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Breaking Boundaries With Global Literature: Celebrating Diversity in K-12 Classrooms

Breaking Boundaries With Global Literature: Celebrating Diversity in K-12 Classrooms

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In today’s increasingly diverse classrooms, it is essential for educators to provide students with the tools, dialogue, and experiences that will help them to know and understand the global village in which they live and also build their compassion, empathy, and appreciation for the diverse individuals and cultures who populate it. This unique and innovative resource shows educators how to accomplish both of these goals.

Drawing from the selection of quality global literature chosen for the Notable Books for a Global Society booklists, this book explores key themes in global literature, offering ideas, activities, and strategies for your K-12 English language arts classrooms. You will learn how to use global literature to

  • Explore literary elements and at the same time develop students global awareness
  • Illustrate the diversity as well as the commonality at the heart of all stories and people
  • Promote students critical thinking about society, diversity, and their place in the global community
  • Extend students connections with literature to constructive activism and service learning
To further extend the instructional applications of this book, supplementary booklists can be downloaded at www.reading.org.

Breaking Boundaries With Global Literature: Celebrating Diversity in K-12 Classrooms

By City Bongo | August 1st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Topic Children Literature | Leave a comment

Breaking the Silence: Art Therapy with Children from Violent Homes

Breaking the Silence: Art Therapy with Children from Violent Homes

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This volume demonstrates the power of art therapy as a tool for intervening with children from violent homes. Emphasis is given to the short-term setting where time is at a premium and circumstances are unpredictable – because within this setting, mental health practitioners often experience a sense of helplessness in their work with the youngest victims of abusive families.; In this new edition, the author describes the intervention process from intake to termination, highlighting the complex issues involved at various levels of evaluation and interpretation. The text is augmented with 95 children’s drawings, which serve to fill the gap between theory and reality.; Specific topics include: inherent frustrations for therapists working in battered women’s shelters; what to include in art evaluation; evaluating child abuse and neglect; group art intervention in shelters; and art expression as assessment and therapy with sexually abused children.

Breaking the Silence: Art Therapy with Children from Violent Homes

By City Bongo | February 21st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Topic Children Arts | 3 comments

Taming the Spirited Child: Strategies for Parenting Challenging Children Without Breaking Their Spirits

Taming the Spirited Child: Strategies for Parenting Challenging Children Without Breaking Their Spirits

  • ISBN13: 9780743286893
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Do you dread parent-teacher conferences?

Does your child really know how to push your hot button?

Has your child been labeled “defiant” or “rebellious”?

Here are proven strategies that have helped millions to tame — not break — a spirited child.

Parents are often faced with scary labels for their children, such as attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, bipolar disorder, or hyperactivity. In this uniquely prescriptive guide, leading parenting expert Dr. Michael Popkin shows parents how to think differently about so-called problem children. The effective strategies within this guide will quiet the difficulties spirited children have at home and school while exposing the unique, special gifts they possess.

Develop a relationship with your spirited child by:

– Building relationship skills — Disciplining with encouragement

– Balancing the power dynamic — Curbing tantrums effectively

With step-by-step methods for every type of misbehavior and every child’s unique personality, this comprehensive guide will help parents cultivate their child’s spark, not extinguish it — and reach beyond depressing labels for their beloved children.

Taming the Spirited Child: Strategies for Parenting Challenging Children Without Breaking Their Spirits

By City Bongo | February 21st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Topic Parenting | 5 comments
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