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  • PEER INTERVENTIONS FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING
    KEITH JAMES TOPPING
    This book introduces peer interventions (primarily peer education, peer counselling and peer support) for the positive promotion of health and wellbeing as alternative or parallel methods to traditional clinical processes for reaching hard-to-access populations. It is strongly evidence-based, with chapters discussing reviews of the evidence, followed by important papers with ke...

    $1,360.00

  • IMPROVING THINKING ABOUT THINKING IN THE CLASSROOM
    KEITH J. TOPPING
    What are the best ways to enhance metacognition in the course of classroom teaching? This research-to-practice book shows how to go beyond simple student reflection to use any of 19 different practical strategies. Each chapter describes a different method, gives the research evidence to support the effectiveness of the method and then provides guidelines for implementation. You...

    $820.00

  • IMPROVING THINKING IN THE CLASSROOM
    KEITH J. TOPPING
    Programs like philosophy for children, reciprocal teaching, problem based learning and computerized games can help students’ critical and creative thinking skills, but which are most effective? This research-to-practice book showcases how you can improve the thinking (cognition) of your students, across the curriculum and beyond. Each chapter focuses on a particular program, de...

    $820.00

  • EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS FOR DISRUPTIVE ADOLESCENTS
    KEITH J. TOPPING
    In the early 1980s, concern about disruptive behaviour in secondary schools had grown, being variously regarded as a symptom of a decaying society or as a failure on the teachers’ part. One response was to ‘throw money’ at the problem and various different kinds of special schools and units had been devised to deal with disruptive adolescent pupils. Yet there was little systema...

    $920.00

  • IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION OF SELF-CHOSEN BOOKS THROUGH COMPUTER ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK
    KEITH JAMES TOPPING
    Schools around the world use online programs like Accelerated Reader and Reading Counts to improve students’ reading comprehension of real books, but how can such software be used most effectively? In this unique resource, researcher Keith Topping analyzes independent research studies and brings you best practices on quality implementation to enhance effectiveness. He explains ...

    $860.00

  • A TEACHER'S GUIDE TO PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDREN
    KEITH J. TOPPING / STEVEN TRICKEY / PAUL CLEGHORN
    A Teacher’s Guide to Philosophy for Children provides educators with the process and structures to engage children in inquiring as a group into ‘big’ moral, ethical and spiritual questions, while also considering curricular necessities and the demands of national and local standards. Based on the actual experiences of educators in diverse and global classroom contexts, this com...

    $700.00

  • USING PEER ASSESSMENT TO INSPIRE REFLECTION AND LEARNING
    KEITH TOPPING
    There is increasingly strong evidence that K-12 learners who assess each other’s work and then engage in related reflections, discussions, and negotiations benefit mutually from the process. In this practical volume, Keith J. Topping provides suggestions for implementing effective peer assessment across many classroom contexts and subjects. Using Peer Assessment to Inspire Refl...

    $820.00

  • PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN CHILDREN'S READING
    KEITH TOPPING
    Parental involvement in children's education is a subject of growing interest and recent legislation in both the UK and USA has given formal recognition of parents’ rights. Learning to read is an obvious area where parents can do a great deal to help, and some schools have had programmes for parental involvement in reading for some time. However recent research has shown the co...

    $960.00

  • LEARNING BY TEACHING
    DAVID DURAN / KEITH TOPPING
    This book provides an essential overview of "learning by teaching", unpacking the underpinning theory, research evidence and practical implications of peer learning in a variety of classroom contexts. It aims to offer practical guidance for practitioners in structuring effective peer learning – between professionals and between students alike. It locates this phenomenon in curr...

    $1,060.00

  • EFFECTIVE PEER LEARNING
    KEITH TOPPING / CÉLINE BUCHS / DAVID DURAN / HILDE VAN KEER
    Peer learning allows a positive use of differences between pupils, turning them into learning opportunities. Yet education professionals often remain unfamiliar with the principles necessary to guarantee its effectiveness. The aim of this book is to help practitioners establish well-structured and effective peer learning projects using a variety of methods. It introduces and de...

    $1,240.00

  • USING PEER TUTORING TO IMPROVE READING SKILLS
    KEITH TOPPING / DAVID DURAN / HILDE VAN KEER
    Using Peer Tutoring to Improve Reading Skills is a very practical guide, offering a straightforward framework and easy-to-implement strategies to help teachers help pupils progress in reading. A succinct introduction, it shows how schools can make positive use of differences between pupils and turn them into effective learning opportunities. Outlining the evidence base supporti...

    $780.00

  • PAIRED MATHS HANDBOOK
    JUDI BAMFORD / KEITH J. TOPPING
    First Published in 1998. This book is one of a family of three related books, consisting of two resource Handbooks for everyday use, supported by a more detailed background text for deeper reading and reference. The Paired Maths Handbook gives a brief introduction to the rationale, materials, organisation and evaluation of the Paired Maths method for parental involvement and pe...

    $700.00

  • PEER-ASSISTED LEARNING
    KEITH TOPPING AND STEWART EHLY
    Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) involves children in school consciously assisting others to learn, and in so doing learning more effectively themselves. It encompasses peer tutoring, peer modeling, peer education, peer counseling, peer monitoring, and peer assessment, which are differentiated from other more general "co-operative learning" methods. PAL is not diluted or surrogate ...

    $2,400.00

  • PARENTS AS EDUCATORS
    KEITH J. TOPPING
    Modern practice in the 1980s was to involve parents increasingly in the education of their children, and was supported by legislation. Particularly when children had special needs, parents required structured training and support to ensure they affectively sustained their vital role as educators at home. Many large-scale programmes to provide this had been developed throughout ...

    $1,480.00