Instructional Strategies for Improving Students' Learning

Focus on Early Reading and Mathematics (Hc)

226 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The twin objectives of the series Psychological Perspectives on Contemporary EducationalIssues are: (1) to identify issues in education that are relevant to professional educators andresearchers; and (2) to address those issues from research and theory in educational psychology,psychology, and related disciplines.The present volume, consisting of two focal chapters, commentaries, and final responses targetsinstructional strategies for improving students' learning in two of the traditional "three R" areas,reading and ¿rithmetic (mathematics), in the elementary school grades. The focal chapters in those two skill areas are written by leadingcontributors to the reading and mathematics research literatures, Cathy Collins Block for the reading section and Douglas Clements andJulie Sarama for the mathematics section. Few would dispute the essentiality of these two curricular domains in laying the foundationfor the development of students' competencies in a vast array of academic disciplines in both the in- and out-of-school years that lieahead.The present volume is intended for practitioners and researchers who are seeking the latest instructional research-based strategies forimproving students' early reading and mathematics performance.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik / Erziehungswissenschaften Schulen und Vorschulen Grundschule und Sekundarstufe I
• ISBN: 9781617356308
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.01.2012
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Information Age Publishing
• Herausgegeben von: Jerry S. Carlson, Joel R. Levin