Primary reading box : reading activities and puzzles for younger learners.

Este recurso contiene cincuenta y cinco actividades fotocopiables diseñadas especialmente para la lectura en clase de primaria. Está dividido en cinco secciones:una sección de prelectura, tres secciones con actividades más complejas agrupadas según los niveles y edades de los alumnos, y una sección de rompecabezas de palabras y crucigramas con una duración que va desde veinte minutos hasta ocupar la mayor parte de la lección. Tiene además, una selección de diferentes tipos de textos; realidad, ficción, revistas, cómic, historias breves, chistes, poemas, recetas sencillas y definiciones de palabras para los crucigramas, da a los alumnos la oportunidad de trabajar en parejas, pequeños grupos y con toda la clase para desarrollar la confianza en la lectura. Muchas de las actividades son apropiadas para la preparación de los alumnos para las pruebas de inglés del Cambridge Young Learners (Cambridge ESOL).

The creative teaching and learning resource book.

Es un recurso integral pues presenta técnicas de enseñanza eficaces que pueden utilizar los profesores de todas las materias en las lecciones diarias de su clase pero, también, incluye experiencias para un aprendizaje efectivo que involucra a los estudiantes y aumenta su motivación. Todas estas estrategias de enseñanza y aprendizaje son prácticas y se han probado con éxito en las aulas. Una sección especial se ocupa del desarrollo a nivel personal y profesional de los docentes para mejorar sus habilidades de enseñanza.

Teaching able, gifted and talented children : strategies, activities and resources.

El autor ofrece una visión sobre estudiantes capaces, dotados y talentosos en el contexto de la legislación de Every Child Matters (Cada Niño Cuenta) para lograr un aprendizaje personalizado. Hace un resumen de un espacio cada vez más importante de la educación, y ofrece un equilibrio entre teoría y práctica. Hay orientaciones para: la definición e identificación de estos alumnos, estrategias para utilizar en el aula, el desarrollo del pensamiento crítico y creativo, el apoyo, y colaboración con los padres. ada capítulo contiene un resumen con los puntos clave, estudio de casos de buenas prácticas, ideas para usar con los estudiantes y actividades de desarrollo profesional para el personal.

Creative activities for the secondary classroom.

Recurso con más de cien actividades para estimular la creatividad y la motivación en la escuela secundaria. Éstas ayudarán a los estudiantes en el trabajo en equipo, a ser competentes en la negociación, a tener una conciencia de sí mismos y de los otros, a ser flexibles en su pensamiento, espontáneos en la generación de ideas imaginativas y creativas a la hora de buscar soluciones a problemas cotidianos. Las actividades pueden adaptarse fácilmente a diferentes lecciones y grupos de edad.

Spanish adaptation of the Creative Potential and Practised Creativity scale (CPPC-17) in the workplace and inside the organization

Resumen tomado de la publicación

Assessment and learning : is it time to rethink student activities and academic roles?

Resumen basado en el de la publicación

"It's always been stuck inside me but now it's come out" : children's explorations of their language identities though creative activities

Monogr??fico con el t??tulo: "La investigaci??n sobre la identidad profesional del profesorado en Europa

Social training activities and resources for hearing impaired students in elementary school

This paper provides resources to help hearing impaired students in primary and elementary grades with personal and social competency training.

The importance of parental involvement in language acquisition and activities and techniques to enhance the home-school connection

This study discusses the importance of parental involvement in children’s language development, and the related project offers parents books and activities to assist them in developing their children’s linguistic skills.

Poverty, migration and sex work: youth transitions in Ethiopia

Despite an emerging body of work on youth transitions, research has yet to explore the often unconventional routes to adulthood for young people marginalised through poverty. By drawing on interviews with 60 young commercial sex workers in Ethiopia, this paper explores the connections between poverty, migration and sex work and demonstrates that sex work provides a risky alternative, but often successful, path to independence for some rural-urban migrants. The paper concludes by offering recommendations for policies that seek to support young sex workers by enabling them to maintain their independence while seeking different employment.

Poverty, migration and sex work: youth transitions in Ethiopia

Despite an emerging body of work on youth transitions, research has yet to explore the often unconventional routes to adulthood for young people marginalised through poverty. By drawing on interviews with 60 young commercial sex workers in Ethiopia, this paper explores the connections between poverty, migration and sex work and demonstrates that sex work provides a risky alternative, but often successful, path to independence for some rural-urban migrants. The paper concludes by offering recommendations for policies that seek to support young sex workers by enabling them to maintain their independence while seeking different employment.

Eye gaze in virtual environments: evaluating the need and initial work on implementation

For efficient collaboration between participants, eye gaze is seen as being critical for interaction. Video conferencing either does not attempt to support eye gaze (e.g. AcessGrid) or only approximates it in round table conditions (e.g. life size telepresence). Immersive collaborative virtual environments represent remote participants through avatars that follow their tracked movements. By additionally tracking people's eyes and representing their movement on their avatars, the line of gaze can be faithfully reproduced, as opposed to approximated. This paper presents the results of initial work that tested if the focus of gaze could be more accurately gauged if tracked eye movement was added to that of the head of an avatar observed in an immersive VE. An experiment was conducted to assess the difference between user's abilities to judge what objects an avatar is looking at with only head movements being displayed, while the eyes remained static, and with eye gaze and head movement information being displayed. The results from the experiment show that eye gaze is of vital importance to the subjects correctly identifying what a person is looking at in an immersive virtual environment. This is followed by a description of the work that is now being undertaken following the positive results from the experiment. We discuss the integration of an eye tracker more suitable for immersive mobile use and the software and techniques that were developed to integrate the user's real-world eye movements into calibrated eye gaze in an immersive virtual world. This is to be used in the creation of an immersive collaborative virtual environment supporting eye gaze and its ongoing experiments. Copyright (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.