Teaching category: 65474 books
Managing Teaching Assistants
A Guide for Headteachers, Managers and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This is a practical guide to the role, management, and deployment of teaching assistants. It offers comprehensive and informed support, underpinned by illustrative case studies throughout. Information and practical guidance is given on:
the role and competencies of teaching assistants
how to...
The Teaching Instinct
Explorations Into What Makes Us Human
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
How we select, prepare, and support teachers has become a surprisingly common topic among journalists, politicians, and policymakers. Contemporary recommendations on teaching and teachers, whatever their intentions, fail to assess this deeply human activity from its historical roots. In The Teaching...
Teaching and Learning as a Pedagogic Pilgrimage
Cultivating Faith, Hope and Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Teaching and Learning as a Pedagogic Pilgrimage is premised on an argument that if higher education is to remain responsive to a public good, then teaching and learning must be in a perpetual state of reflection and change. It argues in defence of teaching and learning as constitutive of a pedagogic...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The varied chapters of this book seek to capture the complexities of teaching and learning in today's schools, and they share an interest in exploring the influences of knowledge construction in the moment and over time. Teaching and learning are human processes, interrelated and dynamic. We assembled...
Teaching for Thinking Today
Strategies, and Activities for the K-8 Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
These are turbulent times. We live in a climate of vigorous testing and memorization, so how can we both engage and challenge our children to learn and become thinking citizens in our society? In her invaluable new book, Selma Wassermann takes a step forward from Louis Rath’s seminal work and...
by Tony Cotton
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Written by an education consultant with widespread experience of teaching mathematics in the UK and internationally, Understanding and Teaching Primary Mathematics seamlessly combines pedagogy and subject knowledge to build confidence and equip you with all the skills and know-how you need to successfully...
Teaching Number
Advancing Children's Skills and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006
The book lets teachers identify where their students are in terms of number skills, and sets out a strategy for developing their knowledge. The authors show how to advance children's learning across five stages of early arithmetical learning - emergent, perceptual, figurative, initial number, and...
by Julia Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
'Trainee teachers will welcome the concise and reader-friendly format this book offers. Julia Lawrence has taken great care to provide a balanced and relevant overview of the major topics trainee teachers often lack confidence in, when planning and delivering lessons. A particularly useful and welcome...
The Essential Guide for Competent Teaching Assistants
Meeting the National Occupational Standards at Level 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This indispensable textbook provides the underpinning knowledge to support all teaching assistants working towards Level 2 of the National Occupational Standards.
This new edition is fully revised and extended to incorporate and respond to all new materials required to meet the 2007 standards....
Experiencing School Mathematics
Traditional and Reform Approaches To Teaching and Their Impact on Student Learning, Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
NORTH AMERICAN RIGHTS ONLY: This is a revised edition of Experiencing School Mathematics first published in 1997 by Open University Press, © Jo Boaler. This revised edition is for sale in North America only.
The first book to provide direct evidence for the effectiveness of traditional and reform-oriented...
by Dr Nick Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
'Nick Pratt's book looks in detail at the real meaning of teaching mathematics interactively in primary schools. Each section is set clearly within a context, is linked by 'key ideas' – the important bits to think about – and is summarised to give a succinct close to the chapter's content and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Research in Science Education (RISE) Volume 6, Research Based Undergraduate Science Teaching examines research, theory, and practice concerning issues of teaching science with undergraduates. This RISE volume addresses higher education faculty and all who teach entry level science. The focus is on...
Developing Your Teaching
Towards Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Packed with advice, vignettes and case studies, as well as useful tips and checklists for improving teaching, the second edition of Developing Your Teaching is the ideal toolkit to support the development of teaching practice. Providing a blend of ideas, interactive review points and case study examples...
by Andrew Connell, Anthony Edwards, Alison Hramiak
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
A Practical Guide to Teaching Computing and ICT in the Secondary School offers straightforward guidance and inspiration to support all trainee and newly qualified teachers, as well as their tutors and mentors. It will also be a source of support and ideas for qualified teachers who wish to develop...