Methods category: 10193 books
Research Design and Statistical Analysis
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Research Design and Statistical Analysis provides comprehensive coverage of the design principles and statistical concepts necessary to make sense of real data. The book’s goal is to provide a strong conceptual foundation to enable readers to generalize concepts to new research situations. Emphasis...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Developing students’ creative problem-solving skills is paramount to today’s teachers, due to the exponentially growing demand for cognitive plasticity and critical thinking in the workforce. In today’s knowledge economy, workers must be able to participate in creative dialogue and complex problem-solving....
Coaching Innovations
Providing Instructional Support Anywhere, Anytime
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book offers alternative and innovative methods to improve preservice and inservice teacher education. The book explores options in preservice education for supervisor coaching of interns completed through both traditional face-to-face and virtual formats. Additionally, professional development...
Straight Talk About Classroom Teaching
Key Steps to Effective Teaching in Your First or Fiftieth Year
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Straight Talk about Classroom Teaching offers straightforward, easy-to-follow techniques that will aid new and veteran teachers alike in creating and maintaining an effective classroom setting. Author Patrice Joseph believes that students learn better and faster when they are fully engaged through...
by Jacqueline Hansen, Kenneth D. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Featuring a wealth of reflection activities and connections to standards, this concise, easy-to-read teaching methods text equips students with the content knowledge and skills they need to become effective K–8 teachers. The book maximizes instructional flexibility, reflects current educational...
A Mathematician's Lament
How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The author's mission is to make math exciting and seductive for those who thought they hated or just couldn't do it. Demonstrates the engaging, playful nature of Math. The text includes his persuasively written analysis of how math should NOT be taught along with some thought provoking methods for...
Becoming Confident Teachers
A Guide for Academic Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Becoming Confident Teachers examines the teaching role of information professionals at a time of transition and change in higher education. While instruction is now generally accepted as a core library function in the 21st century, librarians often lack sufficient training in pedagogy and instructional...
Gender in the Classroom
Foundations, Skills, Methods, and Strategies Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
What‘s missing from your teacher education program? According to research studies, one glaring omission is gender. Tomorrow‘s teachers receive little instruction or training on the tremendous impact of gender in the classroom. Just how does gender influence teaching, the curriculum, and the lives of teachers and students in the classroom? This uniq
The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day
180 Reproducible Prompts and Quick-Writes for the Secondary Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Classroom-tested methods for boosting secondary students' writing skills
The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day offers teachers, homeschoolers, and parents 180 ready-to-use, reproducible activities that enhance writing skills in secondary students. Based on Ledbetter's extensive experience consulting...
by I.S.P. Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, this guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners at all levels of proficiency develop their reading and writing skills and fluency. By following these suggestions, which are organized...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
One key measure of a country’s status in the world is the literacy of its people; at the same time, global migration has led to increased interest in bilingualism and foreign language learning as topics of research. Literacy Development and Enhancement Across Orthographies and Cultures reviews international...
by Filomena Iavarone
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Questo libro è il risultato del percorso PAS seguito nell'A.A. 2013-2014 per ottenere l'abilitazione all'insegnamento per la classe di concorso Linguaggio per la cinematografia e la televisione. Per poter arrivare alla conclusione di questo trattato ho dovuto non solo approfondire argomenti pedagogici,...
Teaching Psychology
A Step-By-Step Guide, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This volume provides thoroughly updated guidelines for preparing and teaching an entire course in psychology. Based on best principles and effective psychological and pedagogical research, it offers practical suggestions for planning a course, choosing teaching methods, integrating technology appropriately...
Exploring Vacation and Etiquette Themes in Social Studies
Primary Source Inquiry for Middle and High School
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This book introduces a thematic approach to social history that connects the past to the daily lives of students. Historical overviews of vacation and manners spanning from the ancient world to twentieth century United States provide detailed context for the teacher, emphasize issues related to social...