Through practical examples, Keith Swanwick illustrates the essential layers of musical experience and outlines key principles for music educators and musical teaching. ...more

Designed for all music teachers, this book provides a careful and clear examination and analysis of the fundamental concepts involved in music. Professor Swanwick investigates...more

What works in education? How do we know? How can teachers find out? How can educational research find its way into the classroom? How can we apply it to help our individual ...more

Darwin and evolution for Kids traces the transformation of a privileged and somewhat scatterbrained youth into the great thinker who proposed the revolutionary theory of ...more

What teacher hasn't sometimes believed that the entire class understands a lesson, even though only a few students are nodding their heads and answering questions? Later, the ...more

BUILDING GeNRe KNOWLeDGe traces the writing of four multilingual graduate students in engineering and computer sciences over time, offering a window into the writers' ...more

What does it mean to a kid to be labeled attention-deficit disordered (ADD)? Or to have "hyperactive" added to the label (ADHD)? What teachers do to boost the success of ...more

Strategic review and practice to help would-be Florida teachers get certified Our California teacher certification guide, CliffsTestPrep CSeT, has been a resounding success. ...more

Taking advantage of user-friendly technology, audience response systems (ARS) facilitates greater interaction with participants engaged in a variety of group activities. each ...more

Challenging the Whole Child: Reflections on Best Practices in Learning, Teaching, and Leadership...more