Teaching category: 65474 books
History Lessons
Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U.S. High School Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In this book, extended case studies of two veteran teachers and their students are combined with the extant research literature to explore current issues of teaching, learning, and testing U.S. history. It is among the first to examine these issues together and in interaction. While the two teachers...
The Artful Educator
Creative, imaginative and innovative approaches to teaching
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Is teaching an art, rather than a science? Instead of measuring education and reducing everything to data, what if we looked at it through the lens of the arts? Sue Cowley demonstrates how teachers can become artists, sculptors, actors, dancers, musicians, playwrights, poets, designers and directors,...
University Teaching in Focus
A learning-centred approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
University Teaching in Focus provides a foundational springboard for early career academics preparing to teach in universities. Focusing on four critical areas - teaching, curriculum, students, and quality/leadership - this succinct resource offers university teachers a straightforward approach to...
Next Steps in Teaching
A Guide to Starting your Career in the Secondary School
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
This guide charts the NQT's next steps in teaching from finishing a teacher training programme, through to the probationary year, and then into the comparatively settled routine of the second and third years of teaching. Suitable for all new teachers in secondary schools, this book aims to:
help...
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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...
Introduction to Teaching
Helping Students Learn
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
Introduction to Teaching: Helping Students Learn provides students and instructors with the tools with which they can achieve the many goals of today's Introduction to Education course or its equivalent. The book introduces prospective teachers to the dynamic world of teaching and learning and to...
Advancing the Culture of Teaching on Campus
How a Teaching Center Can Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
"This book assists the reader in thinking more deeply about how to successfully navigate institutional organization, politics, and managing change at a campus where faculty have little discretionary time. The book also explains how the CRLT effectively manages the yearly changes of services based on...
by Rachael Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This book is for anyone who wants to improve their practical English language teaching skills, but will be particularly useful for teachers who are taking a course such as CELTA or the Trinity Cert TESOL, which includes observed and assessed teaching practice.
This compendium sets out to provide a...
Empowered Educators in Australia
How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
BEST PRACTICES FROM AUSTRALIA'S HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOL SYSTEMS
Empowered Educators in Australia is one volume in a series that explores how high- performing educational systems from around the world achieve strong results. The anchor book, Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape...
Positive Teaching
The Behavioural Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Problems of classroom management and control are a recurring concern for many teachers. Disruptive behaviour and inattention hinder effective learning and impose a constant drain upon the teachers’ emotional resources. Continual nagging at children only increases teacher stress: what is needed is...
Teaching the Way Students Learn
Practical Applications for Putting Theories into Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
How do students truly learn? What is the best way to teach? Where do you go for help? Every day, you face the challenge of engaging students in learning, often to disappointing results. This book provides a myriad of voices at your side supporting you with sound educational philosophy and practical...
A Teaching Assistant's Guide to Completing NVQ Level 2
Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Based on the updated National Occupational Standards for Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools, this new edition of A Teaching Assistant’s Guide to Completing NVQ Level 2 caters directly to the criteria of the course, providing the necessary ‘Knowledge and Understanding’ required as well...
Teaching Creative Thinking
Developing learners who generate ideas and can think critically
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Teaching Creative Thinking: Developing Learners Who Generate Ideas and Can Think Critically, Bill Lucas and Ellen Spencer define and demystify the essence of creative thinking, and offer action-oriented and research-informed suggestions as to how it can best be developed in learners. Where once...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Whether you are currently teaching or training to teach the primary computing curriculum, you need to know what effective teaching of computing in primary schools actually looks like. Written for non specialists and trainees, this book uses exemplar primary computing lessons as a starting point...