Methods category: 10193 books
Deep Learning in Introductory Physics
Exploratory Studies of Model?Based Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Deep Learning in Introductory Physics: Exploratory Studies of Model?Based Reasoning is concerned with the broad question of how students learn physics in a model?centered classroom. The diverse, creative, and sometimes unexpected ways students construct models, and deal with intellectual conflict, provide...
Improving Primary Mathematics
Linking Home and School
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Improving Primary Mathematics provides primary teachers with practical ideas about how to bring these two worlds closer to improve children’s mathematics learning.
Using a number of fascinating case studies focusing on children’s experiences of mathematics both inside and outside the classroom,...
Becoming an Outstanding Personal Tutor
Supporting Learners through Personal Tutoring and Coaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
How confident do you feel in your personal tutoring role? In the face of ever-increasing and demanding learner issues, do you feel equipped to provide the essential support to meet their needs? This timely book provides you with essential help in an area which has often been given little attention...
by Karen Castle
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
A practical guide for all teachers embarking on their Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL), this book begins by encouraging the reader to identify their own learning style and engage in different study methods, and goes on to explore higher level study skills and academic writing. The research required...
by Ken Ring
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
You can't get your child to like math. I don't really know if we have a right to get them to like anything. There is only one reasonably sure way they may become interested in this subject - and that is if you are interested in it. There are, to the disgust of the rest, some parents and kids...
Reflecting the World
A Guide to Incorporating Equity in Mathematics Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Reflecting the World: A Guide to Incorporating Equity in Mathematics Teacher Education is a guide for mathematics teacher educators interested in incorporating equity concerns into their teaching. The book draws on the authors’ research and experience integrating issues of equity, diversity, and social...
Everyday SEL in High School
Integrating Social-Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
With this new book from educational consultant Carla Tantillo Philibert, you’ll gain practical strategies for teaching Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), mindfulness, movement, and team-building to help your students grow into contributing and compassionate citizens of the world. You’ll find out...
Teachers and Schooling Making A Difference
Productive pedagogies, assessment and performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Teachers + Schooling Making a Difference takes seriously the question that teachers ask, 'What do I do on Monday?' and does provide answers.'
From the foreword by Professor Michael Apple, University of Wisconsin
Education debates are currently dominated by free-market ideologists who...
The Most Important Work
Stories of Sovereignty in the Struggle for Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
This book is a collection of essays that reflect the desire and determination guiding many practitioners and researchers as they work together in more meaningful and relevant ways for literacy. The essays are organized as three series of dialogues in which an academic scholar works with a practitioner,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
The role of technology in the learning process can offer significant contributions to help meet the increasing needs of students. In the field of language acquisition, new possibilities for instructional methods have emerged from the integration of such innovations. The Handbook of Research on Foreign...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Within the growing world of social media and computer technology, it is important to facilitate collaborative knowledge building through the utilization of visual literacy, decision-making, abstract thinking, and creativity in the application of scientific teaching. Visual Approaches to Cognitive...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2005
Over the past twenty years the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT) has become world-renowned as an organisation dedicated to the discussion of current thinking in educational policy and practice. As such, the ideas aired at ISATT conferences are of the greatest significance...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
This handbook connects the practice of statistics to the teaching and learning of the subject with contributions from experts in several disciplines. Chapters present current challenges and methods of statistics education in the changing world for statistics and mathematics educators. Issues addressed...
Differentiation for Gifted Learners
Going Beyond the Basics
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Within a group of advanced learners, the variety of abilities, talents, interests, and learning styles can be formidable. For the first time, this book connects the unique learning differences among gifted students to the specific teaching methods used to tailor their educational experiences. Differentiated...