Teaching Methods category: 9681 books
Reading Like a Historian
Teaching Literacy in Middle and High School History Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Featuring an expanded introduction, this award-winning bestseller has been updated to link curriculum to the Common Core State Standards.This popular text shows how to apply Wineburg's highly acclaimed approach to teaching—Reading Like a Historian—to middle and high school classrooms, increasing...
by Maria Montessori
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
This is, quite simply, one of the landmark books in the history of education. Written by influential Italian educator Maria Montessori (1870–1952), it describes a new system for educating young children based on materials and methods she originally developed to teach retarded students. The techniques...
Teaching the Art of Poetry
The Moves
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Concise and accessible, this guide to teaching the art of poetry from Shakespeare to contemporary poets enables anyone to learn about how poets approach their art. Teachers can use this book to explore any facet or era of poetry. Any reader can use it as an entryway into the art of poetry. Teaching...
Approaches to Qualitative Research in Mathematics Education
Examples of Methodology and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
This volume documents a range of qualitative research approaches emerged within mathematics education over the last three decades, whilst at the same time revealing their underlying methodologies. Continuing the discussion as begun in the two 2003 ZDM issues dedicated to qualitative empirical methods,...
So All Can Learn
A Practical Guide to Differentiation
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
How do we educate so all can learn? What does differentiation look like when done successfully? This practical guide to differentiation answers these questions and more. Based on national and international work, McCarthy shares how educators finally understand how differentiation can work. Bridging...
Faculty Development in Developing Countries
Improving Teaching Quality in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Learner-centered approaches to teaching, such as small group discussions, debates, role plays and project-based assignments, help students develop critical thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills. However, more traditional lecture-based approaches still predominate in classrooms in higher...
Teaching for Learning
101 Intentionally Designed Educational Activities to Put Students on the Path to Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Despite a growing body of research on teaching methods, instructors lack a comprehensive resource that highlights and synthesizes proven approaches. Teaching for Learning fills that gap. Each of the one hundred and one entries:
describes an approach and lists its essential features and elements
demonstrates...
Powerful Teacher Learning
What the Theatre Arts Teach about Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
This book offers an innovative approach to understanding and supporting teacher inquiry groups, Critical Friends Groups, “PLCs,” and other vehicles for the school-wide professional learning community. It takes the reader outside traditional sites of professional development for teachers and into...
Maths for the Dyslexic Learner
A practical guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Mathematics will be an essential resource for teachers, classroom assistants, and SENCOs who help dyslexic and dyscalculic children with their understanding of mathematics. Written in an accessible style with helpful illustrations, this practical book reveals helpful ways...
Teaching Disciplinary Literacy
Using Video Records of Practice to Improve Secondary Teacher Preparation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This practical guide will help pre- and inservice secondary teachers and their instructors and coaches to use videos as a resource to improve teaching. Derived from the authors’ research and experience in a teacher preparation program using video records of practice as a core element for reflection...
What Successful Teachers Do
A Dozen Things to Ensure Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A Dozen Things will be engaged with the personal stories of teaching, while also gaining strategies for success in their classrooms. A quick glance at the table of contents provides insight into the issues teachers face and how to thrive and succeed. Successful teachers prepare personally and professionally...
Teaching, Learning and the Net Generation
Concepts and Tools for Reaching Digital Learners
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Although a growing body of research demonstrates the need for education to adapt to the needs of the Net Generation, research also shows that traditional teaching methods continue to dominate the classroom. To stay effective, higher education must adapt to the needs of this unique generation of digital...
Math Makes Sense!
A Constructivist Approach to the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
The methods for teaching mathematics usually follow the structure of mathematics. The problem with this is that the structure of mathematics took centuries of elaboration to develop and is not the same as how one originally experiences mathematics. Based on research of how mathematics is actually...
Methods of Literacy Research
The Methodology Chapters From the Handbook of Reading Research, Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
In this volume, 10 reviews of significant reading research methodologies are reprinted from the Handbook of Reading Research, Volume III. The editors have judged that these specific methodologies have had great impact on reading research since the publication of Volume II in 1991. This text is especially...