Teaching Methods category: 9681 books
First Time in the College Classroom
A Guide for Teaching Assistants, Instructors, and New Professors at All Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
People who teach in higher education are subject matter specialists, but they often have little preparation in how to teach. This book presents the knowledge base of college teaching in a user-friendly, easy-to-read, yet well-researched format. From sample syllabi to the creation of an effective grading...
by Jacqueline Hansen, Kenneth D. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Featuring a wealth of reflection activities and connections to standards, this concise, easy-to-read teaching methods text equips students with the content knowledge and skills they need to become effective K–8 teachers. The book maximizes instructional flexibility, reflects current educational...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Based on the author's work in science and engineering educational research, this book offers broad, practical strategies for teaching science and engineering courses and describes how faculty can provide a learning environment that helps students comprehend the nature of science, understand science concepts,...
by Alan McLean
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
'Teachers everywhere should read this book: I taught for fifteen years and would have given a lot for a book like this! It not only helps you to understand children and why they do what they do, but shows you how to support them in ways that work.
This is real psychology! It also encourages...
Welcome to Poetryland
Teaching Poetry Writing to Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Welcome to Poetryland: Teaching Poetry Writing to Young Children draws from Shelley Savren’s forty years of teaching poetry writing in grades pre-K–6 and to focus populations, including gifted and special education students, students in after school programs and at art museums, and homeless, abused,...
Accessible Elements
Teaching Science Online and at a Distance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Accessible Elements informs science educators about current practices in online and distance education: distance-delivered methods for laboratory coursework, the requisite administrative and institutional aspects of online and distance teaching, and the relevant educational theory.Delivery of university-level...
Teaching Science to Every Child
Using Culture as a Starting Point
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Ambitious and encouraging, this text for prospective and practicing elementary and middle school science teachers, grounded in contemporary science education reform, is a valuable resource that supplies concrete approaches to support the science and science-integrated engineering learning of each...
Contemplative Practices in Higher Education
Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Contemplative pedagogy is a way for instructors to:
empower students to integrate their own experience into the theoretical material they are being taught in order to deepen their understanding;
help students to develop sophisticated problem-solving skills;
support students’ sense of connection...
by Jack Zevin, David Gerwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Offering a philosophy, methodology, and examples for history instruction that are active, imaginative, and provocative, this text presents a fully developed pedagogy based on problem-solving methods that promote reasoning and judgment and restore a sense of imagination and participation to classroom...
Localising Chinese
Educating Teachers through Service-Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This book presents innovative strategies for teaching the Chinese language to English-speaking students around the world, using in-depth research arising from a long-running and successful Chinese language teaching programme in Sydney. Throughout the book its authors emphasise the importance of teaching...
by Sergei Abramovich
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
This book promotes the experimental mathematics approach in the context of secondary mathematics curriculum by exploring mathematical models depending on parameters that were typically considered advanced in the pre-digital education era. This approach, by drawing on the power of computers to perform...
Creating Citizens
Teaching Civics and Current Events in the History Classroom, Grades 6–9
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Engage students in meaningful civic learning and encourage them to become active and informed citizens. With this essential book, co-published by Routledge and MiddleWeb, you will gain a variety of practical strategies for teaching civics and current events to your middle school students. Author and...
by Shoob, Sara
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Featuring sound educational strategies based on solid research and proven methodology, this exceptional resource provides teachers with best practices in social studies instruction that can be immediately implemented in the classroom. Authored by two social studies experts with more than 60 years...
Latino/a Literature in the Classroom
Twenty-first-century approaches to teaching
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
In one of the most rapidly growing areas of literary study, this volume provides the first comprehensive guide to teaching Latino/a literature in all variety of learning environments. Essays by internationally renowned scholars offer an array of approaches and methods to the teaching of the novel,...