Teaching Methods category: 9681 books
by Margot Kinberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
An AEP Award winner, this teacher-friendly guide integrates a variety of reading skills and strategies into your content-area instruction to improve comprehension of textbook reading and other informational text. This resource provides multiple strategies and ready-to-implement best practices to help...
Becoming a Reflective Mathematics Teacher
A Guide for Observations and Self-Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Ideal for preservice mathematics teachers who are taking methods courses or are student teaching, this research-based, activity-oriented guide offers a highly effective framework for teacher reflection and self-assessment. Highlighting inquiry-based, learner-centered teaching and grounded in a cognitive...
Teaching as Scholarship
Preparing Students for Professional Practice in Community Services
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book is about teaching for professional practice and explores ways to engage students in the classroom. It draws on the principles of rigorous scholarship and focuses on interactive learning between the class and the professor and among the students. Each contributor addresses the need to connect...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Research on middle level education indicates that student learning at the middle level has a deep and abiding influence on postsecondary opportunities and career paths. As research continues to highlight the urgency of engaging middle level students in academic learning, it is increasingly clear that...
Teacher's Ultimate Planning Guide
How to Achieve a Successful School Year and Thriving Teaching Career
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
High levels of stress are an occupational hazard of the teaching profession, resulting from inadequate training for the broad scope of teacher responsibilities that extend beyond instruction. This comprehensive guide masterfully fills this void by creating a step-by-step sequence of practical techniques-based...
HybridContext Instructional Model
The Internet and the Classrooms: The Way Teachers Experience It
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book is a product of a dissertation project that was completed in December 2006. This project investigated teachers’ experiences in relation to teaching and learning using the hybridcontext instructional model. The dissertation itself has been noted as one of the best in providing practical tips...
by William Samek
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
This book is designed by an experienced producer, Bill Samek, of audiovisual and technical training materials. He has taught classes in photography, video production, amateur radio and some of his other hobbies. It is designed to to get business people, hobbyists, technicians, craftsman and professionals...
Your Teacher Training Companion
Essential skills and knowledge for very busy trainees
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The second edition of Your Teacher Training Companion is your one-stop-shop for the essential knowledge and skills you need to pass your course with confidence. Guiding you through your time in school and your studies, it will ensure you develop both the practical teaching skills and academic skills...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Courses in computer programming combine a number of different concepts, from general problem-solving to mathematical precepts such as algorithms and computational intelligence. Due to the complex nature of computer science education, teaching the novice programmer can be a challenge. Innovative Teaching...
by David Rock, Douglas K. Brumbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Solidly grounded in up-to-date research, theory and technology, Teaching Secondary Mathematics is a practical, student-friendly, and popular text for secondary mathematics methods courses. It provides clear and useful approaches for mathematics teachers, and shows how concepts typically found...
Innovating Science Teacher Education
A History and Philosophy of Science Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
How teachers view the nature of scientific knowledge is crucial to their understanding of science content and how it can be taught. This book presents an overview of the dynamics of scientific progress and its relationship to the history and philosophy of science, and then explores their methodological...
Creating the Path to Success in the Classroom
Teaching to Close the Graduation Gap for Minority, First-Generation, and Academically Unprepared Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This is a book for all faculty who are concerned with promoting the persistence of all students whom they teach.
Most recognize that faculty play a major role in student retention and success because they typically have more direct contact with students than others on campus. However, little...
The Teaching and Learning of Statistics
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This book presents the breadth and diversity of empirical and practical work done on statistics education around the world. A wide range of methods are used to respond to the research questions that form it's base. Case studies of single students or teachers aimed at understanding reasoning processes,...
Ditch That Textbook
Free Your Teaching and Revolutionize Your Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Textbooks are symbols of centuries-old education. They’re often outdated as soon as they hit students’ desks. Acting “by the textbook” implies compliance and a lack of creativity. It’s time to ditch those textbooks—and those textbook assumptions about learning! In Ditch That Textbook,...