Books, Textbooks, eBooks and eReaders at Waterstones.com All Events Awareness Raising for Mongolian Youth through World Heritage Education: ‘Heritage in a Box’ Launching and Training Workshop As part of the initiative to raise awareness among Mongolian youths on heritage values through World Heritage Education, the ‘Heritage in a Box’ toolkit will be launched on 17 March 2016 at Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar. On 19-20 March 2016, 14 educators from provinces located around the Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape World Heritage site will subsequently be trained on the utilization of the toolkit in Kharkhorin soum.The ‘Heritage in a Box’ toolkit is an interactive and portable resource kit designed for teachers and students between 3rd to 12th grades in Mongolia. Details
Amazon London's finest bookshops My Back Pages, Balham 8-10 Station Road, Balham, SW12 9SG 020 8675 9346 Balham seems a fairly benighted place at first glance, with nothing but a sparsely-stocked WH Smith. But tucked away opposite the mainline railway station is one of London's best second-hand shops, called My Back Pages for the delight of Dylan fans. Inside, there's a small selection of new books, mostly cheap classics, and a huge selection of second-hand. History, classics, politics and psychology are all well covered, and fiction takes up a room to itself.Sean Clarke With Streatham and Balham served only by a couple of blighted Smiths and a few charity shops, Back Pages is great. Bookmarks, Bloomsbury 1 Bloomsbury Street, WC1B 3QE 020 7637 1848 Although it is a shopfront for the Socialist Workers Party, it stocks a wide range of books, both new and secondhand, that you are hard pressed to find anywhere else. I want to nominate Bookmarks. More than just a bookshop - a way of thinking and acting about the world. Gosh!
"Bra" summativa prov främjar lärandet Själva förberedelsen inför prov (om det sker på rätt sätt) motiverar och stimulerar elevernas lärande. Därför främjar "bra" summativa prov lärandet, hävdar forskaren Randy Elliot Bennet. I artikeln "Formative assessment: a critical review" presenteras forskningsresultat som kanske inte alltid lyfts fram i forskning om betyg och bedömning. Bennet visar att ”bra” summativa prov främjar lärandet. Proven kan också i sig ge information som gör att eleven förmår identifiera vilka kunskaper och färdigheter som hon behöver utveckla. Alltför vid definition av formativ bedömning I artikeln riktas också relativt omfattande kritik mot hur effekterna av formativ bedömning presenterats i olika sammanhang. En grundproblematik här är den alltför vida definitionen av formativ bedömning. Praxis måste förbättras Författaren är i grunden positiv till formativ bedömning men ser att forskningspresentationerna måste nyanseras och att praxis måste förbättras.
Anna's Blog Secondhand and Antiquarian Bookshops in London We have grouped London's bookshops by postal district , with the exception of WC and EC (West Central and East Central) addresses which we have combined in our "Central" district. Using the postal district system does mean that shops sometimes thought of as being in "Central London" will appear in the other districts of our guide, but then every system has its downside. To my knowledge this is the first attempt to list London's secondhand bookshops since Skoob's 2000 guide. We have found a lot less shops than were listed then, particularly in East London where there is now only one, and that's run by a charity. As TheBookGuide rarely gets the opportunity to visit the capital's bookshops in person, the task of maintaining up-to-date listings is a particularly difficult one, so I'm more than usually reliant on reports and comments from customers and dealers. If you run a bookshop in London, just complete a simple online form and you will start to attract new customers.
Delaying kindergarten until age 7 offers key benefits to kids — study A kindergartner uses a computer at a literacy station in class. (Jeff Morehead/Chronicle-Tribune) A new study finds strong evidence that delaying kindergarten by a year provides mental health benefits to children, allowing them to better self-regulate their attention and hyperactivity levels when they do start school. The study, titled “The Gift of Time? “We found that delaying kindergarten for one year reduced inattention and hyperactivity by 73 percent for an average child at age 11 and it virtually eliminated the probability that an average child at that age would have an ‘abnormal,’ or higher-than-normal rating for the inattentive-hyperactive behavioral measure.” The researchers used data on tens of thousands of students from a mental-health screening survey used to evaluate children across Denmark (and in clinical and academic settings in other countries) and compared it Denmark’s census, according to the Stanford release. local answer-sheet Orlando Shooting Updates post_newsletter348
Danny's Blog New study could be another nail in the coffin for the validity of student evaluations of teaching A number of studies suggest that student evaluations of teaching are unreliable due to various kinds of biases against instructors. (Here’s one addressing gender.) Yet conventional wisdom remains that students learn best from highly rated instructors; tenure cases have even hinged on it. What if the data backing up conventional wisdom were off? “Whereas the small sample sized studies showed large and moderate correlation, the large sample sized studies showed no or only minimal correlation between [student evaluations of teaching, or SET] ratings and learning,” reads the study, in press with Studies in Educational Evaluation. These findings “suggest that institutions focused on student learning and career success may want to abandon SET ratings as a measure of faculty's teaching effectiveness,” the study says. The paper considered end-of-course evaluations, not arguably more subjective ratings found on ratings websites. Philip B.