Education Teaching Books

This is a great book that truly opens one's eyes to the world of assessment. Stiggins does a great job of breaking different types of assessment down into his chapters. I would definitely recommend this book to any educator!

Considering this book is about assessment, I should probably give it a grade, right? This order got an A! It was in great condition and arrived on time! Now I am giving out better grades!

This is an excellent text for defining what we mean by assessment and for examining how different types of assessments fit different purposes. It is very uiseful for teacher professional development.

Great book! The book was brand new, and really will help me with feedback and knowledge I will need to become a teacher. This book is great for future teachers!

This text could be helpful to novice and highly experienced teachers. The assessments types are outlined and discussed in good detail and actual examples are illustrated. The first few chapters define and discuss the nature of assessment and how this will relate to the teacher and their students. Both the teacher and student will benefit from assessment that is well planned in advance. The next few chapters discuss how to plan and develop your assessment plan. The school of thought here seems to be in the variations in difficulty and type of assessment. If teachers are able to change up their assessment routines students will have more ways to demonstrate their knowledge, reasoning skills, performance skills, formative and summative products, and dispositions in the subject material. Four different types of assessment are featured: Selected response, essay, performance, and personal communication. All of these assessment methods can be used as both formal and informal assessments depending on the purpose of assessing a specific skill or set of skills being taught. Overall, I think this is an excellent assessment text for teachers who want to assess their students FOR learning rather than OF learning as discussed in the text.

Even if you have used other ed psych books before, you will find this book to be quite good - it clearly states definitions in a way that you may not have understood before. An easy reading textbook!

I bought this book for a class in mainstreaming, required for my full credential in California. The book is well organized and easy to read. The information is valuable and I will refer to this book throughout my career as a teacher.

My daughter really likes this book and it came in good condition for used book with no markings inside. Just the cover was a little bent. Good, FAST service.

I loved this book. I teach English to a Japanese girl that spent 6 years in the United States. Her mother wanted her to keep up on her English skills as if she was going to an American school. I used the Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills Grade 5 last year and this year I have been using the book for grade 6. I have been comparing these books to the material that my daughter is learning in her American school and the book has covered everything. I also use some of the material from the book to supplement my daughter's school work. I think that every parent should use these books.

We purchased this curriculum book for my 11 year-old daughter to go along with her other textbooks. The book has great lessons, but perhaps could use a little more instruction. Even though answers are included (in back of book), I had a hard time myself helping her figure out how to accomplish some of the lessons. All in all it is an excellent addition to other studies and my daughter's vocabulary has improved greatly since using this book.

This is great for a quick review. The kids love it and they get some concepts reviewed on a regular basis. They like to do volume quite a bit, which is great because that is a pitfall for my third graders. There are a few computation problems and a few thinking problems and the publishers seem to put something from all the strands of the NCTM standards. For my class I had to adjust it and instead of one minute I give them two minutes to complete as much of the review as they can.

Very useful book.
A variety of math concepts on one page.
Good as a math starter, for homework or just review!

I love the Math Minutes line! I teach 1-8 at an alternative school. My students are on all different levels. The Math Minutes are great to use in this situation, because I can teach the entire class according to individual levels. The pages from all the books look basically the same, so no one knows which book I am teaching from. Each page has 10 problems that are varied so even reluctant students are motivated to complete them. I bought the Third Grade book, because my school had all the others, and there was a definite gap in the sequence of learning without this one.

The Math Minutes series is a complete after-school program to help children practice the essential math skills they need in each grade. This workbook provides practice for all the major topics at the third grade level with an emphasis on multiplication. It mixes various types of questions, such as word problems and puzzles, in a drill - a nice feature; hence your child is not overwhelmed by a page of 40 monotonous multiplications like in some other books. It also highlights the speed factor to foster your child's get-things-done spirit rather than procrastination. The answer keys are provided instantly following the drills. They ensure that your child understands where and how he has made errors and indicate the type of practice needed. For the several workbooks I bought for my son, this is the only one he completed, and we had some fun in the process. We definitely like it better.

Good math requires regular practice and problem solving. I find that you can have more such nice worksheets at beestar.org. It is an excellent web site provides weekly grade-by-grade math exercises. They are common in that kids are given interesting and changing challenges, so they have more interests to work on math regularly.

The book presents 36 weeks of work in M-F segments. The segments are short so there has never been a battle with my son over doing them. He is in 5th and I am using this to keep his skills fresh as they delve into newer concepts. It covers basic math facts such as add/sub/mult/div as well as ratios, some geometry and word problems. Good all-around review.

The Daily Math Practice is a wonderful tool to help keep the students up on all math skills thanks to the wide variety of problems. It is quick and easy to use in the classroom.

I am so glad that we found this book! Five problems a night makes math FUN, rather than WORK for my child. So much so that he will do a few days worth of problems in one sitting.

The book has variety to keep him interested, and he's learning new skills from it also. I will definitely buy the grade 2 book for next year.

I'm a firm believer of practice early on math. It will build kid's interest and confidence for the long run. This book is invaluable. It breaks grade 1 math into small pieces and let your child do a little every day. My son learned a lot from this book. He often asks further questions and thinks a lot more. This book helped him do well in math. In the Beestar online math contest (...), he often wins honor mentions. Highly recommend.

I used this book for after-school review with my 6-year-old son. The format (5 problems per day, including 1 word problem) worked great. Used on a daily basis, it provides just enough repetition to do the trick.

You get a total of 180 sets of problems, broken down into 36 weeks. Each set takes up 1/2 of one side of a page. The book provides lots of variety in its problem sets. All in all, this book delivers what it promises, and then some.

Highly recommended.

Great contents with lovely color in Math, Basic skills, Social studies, Science and Language arts. With it my kid has fun in playing. Through it I sharpen my kid's related skills. My kid enjoys it very much. It worths my recommendation.

I am a medicalstudent from Sweden. When I was about to begin studying anathomy and physiology the trouble was to find a book that gave the most knowledge in an easy, understandable way. After searching through all the books I found this one, Essentials of anathomy and physiology, the best buy all over.

This book is way to complicated. It is not very helpful to tryto find information in an easy simple manner. I would try to findanother book for anatomy and physiology!

From beginning to end, descriptive text and detailed illustration takes the reader on a magic carpet ride through the human body. Soaring over every anatomical location and pointing out all of their physiological functions, each page is overflowing with mesmerizing information. A student armed with the endless knowledge within these pages is sure to prosper in any course related to this subject.

My daughter who is taking a course in nursing likes this book.
I find this book neat and the illustrations done by Dr William
Ober clear and easy to the eyes. If you are not anybody who is
involved in the health or medical studies, and wish to know
more about the human body (anatomy and physiology), then I highly
recommend this concise "essentials" book. Take a look at page
132, Figure 6-6, you actually get to see the whole of human
skeletal system which appears as photograph, not a drawing. I
can use this page to show my children what the human skeleton
looks like and name the parts, which are clearly labelled. The
reason I have given 4 stars because I cannot say this book is
100% perfect. The authors will later improve it in their future
editions, still this is a good buy ...you won't regret.

This is a great book for anyone that needs a small (less than 700 pages) book to look up basic concepts. I bought a used copy as a low cost way to start an A&P library. Medical students may not want to use this book unless they are in their very first year and know nothing about anatomy and physiology; but anyone in the allied health field will want to keep this one handy. Anyone who is willing to immerse himself in this book will definitely acquire a good working knowledge of A & P. I found numerous chapters that were great starting points to motivate deeper study. For instance, the Chapter on Muscles is very useful. It provide views of each major muscle, along with a diagram that lists what type of motion the muscle creates, and it's origin & insertion points. Many chapters have clinical examples as well as special sections that deal with aging and it's effects on the body's systems. If you are on a tight budget, get a used copy and you won't be disappointed.

I am very satisfied with the quality of the book and the expedience of the delivery.

The Skin That We Speak, by Lisa Delpit, is a collection of essays written by various authors about the impact of language in the classroom. The author identifies the purpose of the book as the exploration of "the links between language and identity, between language and political hierarchy, and between language and cultural conflict." The book is divided into three sections starting with an individual inward look into languages, a examination of the consequences of language attitudes in the classroom, and finishes with a look at the language of teachers and what they need to know to become effective in the classroom. The author titled the book, The Skin That We Speak, because "just as our skin provides us with a means to negotiate our interactions with the world - our language plays an equally pivotal role in determining who we are." For each of us our language becomes intimately connected to our identity.
Overall, this was a good book. Because it was composed of so many short essays, it made the book easy to divide into sections and read it quickly. The essays were all very well written and easy to understand the authors' purpose and its connection to the book. IT contained a nice mixture of personal stories, research, and even some ideas that could be directly used in the classroom. I think that it would be an excellent book for all teachers, new and old, to read. It opened my eyes to all the different aspects of the English language that I never realized existed and how those aspects can affect all students in my classroom. It has caused me to reflect on how I use language in my classroom on a daily basis. This book has allowed me to realize how all students can struggle with language issues in so many different ways, and how we need to be sensitive to it as classroom teachers.

An interesting look at differences in language -- accent, vocabulary, and dialect. This book explores the judgements that people, even young children, make when they hear a voice. Well-rounded and very pragmatic about solutions. Doesn't just say 'Oh, people shouldn't judge each other.' Because, like it or not, we do.