Teaching category: 65474 books
Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology
Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
How should I use technology in my courses? What impact does technology have on student learning? Is distance learning effective? Should I give online tests and, if so, how can I be sure of the integrity of the students' work? These are some of the questions that instructors raise as technology becomes...
Understanding Pedagogy
Developing a critical approach to teaching and learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
What is meant by pedagogy?
How does our conception of pedagogy inform good teaching and learning?
Pedagogy is a complex concept of which student and practising teachers need to have an understanding, yet there remain many ambiguities about what the term means, and how it informs learning...
Teaching Living Legends
Professional Development and Lessons for the 21st Century Music Educator
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book traces the research on the design, implementation and outcomes of a professional development program for in-service primary and secondary school teachers aimed at enhancing their understanding of living music traditions in Singapore and how these could be taught in the 21st century music...
Mathematics and Its Teaching in the Southern Americas
with An Introduction by Ubiratan D'Ambrosio
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
This anthology presents a comprehensive review of mathematics and its teaching in the following nations in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, México, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, Puerto Rico, Trinidad...
Best Practices for Teaching Science
What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Let Randi Stone and her award-winning teachers demonstrate tried-and-tested best practices for teaching science in diverse elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.
Linked to companion volumes for teaching writing and mathematics, this resource for new and veteran educators helps build...
Teaching as the Art of Staging
A Scenario-Based College Pedagogy in Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
College teachers all too often still play Sage on the Stage – lecturing to rooms full of passive and supposedly absorbed students. The cutting-edge opposite is still supposed to be the Guide on the Side – facilitating wherever students themselves are already going, mentoring and coaching them...
63 Tactics for Teaching Diverse Learners
Grades 6-12
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This collection of evidence-based instructional strategies enables general and special education teachers, novice or experienced, to address the learning needs of all students in diverse, inclusive classrooms. The authors provide a practical, research-based teaching model that focuses on planning,...
by Joyce Nutta, Nazan U. Bautista, Malcolm B. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Books in the Teaching English Language Learners (ELLs) across the Curriculum Series are written specifically for pre- and in- service teachers who may not have been trained in ELL techniques, but still find themselves facing the realities and challenges of today's diverse classrooms and learners....
College English Teacher Development in China
A Mixed-method Study
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This study addresses the professional development of college English teachers in mainland China. It is designed to examine the relationship between teachers’ motivation and their attitudinal elements including teacher engagement and commitment, and teaching approaches. This study adopts a mixed-method...
Transforming University Biochemistry Teaching Using Collaborative Learning and Technology
Ready, Set, Action Research!
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
One aim of Gilmer’s captivating text on university pedagogy is to show that biochemistry (or any science) does not consist solely of facts to be learned, but is a way of thinking about the world. Her purpose, both in this book and in her classroom, is to make her students into critical thinkers...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
How Chinese Teach Mathematics and Improve Teaching builds upon existing studies to examine mathematics classroom instruction in China. It combines contributions from Chinese scholars with commentary from key Western scholars to offer multiple perspectives in viewing and learning about some important...
Creativity and Learning in Secondary English
Teaching for a creative classroom
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Creativity in secondary English lessons today is a democratically conceived quality that all pupils are expected to achieve and a resource on which all are entitled to draw. But what exactly is creativity? And how does it relate to English? Creativity and Learning in Secondary English answers these...
Overcoming Students' Misconceptions in Science
Strategies and Perspectives from Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This book discusses the importance of identifying and addressing misconceptions for the successful teaching and learning of science across all levels of science education from elementary school to high school. It suggests teaching approaches based on research data to address students’ common misconceptions....
by Phil Wade
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
This short ebook is for Business English teachers interested in or currently using iPads. It explains the technical side of iPad teaching, the uses of iPads in class and ways to approach lessons. There are also several tips and sample app activities.The 10 minute intro to series is designed to give you a quick practical guide to various aspects of Business English Teaching.