Methods category: 10193 books
Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies
What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
This collection of outstanding, teacher-tested methods for K–12 social studies instruction for diverse classrooms offers fresh ideas and strategies covering citizenship, diversity, community, and more.
Building and Restoring Respectful Relationships in Schools
A Guide to Using Restorative Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Implementing 'Restorative Practice' in schools can offer powerful and effective methods of promoting harmonious relationships and resolving conflict. Restorative Practice helps disruptive pupils to take responsibility for their actions, understand the consequences of their behaviour and apologise...
Teaching Mathematics Online
Emergent Technologies and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Educational technologies (e-learning environments or learning management systems for individual and collaborative learning, Internet resources for teaching and learning, academic materials in electronic format, specific subject-related software, groupware and social network software, etc.) are changing...
When the Adults Change, Everything Changes
Seismic Shifts in School Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
In When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic Shifts in School Behaviour, Paul Dix upends the debate on behaviour management in schools and offers effective tips and strategies that serve to end the search for change in children and turn the focus back on the adults. You can buy in the best...
Recipe for Great Teaching
11 Essential Ingredients
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In this well-seasoned book, charismatic educator Anita Moultrie Turner shows new teachers, veteran teachers, and staff developers how to blend 11 essential ingredients into effective and productive classrooms where all students can succeed. Easy to read and hard to put down, this Recipe for Great...
Cool School
Where Children Love to Learn
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
The present school system is steadily becoming dysfunctional, and its time to improve that system, ensuring it becomes one in which every child feels safe, welcome, interested, and eager to learn. In Cool School, author Jane Loosmore presents a new, two-part approach to education that facilitates...
by Paul Tagney
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
“An exceptionally well written collection of 60 short stories, each having 5 questions with multiple-choice answers, and some extra questions to further animate student-teacher conversation. Divided into 3 groups of 20 stories, beginner, intermediate, and advanced, these stories describe family, places...
Introduction to Effective Music Teaching
Artistry and Attitude
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Introduction to Effective Music Teaching: Artistry and Attitude provides the prospective teacher with front-line tested strategies and approaches that are based on current research and the author's three decades of service as a public school music educator, department chairman, and public school district...
by Andrew Davis, Maria Goulding, Jennifer Suggate
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Now in its fifth edition, the best-selling text Mathematical Knowledge for Primary Teachers provides trainee teachers with clear information about the fundamental mathematical ideas taught in primary schools.
With rigorous and comprehensive coverage of all the mathematical knowledge primary...
Multilingual Digital Storytelling
Engaging creatively and critically with literacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Classrooms are increasingly multicultural in their social composition, and students are increasingly connected, through digital media, to local and global networks. However, pedagogy has failed to take full advantage of the opportunities these resources represent. Multilingual Digital Storytelling...
On Reading Books to Children
Parents and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2003
On Reading Books to Children: Parents and Teachers brings together in one volume current research on adult book reading to children. The authors, drawn from around the world, are key researchers and eminent scholars from the fields of reading and literacy, child language, speech pathology, and psychology,...
Empowering Struggling Readers
Practices for the Middle Grades
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
This book provides classroom-tested methods for engaging struggling middle grade readers--even those who appear to have given up--and fostering their success. The emphasis is on constructing respectful, encouraging learning environments that incorporate students' diverse literacies, cultural interests,...
Greening Media Education
Bridging Media Literacy with Green Cultural Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Media are a powerful educational force that teaches about the relationship between humans and living systems while also physiologically impacting the environment. However, although long considered a tool for promoting critical thinking and cultural citizenship, media literacy does not adequately address...
by Miriam G. Martinez, Junko Yokota, Charles Temple
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Much of teachers’ attention these days is focused on having students read closely to ferret out the author’s intended meaning and the devices used to convey that meaning. But we cannot forget to guide students to have moving engagements with literature, because they need to make strong personal...