Teaching category: 65474 books
by Facing History and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Teaching Mockingbird presents educators with the materials they need to transform how they teach Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Interweaving the historical context of Depression-era rural Southern life, and informed by Facing History’s pedagogical approach, this resource introduces...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Ernest Hemingway’s place in American letters seems guaranteed: a winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, Hemingway has long been a fixture in high school and college curricula. Just as influential as his famed economy of style and unflappable heroes, however, is his public persona. Heming- way helped...
On the Teaching of Literature
From Charismatic Secrecy to Joyful Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Drawing on the author’s teaching practice and experience, this book is based on the premise that reading and analyzing literary texts are rewarding pursuits. The target group is grammar school pupils and students at colleges of education and universities. Pedagogic theories are dealt with only in...
Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries Vol. 2
A Critical Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Over the course of the past decade and a half, we, Samuel Totten and Jon E. Pedersen, have coedited a series of books on teaching and learning about social issues. Our goal has been to build a series that would broadly represent the work that has been undertaken over the past 110 plus years related...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The majority of professors have never had a formal course in education, and the most common method for learning how to teach is on-the-job training. This represents a challenge for disciplines with ever more complex subject matter, and a lost opportunity when new active learning approaches to education...
Learning and Teaching
The Essential Guide for Higher Level Teaching Assistants
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Learning and Teaching concentrates on the practical teaching skills that an HLTA needs to be able to use in the classroom. It offers guidance and support on fulfilling the standards and succeeding in the classroom role.
This book includes:
real-life case studies that put the theory behind...
The First Year of Teaching
Classroom Research to Increase Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For first-year teachers entering the nation’s urban schools, the task of establishing a strong and successful practice is often extremely challenging. In this compelling look at first-year teachers’ practice in urban schools, editors Jabari Mahiri and Sarah Warshauer Freedman demonstrate...
Learning to Teach Foreign Languages in the Secondary School
A companion to school experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Praise for previous editions:-
‘A wealth of theory, research, practical advice, case studies and tasks in one volume…Indispensable for both HEI tutors and mentors, and an important book to recommend to all MFL students.' – Language Learning Journal
‘Presenting clear, straightforward,...
Teaching Secondary School Mathematics
Research and practice for the 21st century
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Since its first publication, Teaching Secondary School Mathematics has established itself as one of the most respected and popular texts for both pre-service and in-service teachers. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the major changes brought about by the introduction...
Teaching U.S. History Thematically
Document-Based Lessons for the Secondary Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book offers the tools teachers need to get started with an innovative approach to teaching history, one that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students’ lives today, and meets Common Core State Standards (grades 7–12).
The author provides over...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
(Published in Cooperation with the National Council of Teacher of Mathematics) According to NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, "Technology is essential in teaching and learning of mathematics; it influences the mathematics that is taught and it enhances students' learning." How...
Teaching Assistants
Practical Strategies for Effective Classroom Support
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This practical book is intended to support schools and LEAs in developing effective strategies in working with teaching assistants. It is related to the DfEE's recently published Good Practice Guide (2000). Suggested approaches are supported with real examples from practice, showing the reality of...
A Handbook for Teaching Assistants
Teachers and assistants working together
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This revised new edition provides essential guidance for all teaching assistants, especially those who are new to the job, and to the teachers working with them. Glenys Fox details the roles and responsibilities of the TA, as well as providing helpful advice on how to best support the teacher, the...
Learning Through Teaching Mathematics
Development of Teachers' Knowledge and Expertise in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
The idea of teachers Learning through Teaching (LTT) – when presented to a naïve bystander – appears as an oxymoron. Are we not supposed to learn before we teach? After all, under the usual circumstances, learning is the task for those who are being taught, not of those who teach. However, this...