Teaching Methods category: 9681 books
by Denise Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In today’s high-stakes testing environment, integrating technology into the curriculum is often seen as something “extra” or for use with a few special projects. With the growth in Internet use by even the youngest children, educators urgently need a practical introduction to online...
by Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath, Alison G. Dover, Nick Henning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This practical book shows how veteran, justice-oriented social studies teachers are responding to the Common Core State Standards, focusing on how they build curriculum, support students’ literacy skills, and prepare students to think and act critically within and beyond the classroom. In order...
Literacy Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities
Problematizing Stereotypes, Challenging Myths
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This definitive look at teaching English in rural secondary schools contests current definitions and discussions of rural education, examines their ideological and cultural foundations, and presents an alternative perspective that conceptualizes rural communities as diverse, unique, and conducive...
Teaching Literature in Virtual Worlds
Immersive Learning in English Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
What are the realities and possibilities of utilizing on-line virtual worlds as teaching tools for specific literary works? Through engaging and surprising stories from classrooms where virtual worlds are in use, this book invites readers to understand and participate in this emerging and valuable...
Eyes on Math
A Visual Approach to Teaching Math Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This new book is an exciting follow-up to the authors’ bestsellers on differentiated math instruction, Good Questions and More Good Questions. Eyes on Math is a unique teaching resource that provides engaging, full-color graphics and pictures with text showing teachers how to use each image...
A Guide to Teaching Practice
5th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
A Guide to Teaching Practice is the major standard text for all students on initial teacher training courses in the UK.
Authoritative yet accessible, it covers the important basic skills and issues that students need to consider during their practice, such as planning, classroom organization, behaviour...
Teaching Mathematics through Story
A creative approach for the early years
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
How do you make mathematics relevant and exciting to young children? How can mathematics and literacy be combined in a meaningful way? How can stories inspire the teaching and learning of mathematics?
This book explores the exciting ways in which story can be used as a flexible resource...
Empowering Professional Teaching in Engineering
Sustaining the Scholarship of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Each one of us has views about education, how discipline should function, how individuals learn, how they should be motivated, what intelligence is, and the structures (content and subjects) of the curriculum. Perhaps the most important beliefs that (beginning) teachers bring with them are their notions...
by Steven A. Stahl, William E. Nagy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Learning new words is foundational to success in school and life. Researchers have known for years that how many word meanings a student knows is one of the strongest predictors of how well that student will understand text and be able to communicate through writing. This book is about how children...
by Mary Briggs, Alice Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Play is an essential part of learning and development for children and is an increasingly important aspect of creative approaches to teaching and learning in primary education. This book demonstrates the value of play in all its different forms as a highly effective medium for teaching and learning...
Get Up or Give Up
How I Almost Gave Up on Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Michael Bonner knew he wanted to be a teacher after his favorite college professor, Dr. Poulson, inspired him. The professor’s passion and love for teaching prompted Michael to change his major and his life’s direction. But nothing prepared Michael for the reality of a Title One school.
Teaching...
Explaining Reading, Third Edition
A Resource for Explicit Teaching of the Common Core Standards
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
This trusted teacher resource and widely adopted text presents effective ways to demystify essential reading skills and strategies for K-8 students who are struggling. It has been fully revised to focus on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts. Following a concise introduction...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Supporting Teaching and Learning brings together theoretical perspectives, practical educational ideas and current academic debates to help students develop their knowledge and understanding of core educational issues. It explores the professional relationships necessary for quality learning and encourages...
Discipline-Specific Writing
Theory into practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Discipline-Specific Writing provides an introduction and guide to the teaching of this topic for students and trainee teachers. This book highlights the importance of discipline-specific writing as a critical area of competence for students, and covers both the theory and practice of teaching this...