Teaching category: 65474 books
Creating Significant Learning Experiences
An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
"Dee Fink challenges our conventional assumptions and practices and offers an insightful approach to expanding our learning goals, making higher education more meaningful. This is a gem of a book that every college teacher should read." —Ken Bain, author, What the Best College Students...
The 12 Touchstones of Good Teaching
A Checklist for Staying Focused Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Checklists help us work better. They help us manage complex tasks more effectively and ensure we apply what we know correctly and consistently. They've become indispensable for airline pilots and doctors, but can this low-tech approach to planning and problem solving demand a place in the teacher's...
by Martha Stone Wiske, Lisa Breit
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Teaching for Understanding with Technology shows how teachers can maximize the potential of new technologies to advance student learning and achievement. It uses the popular Teaching for Understanding framework that guides learners to think, analyze, solve problems, and make meaning of what they've...
Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach
A Handbook for Secondary School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach uniquely addresses three problems that frequently concern pre-service and beginning teachers: classroom control, satisfying state and federal mandates, and figuring out exactly what is the role of the teacher. Integrating practical, theoretical, and critical teaching...
by Shellee Hendricks, Russell Reich
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Notes on Teaching delivers utterly relevant guidance, lucid explanatory commentary, and helpful examples that will help anyone become a better teacher. Like its siblings in the Notes On series (Notes on Directing and Notes on Cooking), the book’s clear, accessible, and practical insights into the...
Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary
Harnessing Natural Curiosity for Learning That Transfers
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Harness natural curiosity for conceptual understanding!
Nurture young learners’ innate curiosity about the world and bring intellectual rigor throughout the developmental stages of childhood. Concept-based teaching helps students uncover conceptual relationships and transfer them to new problems....
by Steve Springer, Kimberly Persiani
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Have no fear, the substitute is here!
Be prepared with the confidence and the knowledge for any classroom situation.
As a substitute teacher, you have the powers of a superhero. Who else could teach sixth grade math one day and then transform into a sub for the kindergarten gym instructor the...
by Stephen Lockyer
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Haunted by the fear of teaching the same lesson twice, Stephen Lockyer always makes sure he has lots of ideas up his sleeve! In this exciting debut book, this highly regarded primary teacher shares 100 of this very best.
The pressure to teach outstanding lessons and to be prepared for no noticed...
by Andrew J Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Essential reading if you are considering making an application for primary initial teacher education or preparing to begin your programme. It introduces you to a range of perspectives on teaching and teacher education and guides you through the application process to ensure you choose the training...
Teaching Mathematics
A Handbook for Primary and Secondary School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2006
A practical introduction to Maths teaching designed specifically for beginning teachers in primary and secondary schools. It brings together the latest DfES and TTA guidelines and requirements with authoritative guidance, ensuring that readers feel confident about how to approach their role as a teacher. This...
The Essential Guide for Experienced Teaching Assistants
Meeting the National Occupational Standards at Level 3
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This indispensable textbook provides the underpinning knowledge to support all Teaching Assistants working towards Level 3 of the National Occupational Standards.
This new edition incorporates and responds to all new materials and initiatives required to meet the revised and expanded 2007 standards.
The...
Evidence-based Teaching
A Critical Overview for Enquiring Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
This book provides a critical overview of evidence-based teaching, with balanced and reflective consideration given to arguments supporting various approaches to increasing the use of evidence in teaching and arguments that raise doubts about, or problems with, these approaches. It offers practical...
by A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. Science fiction is one of the most popular genres of contemporary film, a genre...
Making Learning Whole
How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
New in Paperback! Make learning more meaningful by teaching the "whole game"
David Perkins, a noted authority on teaching and learning and co-director of Harvard's Project Zero, introduces a practical and research-based framework for teaching. He describes how teaching any subject...