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International Perspectives on the Teaching of Literature in Schools
Global Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Literature teaching remains central to the teaching of English around the world. This edited text brings together expert global figures under the banner of the International Federation for the Teaching of English (IFTE). The book captures a state-of-the-art snapshot of leading trends in current literature...
Music Learning and Teaching in Culturally and Socially Diverse Contexts
Implications for Classroom Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
This book examines the inter-relationship between music learning and teaching, and culture and society: a relationship that is crucial to comprehend in today’s classrooms. The author presents case studies from diverse music learning and teaching contexts – including South India and Australia and...
Community Fieldwork in Teacher Education
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In teacher education, field work in community-based spaces (including foster homes and programs for homeless youth) is frequently contrasted with "traditional" field experiences in classroom settings, where beginning teachers are immediately introduced to teacher-centered models of instruction....
by Ms. Helen Caldwell, James Bird
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
The presence of handheld technologies in the classroom isn't enough - you need to know how to use them to enhance teaching and transform learning.
As more and more primary schools acquire devices such as iPads and tablets, it is becoming clear that adding them as a classroom resource is not...
Mathematical Understanding for Secondary Teaching
A Framework and ClassroomBased Situations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A perennial discussion about teacher development is the optimal content background for teachers. In recent years, that discussion has taken center stage in the work of mathematics education researchers, mathematicians, mathematics professional developers, and mathematics education policymakers. Much...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
This book provides readers with an overview of recent international research and developments in the teaching and learning of modelling and applications from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives. There is a strong focus on pedagogical issues for teaching and learning of modelling as...
Visual Approaches to Teaching Writing
Multimodal Literacy 5 - 11
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Includes CD-Rom
Why are visual approaches to literacy important? Children's experience of texts is no longer limited to words on printed pages - their reading and writing worlds are formed in multimodal ways, combining different modes of communication, including speech or sound, still or moving...
The Pedagogy of English as an International Language
Perspectives from Scholars, Teachers, and Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
This volume offers insights in current theoretical discussions, observations, and reflections from internationally and regionally celebrated scholars on the theory and practice of teaching English informed by a new school of thought, English as an International Language (EIL). This volume provides...
Methods for Teaching in Early Education
Contexts for Inclusive Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Methods for Teaching in Early Education is a comprehensive textbook offering a thorough introduction to early childhood teaching methods, with a particular focus on inclusive practices.
Aligned with both NAEYC standards and CEC’s Division for Early Childhood recommended practices, this text...
Teaching History with Film
Strategies for Secondary Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Visit any school in the United States and chances are that you will find at least one of the social studies teachers showing a film about history. Along with the textbook, movies are one of the most prominent teaching aids in the history classroom. Yet, when middle and high school history teachers...
The Learning and Teaching of Geometry in Secondary Schools
A Modeling Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
IMPACT (Interweaving Mathematics Pedagogy and Content for Teaching) is an exciting new series of texts for teacher education which aims to advance the learning and teaching of mathematics by integrating mathematics content with the broader research and theoretical base of mathematics education.
The...
by Alice Leeds, David Marshak
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2002
Teaching and Learning in the Intermediate Multiage Classroom describes in practical detail a creative and effective teaching practice in multiage elementary classrooms, one that integrates challenging academics with personalized teaching and learning. Written by David Marshak, an educator who has...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners celebrates the ‘coming of age’ for the field of research in primary-level English Language Teaching. With 32 chapters written by international scholars from a wide geographical area including East Africa, Mexico, the South Pacific, Japan,...
Pre-Primary Education in Nigeria
Methods for Effective Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
This book, PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: METHODS FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING, adopts an integrated approach to understanding and teaching pre-primary school children. Though not so common in Nigeria, this approach is practiced in countries around the world and it yields the highest dividends...