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International Perspectives on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education
Improving Knowledge and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
There has been an explosion of interest in teaching excellence in higher education. Once labelled the ‘poor relation’ of the research/teaching divide, teaching is now firmly on the policy agenda; pressure on institutions to improve the quality of teaching has never been greater and significant...
by M Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Are you a teacher looking to enhance your career with an exciting new opportunity in paradise?
Are you a recent graduate looking for an adventure before settling into a career at home?
Maybe you’re thinking about trading in your day job for a teaching gig in the exotic land of smiles - Thailand.
With...
by Bill Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
This book offers a new perspective on language teaching by placing moral issues--that is, questions of values--at the core of what it is to be a teacher. The teacher-student relation is central to this view, rather than the concept of language teaching as merely a technical matter of managing students'...
Teaching Undergraduate Science
A Guide to Overcoming Obstacles to Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
This book is written for all science or engineering faculty who have ever found themselves baffled and frustrated by their undergraduate students’ lack of engagement and learning. The author, an experienced scientist, faculty member, and educational consultant, addresses these issues with the knowledge...
Teaching Abroad
Teaching ESL, #4
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Living and teaching abroad! Oh, it sounds so wonderful, and it can be, but it can also be quite the challenge. That’s why you found this book, and you’re looking at it for one of three reasons: You’re thinking of teaching abroad; You’re already overseas teaching ESL or TEFL;...
Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
The Reflective Professional
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
'This book provides teachers in higher education with what they need - a compelling framework for improving student learning. It combines a comprehensive synthesis of the latest research on learning and teaching with practical strategies for implementing it in their classrooms' - Professor Ken Bain,...
Inventions of Teaching
A Genealogy
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2004
Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy is a powerful examination of current metaphors for and synonyms of teaching. It offers an account of the varied and conflicting influences and conceptual commitments that have contributed to contemporary vocabularies--and that are in some ways maintained by those...
Making the Most of Your Teaching Assistant
Good Practice in Primary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Making the Most of Your Teaching Assistant is an essential handbook for every SENCo and teacher responsible for managing Teaching Assistants. Based firmly in the classroom and focused on supporting pupil progress it provides clear guidance and practical support in deploying, training and monitoring...
Teaching for Student Learning
Becoming an Accomplished Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Teaching for Student Learning: Becoming an Accomplished Teacher shows teachers how to move from novice to expert status by integrating both research and the wisdom of practice into their teaching. It emphasizes how accomplished teachers gradually acquire and apply a broad repertoire of evidence-based...
Teaching Psychology 14-19
Issues and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Teaching Psychology 14-19 - first published as Teaching Post-16 Psychology - is a core text for all training psychology teachers, as well as experienced teachers engaged in further study and professional development. Taking a reflective approach, Matt Jarvis explores key issues and debates against...
Teaching Across Cultural Strengths
A Guide to Balancing Integrated and Individuated Cultural Frameworks in College Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Promoting learning among college students is an elusive challenge, and all the more so when faculty and students come from differing cultures. This comprehensive guide addresses the continuing gaps in our knowledge about the role of culture in learning; and offers an empirically-based framework and model,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Drawing on the collective expertise of language scholars and educators in a variety of subdisciplines, the Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century, Volume II, provides a comprehensive treatment of teaching and research in Arabic as a second and foreign language worldwide....
Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics-Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education
A Joint ICMI/IASE Study: The 18th ICMI Study
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics-Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education results from the Joint ICMI/IASE Study Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics: Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education. Oriented to analyse the teaching of statistics in school and to recommend improvements...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Few faculty members in academic medical centers are formally prepared for their roles as teachers. This work is an introductory text designed to provide medical teachers with the core concepts of effective teaching practice and information about innovations for curriculum design, delivery and assessment....