively investigate authentic o…
This book provides a pupil-centered, teacher-friendly approach where each youngster from his or her own starting point can advance up a school's curriculum ladder as far and as fast as the pupil's skills allow.
Addressing the curricular, instructional and assessment needs of upper grade elementary teachers, this book helps to promote literacy development in their English language learners