Methods category: 10193 books
by Shoob, Sara
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Featuring sound educational strategies based on solid research and proven methodology, this exceptional resource provides teachers with best practices in social studies instruction that can be immediately implemented in the classroom. Authored by two social studies experts with more than 60 years...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The importance of social studies assessment is beyond question. The National Council of the Social Studies’ C3 Framework recognizes the importance of high?quality assessments—its major objective, a “deep understanding of the sociocultural world,” has as its underpinning the idea that students...
Tell Me a Story
Using Narratives to Break Down Barriers in Composition Courses
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Stories have great power. This book attempts to harness that power to help students grow and develop as writers. It argues that stories and narratives can be utilized in the composition classroom, specifically first-year composition (FYC) to break down barriers. Throughout a given semester, stories...
Purposeful Engagement in Science Learning
The Project-based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Purposeful Engagement in Science Learning provides a blueprint of how teachers and their students can engage in science learning that mirrors the way science is practiced. It is written for K–16 science educators as well as those in the informal science education sector. The framework for this book...
by Geoff Dean
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This revised and updated edition takes into account the greater recognition of language users in schools and the working parties which have been set up to enable the more able to enjoy opportunities to display and develop their special talents. This new edition also explores models of language learning...
Stubborn Pilgrimage
Resistance and Transformation in Ontario English Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Stubborn Pilgrimage traces both the development of new teaching methods (what I call the post-Diltzian paradigm) and the resistance of English teachers to the serial attempts to have their programme hijacked by well-meaning psychologists and sociologists and a Ministry of Education increasingly in...
by Jan Foale, Linda Pagett
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2008
Creative Approaches to Poetry for the Primary Framework for Literacy supports teachers in planning, teaching and, most importantly, enjoying poetry with their pupils. With an emphasis on creative, cross curricular approaches the authors explore tried and tested methods of teaching poetry in an engaging...
Collaboration and the Future of Education
Preserving the Right to Think and Teach Historically
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Current educational reforms have given rise to various types of "educational Taylorism," which encourage the creation of efficiency models in pursuit of a unified way to teach. In history education curricula, this has been introduced through scripted textbook-based programs such as Teacher...
by Dr. Marvin A. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
In observing todays football coaching techniques on the high school level, I have noticed that some coaches try to follow college and even pro football coaches sophisticated methods such as elaborate signals, multitude of plays, etc. It seems to me that on the high school level, the KISS (Keep it...
Can I Be in Your Class?
Real Education Reform to Motivate Secondary Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
With education reform in the forefront of societal issues, virtually everyone is seeking methods to augment students' academic performance. Yet, real reform begins in individual classrooms, where the difference between the ordinary teacher and the extraordinary lies not in the content they teach,...
by Robert Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages is a guide to learning more than 24 ESL Methodologies and Teaching Techniques. It is ideal for new or aspiring teachers of English as a Second Language – particularly for those who want to teach overseas where there is a huge need for English teachers...
TACT (Teens and Conflict Together)
A Facilitator's Guide for Empowering Youth to Engage in Creative Problem Solving
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2011
High school is an uncertain period for all youth. With negotiating peer pressures while defining their own identity, youth experience periods of uncertainty, and oftentimes anxiety, in high school. Navigating tough conversations and managing conflict is a daily occurrence for young people. Giving...
Control is Not a Four?Letter Word!
Establishing Positive Classroom Behavior for the Year in the First Five Days
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Teachers provide today's youth with the tools to become a positive part of society. Whether they are successful or not determines the fate of our civilization. Unfortunately, teacher training does not completely prepare the individual for this crucial role. All teachers need to: > Know the student and...
Why Literary Periods Mattered
Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of English literature began to be divided into courses that surveyed discrete "periods." Since that time, scholars' definitions of literature and their rationales for teaching it have changed radically. But the periodized structure of the curriculum...