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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Bringing together key researchers in disciplines ranging from visualization and image processing to applications in structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, elastography, and numerical mathematics, the workshop that generated this edited volume was the third in the successful Dagstuhl series. Its aim,...
Teacher's Ultimate Planning Guide
How to Achieve a Successful School Year and Thriving Teaching Career
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
High levels of stress are an occupational hazard of the teaching profession, resulting from inadequate training for the broad scope of teacher responsibilities that extend beyond instruction. This comprehensive guide masterfully fills this void by creating a step-by-step sequence of practical techniques-based...
by Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Provides 40 research-based methods with suggestions for easy implementation to help struggling readers, and features three tables of contents (traditional, topical, and problem-solving) formatted for quick reference.
HybridContext Instructional Model
The Internet and the Classrooms: The Way Teachers Experience It
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book is a product of a dissertation project that was completed in December 2006. This project investigated teachers’ experiences in relation to teaching and learning using the hybridcontext instructional model. The dissertation itself has been noted as one of the best in providing practical tips...
Fostering Creativity
The Full Day Kindergarten Classroom in Ontario: Learning Through Inquiry and Play and Its Implications for Child Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Dr. Karias development of the EYE (Early Years Education) Model serves to highlight essential elements for quality Full Day Kindergarten learning and through her research and teaching experience she is able to take a closer look at how to build more creativity into the lives of children. By encouraging...
Teaching the Way Students Learn
Practical Applications for Putting Theories into Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
How do students truly learn? What is the best way to teach? Where do you go for help? Every day, you face the challenge of engaging students in learning, often to disappointing results. This book provides a myriad of voices at your side supporting you with sound educational philosophy and practical...
Beyond Buzzwords
Why Some Ideas Fail to Improve Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Beyond Buzzwords examines popular but ineffective instructional concepts and explains why many popular educational ideas lack evidence and theoretical support for improving instruction. Beyond Buzzwords critically examines instructional goals and the meaning of evidence-based instruction. A new instructional...
Reaching for the Reins
Stories of At-Risk Students Empowered by Serving Others Through Equine Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Tara Carlsen wanted to help at-risk students learn without relying on stale, clinical teaching methods. Instead of trying to find solutions in the classroom, the mathematics teacher transplanted failing students from an alternative high school to a horse ranch. There, she encouraged them to reach...
Applied and Computational Matrix Analysis
MAT-TRIAD, Coimbra, Portugal, September 2015 Selected, Revised Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This volume presents recent advances in the field of matrix analysis based on contributions at the MAT-TRIAD 2015 conference. Topics covered include interval linear algebra and computational complexity, Birkhoff polynomial basis, tensors, graphs, linear pencils, K-theory and statistic inference, showing...
Creating a Learner-centred Primary Classroom
Learner-centered Strategic Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Creating a Learner-centred Primary Classroom is an essential resource to improve teaching practice, examining the key elements that contribute to a learner-centred classroom and offering strategies to encourage children to take a shared role in their learning.
Including case studies describing...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
The first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical perspectives on communicative and interactional competencies, it examines the reception and production of speech acts through a variety of assessment methods and quantitative and qualitative analyses.
by Richard Gentry, Jan McNeel, Vickie Wallace-Nesler
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
This comprehensive guide provides teachers with techniques to engage students as they strengthen their writing skills with Writer's Workshop. Whether working with small- and independent-writing groups or the entire classroom, this workbook gives lesson plans geared to students of various ages, from...
Positive Behavior Support at the Tertiary Level
Red Zone Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Help students move from the “red zone” to the success zone!
How would you respond to a student who has tantrums or hits other students? These and other extremely challenging behaviors are identified as tertiary level or “red zone” by the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports...
by Meg Ormiston
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Unite pedagogy and technology to inspire systemic school change. The author offers powerful, yet practical methods to incorporate technology into daily instruction and prepare students for lifelong learning in a global society. Explore digital tools that help seamlessly incorporate the technology-rich...