Teaching category: 65474 books
Assessing Writing, Teaching Writers
Putting the Analytic Writing Continuum to Work in Your Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many writing teachers are searching for a better way to turn student writing into teaching and learning opportunities without being crushed under the weight of student papers. This book introduces a rubric designed by the National Writing Project—the Analytic Writing Continuum (AWC)—that is...
Language for Teaching Purposes
Bilingual Classroom Discourse and the Non-Native Speaker Language Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
This book’s innovative approach proposes Language for Teaching Purposes as a distinct field of enquiry and practice within Language for Specific Purposes. It uses robust theoretical and empirical evidence to demonstrate the specificity of language used by teachers teaching language, and the complex...
by Chris R. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The Effective Teaching of Biology aims to identify the special dimensions of the subject, how it contributes to the curriculum as a whole and why the teaching of biology differs from the teaching of other subjects. Current legal and safety requirements are provided together with practical teaching...
Using Assessment To Reshape Mathematics Teaching
A Casebook for Teachers and Teacher Educators, Curriculum and Staff Development Specialists
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
This casebook is intended to support professionals who are working in a variety of contexts to use classroom-based assessment more effectively to support teacher learning and teaching change, and to enhance the opportunities for all students to develop mathematical power. It grows out of a collaboration...
by Margaret Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Learning to read is one of the most important life skills teachers can help a child develop. Teaching reading is a vital part of a career in the classroom and engaging with the range of different learning styles children have is a real challenge. Trainee teachers need to learn how to address...
Teaching Reading
Foundational Principles for the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Teaching Reading, Foundational Principals for the Classroom, is a book of principles and strategies that teachers and parents can use to help struggling readers become better readers. Some topics discussed in the book are phonics, building phonemic awareness and teaching vocabulary. Many teachers struggle...
by Jackie Scruton, Belinda Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
An accessible and up to date text on teaching and supporting adult learners, aimed at both student teachers and experienced practitioners. It explores teaching adult learners within a traditional further education (FE) context but also working with those adult learners on Higher Education (HE) courses...
Totally Positive Teaching
A Five-Stage Approach to Energizing Students and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
Discipline problems, limited resources, crowded classrooms. Teachers face many issues each day that can wear down their love of education. How can they stay focused and energized day in and day out? In Totally Positive Teaching, Joseph Ciaccio shares an approach that transformed him from a burned-out...
Chasing Greatness
26.2 Ways Teaching Is Like Running a Marathon
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Whether you’re teaching a class or running a race, Chasing Greatness is your road to success
"Mike's analogy, comparing teaching to running a marathon, is spot on. Not only does teaching require great endurance, it is something, much like running a marathon, that you never quite master....
Deep Knowledge
Learning to Teach Science for Understanding and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Deep Knowledge is a book about how people’s ideas change as they learn to teach. Using the experiences of six middle and high school student teachers as they learn to teach science in diverse classrooms, Larkin explores how their work changes the way they think about students, society, schools,...
Teaching Children Online
A Conversation-based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
What does best practice in online education look like? How can educators make use of the affordances offered by online environments to bring out the best in the children they teach? These questions are answered in this new textbook, written with experienced teachers, novice educators and teacher educators...
by Savita Dr Mishra
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Access to affordable and quality education to all is a key challenge to our education system. While we have attained a reasonable level as far as access is concerned, we have a long way to go to match the quality aspect at par the international standards. We have no dearth of dedicated and knowledgeable...
Teaching with Classroom Response Systems
Creating Active Learning Environments
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
There is a need in the higher education arena for a book that responds to the need for using technology in a classroom of tech-savvy students. This book is filled with illustrative examples of questions and teaching activities that use classroom response systems from a variety of disciplines (with...
by Kristine Black-Hawkins, Gabrielle Cliff Hodges, Sue Swaffield
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Building on best-selling texts over three decades, this thoroughly revised new edition is essential reading for both primary and secondary school teachers in training and in practice, supporting both initial school-based training and extended career-long professionalism. Considering a wide range of...