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A best-selling expert on education shows how to make the school system work for your child. How many parents have a child struggling in school? The answer: a great many. This book is an informed, practical resource for such parents. As the author of the classic book on home-schooling, The Well-Trained Mind, Susan Wise Bauer knows how children learn and how schools work. Her advice here is comprehensive and anecdotal, including material drawn from...
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"Can you teach a child to be kind? This vital question is taking on a new urgency as our culture grows ever more abrasive and divided. We all want our kids to be kind. But that is not the same as knowing what to do when you catch your son being unkind. A world-renowned developmental psychologist, Dr. Thomas Lickona has led the character education movement in schools for forty years. Now he shares with parents the vital tools they need to bring peace...
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Exchange to Engage will inspire and teach how to organize weekly language exchanges at your school or community group. Practice Spanish and English in a fun, safe and positive atmosphere. With the guide, you can promote bilingualism, increase family involvement, and improve communication within your community. The book tells the story of the first school-based language exchange and positive results. Relationships, language skills, and opportunities...
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With the National PTAs Standard for School-Family-Community Partnership as a framework, this guide offers advice for resolving common points of contention between parents and teachers, such as the most productive use of a parent teacher conferences, the best at-home environment for doing homework, the helpfulness of parental rewards for classroom performance, and a teachers role in supporting a student with an at-home crisis. This solution manual...
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Do you want to help your child develop a love of reading?
Do you want to develop a special relationship with your grandchild?
Are you wondering how to tackle sensitive subjects with your youngster?
What books will help you achieve these goals? Where do you begin?
Pick up this book. After twenty years as an elementary teacher-librarian in Palo Alto, the author helps you address these concerns with this very helpful guide. If you are a parent, grandparent,...
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¿Por qué algunos padres y madres se sienten inseguros ante la responsabilidad de educar a sus hijos? ¿Tienen dudas sobre qué enseñarles, qué valores transmitir o qué pueden exigirles según su edad y grado de madurez? ¿O quizás creen que la sociedad espera de ellos que sean unos padres perfectos?
La psicóloga Mª Jesús Comellas se propone devolver la confianza a padres y madres y lo hace a partir de una tesis bien simple: educamos a cada...
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Building a Professional Learning Community at WorkTM: A Guide to the First Year addresses the real-world critical questions that arise when schools begin their work to become professional learning communities. How can administrators and teachers take the promise of a PLC and turn it into reality? How can school leaders transform theories of collaboration into highly effective nuts-and-bolts practices? This book is set in the context of one year in...
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With so many discussions and theories on reading and how children learn to read, it can be very confusing for parents to know the best way to get their kids to read. In Raising a Reader, Bonnie Schwartz lays out simple, researched and practice proven approaches that a parent can do to promote literacy in the home and encourage children to explore the great adventures to be found in books. The first step in fostering literacy and good reading strategies...
12) Daddy Loves You
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Clint Arthur wrote and illustrated "Daddy Loves You" as a Christmas present for his 2-year-old daughter. It went on to become a cherished staple of their nightly bedtime-story-reading sessions for years, along with Goodnight Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Goodnight Gorilla, and others of the genre.
He wrote the book because, as a single father, Clint wanted his daughter to know that his love for her was constant, even if he couldn't be with her...
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El libro aborda la relación entre la escuela y la familia en tanto instituciones sociales que comparten la misión de acompañar y generar aprendizajes en las nuevas generaciones. Los sujetos de la educación están en la intersección de ambas: son los hijos/as para una, y alumnos/as para la otra.
Hasta hace pocos años, las familias contaban con elementos de solidez propios, que les permitían acompañar a sus hijos a través de la escolaridad....
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Tras el gran éxito de "Cuentos sanadores" (ING Edicions, 2016), Susan Perrow presenta "101 cuentos sanadores". 101 cuentos organizados por categorías, según el tipo de comportamiento, a fin de facilitar su consulta. Además de los temas más comunes (el enfado, la agresividad, la timidez, cómo acompañar la muerte o la enfermedad, la queja, la falta de confianza, etc.), esta recopilación incluye cuentos para trabajar situaciones tan comunes en...
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Being a responsible parent and raising children in today's world is no easy walk in the park. Some parents, guardians, families and caretakers from all walk-of-life are finding it challenging to raise their children in today's world. In communities across the country, the "village" that it takes to raise a child is broken! So how can a broken village help parents to raise their children?
Through this eye opening, personal account of an entire documented...
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Aujourd'hui, il est facile de mal traiter nos enfants. La nouvelle race d'êtres humains que nous avons mise au monde souffre de toutes sortes de maux que l'on camoufle derrière des étiquettes et par la prise de médicaments. On ne protège plus nos enfants contre les principaux responsables de leur maltraitance : les jeux vidéos qui abrutissent nos garçons, la malbouffe, la garde partagée pour les petits, la césarienne sur demande comme moyen...
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This book treats a critical but often overlooked element in the development of strong reading skills in children. Namely, it exposes the vital importance of the home – not just as a support to the school, but as a foundational source from which literate behavior emerges.
This is not a "teach your child how to read" book. Rather, it is a book that examines how the development of reading ability in children can be a part of their natural development...
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When parents and educators disagree, our kids lose. So why are reasonable parents and compassionate educators seeing things differently? After listening to hundreds of parents, teachers, and school administrators, Cassie Zupke has the answer. Although the unique demands of educating a child with autism requires parents and educators to work together, their ability to do so is often hampered by a lack of understanding of each other's motivations and...
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Imagine lying awake in bed, waiting to hear the front door open so you'll know your teen is home safely. But instead, tonight, the doorbell rings. Your heart stops when you see the police officers in the doorway, and you know instantly that your life will never be the same again. Wouldn't you do ANYTHING to go back and change things? By then it will be too late. The time to prepare your teen to drive and survive is NOW! "3 Keys to Keeping Your Teen...
20) Bebê Inteligente
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Você sabia que a fase do nascimento aos 8 anos e, especialmente, do nascimento aos 3 anos, é um período crítico para o desenvolvimento cerebral do bebê? Este é o momento ideal para as crianças aprenderem. 'Bebê Inteligente' orienta você a como ensinar seu bebê e filhos em idade pré-escolar a ler usando experiências de linguagem a partir de jogos de cartões. Você também aprenderá várias formas de ensinar conceitos iniciais de matemática...
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