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Across our country educational policies and practices are killing our students' desire to learn and teachers' passion to teach. The central theme of this book is that high-stakes testing is having a critically deleterious effect on our students. The fallout impacts parents, teachers, schools, districts and states. Horace 'Rog' Lucido uses language and supporting evidence that is clear and relatable to the reader. Rarely is the topic of teacher care and concern for students ever embedded in works on educational theory and practice, but here it is championed as the driving force for change, exposing the causes and chronicling the effects of educational malfeasance.
For nearly fifteen years students and teachers have suffocated under the oppressive regime of high-stakes testing spawned by the No Child Left Behind Act. Returning Sanity to the Classroom: Eliminating the Testing Mania uses the engaging pedagogy of ‘Forgiving Learning’ to give new life and hope to the education landscape. Over the millennia humans have employed a natural method of ‘learning from their mistakes’ to achieve success. They address these faulted situations repeatedly, making appropriate changes along the way. This practice is the heart and soul of our creativity and inventiveness. Returning Sanity to the Classroom presents a classroom method of codifying this natural pro...
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Bauregelwerke prägen formgebend die uns umgebende, gebaute Umwelt. Sie sind Ausdruck der Baukultur und damit des Selbstverständnisses und der Weltanschauung einer Gesellschaft. Doch in den letzten Jahren wird der Diskurs zunehmend von einem Gefühl der Überregulierung geprägt. Widerstand richtet sich gegen die steigende Zahl bautechnischer Normen, die zu einem drastischen Anstieg des Planungsaufwandes und der Baukosten geführt hat. Was läuft also schief? Mit einem kulturvergleichenden Blick auf die Situation in den USA liefert San-Hwan Lu ein aufschlussreiches Bild über die Hintergründe und Folgen einer Verlagerung von Regulierungskompetenzen in den privaten Bereich.
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Museum Movement Techniques describes the theory and methods of an original approach using movement to learn about museum objects. Joining practical examples to its theoretical base, it provides educators with techniques, museum object selection criteria, educational linking and assessment methods to craft a "moving" museum experience.
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Most of the papers in this volume were presented at the CATS international technical art history conference in June 2019 titled Mobility Creates Masters - Discovering Artists' Grounds 1550-1700, which explored the introduction of, and change to, the colored ground layers in European paintings form the Early Modern period. The title of the conference stemmed from the desire to instigate new research projects within the topic of the influence of artists' mobility on material choices and techniques related to the preparation of paintings. As well as contributions presented at the conference, this volume includes additional papers from recent research exploring the same topic. The volume begins ...