Teaching Methods category: 9681 books
Stubborn Pilgrimage
Resistance and Transformation in Ontario English Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Stubborn Pilgrimage traces both the development of new teaching methods (what I call the post-Diltzian paradigm) and the resistance of English teachers to the serial attempts to have their programme hijacked by well-meaning psychologists and sociologists and a Ministry of Education increasingly in...
Collaboration and the Future of Education
Preserving the Right to Think and Teach Historically
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Current educational reforms have given rise to various types of "educational Taylorism," which encourage the creation of efficiency models in pursuit of a unified way to teach. In history education curricula, this has been introduced through scripted textbook-based programs such as Teacher...
by Ian Thompson, Ian Menter
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This book addresses key issues related to teaching pupils from disadvantaged and impoverished backgrounds and provides a valuable reference and pedagogical tool for teachers and teacher educators. Research has consistently shown that the most economically disadvantaged pupils have the poorest educational...
Shut Down Kid
How to prevent kids from shutting down
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
This book heralds a new line in thinking why the illiteracy rate has been maintained at the same level for decades.
It's easy to blame the child as if he were the problem, and not the failure of instruction.
There is a basic foundation for teaching that has to be in place for learning to occur....
Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies
What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
This collection of outstanding, teacher-tested methods for K–12 social studies instruction for diverse classrooms offers fresh ideas and strategies covering citizenship, diversity, community, and more.
Transforming Primary Mathematics
Understanding classroom tasks, tools and talk
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Fully updated to reflect the new curriculum, the revised edition of Transforming Primary Mathematics sets out key theories and cutting-edge research in the field to enable teachers to take a fresh look at how they teach mathematics.
The book encourages teachers to reflect on their own beliefs...
by Dr Marian R Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
This Fourth Edition of Language and Literacy in the Early Years has been fully revised and updated to reflect current professional interests and the latest developments in the field. The book provides comprehensive coverage of issues in language, literacy and learning, focusing on the age range from...
by James H. Stronge, Xianxuan Xu
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Discover the keys to improving student learning and success. Taking a practical approach to instructional delivery, the authors outline research-based strategies and illustrate how teachers, coaches, and administrators can use them to enhance their everyday practices. Organized around 10 methods of instruction,...
Faces of English Education
Students, Teachers, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Faces of English Education provides an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to current perspectives on English language education, covering new areas of interest and recent studies in the field. In seventeen specially commissioned chapters written by international experts and practitioners, this...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Critical qualitative research informs social education through a lens that ensures the investigation of issues in education tied to power and privilege, ultimately leading to advocacy and activism. The concept of critical is increasingly challenged in this age of neoliberal reform; nevertheless, critical...
Constructivism and the New Social Studies
A Collection of Classic Inquiry Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The New Social Studies refers to a flurry of academic and commercial activity during the 1960s and 1970s that resulted in the mass development and dissemination of revolutionary classroom materials and teacher resources. In science as well as social studies, a spirit of “inquiry-based teaching”...
An Adventure in Service-Learning
Developing Knowledge, Values and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
An Adventure in Service-Learning argues that education can provide not just knowledge and skills but it can also encourage the development of values and responsibility Service-Learning is a teaching method unlike any other. It allows students to use their classroom theory to help others through relevant...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
In the past decade, traditional classroom teaching models have been transformed in order to better promote active learning and learner engagement. Implementation and Critical Assessment of the Flipped Classroom Experience seeks to capture the momentum of non-traditional teaching methods and provide a...
Improving Primary Mathematics
Linking Home and School
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Improving Primary Mathematics provides primary teachers with practical ideas about how to bring these two worlds closer to improve children’s mathematics learning.
Using a number of fascinating case studies focusing on children’s experiences of mathematics both inside and outside the classroom,...