Teaching Methods category: 9681 books
by Rody Politt, Joy Pollock, Elisabeth Waller
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
Dyslexia cuts across class, age and intelligence. All schools will have pupils with dyslexia and teachers of children of all ages need to be aware of the teaching methods and approaches which are most effective with these children.
This fully revised and updated edition of a classic text offers...
Critical Mathematics Education
Theory, Praxis and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Mathematics is traditionally seen as the most neutral of disciplines, the furthest removed from the arguments and controversy of politics and social life. However, critical mathematics challenges these assumptions and actively attacks the idea that mathematics is pure, objective, and value?neutral....
My Journey as a Teacher, Mentor, and Coach
I Was Never That Clever!
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Having worked in administration and customer service roles for a period of ten years, Christine began her journey into teaching in 1987 and accepted her first full-time post with a college for people with disabilities in 1989 and is still there today. The range of disabilities is vast and includes...
Teaching STEM in the Early Years
Activities for Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
This book is for preschool, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten classroom teachers.
This book can be course adopted in preschool and kindergarten curriculum instruction and early education methods courses in math and science.
In recent years, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and...
Reading Champs
Teaching Reading Made Easy
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Reading is one of the most important fundamental skills that children learn. Unfortunately, many children still struggle to read proficiently, leaving parents to seek alternative educational environments and educators to seek innovative teaching methods. With that in mind, seasoned reading specialist...
by Karen Castle
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
A practical guide for all teachers embarking on their Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL), this book begins by encouraging the reader to identify their own learning style and engage in different study methods, and goes on to explore higher level study skills and academic writing. The research required...
Creating a Learner-centred Primary Classroom
Learner-centered Strategic Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Creating a Learner-centred Primary Classroom is an essential resource to improve teaching practice, examining the key elements that contribute to a learner-centred classroom and offering strategies to encourage children to take a shared role in their learning.
Including case studies describing...
by Gojak, Linda
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Dig into problem solving and reflect on current teaching practices with this exceptional resource. Meaningful instructional tools and methods are provided to help teachers understand each problem solving strategy and how to use it with their students. Teachers are given opportunities to practice problems...
How Science Works
Exploring effective pedagogy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
How Science Works provides student and practising teachers with a comprehensive introduction to one of the most dramatic changes to the secondary science curriculum.　 Underpinned by the latest research in the field, it explores the emergence and meaning of How Science Works and reviews major developments...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Research on the preparation and continued development of mathematics teachers is becoming an increasingly important subset of mathematics education research. Such research explores the attributes, knowledge, skills and beliefs of mathematics teachers as well as methods for assessing and developing...
Strategies for Teaching Fractions
Using Error Analysis for Intervention and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Any way you slice it, fractions are foundational
Many students struggle with fractions and must understand them before learning higher-level math. Veteran educator David B. Spangler describes powerful diagnostic methods for error analysis that pinpoint specific student misconceptions and supplies...
Newsworthy
Cultivating Critical Thinkers, Readers, and Writers in Language Arts Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this book, Ed Madison—journalist, producer/director, and innovative educator—provides specific strategies to help teachers use journalistic learning to achieve positive outcomes that engage students in new ways. Journalistic learning is a teaching approach that borrows techniques from...
A Teacher's Guide to Standards-Based Learning
(An Instruction Manual for Adopting Standards-Based Grading, Curriculum, and Feedback)
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
With foreword by Robert J. Marzano
When teachers adopt standards-based learning, students take ownership of their education and achievement soars. Written specifically for K-12 teachers, this resource details a sequential approach for connecting curriculum, instruction, assessment methods,...
Social Science Learning in Schools
Perspective and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Social Science Learning in Schools: Perspective and Challenges locates the teaching and learning of social science within the larger perspective and aims of education. It emphasizes the need to take the teaching of social science beyond the confines of contemporary ideological debates, into the realm...