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Researching Chinese Language Education
Functional Linguistic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
The culmination of more than a decade of research, this compelling volume offers a fresh approach for applying functional linguistics to assess student performance, to inform the teaching and learning of Chinese and to design curriculum and teaching materials. Documenting authentic systemic functional...
Professional Development in Relational Learning Communities
Teachers in Connection
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this book, Raider-Roth offers an innovative approach to teacher professional development that builds on the intellectual strength and practical wisdom of practitioners. Focusing on nurturing relationships between and among participants, facilitators, subject matter, texts, and the school environment,...
Teaching Beneath His Wings
An Academic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
This book is to share the experiences of a praying school teacher, to impart the wisdom and knowledge learned along thirty-eight years journey. To inspire those in the classroom not to give up (follow your dream) and remind those considering entering the academy of teaching that it is not an occupation...
Teaching the Arts
Early Childhood and Primary Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Teaching the Arts: Early Childhood and Primary Education provides a comprehensive and exciting introduction to Arts education in Australia and New Zealand. By illustrating the fundamental links between theory and practice, this book equips students with the skills and knowledge to teach the Arts....
Representations of Working in Arts Education
Stories of Learning and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Arts education provides students with opportunities to build knowledge and skills in self-expression, imagination, creative and collaborative problem solving, and creation of shared meanings. Engagement in arts education has also been said to positively affect overall academic achievement and development...
by Peter Riley
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
A brand new series for primary teachers that provides a full guide to teaching a primary curriculum area, especially for non-specialists. This book is closely tied to the new curriculum, with extracts from the curriculum itself and lesson plans and teaching ideas for every area.
This book will equip...
Urban Physical Education
Instructional Practices and Cultural Activities
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Urban Physical Education targets the teaching circumstances and conditions of urban schools with innovative instructional practices and culturally diverse and contemporary activities. You’ll find games and modified sports from around the world as well as sport and performance activities such as...
Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics: Teaching Primary PE
Everything you need to teach Primary PE
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
This book is closely tied to the new curriculum, with extracts from the curriculum itself and lesson plans and teaching ideas for every area.
This book will equip non-specialists to confidently deliver engaging and well-informed lessons, that acount for the changes in the National Curriculum.
This...
Digital Citizenship in Action
Empowering Students to Engage in Online Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
For years, much of the available curricula for teaching digital citizenship focused on “don’ts.” Don’t share addresses or phone numbers. Don’t give out passwords. Don’t bully other students. But the conversation then shifted and had many asking, “Why aren’t we teaching kids the power...
Teaching Reading to English Learners, Grades 6 - 12
A Framework for Improving Achievement in the Content Areas
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Retool your whole school for EL achievement
For any student, middle and high school can be challenging. But for an English learner or striving reader—and the myriad words, phrases, syntax, texts, and concepts they must negotiate on a daily basis—the stakes seem a whole lot higher. Fortunately...
by Richard Beach, Deborah Appleman, Bob Fecho
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
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...
Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls -- Secondary Level
A Workbook for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
In his best-selling classic Boys and Girls Learn Differently, Michael Gurian explained the origin and nature of gender differences in the classroom. His important book explored the behavior teachers observed and the challenges they faced with both boys and girls in their classrooms. Taking the next...
Teaching Subject, A
Composition Since 1966, New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing instruction since the Dartmouth Seminar of 1966. A Teaching Subject offers a brilliant interpretive history of the first decades during which writing studies came to be imagined as a discipline separable from its partners...
Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards
A Critical Inquiry Approach for 6-12 Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive, this text directly supports pre-service and in-service teachers in developing curriculum and instruction that both addresses and exceeds the requirements of the Common Core State Standards. Adopting a critical inquiry approach, it demonstrates how the Standards’...