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Teaching and Learning Stochastics
Advances in Probability Education Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This book presents a collection of selected papers that represent the current variety of research on the teaching and learning of probability. The respective chapters address a diverse range of theoretical, empirical and practical aspects underpinning the teaching and learning of probability, curricular...
Teaching about Teaching
Purpose, Passion and Pedagogy in Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Considers teacher education as an important aspects of the teaching profession and demonstrates why it is so important for higher education institutions to value their teacher educators' professional knowledge. The book demonstrates how teaching about teaching knowledge pedagogy is vital to the development...
University Teaching in Focus
A Learning-Centred Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
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 and Leadership, this succinct resource offers university teachers a straightforward approach...
Social Studies for Secondary Schools
Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Now in its 4th edition, this popular text for secondary social studies methods courses integrates discussions of educational goals and the nature of history and social studies with ideas for organizing social studies curricula, units, lessons, projects, and activities. A major theme throughout is...
Teach on Purpose!
Responsive Teaching for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Great teaching is not just a matter of talent or creativity or passion. Teachers are made, not born, and great teachers know why they do what they do in their classrooms. They do it strategically and purposefully based on technique. Teach on Purpose! demonstrates a high-quality research-based and...
New Directions in Teaching English
Reimagining Teaching, Teacher Education, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
New Directions in Teaching English: Reimagining Teaching, Teacher Education and Research attempts to create a comprehensive vision of critical and culturally relevant English teaching at the dawn of the 21st century.
This book is multi-voiced. It includes perspectives from classroom teachers,...
Wayside Teaching
Connecting with Students to Support Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Wayside teaching is about intentionally practicing what educators do every day in perhaps unintentional ways: relate to students. This practical, research-based guide illustrates how wayside teaching—the informal curriculum, implicit instruction, and mentoring that happens in sometimes unintentional...
by Dan Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Have you ever had a student pretend to bring in Cocoa Puffs and instead she fed the whole class dog food?Have you ever had a kid threaten to take his clothes off if you asked him to read?Do you have a student who thinks he is Michael Jackson and grabs his crotch saying "hee, hee" instead...
Team Teaching
What, Why, and How?
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 1999
Team teaching - a pedagogical technique that shifts the role of instruction from the individual to a team - provides students with the opportunity to take a more active role in learning. Author Francis J. Buckley explains how and why team teaching works and provides a comprehensive review of research...
by Nico Rutten
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This dissertation is about inquiry-based teaching with computer simulations in science education. Research of the past decade shows that instruction can be enhanced by using computer simulations. For example, it can be an effective tool to prepare for laboratory activities. How to use computer simulations...
by Joan Dean
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
This jargon-free book has been specially written for teaching assistants taking up posts in primary schools working at NVQ Level 2 and 3 of the National Occupational Standards of Teaching Assistants. It covers every area of primary education, including:
an overview of primary education
the qualities,...
Teaching to Strengths
Supporting Students Living with Trauma, Violence, and Chronic Stress
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Half the students in U.S. schools are experiencing or have experienced trauma, violence, or chronic stress. Much has been written about these students from a therapeutic perspective, especially regarding how to provide them with adequate counseling supports and services. Conversely, little has been...
by Peter Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
This book has been titled "Hudson’s guide for teaching primary science" to distinguish it from other science education books by demonstrating an experiential perspective. I feel strongly about teaching science and I want quality science education for all students. This book aims to provide a sequential...
Research on Mathematics Textbooks and Teachers’ Resources
Advances and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This book focuses on issues related to mathematics teaching and learning resources, including mathematics textbooks, teacher guides, student learning and assessment materials, and online resources. The book highlights various theoretical and methodological approaches used to study teaching and learning...