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Culturally Specific Pedagogy in the Mathematics Classroom
Strategies for Teachers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Advocating for the use of culturally specific pedagogy to enhance the mathematics instruction of diverse students, this revised second edition offers a wide variety of conceptual and curricular resources for teaching mathematics in a way that combats and confronts the forms of oppression that students...
Scientific Inquiry in Mathematics - Theory and Practice
A STEM Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This valuable resource provides an overview of recent research and strategies in developing and applying modelling to promote practice-based research in STEM education. In doing so, it bridges barriers across academic disciplines by suggesting activities that promote integration of qualitative science...
Innovating Science Teacher Education
A History and Philosophy of Science Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
How teachers view the nature of scientific knowledge is crucial to their understanding of science content and how it can be taught. This book presents an overview of the dynamics of scientific progress and its relationship to the history and philosophy of science, and then explores their methodological...
How to Improve Leadership in Higher Education Institutions
The Impact of the Leadership Skills for Leaders in Higher Education Institutions in Kurdistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This study explores how leaders in higher education (directors, principals, vice presidents, and presidents) in Kurdistan perceive leadership and the leadership skills required to make them effective. It also examines the challenges that leaders face in leading and managing their institution and how...
by Markus Heinrich Rehbach
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
The 'Phrasal-Syntax' approach to teaching and learning English as a Second Language is informed by an understanding of how the 'English' language has evolved over the last two thousand years. This book first offers a brief description of the evolution of the 'English' language. It then offers ideas...
by Wendy Jolliffe, David Waugh, Angela Gill
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
The government prioritizes systematic synthetic phonics as a key strategy in the teaching of reading and this is your guide to teaching systematic synthetic phonics in primary schools.
This text supports trainee teachers working towards primary QTS through the exploration of a range of aspects...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Educators continue to strive for advanced teaching methods to bridge the gap between native and non-native English speaking students. Lessons on written forms of communication continue to be a challenge recognized by educators who wish to improve student comprehension and overall ability to write clearly...
Unlocking the Moviemaking Mind
Tales of Voice, Vision, and Video from K-12 Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Have you ever had an idea for a book, a movie, or a TV show? Chances are that you’ve had many. Today’s students, who are coming of age in a world that is increasingly mediated by smartphones, pads, pods, apps, and the Internet, are even more likely to think of their lives and experiences in terms...
Joint Curriculum Design
Facilitating Learner Ownership and Active Participation in Secondary Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume offers a progressive approach to secondary teaching and teacher training, with particular emphasis upon students and teachers collaborating to negotiate curriculum design--goals, content, methods, and assessment. Based upon mutual trust and partnership, openness and flexibility, Joint...
by James S. Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1999
How does one teach Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, a book as controversial as it is central to the American literary canon? This collection of essays edited by James S. Leonard offers practical classroom methods for instructors dealing with the racism, the casual violence, and the role of women,...
Speed Reading: Learn the Truth about Speed Reading! It Is Possible to Read Two or Three Times Faster
Speed Reading: Learn the Truth about Speed Reading! It Is Possible to Read Two or Three Times Faster
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Reading at a faster speed improves your reading experience. The book provides information on the tactics or strategies that one can implement to enhance their ability to read at much faster speeds. People often obtain secondary thoughts when they hear the word ‘speed reading’. However, the ability...
Teaching Young Adult Literature
Integrating, Implementing, and Re-Imagining the Common Core
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
The authors who contributed to this text believe that young adult literature (YAL) can meet the Common Core’s push to include literacy across content areas, as well as meet the standards in creative and effective ways. This text is intended to give educators a resource to aid them in creating a...
by Deborah Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Visit the Great War and discover why it's been called the first man-made conflict in history. From 1914 to 1918, our resource explores the reality of a war fought on a global scale. Get to know nationalism, imperialism and militarism while examining the many causes of the war. Recognize how tension...
Hopes for Great Happenings (Routledge Revivals)
Alternatives in Education and Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
When Albert Hunt joined the staff of the Regional College of Art, Bradford, in 1965, he found himself working mostly with ‘non-academic’ students on a fascinating range of games, projects and theatre events outside the main stream of exam-oriented education. In this title, first published in 1976,...