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ART IS FUNDAMENTAL
: Teaching the Elements & Principles of Art in Elementary School
[Eileen S Prince]
This comprehensive art curriculum can easily be integrated into any teachers' existing instruction and provides thrilling and rewarding lessons for elementary art students, including printmaking techniques, tessellations, watercolours, calligraphic lines, organic form sculptures, and value collages. Detailed lessons -- developed and tested in classrooms over many years -- build on one another in a logical progression and explore the elements of texture, colour, shape, line, form, and value, and principles such as balance (formal, informal and radial,) unity, contrast, movement, distortion, emphasis, pattern and rhythm. Each lesson also represents an interdisciplinary approach that improves general vocabulary and supports science, math, social studies, and language arts. Though written for elementary school teachers, it can be easily condensed and adapted for middle or even high school students. A beautiful eight-page colour insert demonstrates just how sophisticated young children's art can be when kids are given the opportunity to develop their skills.
{
200pp,
210x280mm,
August 2008;
PB,
£13.50,
1569762163:9781569762165
, IPG (Zephyr Press)
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ENGAGE EVERY PARENT!
: Encouraging Families to Sign On, Show Up, & Make a Difference
[Nancy Tellett-Royce]
Offering indispensable advice, this authoritative guide explores how teachers, program leaders, coaches, and other youth workers can forge partnerships with families and encourage meaningful parental involvement. Inspirational stories and icebreaker suggestions are combined with fun activities and reproducible handouts, all designed to increase parental communication. Event planning, volunteer recruitment, and sustaining parental participation are concisely addressed as well as appropriate conduct, helping young people through transitional periods, complimenting parents and children, and setting boundaries.
{
128pp,
210x280mm,
August 2008;
PB,
£19.99,
1574821946:9781574821949
, IPG (Search Institute Press)
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HELPING TEENS HANDLE TOUGH EXPERIENCES
: Strategies to Foster Resilience
[Jill R Nelson, PhD & Sarah Kjos, MEd]
Educators, mentors, congregational leaders, counselors, and other youth-serving professionals will find the tools they need to help young people with personal, familial, social, or cultural adversities in this resource. Specific crises are addressed, including youths who physically harm themselves, parents who are chemically dependent, abusive dating relationships, depression, and homelessness -- and solutions are offered for managing them. With reproducible handouts, examples of real-life situations, and ideas and topics for group discussion, this strength-based approach to working with youths empowers them to avoid becoming paralysed by obstacles and instead face life with confidence.
{
128pp,
210x280mm,
August 2008;
PB,
£19.99,
1574822489:9781574822489
, IPG (Search Institute Press)
} |
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DISCOVERING ART HISTORY
: Student Edition: Fourth Edition
[Gerald F Brommer]
This new edition offers an in-depth, comprehensive approach to art. The program includes an extensive survey of Western art, studies of non-Western art, as well as an introduction to art appreciation. Engaging studio activities throughout the text are keyed to chapter content. This premier art history program will show students how the visual arts serve to shape and reflect ideas, issues, and themes from the time of the first cave paintings to the twenty-first century. This Student Edition includes: In-depth profiles of artists, artistic periods, and movements; Vibrant maps, timelines, and diagrams; Student profiles for peer comparison of studio exercises; Excellent overviews of each chapter.
{
638pp,
215x280mm,
January 1998;
HB,
£43.50,
0871927195:9780871927194
, Davis Publications
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DISCOVERING ART HISTORY: TEACHER'S EDITION
: Fourth Edition
[Gerald F Brommer]
This new edition offers an in-depth, comprehensive approach to art. The program includes an extensive survey of Western art, studies of non-Western art, as well as an introduction to art appreciation. Engaging studio activities throughout the text are keyed to chapter content. This premier art history program will show students how the visual arts serve to shape and reflect ideas, issues, and themes from the time of the first cave paintings to the twenty-first century. This Teacher's Edition includes: Chapter Organisers to help tailor instruction; Visual resources with point-of-use correlations; Multicultural-and interdisciplinary connections; Excellent overviews of each chapter; Correlated to the National Visual Arts Standards.
{
660pp,
235x310mm,
March 2006;
HB,
£59.99,
0871927225:9780871927224
, Davis Publications
} |
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DISCOVERING DRAWING
: Teacher's Edition: Second Edition
[Ted Rose & Sallye Mahan-Cox]
A Complete Drawing Program. This newest edition to the Davis Studio Series is a visually dynamic and comprehensive resource covering all of today's drawing media. Students explore both realistic and expressive drawing techniques through stimulating hands-on studio opportunities, from basic to advanced levels. Special features include examples of master artworks, portfolio tips, drawing careers profiles, and step-by-step instruction. Features: Outstanding student work; Diverse contemporary art; Clear "how to's", including: drawing from observation, composing the still life, drawing drapery, using linear perspective, drawing with ink and wash, drawing the planes of the face, digital imaging and much more.
{
230pp,
215x280mm,
February 2006;
SB,
£38.99,
0871927241:9780871927248
, Davis Publications
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DISCOVERING DRAWING OVERHEAD TRANSPARENCIES
This is a visually dynamic and comprehensive resource covering all of today's drawing media. Students explore both realistic and expressive drawing techniques through stimulating hands-on studio opportunities, from basic to advanced levels. 12 transparencies illustrate fundamental skills and techniques: Drawing Concepts; Student artwork, Landscape; Study Drawing and Original Drawing; Elements and Principles of Design; How to Draw a Tree from Observation / Basic Shapes; How to Compose a Still Life in Contour Line / Draw Drapery Folds, Shadows, and Highlights; How to Organise a Landscape; Student artwork, Landscape; How to Use One-Point Perspective / Two-Point Perspective; How to Draw the Eye; Student artwork, Self-Portrait; How to Portrait Basics; Student artwork, Untitled; Working with a Model; Student artwork, Life Drawing; How to Animal Value Study; Student artwork, What the Bones Know; Wash drawing with quill, sumi-e and India ink and acrylic; Optical Illusions; Student artwork, Chandelier.
{
250x200mm,
February 2006;
OT,
£16.99,
0871927284:9780871927286
, Davis Publications
} |
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DRAWING ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
[Ivan E Cornia & A Steve Egan]
5 Drawing Assessment Charts with Teacher's Guide. Take the mystery out of realistic drawing for your students. A set of 5 extra large (710x910mm) wall charts uses a four-level, 20-point rubric to help students self-assess and monitor their growth in proficient, realistic drawing. The five charts include: Visual Field; Dimension; Shape; Light; Value. The "Teacher's Guide" includes a wealth of reproducible pages, such as: comparisons of details in the Levels I, II, and III drawings to those of the Expert Level IV; easy-to-use score sheets to help students assess their work; a copy of each wall chart for students to use at their desks.
{
128pp,
215x280mm,
December 2004;
PB,
£63.50,
0871926903:9780871926906
, Davis Publications
} |
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EXPLORING PAINTING -- STUDENT EDITION
: 3rd Edition
[Gerald F Brommer & Nancy K Kinne]
LEVEL: 6th form onwards. This complete guide to painting provides a comprehensive overview of painting techniques, tools, and traditions, while fully explaining such painting fundamentals as master, non-traditional subjects, and up-to-date safety precautions. Against the backdrop of current and classic works of art, basic to advanced studio opportunities encourage students of varying ability to explore and express their own unique style and perspective. Lessons are designed to draw on a variety of instructional strategies and are carefully crafted and organised for success in creating art and mastering key concepts and skills. Revised to reflect the new art and ideas of the 21st century, this multicultural, studio rich text introduces students to: Contemporary masters; Cutting-edge works of art; Alternative colour theories; Current careers in art.
{
214pp,
215x280mm,
December 2004;
HB,
£33.50,
0871926008:9780871926005
, Davis Publications
} |
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I'M A GREAT KID! FACILITATOR'S GUIDE
: A Program for the Primary Prevention of Violence. 2nd Edition
[Boost]
Book, DVD & 8 Discussion Cards. Written for educators and professional caregivers. Vulnerable children with low, self-esteem, poor communication skills, and a lack of knowledge about where and how to get help are at risk of victimisation. This program empowers children to think and act positively while building the skills and abilities that lessen their vulnerability. "The Facilitator's Guide" accompanies a six-module DVD that covers six basic concepts: self-esteem, communication, making. good choices, respecting differences in others, the various forms of touching, and how and where to get help. The guide is divided into two sections -- Section I: Information for Facilitators - outlines how to understand and recognise child abuse; disclosure and legal requirements; how to understand and recognise bullying, with strategies to help the bullied, bullies, and bystanders. Section II: Activities -- presents group activities, designed for classroom or group use, that reinforce the basic concepts of the program. This Second Edition reflects nine years of implementation and evaluation. It is intended for use with children ages 8 to 12 years.
{
114pp,
215x280mm,
September 2007;
PB,
£40.00,
1897187335:9781897187333
, Second Story Press
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ROLE OF EDUCATION IN GLOBAL SECURITY
[Dr Nayef R F Al-Rodhan]
Sustainable global security can only be achieved when education is made a priority by states and their institutions. When properly realised, education can be a global asset to fight poverty, inequality, insecurity, and disease. This book offers an innovative new philosophy in which cultural, religious, and ideological diversity in education throughout the world is encouraged and respected. The author advocates that whenever “the other” is discussed, maximum sensitivity, respect, and tolerance must be exercised by all to prevent any possible exclusion or alienation. The author also argues that there are all kinds of moral truths that see the world from different perspectives and none of them have to necessarily be more right than the other. This book provides an alternative approach to education and outlines the ingredients that any educational system must include in order to ensure a well-educated, tolerant, and peaceful world.
REVIEW: "This is a compelling and analytically acute report which includes a passionate advocacy for the multiple ways in which global education can strengthen and improve transnational security ..." -- Dr Roland Dannreuther, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh
{
128pp,
150x220mm,
December 2007;
PB,
£12.00,
2051020361:9782051020367
, Slatkine Reprints
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THOUGHTFUL TEACHERS, THOUGHTFUL LEARNERS
: Helping Students Think Critically
[Norman J Unrau]
The ability to think critically is the foundation of learning in all areas of the curriculum -- and of life. In "Thoughtful Teachers, Thoughtful Learners", Norman Unrau sets out practical strategies that will help guide students towards thinking reflectively by examining claims and developing arguments. He demonstrates how thoughtful teachers in all disciplines can use listening, talking, questioning, reading and writing to encourage their students to become thoughtful learners with minds open to examining issues from a variety of perspectives, and whose decisions, both inside and outside the classroom, are guided by a search for reason.
{
144pp,
155x230mm,
October 2007;
PB,
£11.99,
088751118X:9780887511189
, Pippin Publishing
} |
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WELL-ADJUSTED CHILD
: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling
[Rachel Gathercole]
Socialisation may well be the single most important aspect of education today. With high and rising rates of divorce, drug abuse, youth violence, alcoholism, teen promiscuity, and so forth, we cannot afford to let this issue go unexamined. To cling to the idea that what we, as a culture, are doing now is the right and best way for all children simply because it is what we are used to is to shut our eyes and minds to other possibilities-possibilities that may well afford greater happiness, success, peace, and safety to our own children. At a time when people feel more disconnected than ever before, we cannot afford to overlook or allow ourselves to be blinded to an option which offers great benefits, including a rich, fulfilling, and healthy social life, that our children may well need for the future. Homeschooling offers great social benefits to kids and parents. And when we understand them, our children are the ones who will win.
{
262pp,
140x215mm,
June 2007;
PB,
£9.50,
1600651070:9781600651076
, Midpoint Trade Books (Mapletree Publishing Co)
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