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Listening
A Framework for Teaching Across Differences
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can new and experienced teachers rethink their teaching and learn to embrace and grow from the diversity they encounter among their students? Rather than preparing teachers to follow prescriptions or blueprints, Katherine Schultz suggests that they be given the tools and the opportunity to attend...
Professional Values and Practice
The Essential Guide for Higher Level Teaching Assistants
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Professional Values and Practice concentrates on the more theoretical aspects of the HLTA role: professionalism, relationships, statutory frameworks and knowing your limits. It offers guidance and support on fulfilling the standards and succeeding both inside and outside of the classroom. This book...
The Essential Guide to Secondary Mathematics
Successful and enjoyable teaching and learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Combining research-based theory with fresh, practical guidance for the classroom, The Essential Guide to Secondary Mathematics is a stimulating new resource for all student and practising teachers looking for new ideas and inspiration. With an emphasis on exciting your mathematical and pedagogical...
by Catherine Watts, Clare Forder
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Living Languages is simply bursting with practical and original ideas aimed at teachers and trainee teachers of foreign languages in secondary schools. Written by a team of experienced linguists, this book will inspire and motivate the foreign language classroom and the teachers who work within it.
Living...
The Comprehensive Handbook of Constructivist Teaching
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
While many people talk about the Constructivist philosophy, there has not been a publication that provides a detailed description of what a Constructivist classroom sounds like and looks like. This book fills that void by examining the philosophy, translating it into teaching strategies, and providing...
by Fabrice Jaumont
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
Conceived as a practical, accessible “how to” guide, The Bilingual Revolution is the story of a movement to bring dual language education to public schools told through the eyes of founding parents and educators. These pioneering mothers, fathers, teachers, and principals share the belief that...
High Expectations Teaching
How We Persuade Students to Believe and Act on "Smart Is Something You Can Get"
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
The myth of fixed intelligence debunked
For all the productive conversation around “mindsets,” what’s missing are the details of how to convince our discouraged and underperforming students that “smart is something you can get.” Until now.
With the publication of High-Expectations...
by Cathy Huber
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
Tips for Terrific Teaching offers tried and true ideas that work for career teachers. These are practical, common sense tips for interacting with students, parents and school personnel. It suggests techniques for setting goals, testing, grading, furnishing a classroom on a budget and discipline. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
This landmark volume provides a broad-based, comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning. All authors are leading authorities in their areas of expertise. The chapters, all completely new for Volume 2, are organized in eight...
by Kim Earle, Gill Curry
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The SEND Code of Practice (2015) reinforced the requirement that all teachers must meet the needs of all learners. This topical book provides practical, tried and tested strategies and resources that will support teachers in making art lessons accessible and interesting for all pupils, including those...
Con Respeto
Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools: An Ethnographic Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Con Respeto presents a study of ten Mexican immigrant families, with a special focus on mothers, that describes how such families go about the business of surviving and learning to succeed in a new world. Guadalupe Valdés examines what appears to be a lack of interest in education by Mexican parents...
Teaching Music in Secondary Schools
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2001
Teaching Music in Secondary Schools is the accompaniment to its practical-based counterpart Aspects of Teaching Secondary Music. Together they form a comprehensive resource for those engaged with Initial Teacher Training and Continuing Professional Development in Music.
Through this reader,...
Inspiring the Secondary Curriculum with Technology
Let the students do the work!
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Are other teachers using technology in their lessons? Are you letting your own students down by not harnessing the power of your students’ technology knowledge in your lessons? Is your school asking you to show where you are developing ICT in your subject teaching?
Technology in your subject...
by Nancy L. Commins, Ofelia B. Miramontes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Linguistic Diversity and Teaching raises questions and provides a context for reflection regarding the complex issues surrounding new English learners in the schools. These issues exist within a highly charged political climate and involve not only language, but also culture, class, ethnicity, and...