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The Art of Teaching Secondary English
Innovative and Creative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2004
At a time when school-based English is in danger of becoming reductive and mechanistic, the authors of this book reconsider the fundamental philosophy of English teaching, evaluate current practice and offer a practical framework for new approaches to teaching this important subject.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
A Practical Guide to Teaching Music in the Secondary School provides valuable support, guidance and creative ideas for student teachers, mentors and practising teachers who want to develop their music teaching. Written to accompany the successful textbook Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School,...
The Power of Play in Higher Education
Creativity in Tertiary Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
This book examines the increasing popularity of creativity and play in tertiary learning, and how it can be harnessed to enhance the student experience at university. While play is often misunderstood as something ‘trivial’ and associated with early years education, the editors and contributors...
by Douglas P. Newton
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
This practical and accessible workbook is designed to support student teachers as they develop their basic teaching skills and increase their broader knowledge and understanding for teaching science. Newly qualified and beginning teachers should also find it useful.
It contains all the advice,...
by Sheine Peart
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Further Education is the most diverse of all the education sectors. Managing diversity and promoting equality, a legislative requirement of the 2010 Equalities Act, brings significant challenges for practitioners who are tasked with making the rhetoric of politicians a reality, often with little guidance...
Reflections on Communicative Language Teaching
A Course Book for Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
To become a great English teacher, what do you need to know and what do you have to do? I reflected continually on those questions during a four-year teaching sojourn in Thailand. In this book I present my answers. After being invited to develop a course in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)...
The Role of Leadership Educators
Transforming Learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Leadership, as a discipline, leadership education, as a field, and leadership educator, as a profession are still in their infancy and rapidly evolving. As professionals in higher education, we are constantly asked to provide opportunities for students to learn leadership, whether that is inside or...
The Century of Science
The Global Triumph of the Research University
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Award for Significant Research on International Higher Education (CIHE/ASHE)
Winner of the 2018 American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence: Education Theory
In The Century of Science, a multicultural, international team of authors examine...
Technology, Literacy, Learning
A Multimodal Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
With the recent explosion of technology into the world of education across the globe, this book sets out a framework for rethinking the three key areas of schooling that are most affected by technology's impact on education today: knowledge as curriculum; learning and pedagogy and literacy across...
Teaching and Supporting Migrant Children in Our Schools
A Culturally Proficient Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
General approaches to multiculturalism run the risk of overlooking an increasingly diverse student population that deserves special consideration and attention: students from immigrant backgrounds whose families toil the fields in order to provide better educational opportunities for their children....
Fostering Success of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in STEM
The Role of Minority Serving Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
To maintain competitiveness in the global economy, United States policymakers and national leaders are increasing their attention to producing workers skilled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Given the growing minority population in the country, it is critical that higher...
Teaching Again
A Professor's Tale of Returning to a Ninth Grade Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Teaching Again exposes the very human core of the teaching experience. This book is not just about teaching English/language arts; it is about the heart and soul of the vocation that is teaching. It is also not just about Tom Poetter, the English teacher; it is about every individual who has ever...
Students With Interrupted Formal Education
Bridging Where They Are and What They Need
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
New hope for our most vulnerable English learners
“One of the guiding principles of effective English language teaching is for educators to know their students. And that in a nutshell captures the value of this book. . . . The compassion that Custodio and O’Loughlin feel for our SIFE students,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book explores theories and pedagogies in the L2 classroom that have led to an understanding of how nonnative languages are taught and learned. Featuring a diverse set of perspectives from researchers and language educators from around the globe, this book highlights important theoretical and...