Teaching Methods category: 9681 books
Developing Fluent Readers
Teaching Fluency as a Foundational Skill
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Viewing fluency as a bridge between foundational skills and open-ended learning, this book guides teachers through effective instruction and assessment of fluent reading skills in the primary grades. Fluency’s relationship to phonological awareness, phonics, and print concepts is explained, and...
by Jill E. Tatz, M.A., Leanora Carpio-Mariano
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
What are today's best methods for teaching literacy skills to students with complex support needs—including autism, intellectual disability, and multiple disabilities? This comprehensive guidebook has up-to-date, evidence-based answers for pre- and in-service educators.
Developed by Copeland...
Differentiated Lessons for Every Learner
Standards-Based Activities and Extensions for Middle School
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Differentiated Lessons for Every Learner supports middle school teachers in teaching all students, including those with high ability. The book contains lessons in each content area with learning activities that align to the national content standards, embed ELA Common Core Standards, and correlate...
The Education Revolution
How to Apply Brain Science to Improve Instruction and School Climate
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Maximizing student capacity and restoring motivation—the key to school success
Brain research has the power to revolutionize education, but it can be difficult for educators to implement innovative strategies without the proper knowledge or resources. The Education Revolution bridges the...
Caring Leadership in Turbulent Times
Tackling Neoliberal Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
This book analyzes education reform through the eyes of those entrenched in the process—policy makers, administrators, middle managers, principals, and teachers—in the context of care. A senior administrator, who participated in the implementation of an unprecedented series of reforms that flattened...
Reading Comprehension
Assisting Children with Learning Difficulties
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2011
Reading Comprehension: Assisting Children with Learning Difficulties examines the complex nature of reading comprehension. It introduces a model for classifying reading comprehension based on an expanded Simple View of Reading. Issues related to assessment, diagnosis, and remediation of reading comprehension...
by Graham Orange, Dave Hobbs
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This title was first published in 2000: Teaching, learning and assessment methods are constantly evolving, providing the educator with a range of issues and new challenges. This book addresses these challenges through the use of information and communications technologies and presents a vision of how these may be deployed in the educational environments of the future.
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: 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...
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...