Teaching Methods category: 9681 books
Informal Learning and Field Trips
Engaging Students in Standards-Based Experiences across the K?5 Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Turn every field trip into a high-quality learning experience!
What youngster isn't excited at the prospect of taking a field trip? Enthusiastic students present teachers with the ideal scenario for creating meaningful out-of-the-classroom encounters and giving students the building blocks...
Ditch That Homework
Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
In Ditch That Homework, Matt Miller and Alice Keeler discuss the pros and cons of homework, why teachers assign it, and what life could look like without it. As they evaluate the research and share parent and teacher insights, the authors offer a convincing case for ditching homework and replacing it with more effective and personalized learning methods.
Literacy Learning Clubs in Grades 4-8
Engaging Students across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Literacy learning clubs are highly motivating small-group collaborations that can improve tweens' and teens' academic achievement, support their social-emotional development, and increase their enjoyment of reading and writing. This book explains the research basis for the author's approach and offers...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
This volume focuses specifically on narrative inquiry as a means to interrogate research questions in music education, offering music education researchers indispensible information on the use of qualitative research methods, particularly narrative, as appropriate and acceptable means of conducting...
Partners in Literacy
A Writing Center Model for Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Partners in Literacy describes the process, research, relationships, and theories that guided a three-year partnership between the Purdue University Writing Lab and two community organizations in Lafayette, Indiana: the Lafayette Adult Resource Academy and WorkOne Express. This partnership resulted...
The Learning and Teaching of Algebra
Ideas, Insights and Activities
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
IMPACT (Interweaving Mathematics Pedagogy and Content for Teaching) is an exciting new series of texts for teacher education which aims to advance the learning and teaching of mathematics by integrating mathematics content with the broader research and theoretical base of mathematics education.
The...
by Dan Davies, Deb McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
How can you unlock your own creativity to help children learn science creatively?
How do you bring the world of ‘real science’ into the classroom?
Where does science fit in a creative curriculum?
This second edition of Teaching Science Creatively has been fully updated to...
Vers une école de la réussite
Le numérique et les neurosciences au service de la transmission
Language: French
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Et si la réussite scolaire était accessible à tous les élèves ? Et si l’élève en difficulté devenait enfin acteur de son succès ?En puisant dans la tradition d’excellence éducative française tout en pratiquant une pédagogie interactive, il est aujourd’hui possible de dépasser le constat...
Challenging Tradition
Innovation in Advanced Theological Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
The surge of theological education in the rapidly growing church of the Majority World has highlighted the inadequacy of traditional Western methods of thinking and learning to fully accomplish the task at hand. The limitations of current theological education are embodied in the formation and assessment of...
by Robert G. Bill
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Mathematics is often seen only as a tool for science, engineering, and other quantitative disciplines. Lost in the focus on the tools are the intricate interconnecting patterns of logic and ingenious methods of representation discovered over millennia which form the broader themes of the subject....
by Dr. Afra Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
The book explores the remedial pedagogy applied during intervention designed to improve the students metacognitive processes of learning new English-language knowledge. Todays globalization and technology on social behaviors demand that school-age students acquire reading skills by the use of audio-visual...
Past into Present
Effective Techniques for First-Person Historical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
First-person interpretation--the portrayal of historical
characters through interactive dramatization or roleplaying--is
an effective, albeit controversial, method used to bring history
to life at museums, historic sites, and other public venues.
Stacy Roth examines the techniques of first-person...
by Sandra Murphy, Mary Ann Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This innovative resource provides teachers with a road map for designing a comprehensive writing curriculum that meets Common Core standards. The authors zero in on several “big ideas” that lead to and support effective practices in writing instruction, such as integrating reading, writing,...
The New Teacher Revolution
Changing Education for a New Generation of Learners
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
For 21st Century Educators – The New Rules Of Student Engagement
Today’s classroom demands teacher innovation and rejection of outdated practices, especially when someone tells you it’s “always been done” a certain way. In this book, Josh Stumpenhorst details his methods for improving...