Teaching Methods category: 9681 books

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Teaching Speaking and Listening

One Step at a Time, Revised Edition

by Ann Locke
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013

This book offers a systematic yet flexible programme for teaching spoken language one step at a time. It targets the essential spoken language skills crucial for every child's educational development - Conversation; Listening; Narrative; Discussion -and provides auditing tools, checklists and guidance...
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by Richard Beach, Deborah Appleman, Bob Fecho
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

This popular textbook introduces prospective and practicing English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms. It underscores the value of providing students with a range of different critical approaches and tools for interpreting texts and the need to...
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Digital Humanities Pedagogy

Practices, Principles and Politics

by Brett D. Hirsch (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015

Academic institutions are starting to recognize the growing public interest in digital humanities research, and there is an increasing demand from students for formal training in its methods. Despite the pressure on practitioners to develop innovative courses, scholarship in this area has tended to...
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The Skillful Teacher

On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom

by Stephen D. Brookfield
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015

Energize your classrooms with these key techniques for college teaching Students say the best teachers get them excited about learning, stretch their thinking, and keep them actively involved in class. But with increasingly diverse classrooms and constantly changing technology, each semester...
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The New Art and Science of Teaching Writing

(Research-Based Instructional Strategies for Teaching and Assessing Writing Skills)

by Kathy Tuchman Glass, Robert J. Marzano
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018

For educators to be effective, they must intentionally select and implement research-based instructional strategies and conduct assessments. Using a clear and well-organized structure, the authors apply the strategies and techniques originally presented in The New Art and Science of Teaching by Robert...
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Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School

A Cognitive and Cultural Approach

by Dr. Cory A. Buxton, Dr. Eugene F. Provenzo
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010

A practical methods text that prepares teachers to engage their students in rich science learning experiences Featuring an increased emphasis on the way today's changing science and technology is shaping our culture, this Second Edition of Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School provides...
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Critical Thinking Now

Practical Teaching Methods for Classrooms around the World

by Nancy Burkhalter
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016

Today’s curricula can (and should) incorporate critical thinking methods because they are the means by which people best understand, learn, and retain higher level concepts. Contrary to what many professional trainers assume, teaching critical thinking is not achieved by shoveling facts at an audience...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014

While the great scientists of the past recognized a need for a multidisciplinary approach, today’s schools often treat math and science as subjects separate from the rest. This not only creates a disinterest among students, but also a potential learning gap once students reach college and then graduate...
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Teaching on a Tightrope

The Diverse Roles of a Great Teacher

by Jack Zevin
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010

Teaching on a Tightrope offers those seeking to play the teacher's role a way of thinking about the major components of teaching. These components or dimensions are described in terms of pairings that interact and overlap with each other, e.g., teaching as art and science, content and process, theory...
Cover of Teaching Mathematical Reasoning in Secondary School Classrooms
by Lorraine Lauf, Karin Brodie, Stephen Modau
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009

For too many students, mathematics consists of facts in a vacuum, to be memorized because the instructor says so, and to be forgotten when the course of study is completed. In this all-too-common scenario, young learners often miss the chance to develop skills—specifically, reasoning skills—that...
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Reading-Writing Connections

From Theory to Practice

by Mary F. Heller
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999

Reading-Writing Connections: From Theory to Practice is an extraordinary language arts methods text that enables elementary and middle school teachers to create classroom environments where all students can become lifelong readers and writers. Focusing on developmentally appropriate methods and materials,...
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Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies

Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management

by Bruce E. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016

Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management is an exciting methods-based text that integrates appropriate management and assessment techniques with seven distinct teaching strategies. Writing explicitly for pre-service social studies...
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by Douglas K. Brumbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

Middle school teaching and learning has a distinct pedagogy and curriculum that is grounded in the concept of developmentally appropriate education. This text is designed to meet the very specific professional development needs of future teachers of mathematics in middle school environments. Closely...
Cover of Methods of Solving Number Theory Problems
by Ellina Grigorieva
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018

Through its engaging and unusual problems, this book demonstrates methods of reasoning necessary for learning number theory. Every technique is followed by problems (as well as detailed hints and solutions) that apply theorems immediately, so readers can solve a variety of abstract problems in a systematic,...
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