Category Archives: Arts and Sciences

The programs (majors) in the College of Arts and Sciences

A Practical Guide

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Rebecca Stenn and Fran Kirmser have spent decades supporting and encouraging young dancers. They know that in addition to the immense passion and commitment that a dancer needs, working knowledge of the financial and practical aspects of a life in dance are equally important. With A Life in Dance, Stenn and Kirmser give you resources to help you book rehearsal space, obtain a legal representative and a taxpayer, find auditions, apply for grants, acquire health insurance, meet photographers, agents, publicists, and consultants, pay off student loan assistance, and begin financial planning. 

There’s no Business like Show Business

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Veteran performer and choreographer Tina Paul dispels myths and delivers the inside scoop about achieving your dream of dancing on Broadway. Tommy Tune, Chita Rivera, Bebe Neuwirth, and eleven other dancers join Tina in sharing their diverse experiences to help you make the right choices, avoid embarrassing mistakes, and prepare for the challenges that lead to a Broadway career. All of them agree—they love theatre and that love got them over many hurdles. Through tips on survival, discipline, and protocol, these professionals offer encouragement, bolster determination, and guarantee that you will be one step ahead in your quest for the lights and life of Broadway. 

Stories from a Life Lived Along the Border

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Living in El Paso, just a mile from the Rio Grande, Octavio is a skinny brown kid on the border, riding his bike out into the desert, growing up among those who live there and those passing through on their way North. Rituals of childhood and rites of passage are remembered as singular, dramatic events, moments of trauma, and transformation with life-changing reverberations. 

“To enter into this book is like walking into a shrine, walls lined with beautiful paintings . . . Some you will stand in front of for a long time, and others are brilliantly uncomfortable and can make you weep if you linger too long.” Daniel Chacon

The Ballet Maker

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The foremost contemporary choreographer in the history of ballet, George Balanchine extended the art form into radical new paths that came to seem inevitable under his direction. He transformed movement and dance in classical and modern ballet, on the Broadway stage, and in the cinema.

George Balanchine chronicles the life and achievements of this visionary artist from his early, almost accidental career in Russia, where his lifelong collaboration with Igor Stravinsky was forged, to his extraordinary accomplishments in America. The editor and writer Robert Gottlieb, one of the most knowledgable dance critics in America, offers a superb and loving portrait of a genius who, though married many times to many ballerinas, remained truest to his greatest love, Terpsichore, the Greek Muse of dance.

“I’d recommend Gottlieb’s book for its authority, completeness, and articulate excellence.” Benedict Nightingale, New York Times Book Review

Mind the Gap

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Being an effective math educator is one part based on the quality of the tasks we give, one part of how we diagnose what we see, and one part what we do with what we find. Yet with so many students and big concepts to cover, it can be hard to slow down enough to look for those moments when students’ responses tell us what we need to know about the next best steps. In this book, John SanGiovanni helps us value our students’ misconceptions and incomplete understandings as much as their correct ones―because it’s the gap in their understanding today that holds the secrets to planning tomorrow’s best teaching.

SanGiovanni lays out 180 high-quality tasks assigned to the standards and big ideas of grades 3-5 mathematics, including addition and subtraction of multi-digit whole numbers, multiplication and division of single and multi-digit whole numbers, foundational fraction concepts and more. The tasks are all downloadable so you can use or modify them for instruction and assessment.

It’s time to break our habit of rushing into re-teaching for the correctness and instead get curious about the space between right and wrong answers.

Valuing Mathematics and Empowering Students

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This text illustrates how children learn mathematics, and then shows pre-service teachers the most effective methods of teaching PreK-8 math through hands-on, problem-based activities. Examples of real student work and new common challenges and misconception tables helps visualize good mathematics instruction and assessment that supports and challenges all learners. This book reflects the Common Core State Standard and NCTM’s Principles to Actions, as well as current research and coverage of the latest teaching technology.

The text is divided into 2 parts. Part one covers the foundations and perspectives of teaching mathematics. The fundamental core of effective teaching of mathematics combines an understanding of how students learn, how to promote that learning by teaching through problem-solving, and how to plan for and assess that learning daily. Part two covers teaching student-centred mathematics. These chapters apply the core ideas of Part I to the content taught in K-8 mathematics. Clear discussions are provided for how to teach the topic, what a learning progression for that topic might be, and what worthwhile tasks look like.

 

The Power of Math Revealed

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This third edition has been expanded with over 100 new tasks and questions that help experienced and novice teachers to effectively and efficiently differentiate mathematics instruction in grades K-8. Math education expert Marian Small shows teachers how to get started and become expert as using two powerful and universal strategies: open questions and parallel tasks. This volume includes key changes that will make it easier for teachers to use in all quality state standards environments, including direct links to Common Core content standards and standards for mathematical practice. 

Transform Your Mathematics Instruction

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Award-winning author Page Keeley and mathematics expert Cheryl Rose Tobey apply the successful format of Keeley’s best-selling Science Formative Assessment to mathematics. They provide 75 formative assessment strategies and show teachers how to use them to inform instructional planning and better meet the needs of all students. Research shows that formative assessment has the power to significantly improve learning, and its many benefits include: stimulation of metacognitive thinking, increased student engagement, insights into student thinking, and development of a discourse community. 

Maximum Achievements Unlocked

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John Hattie’s ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning. Visible Learning for Teachers takes the next step and brings those groundbreaking concepts to a completely new audience. Written for students, pre-service and in-service teachers, it explains how to apply the principles of Visible Learning to any classroom anywhere in the world.

The author offers concise and user-friendly summaries of the most successful interventions and offers practical step-by-step guidance to the successful implementation of visible learning and visible teaching in the classroom. 

Introduction to Garment Construction

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The perfect introduction to the core principles of garment construction, How Patterns Work simplifies and explains the relationship between pattern making and the body.

No previous knowledge of patterns or sewing is required. Chapters start from zero assumed knowledge and build slowly in complexity with step by step examples and over 250 clear diagrams. How Patters Work breaks the process of pattern-making into simple principles that can be applied to any pattern change.

After reading this book, you won’t just be able to follow pattern making instructions, you will actually understand how and why pattern making works and be able to adapt the principles for yourself. All of the examples are shown in relation to how the pattern will ultimately be sewn so that the principles become more relevant to real sewn garments.