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Creative Teaching for All
In the Box, Out of the Box, and Off the Walls
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Creative Teaching for All as an antidote to rapidly growing pressures for quick and easy teacher results, and constant evaluations. Employ creative ideas to resist teaching to the (usually factual) test, and to the many choking rules, standards, cores, and state regulations that strangle motivation...
Teaching English Language Learners
Content and Language in Middle and Secondary Mainstream Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Teaching English Language Learners: Content and Language in Middle and Secondary Mainstream Classrooms provides a reader-friendly guide to implementing and assessing high-level, content-area instruction for English Language Learners. Beginning with an overview of second language acquisition and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
As the field of distance and online learning continues to grow, it is important to consider the relationship between students and technology and to find the best possible means to deliver computer-aided instruction. Educational technologists and instructional designers seek to grow the body of research...
Publish and Prosper
A Strategy Guide for Students and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Intended to help readers succeed in academia by increasing their scholarly productivity, this book provides strategies for getting articles published quickly in reputable research journals. Rather than focusing on the basics of writing about results, this unique guidebook provides tips on how to approach...
Learning to Teach in the Digital Age
New Materialities and Maker Paradigms in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Learning to Teach in the Digital Age tells the story of a group of K–12 teachers as they began to connect with digital making and learning pedagogies. Guiding questions at the heart of this qualitative case study asked how teaching practices engaged with and responded to the maker movement and digital...
Surviving and Thriving with Teacher Action Research
Reflections and Advice from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Action research can be a transformative learning experience that strengthens educators’ practice and empowers our voices. For the novice action researcher, however, it can sometimes be frustrating, isolating, and overwhelming. Surviving and Thriving with Teacher Action Research is an outstanding...
by Kathryn R. Wentzel
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Written specifically for teachers, Motivating Students to Learn offers a wealth of research-based principles on the subject of student motivation for use by classroom teachers. Now in its fourth edition, this book discusses specific classroom strategies by tying these principles to the realities of...
Live Online Learning
Strategies for the Web Conferencing Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Equips new and experienced educators with the skills required to succeed in live online learning. Based on years of experience and research, the authors offer best practice guidelines and practical resources. A life saver for anyone wishing to develop creative, innovative teaching methods to provide great online experiences for their learners.
Embracing Mathematics
On Becoming a Teacher and Changing with Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This alternative textbook for courses on teaching mathematics asks teachers and prospective teachers to reflect on their relationships with mathematics and how these relationships influence their teaching and the experiences of their students. Applicable to all levels of schooling, the book covers...
by Dave McCanless
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
I'm Dave McCanless, author of "First Class: Teaching Infants and Preschoolers to Read," and I have a question for you...What is the one thing you as a parent can do for your very young child (ages 8 months to 4 years) that will give them the greatest chance for success and the best opportunity...
Critical Mathematics Education
Theory, Praxis and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Mathematics is traditionally seen as the most neutral of disciplines, the furthest removed from the arguments and controversy of politics and social life. However, critical mathematics challenges these assumptions and actively attacks the idea that mathematics is pure, objective, and value?neutral....
Sociocultural Research on Mathematics Education
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This volume--the first to bring together research on sociocultural aspects of mathematics education--presents contemporary and international perspectives on social justice and equity issues that impact mathematics education. In particular, it highlights the importance of three interacting and powerful...
Alternative Theoretical Frameworks for Mathematics Education Research
Theory Meets Data
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book explicates some of the fundamental philosophical tenets underpinning key theoretical frameworks, and demonstrates how these tenets inform particular kinds of research practice in mathematics education research. We believe that a deep understanding of significant theories from the humanities...
by Peter J. Fisher, Ann Bates, Debra J. Gurvitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This authoritative, easy-to-use guide will help educators plan and implement intervention lessons for struggling readers that align with the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards. All three authors run successful summer reading programs and supervise tutors who are becoming reading specialists....