Education Teaching category: 62921 books
Educating Emergent Bilinguals
Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this accessible guide introduces readers to the issues and controversies surrounding the education of language minority students in the United States. What makes this book a perennial favorite are the succinct descriptions of alternative practices for...
Research on Second Language Teacher Education
A Sociocultural Perspective on Professional Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Embracing a sociocultural perspective on human cognition and employing an array of methodological tools for data collection and analysis, this volume documents the complexities of second language teachers’ professional development in diverse L2 teacher education programs around the world, including...
by Margaret E. King-Sears Ph.D., Rachel Janney Ph.D., Martha E. Snell Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Collaborative teaming is the glue that holds an inclusive school together. But most educators don't get explicit training on teamwork skills—and that's why you need the new third edition of this popular how-to book. Packed with practical tips, tools, and vignettes, Collaborative Teaming shows your...
African American, Creole, and Other Vernacular Englishes in Education
A Bibliographic Resource
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
More than 50 years of scholarly attention to the intersection of language and education have resulted in a rich body of literature on the role of vernacular language varieties in the classroom. This field of work can be bewildering in its size and variety, drawing as it does on the diverse methods,...
The Power of Questioning
Opening up the World of Student Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Teaching and learning cannot happen without questions. Inquiry is the offspring of curiosity and creativity. Questions are incredibly powerful tools that open the world up. In the age of Google, the way we teach needs to change and students need to be reconnected with their early childhood curiosity....
by Bruce E. Larson, Timothy A. Keiper
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School is an accessible, practical, and engaging methods textbook that introduces pre-service teachers to various instructional strategies and helps them to decide how and when to use these methods in the classroom. Classrooms are comprised of diverse learners,...
Learning at the Speed of Light
How Online Education Got to Now
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Learning at the Speed of Light is a collection of stories, articles, and interviews by and with pioneers and visionaries across the United States who shared a belief in greater access to higher education.
This belief that education was a right, not a privilege, put them on a path to create...
What Teachers Can Learn From Sports Coaches
A Playbook of Instructional Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
The strategies used by winning coaches on the field can bring success to classrooms, too! In What Teachers Can Learn From Sports Coaches, you’ll uncover that the athletic arena and the classroom have more in common than you think. Author Nathan Barber demonstrates how many of the principles of coaching...
by Geoff Dean
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This book outlines several approaches to reading which challenge former classroom practices. It is through these approaches that all students - from reluctant boys to the most able of either gender - can continue to grow as readers and develop their readiness to seek meaning in texts.
Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching
Portraits of EFL Teachers as Legitimate Speakers
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The central theme of this book is the ambiguities and tensions teachers face as they attempt to position themselves in ways that legitimize them as language teachers, and as English speakers. Focusing on three EFL teachers and their schools in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, it documents how...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Enhancing Learning with Effective Practical Science begins with an exploration of the reasons why practical work is often less effective than it could be. It provides 72 full and clear lesson guides for effective practical lessons in biology, chemistry and physics for students aged between 11 and...
by Tony Erben, Ruth Ban, Martha Castañeda
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
In Teaching English Language Learners through Technology, the authors explore the use of computers/technology as a pedagogical tool to aid in the appropriate instruction of ELLs across all content areas. The special focus of this book is on the informed use of various technologies and software programs...
Teaching Young Learners in a Superdiverse World
Multimodal Approaches and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
This book documents a collaborative action research project in one school where researchers and practitioners worked together to develop multimodal literacies and pedagogies for diverse, multilingual elementary classrooms. Following chronologically from Lotherington’s Pedagogy of Multiliteracies...
International Perspectives on Bilingual Education
Policy, Practice, and Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This book is a defense of linguistic pluralism and language policies and practices in education that sustain that ideal. Educational meanings and models are influenced by different populations and different social and historical contexts. International comparisons can shed interesting light on the...