New Year, New Books
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Still Me by JoJo Moyes
The third book featuring Moyes' heroine Louisa Clark. Funny, romantic, and poignant, Still Me follows Lou as she navigates how to stay true to herself, while pushing to live boldly in her brave new world
The woman in the window by A.J. Finn
It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening . . .
Anna Fox is a recluse. She spends her day drinking wine, watching old movies, recalling happier times and spying on her neighbours.
Then the Russells move into the house across the way - a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are laid bare.
What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? No one, and nothing, is what it seems
The 9th Floor by Guyon Espiner and Tim Watkin
In-depth interviews with five former Prime Ministers of New Zealand. Geoffrey Palmer, Mike Moore, Jim Bolger, Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark reflect on their time occupying the prime ministerial offices on the 9th floor of the Beehive. Their recollections amount to a fascinating record of the decisions that shaped modern New Zealand.
Coloring in the white spaces by Ann Milne
Examines the struggle against racial and cultural inequity in educational systems, presenting the case study of a New Zealand school.
Details Kia Aroha College community on its quest to step outside education's -White spaces- to create a new space for learning and to reclaim educational sovereignty where individuals have the absolute right to -be Maori, - to be who they are, in school.
Details Kia Aroha College community on its quest to step outside education's -White spaces- to create a new space for learning and to reclaim educational sovereignty where individuals have the absolute right to -be Maori, - to be who they are, in school.
The learning power approach by Guy Claxton
The aim of the Learning Power Approach (LPA) is to develop all students as confident and capable learners, ready, willing and able to choose, design, research, pursue, trouble-shoot and evaluate learning for themselves, alone and with others, in school and out.
Understanding Enduring Ideas in Education: A Response to Those Who 'Just Want to Be a Teacher'
"The journey towards becoming a teacher involves engaging with a range of theoretical and pedagogical knowledge, and fieldwork experiences. This edited collection is a response to recurring student feedback about the struggle to grasp the philosophical and political aspects of teaching and learning". - publishers description
Teaching Creative Thinking: Developing learners who generate ideas and can think critically by Bill Lucas and Ellen Spencer
Defines and demystifies the essence of creative thinking, and offers action-oriented and research-informed suggestions as to how it can best be developed in learners.
10 Mindframes for Visible Learning by John Hattie and Klaus Zierer
The original Visible Learning research concluded that one of the most important influencers of student achievement is how teachers think about learning and their own role. This book defines the 10 mindframes teachers need to adopt to maximise student success. The mindframes are founded on the belief that teachers are evaluators, change agents, learning experts and seekers of feedback constantly engaged with dialogue and challenge.
How to differentiate instruction in academically diverse classrooms by Carol Ann Tomlinson
This expanded edition of Carol Ann Tomlinson's ground breaking work covers the fundamentals of differentiation and provides additional guidelines and new strategies for how to go about it.
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